EVE New Citizens Q&A

so someone I have had no dealings with has decided to put a bounty on me. fair enough it is part of the game. I am here to ask if I will have this price on my head indefinately. I mean is it time limited or stays till it is either claimed or the person who put it there removes it?
bit miffed it is is only 100k.

Bountys are like that hair that grows in funny playces , some people have it sooner than others and beyond a certain age it's absence is strange (or deliberate).

Don't worry about it.
the current mechanic will not affect your ability to do anything in game Whatsoever.
though you might get slagged of for having a small one.

And they can't remove it either.

The bounty system is something of a joke in most player's view. I got a bounty by one guy and his alt because we disagreed in a help channel. Some place it on newbies just to get the reaction of that pilot freaking out in chat over it.

Basically what happens is your bounty represents a pool of ISK that will pay-out 20% of the estimated insurance value of the hull you're flying should/when you get spaceship-exploded by another player(s). All those that are on the kill report will share in the amount paid out. The fact you have a bounty doesn't make you any more of a target and anyone aggressing you is still subject to the aggression mechanics (so if they decide to shoot you in high security space without you being a legit target, or flashie, they will be blown up by CONCORD). So you can have a large bounty, but if you're killed in say a hull worth 300,000 then the amount deducted from your bounty pool would be 60,000.

Any pilots who placed a bounty in the current pool on you will get notified that some bounty was claimed. They see no other "benefit", unless they are in on the kill.

Some pilots get bounties because another player is butt-hurt from an attack, or a scam, or some such. The funny thing is these pilots have suffered an ISK loss, so they spend more ISK on the person that "hurt" them, thinking it will mean something.

The bounty lasts until it is all claimed, if ever. Most of us don't pay attention to it .

Oh so many players ask about making bounty hunter viable profession. I can see ways that it might be possible, kind of like a one on one wardec.

But before you start throwing isk at the screen ask yourself what it would be like to be on the receiving end if someone rich decided that they really didn't like you. At the current rate they would have 5:1 advantage in doing damage to your wallet. Could a ganker in highsec put a bounty on haulers and miners just to legally destroy them?

For now, wear your bounty like a badge of honour and rest easy in the fact that if they manage to kill you they will get a little extra that will not come out of your wallet or wreckage.

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Or their battlecruiser, for some noobs even cruisers are a decent payout, I pay out 2-3 mil every time someone gets in on Concord's KM. The rare times I use a BC, the pay out is about 10mil. You don't even have to do any damage, just lock and use any offensive module.

thank you everyone. so much to learn in this game. mind you I am in no hurry.
fly safe.

What you've experienced is the infamous 100k bounty troll. You probably received it at a trade hub, along with 100 other players. It's nothing to worry about.

And if you put large enough bounty to actually matter they just make their alt to shoot them and collect the rewards.

Haha you still think that happens?


Hahahahaha



Nobody with some sanity will do that.

Lets have an alt kill me in 5 times the value of the bounty....sounds like a good idea...losing 80% of the amount in the process.