Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is why I suggested you CANNOT turn them down, they expire by time only and automatically. You could theoretically get yourself but the odds would be terrible.

Let me fix that for you.

It allows a player to offer to another player, chosen at random, the time-limited opportunity to bypass CONCORD. Unlike the current bounty system, this right would be rescinded after a single kill and is non transferrable. It is similar to kill rights in many ways, except less exploitable.

A "spy network"(I'll come up with a better name later), which is completely separate from the bounty office would give you the last known station that your acquisition docked in. In the long run I also predict that player-ran channels will be made that have scouts posting positions of people with bounties on them, for an ISK fee of course.

This would make another career available for those who like a more logistics esque role, a Roamer or Patroller... or Bounty Tracker (again I'll come up with a better name later), that doesn't engage in bounty hunting but reports the positions of people with bounties on their head for a fee as a side job, while exploring, hauling, mining, etc.

A few issues

1) 'Just clear current bounties' sounds nice but are you talking about waving a magic wand and erasing billions from the game, billions that people spent on bounties? Or trying to figure out who gets what share of a diminished bounty returned back to them?

2) If you can quick cycle the bounties then I would set a bounty on someone and rifle through the files to have my own personal concord avoidance ticket to gank people with. If it had a time delay then it would die as you wound up with folks who hardly ever log on except to find fights.

3) Only people who killed you? So scammers cannot be bountied anymore? Is that only people who got the kill report or anybody who was on the kill even with a single gun or drone?

a) I do like the spy network but I would modify it to show the last ten gates the person took with time stamps

b) I agree that the bounty system needs a rework

c) I really like the idea of matching the bounty common usage of time slots to the hunter

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nice idea, bounty hunting as a career is currently non existent in eve despite all those fancy looking numbers and stamps on our portraits, its such a big lie to new players that they cant even begin to understand the extent of the lie yet, they have to walk around in circles in search for the truth about the mechanics, i cant tell you how many times ive heard newbies make assumptions about the mechanics. better to remove the system completely than to lie about it with a system that is pretending to be something it is not.

+1 I like this idea. Just needs some more ideas bounced around. I haven't read every post, so sorry if this has been suggested before.

Here's my thoughts...
1) Allow players to provide intel on wanted players. Either via the character sheet if they're in the same system/station. Or via a cargo scanner if they are in proximity. This will give the player a 5% and 10% bounty respectively (split between all involved intel players) if the wanted player is killed within the next hour.
2) Provide a small security status increase for intel players and to the bounty hunter when a successful kill happens.

I'm kinda of the opinion that bounties should only be placed on aggressors and maybe only should be submitted from your kill mail. I understand the counter argument that we should be free to place bounties on scammers, but let's face it, they generally don't undock and we want the bounties on people who actually fly around and play the game, not sit in station.

You could dig into this a little further and have insurance automatically place a certain percentage of the payout as a bounty across all aggressors.

Yes.

5 at a time and you can change each one for a random new one after 24 hours should you not successfully find and kill them. Also, I think a target should be given to up to 3 bounty hunters at a time. This would give people the opportunity to team up with others to track them down or try get the bounty before the others.

Bounty hunters will not know who the other bounty hunters are.

The more I think about it, the more it seems that insurance payouts should be solely used to automatically set bounties as a percentage of payout across all aggressors. This would increase the pool of available bounties and encourage people to pay insurance.

Improvement in bounty hunting is necessary, but that's not the way.

It would be better to have bounty contract in which you would specify:

- Target - Character/Corporation/Alliance
- Ship type - (Hac, T3, Titan, etc.) and/or cost (over 100m over 1B etc.)
- Area - high sec/ low sec/ null sec/ constellation/system
- Time – e.g. between 18.00 - 00.00 EVE time

This would allow you to make contracts such as - kill Code Taloses in Uedama between 18.00 and 22.00
ISK goes to the guy who did the final blow.
Bounty + small fee is covered by issuer

Overall I believe this would create very interesting gameplay, and make a bounty hunter profession viable. As a plus it's completely player driven, no NPC involved. Also unless you mess up with the contract there's no way to exploit the system

Why? The entire proposal is against pointless 100k ISK bounties.
If you want to put a bounty on somebody you should have a reason. If you have that reason there's no need for stalking etc.
I imagine bounty hunters will look for lucrative contracts and do the stalking.

Interesting bounty would be 100m for a command ship and T3 killed in low-sec :-)

i dont know, isnt stalking your prey half the Joy of being a hunter? wounding and scaring your target, picking on him until he reacts on his own accord, there needs to be room for shock and awe tactics. the timing window where you can pressure your target has to be bigger and the freedom to hunt for as long as it takes for the hunted to finally react to being pressured. in other words the next bounty hunter mechanic might have to involve some kind of 'obligation to respond' when being pressured by a hunter, which means all capsuleers must get effective weapons to defend themselves with, some sort of anti-bountyhunter weapons for each stage of the hunt (like a constant back and fourth exchange and dance throughout the hunt).