EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi everyone
I am a returning player after a year+ long break. (I only have a 3 million SP, so I count myself a noob still.)
I was recently asking a few questions in the help channel in game and I started getting a person adding 100k bountys on me and another person added a 1 million bounty.
So my question is why? I do not get what they achieve by this apart from the knowledge I am annoyed because I now have "Wanted" across my portrait. To me it's non sensical. What am I missing please?

I do not really see the need to write HTFU to be honest. You could have typed out your sentiments to "shrug it off" without the silly text speak and shown a little respect. (sorry if that sounds blunt)
To my eyes the reason these two people put a bounty on me was utterly pointless. "Cause they can" does not even make sense.
The mind boggles.

Welcome to EVE.

EVE is harsh.
EVE will chew you up, spit you out and eat you again.

They place bounties on you cause they could. It's the whole thing about EVE / Sandbox, you can do what ever you want, when ever to who ever you want.

But that IS the whole reason!

Threads like these are a bonus, of course.

I predict you a good time in Eve.

Was this comment made to make me think again or to show you lack any kind of understanding?

Well done forum warrior.

The OP asks why?

As I was probably the person that placed the 1 mill bounty I should be the best placed to answer that question.

< redacted > was placing 100k bounties on people that were talking in the channel and placed a 100k bounty on me. I tried to troll him a bit to see if he would put a bit more on but he just added another 100k.

The OP, I think it was him, was complaining about it and it was explained to him that < redacted > was just trying to wind people up and so on. As the OP kept going on about it I thought he was trolling so I dropped the 1mill on him. So there you have it.

That

Is it petty and immature? Of course.
Will your bounty be even higher after you posted this thread? Of course.

The HTFU comment was the best advice you have recieved thus far.

It's only when you stop caring what others do or say that you lose the target on your back.

You're going to run into "HTFU" more and more as you go.

The go look up HTFU by CCP on YouTube. When that video came out ti became a rallying cry for EVE players as the prefect phrase to people that can't seem to accept some of the harsh realities of EVE.

It doesn't matter how pointless something is, there is probably someone out there what will do it and not always because they don't have the sense not to, but because they wanna do something odd and different for the hell of it.

The bounty thing is simply a very low level of grief tactic and/or trolling. It very likely won't effect your game play for a LONG time since people don't care about 1.1 mill bounties, but it's more likely just to simply get you to make a thread like this out of annoyance.

That's probably all they wanted to achieve, was to mess with your head.

That's what we're talking about. The thing is that we have just as many trolls as the rest of the internet but they have to tools to do pretty much whatever they want. Bounties are pretty low on the "screw with you" factor so if you're this worked up about it then we have reason to be a little concerned for your mental and emotional well being when someone goes to actually do something significant to you.

This thread itself might even be reason for you to get more harassment because someone that comes along and reads it later would be armed with the knowledge that they can get a rise out of you with something as simple as bounties.

They might even just start spamming you with large numbers of small bounties and/or tell everyone they know "hey, put a bounty on this guy because he hates it lol"

In the end it doesn't matter how stupid or childish something is when it happens to you, we can't change that nor do we care to. We've been on both sides of the window and it's the way things go around here.