Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello there! When I started playing EVE I wanted to become a bounty hunter, as it looked very interesting and fun, but I'v been told the bounty system is broken, as you get only a % of the ship they are flying value, so it's nonsense to use the bounty system as you loose money most of the time.
I tought it could be done differently, like the market contracts. For example:

Character A has 100 ISK bounty (To use a easy number :D), which has been deployed by Char B (70 ISK) and Char C (30 ISK)

So, after putting the bounty on char A head, a contract is created, where the payoff will be 100 ISK, but not everyone can go and earn it, you would have to bid for it in order to earn it (like public contracts in real life, there is a budget for X project, and buisness bid who can do it faster/cheaper).
Then 3 bounty hunters are interested in the job.

Bounty Hunter 1 offers himself and his buddies to take down A character for the 100% bounty and will have finished the job in about a month (After this month they would keep loosing a % of the reward as not accomplishing the offered objectives, same applied to BH 2 and 3)

Bounty Hunter 2 is like Han Solo, a tought b*****d and he will take 120% of the reward and to it in about a week.

Bounty Hunter 3 isn't so tough but has the contacts and intel reports to ensure the work is done, he will do it for 80% of the bounty and in 2 months max.

So now Char B and C decide who they preffer, as char B has the biggest share of the bounty, he could decide alone who to contract, and char C doesn't mind who or how, just wants to get A killed (Podding, right?).

This could encourage competitivity between BH and create some useful service in-game.

Just my little contribution :D

PD: Sorry for the bad english

Janna Ivy
I suggest you use the search feature there are several dozen topics on bounty hunting laying about and they contain an array of ideas that have been brought up and the reasons why people here think they are good or bad ideas.

Setting aside profits by killing your own characters which is extremely easy to prevent there are several two problems that are not so easily dealt with.

1. most of this gaming community would rather have the useless bounty system we currently have, than a system that could actually add bounty hunting as a valid game play style. The most often stated reason is that they want to be able to place a bounty on anyone at anytime and for any reason, or no reason at all.

2. high sec rules of engagement and Concord's response to those who violate them.

20% is the magic number, when you collect a bounty you only get up to 20% of the value of the ship you destroyed. Manage to kill the pod as well and you get 20% of the value of the pod as well, as noted above this was done to prevent a player from profiting by setting a bounty on one character and then killing them using another.

Yeah, that's what people explained me ingame, this is the reason i'm proposing this bidding system, so people would know who is actually going to take on the hunt. But I agree it's very difficult to control it with the multiaccount system EVE has :(



I'll take a look! I think that 1. it's not a problem, if someone is willing to pay to get you killed, who cares about their reasons? (But I get this could be a problem if richer players started f*****g around with a lot of weaker players) also point 2. I think that would be the bounty hunter problem, they could wait for him to leave the secured zone, force them to get out with a bait... or risk all to kill them in high sec. As far as I know this isn't an easy or fast game, so I don't think those would be big problems, maybe I'm missing some game mechanics which would make this bounty system non-viable.

Thanks for answering people!

Let's say your target is AFK mining in a wormhole somewhere, and player D, who doesn't have a bounty contract or anything, comes along and ganks him. He'd get nothing at all, when hunter 3 can get the 80% of the total for killing your target in a random shuttle?


Or, let's say your target sees he has a bounty on him and uses his alt, bounty hunter 4, to bid for the contract offering the kill inside of a week at 100%. You accept that, and you are handing mister target the bounty.


Which is why the old system was broken.

True, with this point I can't argue, so no BH for me D: