Crime & Punishment

Speculation? Or Disbelief ?

Great new, original way of serving the EVE Online player base.

I fully endorse this service.

Please OP, keep us apraised of your success in this endeavour.

I am completed legitimate.

The whole reason I am doing this is because I want to make bounty hunting a viable profession in the game as well as ensuring that the people who place bounties actually feel like there is a good chance of the bounty being fulfilled.

I do hope it will become a great thing :)

There's definitely room for a service like this in Eve but this iteration is not the one to take that spot.

First of all there's no credible person to stand responsible for the service. Just an alt created for it.

Secondly the fee is too small for me to be convinced that this is anything other than a scam with the goal of running off with the bounty pool.

1%. That means that if you verify a kill on a bounty of 100 million then you earn 1 million isk. A 1 billion bounty would be extremely rare and even then you wouldn't collect more than 10 million.

The isk collected in fees won't even be worth a fraction of the human effort required to maintain this service in the long run. You could say that you'll be running it out of kindness of your heart but even if you meant it. It wouldn't be sustainable without being an actual business with a motivation to maintain it.

The fee would have to be at least 10%. Probably 30% since most bounties will be in the 50-100 million isk range.

Even at 30% it would still be a viable business since the isk comes from the client and the goal of the client is to have someone killed. The client doesn't care what share the bounty hunter gets as long as the target is killed. It is after all the clients you want to attract, You would have the bounty hunters regardless.

But then the business would need a credibly member of the Eve community to stand as responsible for it before people would be willing to use it.

SCAM

I already did, my main is Catt Stevens

It's certainly a nice idea, but you will have to find some way to gain credibility. Not just that you aren't cheating people out of their money, but that you are able to somehow determine exploits of the system.

You are basically going to need Chribba to back you up on this (and be the guy holding the cash).

I don't see it happening any other way, to be honest.

I would like to take this opportunity to point out to everyone that this is posted under the Crime & Punishment section of the forum, and thus it would be incorrect to turn this idea into a scam since that would most lightly get me banned for posting it as an official service.

While I understand your skepticism and your distrust of new things just popping up, I can assure you that I have only the best intentions and in time (a lot of time) it will be shown as such.

I do not expect everyone to trust me right off the bat, so I will conduct my service to the best of my ability and await the day when people who are trusted in the EVE Universe will post here stating that this service is one that is legitimate.

Best Regards to you all and I hope to see many new bounties appearing on the website!

Catt Stevens (aka EVE Online Bounty)