EVE General Discussion

Out of boredom and an interest to see how it works I did a little poking around on the bounty board.
From what I can see, most of the top 10 bounty hunters themselves, are known pirates who do this sort of thing anyway. CCP just changed it so now they get a little extra for it.. When I say a little I mean exactly that.
According to the bounty office the top 10 "Bounty Hunters" have, 1,224 kills for bounties, claimed (been paid) 8,478,766,666 isk in bounties, which equates to 6,927,096 isk per kill. Not much really.

I believe one way to make bounty hunting more viable as a profession would be to make player set bounties have an expiry time. When they expire the isk goes into a pool and is used by concord to set bounties based on security status. EG; -1 would get you a concord bounty of 50mil, -2 would be 75mil and so on. The Concord bounty would be paid in full on the demise of the outlaws ship and the 20% player placed bounty paid as an extra.

The Concord bounties would only be paid in highsec and lowsec, nulsec kills would only pay the player placed bounty as is now. If the player claiming the bounty has bad standing with Concord that bounty is reduced accordingly, this is so as to not encourage pirates hunting pirates and make Bounty Hunting a legitimate profession.


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Of the top 10 most wanted at least 4 are trade hub whores who never undock so no chance of ever claiming a bounty there.

It is a good, isk store for the economy though. Slows inflation as it is removing isk out of circulation.

Is the new bounty system perfect? No. Is it much better than the old one? Yes.

kr actovation costs are a damn joke. Rarely do i see one with a low activation cost. They seem to be 500mil up to 2 bil to activate. No way you would pay that unless you are filthy rich and bored

CCP Have said they don't consider the bounty system finished and there is plenty of room for tweaks. One of them I believe was even the idea that hunting the top ten would actually pay more bounty, say 40-80% per kill.

However in normal CCP style this feature has been put in and left to die while they give us something shiny and new which they will forget about another six months later.

Slight digression from the thread, but I'm not entirely convinced that this situation is ridiculous.

Can you imagine if we had cloning technology in real life? I woke up with an epic hangover this morning - would just shoot myself and wake up in a nice, chemical-intoxication-free (and younger) body to resolve. On holiday on another continent? Can't be bothered with the two-connection twelve hour flight home? The corpses would litter the streets. Pod express, best express.

With respect to the bounty system, I agree it's much better than it was. But it's still a tax on the stupid in a way - the people who are doing PvP are doing it anyway, and now they just happen to get paid a small amount for it sometimes. If they're serious about making bounty-hunting a paid profession (as has been suggested), it needs a bit more work. Won't bore you all with my own horrific monstrosity of an idea, though.

Look, it's this simple: if there is a way for the bounty payout to exceed the value of the ship, including insurance, then it will immediately be claimed by the bounty target, either by using an alt or a friend. The bounty just becomes a gift to the very person you wanted to take revenge on. End of story.

The only way to increase the value of bounty payouts above that if for the payouts to be judged by a human, and if that's what's wanted, the bounty hunter will have to make a personal "unofficial" deal with the player who placed the bounty.

I'm sure no players would ever exploit that system by putting alts in to the "police" and using them to claim bounties put on their mains.

Success.

The bounty system is better than it ever was and serves a nice addition to the game.

What was *not* a success, IMHO, was the new criminal flagging system as it has basically resulted only in another form of station-games really.

yk

Bounties are another revenue source that helps keep me and my comrades in catalysts. We get it from our targets and from shooting at each other while waiting for Concord to explode us. Sometimes even our neutral scouts will get the bounty as well.

If everyone could place a bounty on the next miner they see we would really appreciate it.

+1 success.