EVE General Discussion

Bounties last until someone claims them. To your benefit, they are also practically irrelevant and are unlikely to result into anyone attacking you for the bounty alone.

Bounties do not change the rules of engagement, no one can shoot you legally unless you go suspect, criminal or enter lowsec, nullsec or WH.

Bounties are just a number under your portrait, nothing else.

When someone kills you, they get roughly 20% of the total value of the killmail as bounty, so if you fly cheap ships it will take several kills until the entire bounty is used up and a single kill is unlikely to result in a substantial payment.

The bounty will slowly deplete over normal game play as you engage in PvP somewhere and die of unrelated reasons. It will usually be just a small bonus to people who you fight with and most people will ignore it until they get a few thousand ISK bounty notice as a pleasant surprise.

well, it used to work that way :)

Bounties do expire if you go inactive for a long time (50% gets refunded), but pretty much everyone ignores them.

It's a PVP game, you get killed a lot, and the payout on each kill is smaller than what they can get from looting the wreck of your exploded ship, so I don't think anybody makes the decision to risk a whole fleet of their ships to hunt you solely for your measly bounty payout.

One thing you kinda have to do in EVE is move away from the idea of building a pristine, perfect character. You sit in station avoiding all conflict to have the perfectly skilled character, and two years down the road you push the wrong button and shoot a station and boom your perfect toon is now marred by a negative security status. It's pointless, and your bounty points this out to you right now.

Go out, play the game, shoot other players, screw the consequences. Your character isn't a princess, it's just a way for you to achieve fun. Pointless if you don't have the fun.

Fine, you asked how long you should wait?

I was pointing out that the posters above me who replied that bounties do not expire were wrong, and in fact you CAN actually wait for it to expire.

Cancel subscription, wait 8 months.

With this type of attitude, you're probably going to be quitting sooner than later, anyways.

Bounties mean nothing. The total bounty payout for a kill is 20% of the estimated value of the kill. It's largely meaningless, and only puts a pretty little "Wanted" sign under your portrait. In EVE, it's unusual to NOT have a bounty.

EVE is a fairly bad game to play solo. I strongly recommend interacting with other players in order to get an enjoyable experience out of this game.

OP is trying to delete his posts.

I would like to point out that it is futile to do so. There is a "backup" record of this thread.

http://eve-search.com/thread/400331-1


Also, two things...

1. Don't take the game so seriously. Different playstyles are designed to affect other playstyles (for better or worse), which means that at some point they will come into conflict with one another. As a result, everyone is pretty much out to get everyone else.
And there are no rules that say you can't affect someone else just out of random feelings of spite. In fact... that's part of the fun. It generates more conflict between players.

2. Newbies can affect the game just as much as veterans can, they are simply less effective at doing so (mostly due to lacking experience, understanding, and networks).
This is why Newbies do not get any "special snowflake" consideration outside of the newbie systems.

Can I haz your stuff