EVE General Discussion

Read subsection 3 of the Law of Highsec. www.lawofhighsec.com/the-law
there's a blurb at the bottom regarding this.

there seems to be more people on the subject of bounty hunting here so ill post my idea here, have made a thread in features and ideas but its not getting much attention,
heres my solution to the no gain problem with bounty hunting.
in the past it was see them kill them gain the full bounty,
now its 20% of the value of the ship, :(

to change this, there needs to be a system tht works and cant be abused.
how it is now you see a list of wanted players,
who they are and what they are worth and you see this information on a players info aswell.
this is information tht doesn't need to change and should always be in place,
but what does need to change is the value of the kill,
20% is rubbish whats the point i mean really,
the system we have now could work inline with my idea, so they wouldn't have to remove it but instead add something else to the mix.
I call them bounty cards.
the idea is that you go into a bounty office, open up a menu which has sections as follows.

bountys worth/value.

100isk/10mil isk -----------------1 kill= full total of bounty in return
10 mil isk/250mil isk--------------2 kills=full total of bounty in return
250 mil isk/ 600 mil isk-----------3 kills=full total bounty in return
600mil/to 900mil isk---------------4 kills=full total bounty in return
1 bil isk plus.-------------------------5kills=full bounty in return

so now you have clicked on the size of the bounty you wish to be setting after but now you need to choose a player,
heres the fun part,
there will be a list of player cards with big ???? question marks as theyre picture, and only a rough estimate of theyre bounty value. (but obviously within the values of the menu you selected ie player selected 100isk/10mil isk so the list will only show players in tht value and there estimated win upon explosion)
this prevents players from choosing players they know or setting values that they can relate to any such player.
you pick one of the random cards and it reveals who they are and the exact amount they are worth.
and go and hunt tht player.
you can invite other players to join you in the hunt, but if you do the game should somehow recognise this so that no matter who deals the final blow all players that were invited get an equal split in the spoils.
you will not be the only player hunting, as other players may have chosen the same card as you so it will be a race to get in their first.
you will not be able to drop a bounty card, more then once a month, so what you pick is what you get.
and your only allowed to hold 1 card at any 1 time,
the system should work in such away that players cant pick cards of people in their corp or alliance,
but the chances are slim considering you cant see a players picture or info until you accept it.
think of it like a contract.
you have a month to pull off the kill, after that you lose the card.
if you manage to kill them the required amount of times you gain the full bounty and can go and get another bounty card,
see is simples.

Pfthahaha. Roleplayer treating his roleplay as real law that everyone must follow. Hilarious.

What's most interesting, within the regurgitations of a very boring group of people, is the extent to which they'll "present" this tired schtick they've come up with. It really makes one wonder about the concept of "gainful employment", and if some people might not have too much time on their hands. But, then, who cares?

I do like that they've inadvertently amassed a group bounty set that makes them as a whole a lucrative target.
You can farm ISK, fun and tears from this bunch with relative ease. Then...peer recognition from chortle threads!

You mistake is thinking bounty hunting has anything to do with actual player bounties. Bounty hunting to CCP is ratting/missioning.

The last successful bounty hunter got banned (probably) for it:
http://themittani.com/news/bounty-hunting-crius-style

A friend of mine recently became interested in EVE, so he went to the Homepage and did that quiz there which told him he would become a bounty hunter. He then came to me and started to fantasize about the stuff he would do Boba Fett style..It was heartbreaking to tell him that this would probably not work.

Why is that even on that page?

They just need to allow anyone who has a bounty to be able to be shot by anyone who gets a BH license from concord, so concord doesn't sec hit or gate gun/ship kill people going for bounties, but it also prevents it from being an instant spanking by everyone in system on bountied players, like it would be if I had my way, which is simply to allow a bountied person to be shot by anyone.

Concord license, fees, etc.
Standing.

To be able to BH from day one, I'd say that fees should be based on intended ship size used by you to try to complete bounties, and standing decreases fees rather than keeps you locked out from a CBHL (concord Bounty Hunter License) until you hit a magic number.

Just explain the fee increases for ship size as collateral damage risk insurance fees or some such.

If a person has the sec status to be able to be bountied, there should be SOME way that people can attack them, whether in high sec or low sec. Its funny that carebearism is a two way street for people that get bountied, yet can be safe because of concord gate gun or ship threat if they're hugging high or low sec. Not a very harsh universe for the people that get a price on their head. Didn't it used to be that sec status was required to be low before a bounty could be placed? It's not very useful of a game mechanic to be able to place high bounties on high sec status people who stay in high sec, which makes it relatively pointless.

The game's too safe as it is with concordokken and gate guns. As long as there's a deus ex machina power in the game, it'll never truly be a player run sandbox mmo. I'm waiting for something that incorporates the behavior of Wing Commander: Privateer. Military, pirates, etc, are all as strong or weak as you are.



Curious as to why a successful bounty hunter may have been banned.

the other part of the bounty system is the issuance of bounties for no reason other than asshattery. If you could only issue a bounty against a player who has aggressed you for a limited time .. say, two or three hours, that would limit most if all the "stupid" bounties that are passed around like awards at a grade school sporting event.

Then once you've got the "just cause" to issue a bounty .. then ideas like the OP could take over.

I would like to even see some sort of "matching" amount from the person with the bounty on them paid to the bounty hunter. Up to a percentage of say they're overall wallet, or amount equal to the value of the ship they were in when they aggressed you... , amount equal to what the insurance would have been had they been insured, idk. something.

So pilot "A" gets attacked .. and places 50m bounty on pilot "B".

pilot "C" picks up bounty and if successful gets 50m from pilot "A" plus 50m from pilot "B". Unless that is all they have .. then pilot be gets 50% of their balance.

And I know that pilot "B" could just transfer their wallet to an alt .. but .. the system would know. Or make it payable from Concord as a "pubic service award" for cleaning up the riff raff.

Just throwing out ideas to see what sticks .. but the current system is useless as it stands.

Bounty Hunting should be a proper career. The idea of a concord issued licence, which you'd have to work to qualify for and which allows you to gank your contracted target in highsec, is good! Privateers for the win! :-)