EVE General Discussion

Allow bounties to continue to be placed willi-nillie, I'm all for it...
Let bounties expire after "X" amount of time, allowing for ones slate to be cleasend...
Plaster a wanted sign on those who have a negative Sec Status, after all, they are ones who are actively engaging in acts against Concord regulations...

That could work... bounties expire after 90 days, and the ISK goes into CCP's wallet (no, it isn't reimbursed). I like it.

Wanted did indeed mean nothing before, it was merely a label. Much like now.

It should remain as wanted, as that's exactly what they are.

Makes them feel better, because they are special snowflakes?

Among the QQ and the childish quarrels brewing in this thread there is a valid point: The "WANTED" banner has become meaningless in all the wrong ways. New, inexperienced players will perceive harmless, helpful veterans as potential threats while others are placing bounties on each other for a cheap laugh. Hell, I put a bounty on my own CEO for a laugh.

By all means, keep the functionality of the system as it is now. But I'd suggest either changing the way a bounty on a player is advertised or just outright removing the wanted banner; it no longer serves its original purpose.

Expiring bounties after 3 months means that the genuinely wanted people have managed to avoid been hunted down for that long, and clears out the mess from the 100kers.

Keeping the name and corp history isn't keeping the slate dirty, it's just history. Your true slate is clensable, you can work off bad security and standings and there is no history kept for that. Your market and contract history isn't visible to others, neither is mission history or killed/killing history ( which is why there are third party killboards)

But this just reduces bounties to the level of a joke. Someone put a bounty on a random player for a laugh, why does that show others what other players think of you?


Because a bounty is something that denotes that the pilot has done something to earn that bounty. Like I said, the bounty placed on a random pilot just for giggles makes it totally meaningless. Also, if newer players start getting ganked for absolutely no reason in highsec, it's going to result in a lot of players unsubbing because it just turns highsec into another lowsec. If you want to kill someone, just place a bounty on them and it's OK, you'll get the bounty back when you kill them. I can really see that going down well, youll have only hardcore PVP players and nobody else in game. Cowards will target new players in highsec this way because they are easy targets. Eve wouldn't be able to survive that sort of revenue loss because there are not enough hardcore PVPers to keep the game funded alone.

In reality, this is nothing less than legalising a griefing tactic. Place bounty, kill, recover isk placed as bounty, place another bounty, wait for player to undock and kill his next ship. repeat until player quits and then move onto the next player. The problem is that those who quit will probably unsub as well.

The bounty should only be able to be placed on someone who another person currently has kill rights on, not necessarily placed by the person who has the kill rights, or one who has killed too many people in their career. If you attempt to place a bounty on someone who has not, you should get a message telling you that they have done nothing to warrant it. Your personal opinion of them being an idiot on chat is irrelevant, you have the ability to block them on chat, so use it.

If you don't think I deserve my wanted sign, feel free to come & take it away from me.

Do that but without the 20% handling fee and we have a winner.

Handling fee is to discourage the use of "bounty bots" that would just repeat bounties as they get refunded. Eventually the bot-alt would run out of ISK, at least if their main doesn't keep refilling their purse.

Plus it would also discourage the people throwing a billion ISK boutny out for lulz, knowing that they'd be tossing 200,000,000 ISK out the window if that person decides to just dock up and switch to their alt for three months.

In other words, you'd be less likely to want to "invest" in a bounty that you didn't think would be collected on in three months.

It's not unprecedented, either. Game mechanics tax pretty much everything else in EvE. Planet export tax, brokers fees, SCC taxes, corp taxes. Why not a tax on bounties, too? And it's just done after the fact on one's that aren't collected on... so it would still be the best deal in town.