EVE General Discussion

I'm pretty sure during a discussion at the tournement, ccp Soundwave discussed an idea on bouty hunting (he also discussed the idea encompassing most aspects of the game). Person A would creat a contract for person B to perform X task. And they would have G time to complete it. I think this is the first step to fix the bounty system.
The second is, instead of encompassing the comunity in the hunt, limit it. Along with this you will need better tracking tools. Wether it be a short range tracking device that you launch and latch to a hull or warp signitures you can fallow. Of course these thing could all be apropriatly aquired with skills and isk. But ths idea of the community hunting the same target doesnt seem to be favored (at least from what I've been reading). See eves pvp laws are not the same laws as Concords laws. If Concord wants to hire real players to clean up space they need to hire Rangers not boubty hunters.

Just the idea of a noob.

Well mean is make it a more controled amount. Its seems most of the complaints are that a bounty/kill right can spread like wild fire. This can make the person being hunted hate life. On paper you want the bounty system to be a deterent.....but in eve you dont want it to be a succesfull deterent. You want people to break Concords laws, for the same reason you don't want them to for the chance to choose what they are. My idea is that if person A hires Person B to kill person C within a weeks time and person A is allowed to creat 7 contracts but 6 of them can be bought on the market by any one. This system just seems more comprehensive and better for both ends of the hunt.

In a world where death just means a trip to the cloning vat, people will never pay large amounts for one person to take out another. Thats why the current bonus pot is better. Nobody will waste the time tracking down one person who can just log off/sit in station/give themselves up in a no-implant clone to remove a bounty. Pretty much the old bounty system.

The only way for bounty hunting to actually feel cool and assassin-like is to have perma death which EVE will never have.

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Bounties have nothing to do with concord laws and everything to do with people wanting to see other people dead.

I think what he was getting at is that people should be somewhat discouraged to break laws so you don't have utter chaos, but you still want some people breaking laws to have some chaos.

Chaos means fun.

I just came back to EVE after a 12 months absence a couple weeks ago. One of the triggers was the implementation of an improved bounty system with Retribution. Unfortunately, my biggest concern when discussing the options on this boards years ago became true: Bounties are now a tool to grief pilots without any discrimination.

Bounties should only be able to be set on a pilot, when you have a valid reason to be aggravated. Like, he killed you, or he destroyed your ship. Only those should be allowed to give a bounty to a certain pilot, who have a killright against this pilot. Only those corporations should give bounties to other corporations, who have been wardecked by this other corporation. Easy as that.

And only those pilots should be allowed to collect a bounty, who got the right to do so via a bounty contract from the bounty giver. But then in full amount.

With this, bounty hunting could turn into a profession, instead of the grief fest the bounty system provides right now and unsignificant motivation to work for bounties.

WTB: Concord Bounty Enforcement License