EVE General Discussion

Incorrect they are changing it now so anyone can have a bounty placed on them NPC corp or not, -1 sec or +5 sec doesnt matter

The system is pointless, basically a free pass to have 1v1's in highsec, useless everywhere else.

How is it a free pass anymore than the current system? If in highsec, you still have to gank them. If you are 1v1, and they aren't already in a pod, I can about guarantee that concord will do for you before you can pop them. All it means is that you get fewer overall iskies, and actually get iskies for ship, instead of 100% for just the pod.

How is my having a few million isk on my head going to make a ganker decide to pop my orca if he wasn't about to anyway? Even worse if I'm just flying around in a frigate. The ganker would have to pop me several times to get that few million, while losing ships of his own.

I'm just not seeing the problem. The only way I see someone taking advantage of the system is to fit high value modules that don't sell well (bad T2s and some cosmos modules) while being popped by an alt or corpie to collect on a juicy bounty (hundreds of millions) someone put on me.

The only way it would change a gankers mind, and bring them all to the yard is if you like to fly expensive ships, haven't bothered to collect the bounty yourself, and the bounty is in the billions.

Another thing to consider is that if a person has a bounty on thier head and is a miner... lets say flying a mackinaw. that would be 35 Million isk 20% on top of any other offers to gank the miner along with salvage, you don't think that wouldn't increase or bring back ganks.

While I agree that this is not going to be a the blood bath many people fear, you really need to understand that if you chose to gank yourself with an alt you will lose money every time you do it.

Bear in mind that CCP has already stated they will be specifically watching for price manipulation attempts on modules to try and milk the system. With that out of your equation, you lose money every time.

Now granted, you lose 20% less than if others pop you... however you have given whoever put the bounty your head the pleasure of knowing that you had to spend the time to blow yourself up at least several times to get out from under the bounty and lost money every time you did.

Well there is also a benefit of blowing yourself up say 70% insurance returns and 20% bounty to alt your gonna be basically losing 10% of the bounty while the person issuing the bounty is losing 100%, the coupled with multiboxing generating more isk then a single player your income coupled with 10:1 ratio is going to burn the person placing the bounty out of the game faster then yourself but also the number of miner haters is large.



At this point is is speculation, the only thing people can do is wait and see what happens, but mark my words as always the evil elements of the eve community are going to find ways to abuse the mechanic and or use it for things it wasn't intended for. The whole point of the expansion is "Retribution" which would mean that one has to do a crime and the victim to seek retribution. Since a miner isn't accually attacking the person placing the bounty is that really Retribution by definition?




Personally I believe that only characters with -0.01 or lower security status should be able to have bountys placed on them. That and player corporations. The exception to this would be if the player in question kills someone the person with "killrights" should be allowed to place a bounty and or sell killrights.

I think people with experiment with it for a couple days before deciding: wow this is dumb and then forget all about it.

Since you have 10 bil to **** away can I have some of it? I'll put it to better use I promise.

I have 1bil to a very special friend...

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