EVE General Discussion

New citizen here and so far I am really enjoying New Eden. I have been poking a little more around the forums and found some very interesting articles regarding Bounties (reasoning both for and against). So I decided to throw my clones hat into the ring.

Recently I manufactured a line of autocannons and began selling them in Minmatar space. I'm sure you'll agree, a good place to sell autocannons.

Anyway I found that after a few hours, my sales dried up. Confused, I took a peek at the stations prices. I was undercut by a single Isk per unit!!! Naturally, I snipped in at an Isk shorter than my autocannon rival, only to find two hours later, he slashed me again!

Once more, and only once more did I undercut, watching the boards to see if anything should happen. This time, I risked it by 20 Isk. He laughed at my attempt to fatten my wallet and usurped my plundering prices. So, I decided to take action. I purchased one of his (inferior ) autocannons and looked up the seller. I placed a 500k (I'm new) Bounty on his head and send him a (polite) personal message stating that if he undercut me again at that station, I would increase the Bounty.

less than 48 hours later, I received a notification. My eyes lit up, as did my smile when it read that my Bounty had been dealt with!

In short, Bounties arn't just for pirates and thieves. By all means, those who harmed you deserve every Isk of their Bounties. However. they also make a wonderful intensive for others to wipe out ones own market competition. In this case, that person hurt my profit, I paid someone else to hurt him. Of course, my profit margin is a little lighter than initially planned, but I see it as a long term investment. I now have one less competitor at that station when it comes to pricing.

Underhanded, of course. Unlawful, not at all. We can still kill off competition and remain law abiding citizens. I'm sure my target stuck rigidly to the law, but that was not what I had against him

This whole post is just ten kinds of sad. Undercut by 20 freakin' isk? Emailed a threat? Posted 500k bounty?

Go back to Hello Kitty.

so someone undercut you by 1 isk per unit and you spend 500m to make a point?

competition is the least of your worries
you should invest in an accountant

even 500k.. point being you spent more than you were losing

how much product do you need to sell now to make up for that?
and the guy will still undercut you BTW

With all due respect, what you experienced was a coincidence. Bounties, especially something as little as yours, do not motivate people to kill other people. It's not like someone says "oh, hey, you don't have a bounty, we'll let you through our gate camp." Generally, the bounty is just an added tip for a kill, not the reason it happened.

Not saying it's not satisfying to see the notification when someone you dislike gets killed, it totally is. But chances are they would have died whether you'd put 500k, 500 mil, or nothing on their head.

OP - Don't worry about those that want to you to think bounties don't work.

For all you know one of the posters could have been your competition.
And besides if you had fun then priceless

so now you can pay to get a fake sense of satisfaction when someone gets killed even though your part had absolutely nothing to do with his death?

welp.. it is the video game generation after all...

Griefing is a bannable offence. If you have proof of someone griefing, you should report them. If they don't get banned then it's not griefing.

i like the new bounty system, it let me bounty some one who had terrible song lyrics in their bio. when i pointed this out other people agreed with me.

long live the new bounty system.

Wrong. People will hunt you even for 100k.