EVE General Discussion

No it doesn't.

You can redefine the word when the want ads in my local newspaper are all people seeking fellon.

Wanted has nothing to do with criminal activety, and bounties are not historically used for the capture of criminals.
Companies still use bounties to recruit new employees, they call it an incentive instead.

Not even every person wanted by the law is a criminal.


PS: Thanks for implying I don't have a mind of my own.

Okay. So we have several arguments.

1. The wanted system is bad because it devalues the meaning of Wanted.
2. The wanted system is good because it allows players to punish others even if it also allows trolling becsaue the trolling will eventually get boring, and they will stop.
3. The wanted system is good and the people who think Wanted has negative criminal connotation to it are crazy.
4. The wanted system is good and we are all b words.


I disagree with most of the arguments but I guess it is possible that trolling will get hard, and after a couple months, the bounty system will begin being used what it's made for (punishment to thy enemies).

I'd still like to see a change, but I think you have a point that maybe it will change itself. I'm skeptical if trolls ever actually get tired of trolling though, but I guess if CCP makes no changes, we will see.

This thread is getting a bit repetitive. People just posting to read themselves post (what?), so I'm going to let them continue that and bow out of this thread.

Are you kidding? I create websites in this game and charge 10-20b isk per website.

I'm writing that I got a bounty of 100k on me. You think me putting a 1b ISK on them is going to change anything in this game? Punching the bully harder is wrong. You are wrong.

Also, I don't have an obsession with goons. In fact, this last post is the only post I've EVER mentioned them in on this forum. Yes, I think they are a bunch of bandwagon noobs who join just to join the biggest group, but I could care less about them. Why is it that everyone I meet with a bunch of likes do nothing on the forums but play devils advocate, troll, and suck up to eachother. You guys need to realize that your little forum community isnt going to get you any further in life or make your parents any prouder of you.

^this

I'm so glad I found a game/community that allows this level of immersion. The bounties only sweeten the deal, however you wish to define the terms associated with the system.

I think of it this way: I pay, plex or cash, to fly spaceships my way and I get a whole other meta-game "for free" that simply doesn't exist anywhere else.

*Agrees with OP*

You do when you're a capsuleer, and by lore immune to the vast majority of all prosecution.

CONCORD already allows you to pay to kill someone. Happy to help.

If I decide to bounty a miner, it should be made available to every single person who looks at him, and at that point they can make the decision as to whether or not it's worth it to gank him, just like I had to make the decision as to whether it was worth, say, 35 million ISK to me to have that miner removed, just as that miner had to make the decision to undock in an Exhumer rather than a Mining Barge.

Choices, all the way down.

I've been really tempted to put bounties on freighter pilots just to reward the goons ganking them some more and help remind people that even though you have a safety button now doesnt mean you are safe

I suppose it's pointless to point out the pointed fact that a Wanted sign in the past has had no more meaning or indication of criminal behavior, or of an individuals moral or ethical standing than it does in EVE.

Governments can be corrupt and evil, just as much as anything and sometimes the wanted sign is on the person who is of noble intent and moral focus, while the government or office that placed it there is a vile and despicable one wreaking of villainy.

This is hardly unheard of; just look at the old west.


..anyway, I think you're over reacting more than a little. It's a big sign posted on you, and maybe it should be toned down a little, but otherwise it is of little import. Sure, players may go "Ahh!" and run away initially, but once it's sunk in of how little importance it is, they'll get over it.

Lost your Fuel Block customers over it? This would be the people who own a POS in or around your system who either didn't log in or up and moved their POS? ..or was it just a bunch of people who often frequented the system that didn't show up.. or, maybe they were the bots that apparently can't operate with the changes in Retribution?

So, what they are potentially doing in fact, is trying to get their bot program fixed sitting on some forum somewhere complaining to a bot maker about how their bots suddenly don't work in EVE?

..sorry, but POS operators are too often bots I think. Been the thing in Hisec in the past to see a bunch of miners chewing on lumps of ice day after day, hour after hour, forever, and their POS the next system over or otherwise nearby.

Now you can bounty miners, and with the cost of a mining ship, it could potentially be more profitable to gank them. What was 20% of 200 Million again? 40 Million? Huzzah!

..seriously, unless you happen to be pasted with a couple billion bounty and fly expensive ships, you have nothing to worry about. Even a Venture is only a million five, which would pay out a measly 200K or so. A Covert Ops could run you up to 20 million, which would make it slightly more profitable at 4 million..

..anyway, it is what it is, stop crying about it. It just makes you look bad. ..and Krixtal, if I didn't know better I'd swear you was trollin'.

making the sign white letters on black and slightly right off-center, of the lower thirds divisision, while being noticably smaller for positive security status folks wold be cool, along with making it a blazon of un-bordered red across criminals, and white on yellow on suspects or outlaws would be a fine modification.

It's not "wanted by the legal authorities"; it's "wanted for something by someone." Don't be so twitchy about it.