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All this whining... if you cannot set up an ambush for your target where you have him alone without neutral parties around, you fail at bounty-hunting and should consider becoming a hisec miner.

In fact, the mechanic ensures that bounty-hunting requires some skill and effort, because you cannot just randomly buy killrights and sit on a gate in Jita and shoot your clients as they come through. You'll actually have to hunt them down and get them in places where they are alone. Sounds like way more fun to me!

This is not the case, only actions that put a criminal flag on you when you had none before creates a kill right (not including getting a criminal flag through RRing)

Thank you for your valuable and informed input. It has been noted, and is very much appreciated.

Oh hey, look, SoniClover is here. Maybe he will tell us about proper fleet compositions for bounty hunting raids, and which enchantments to get for our targeting modules in order to lock the kill right perp before he takes the portal to the next system.

You are probably alluding to the fact that Iterons don't actually have drones. I don't fly industrials very often so I slipped up there. However, that just strengthens my point that many of the neutrals in hisec will not be a danger to your bounty hunting efforts.

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Sure, I recommend you fly with your friends.

It isn't 20% of the bounty pool amount, it is 20% of the kill (base value).
So you would continue to receive 2 million payouts until the pool is empty.
Example: He has a 50 million bounty. His ship worth was 10 million, you receive 2 million of that. It will continue to payout until the pool is empty.

(Note that this is an arbitrary example, the % can differ)

Also, there is no reason that a WH system would protect someone. You will gain the bounty payout on the death of that character, whether he is in a ship or pod, High-Sec, Low-Sec, Null-Sec, or Wormhole space. Someone paid to have that character killed, and you delivered the service.

I updated it, to give you a better example. I hope it helps

Well, I've asked this earlier but if players are having to purchase Kill Rights from other players and they go and risk their own ships to redeem the kill right, then how is this a profession. Profession implies that your earning money for the "Work " that you do.

1. Purchase the Kill Rights = Loss of Isk
2. Go find target, activate kill rights and attempt to gank him before someone else can.
a. If the target has a bounty and you get him & his loots = Makes Isk
b. If the target has a bounty and you someone else get's him or he gets away = loss of Isk
c. If the target has a bounty and you Loose = loss of Isk
d. If the target has no bounty it doesn't matter if you get the kill or not = Makes no Isk

So once again. How in any way is this a Profession when odds are against you making money at. And I'm not even going over the ways that have been pointed out that the system can be scammed.

WHY would I want to be a bounty hunter, because this just looks like a way to pay Isk for the privilege to PVP in highsec.
Honestly it just looks like a way for the initial player that got ganked to try to recoup some of their loss. While this is fine for the ganked player I think it kind of goes against the general idea that Eve space is a cold harsh place.

Please don't take this as a rant. I'm a dyed in the wool carebear, but I've learned to watch my back and play the game, and I accept that you can get shot anywhere at anytime. That's the game.

At best (if it even works at all), this idea of bounty hunting will only be a quasi-successful "career" path for the most dedicated of players, and then much like many other fringe careers in EVE, is way less glamorous than it sounds.

But this is probably the intention. Bounty hunting by nature isn't something just about anybody should be able to do successfully. Criminals are always going to remain smart and savy. People that do shenanigans are non-environmental entities. They are not rats that can be farmed in a sector of space somewhere.

In fact, I think Criminals are going to get so smart,t heir not even going to bother doing things that generate kill rights at all on main operational type characters anyway. Thus as has been said before, mitigating this new system into almost complete obscurity.