EVE New Citizens Q&A

Many players are abusing the application of bounty, especially with new players, where they apply heavy bounties in your char. Where you do not need to talk, just the fact that you join in the channel they already applying some bounties.


>>>What to do in such cases and with these players?

There is no abuse and you're just a faceless alt anyway.
Look up what abuse means.

Throwing bounty at new players changes nothing for them, but the pic.

I use them as personality test.


You're just trolling.

In case you're not ...

There is no abuse. It's fun, nothing more. Any new player who rages about the bounty
does not even understand what it means or does. For a new played it changes nothing.

I bounty new players a lot. It shows me the attitude and intellect the player has.
Ofc not everyone cares about that, understandably, but it changes nothing.

What matters is that the bounties create social content ...
... and they do that really well.

I wouldn't worry about it.

The bounty system is effectively useless in many respects.

People who kill you when you have a bounty on you will only get a percentage of the bounty dependant on the value of the ship you're flying when you're killed. In most cases (unless it's an extreme bounty into the billions of ISK) having a bounty doesn't bring any risk with it at all. Just ignore it and keep playing, and just think of how badass you look with that 'Wanted' sign on your portrait.

Like Sol said, more often than not, people are bountied just for fun or to see what their reaction is.

That is a bit heavy handed and out of order, tbh, especially for NCQ&A

thank you all. I thought it was like hunted brand as in many other games. I thought of abuse as if it was abuse of power

No worries. This section of the forum is english only but while I can only speak for myself I think that most of us are totally fine with working through translation issues.

Ignore bounties.

Everyone reguardless of bounty status is a target in the sense that one can be attacked at any time. The question is, is it worth it to the attacker?

In high sec, attacking someone without kill rights of some sort invokes Concord and concord will blow up your ship, any attempt to evade concord is considered an exploit. But this is strictly a punishment not a prevention.

In general, bounties aren't an incentive because it is awarded based on your ship value, which is not much. And because most of the people looking for targets are often trigger happy and would shoot you for the lols anyway. No matter what common wisdom someone may give you, once you undock you are not safe, but in hs at least, you are highly unlikely to be attacked.

Think of it like RL. You can walk in a convenience store in town without worry most of the time, but every once in awhile, someone robs the store, and you don't want to be there then. That is how HS works.

Also, try not to delete your characters again. The skill points give you a head start and are better than starting over.

This is the best advice.

Bounties change nothing and are useless other than to create drama for players that don't like having the word "wanted" at the bottom of their picture. They seriously are a useless mechanic that not only do you not need to worry about but there is no use in you wasting your time to try and "figure them out". You are not going to be hunted for your bounty and you will not be hunting other's for their bounty.

This! It is funny how newbies react to the Wanted! OMG!

I like having a bounty, it makes me look scarier to the newbies. Unfortunately I die a lot and my bounty keeps getting cleared.