EVE General Discussion

Have you just simply tried paying someone to kill your enemy?

That's a bounty.

Bounty works as an isk sink.

Totally agree it shouild be linked to crime and reward should be whatever is decided to be paid.

It should also be integrated into the contract system to prevent people claiming their own bounty.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_hunter-

"A bounty hunter (sometimes called a bounty killer) is a person who captures fugitives and criminals for a
monetary reward (bounty). "


Say someone does something naughty in high or low sec (null and w-space have no NPC laws) and they go suspect- then you put up a bounty contract on them either to the public or to a corp or to an individual bounty hunter.

They take the contract and can now legally shoot the criminal ship. Upon it's destruction- they get paid for the contact. EOS.

Yes a guy could take a contact upon himself if it was public- but you wouldn't put it as a public contract... you would give the contract to a bounty hunting corp or individual you know who enjoys that play style.

It can be used to place a red rectangle with white letters "WANTED" on someone's profile picture to discourage them to buy ingame clothing. Besides from ruining the aesthetics of hours in the create character it adds no more value to the game. should be reworked .

It is not a bounty.
It does not make people wanted.
It does not give anyone a wreckright or podright. Oh, killright..; lol, ccp should try and play the game more as most of them have no clue how things work or they need a lesson in English.
It gets abused but since no one cares it's not that problematic.


In conclusion it's worthless for anyone except trolls and RMT traders. The latter has steeply declined after the decrease in payout.

Much like you Mr. Doomheim.

It works, for what it is.
It rewards someone for blowing them up.
The reward may be small, but its something.

Also gives you the satisfaction of receiving mail when they blow up so you can go check the kill mail and enjoy some schadenfreude, and perhaps send them a mocking mail about it if you are particularly salty.

If it wasnt for the fact that basically it makes "bounty hunters" redundant, except when as an interpersonal contract, Id say working as intended.

Were you killed recently and told it was for your bounty, or did someone put a bounty on you and you're freaking out because you don't understand how the new system works?

Under the new system bounties are paid out based on the value of your ship and implants when they're destroyed, so killing people for bounties isn't really worth it unless they're flying something really expensive.

I've had a bounty of 10 million on my alt for at least 5 years now. Nobody comes after me looking to "cash in that sweet sweet bounty".

Listen up, son.

That wont work.

If you placed 1bil bounty on me, I would blow myself up in a rookie ship with an alt, and send you a lolmail thanking you for the free billion.

See?

First of all, the OP is talking about scrapping the CURRENT system, so how many Bounties are given out on a daily basis is irrelevant.

Secondly, CCP has been doing nothing but wasting Resources. WOD. DUST514, and now the 99 Virtual Reality projects that are all expected to be a Net Loss. And lets not forget the CSM!

I'm under no illusions myself. The current system is designed to be a failure. They don't want a Bounty System that actually works. If the Bounty system did work people like MarkeeDragon, and our absolute favorite The Mittani would never be able to undock again.

Nevertheless, the OP's suggestion is a good one. It calls for a re-thinking of the approach to Online gaming. What's bad about the OP's suggestion is that its directed toward a company that clearly suffers from ADHD

Seriously, this is a non-issue. The only reason to actually be upset about it is if you want to be a dedicated Bounty Hunter, in which case the current system sucks because you can only make ISK if you only kill them in expensive ships.

A bounty does NOT make you some kind of juicy target that now can't play the game because you'll get killed for your tasty bounty.