Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Short version: Contracts that use killmail information to determine when it is filled. Whoever fills the contract first gets the bounty, while any number of people can have it accepted at any time.

Then you need to allow the contract to define who may and may not accept it, like security status, personal standings, individual/corporation/alliance, what kind of ship/object qualifies as a valid kill, attachment of killrights, requirement of a wardec (for mercenary contracts) or attachment to a current war (as a war wager) and of course definition of the bounty rewards in ISK and/or objects.

What would also help would be a improved intelligence system to track down and stalk targets and countermeasures to mislead or completely curb any location data, for a time, for a price. This would also be a step towards replacing local as a intelligence device.

Lots of work to do it right.

nono i mean the problem before they changed it to 20% bounty was that people would log an alt and pod themselves. Ofc now you only get the 20% which makes it not a viable profession.

bounty hunting in eve will be always useless. in highsec bounty doesnt legitimate agression, anywhere else you would shoot the guy anyways, besides of that I guess stalking a specific guy will never pay off as when he undocks in an ibis after you waited 8 hours for him to undock, in an interceptor or any other worthless or uncatchable ship.

Contracts. A person can set a bounty as a % of ISK destroyed (with min/max values) or an absolute value of ISK, with certain parameters determining what qualifies as a bounty kill (min ISK to be destroyed, pods vs ships, etc.)

In order to accept the contract the bounty hunter must be approved by the contractor. Multiple hunters can pursue a contract at once. This would mean either the contractor sets the bounty up in a way that can't be exploited, or they have to use their judgment to determine who is and isn't a legitimate bounty hunter instead of an alt.

bounties dont work in this game because the key element of bounty hunting namely having an advantage from a bounty contract, like in real world, is completely missing in eve. if it should ever work it certainly needs some way to catch an unsuspecting victim in a supposed to be safe environment (high sec), which in turn does not work with bounties of the current shape.
At the moment a bounty hunter has absolutely no advantage over anybody else who wants a shiny killmail.
You could try to put a bounty on a person whose payout would cover costs of a suicide gank though but you probably wouldnt like such expenses, assuming the victim even lives in such suspected to be safe environment where bounty hunting would make sense.

Which instance or authority would approve a license to destroy assets of a player in high sec without disrupting the concept of high sec too much and for what reason?
In real world bounty hunting works in strict accordance to the law of a country (you capture a person and hand him over to police or authorities) while destroying a ship in eve clearly violates rules of high sec and leads to punishment by concord.

How about 75% on uninsured ships?
Just make a system that never pays out more than 85% and it becomes viable profession.

This is the reason bounties in Eve don't work. There is no risk to the target. The only way it could work would be for the podded character to be removed permanently from the game, but that would unleash the bullies like the Goons on anyone and everyone. May as well remove it altogether.