EVE General Discussion

I think it's possible that the new bounty system could be the saviour of EvE.

The two main complaints about high-sec right now are;
1. Suicide ganking isn't profitable enough for the effort.
2. High-sec players get too much isk for too little reward.

A further complaint is that the game has too few ISK sinks.

With the new bounty system, we will be able to place bounties of any amount on anyone, for any reason. We can force people to participate in PvP even if they pretend they don't want to. We can make ganking profitable. Even if the profits will be small (20m bounty from a Mackinaw according to Petrus Blackshell in this thread https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2067812#post2067812 ), it might be worth it just for the tears, plus loot and salvage.

Essentially, for every 20m ISK bounty you place on a miner, that miner will lose 200m isk when he is ganked. This makes it seem like high-sec mining is going to become quite a risky business and result in a lot of carebears losing a lot of ISK to gankers who just want to see them QQ.

So where does the ISK sink part come in? Well, the bounty system itself is an ISK sink. As people keep piling bounties on the miners, the bounties get higher and higher. A miner with a 200m bounty is good for 10 ganks, and what happens when a carebear miner is ganked too many times? He quits EvE, taking his bounty with him.

Every time a carebear quits EvE, they are removing ISK from the economy, thus creating the ISK sink the game needs.

It seems to me that with the new bounty system, we can save EvE by forcing players to quit with relentless ganking. The higher the bounties, the more likely they are to quit and remove those high bounties from the economy when they do.

This is why I think the new bounty system, with the proper player initiative, could save EvE. Alternatively, it could also lead to the fiery death of EvE.

Who says EVE needs saving?

Mr Epeen

Posting in a stealth "EVE is dying" thread

Wait Eve is dying and needs saving? News to me, better start looking for new game!! Darn it. What needs saving is these froums from people like the OP. I swear Riot Girl cries more then any 1000 high sec players.

By the way RG, thanks for heads up my subscrptions are up in DEC, since eve is dying I can save real dollars, maybe you are useful afterall.

I Will Save you all.

Thanks Alice :D

No. Partly because the ISK isn't gone, and partly because it has nothing to do with bounties.

Either way, it's not a sink.

Sometimes you don't need to read the first sentence, but the last sentence to identify the quality of a post.

Actually!

I think it was stated in the dev blog that if an account goes inactive, the ISK placed in the bounty dissapears. So it will be an ISK sink, of a sort.

Honestly, this is all academic and no one cares. The important thing is that a carebear has left the game.