Jita Park Speakers Corner

I have read a lot of posts about how the bounty system is not doing what it is supposed to do and a high level of frustration seems evident.

I would like to propose a new “bounty hunter” skill that would enable a player to shoot any character with a bounty on them of over 200,000,000 isk without Concord intervention in high sec.

The Bounty Hunter would have to have a positive sec status in order for his skill to be applicable.

This will expand the opportunities for non-consensual High sec PVP dramatically. I'm thinking alpha strike DPS here! A level 5 Bounty Hunter skill would lower the isk amount of target worthy bounties to 20,000,000 isk.

We can create a thriving profitable business model for high sec non-consensual PVP and solve many of the complaints I have read about the system not working.

I look forward to your comments/ improvements and nonsensical whines.

Everyone can get to defend themselves, but it would take a positive sec status to start shooting at someone with a bounty on their head without being Concorded.

I like this idea. Pay 200m, gank without security repercussions, make profit.

To circumvent an obvious exploit an Alliance member of or the the person placing the bounty can not collect the bounty or the Concord immunity. You can only collect bounties that are not otherwise connected to you. Certainly you can't place a bounty on someone and then collect from yourself, lol nice try however Zim.

72 hour waiting period from bounty placement to effectiveness.

New Eden is a dangerous place ..... let's just make it a touch more profitable shall we.

The point is when someone puts a bounty on someone someone else can collect it without Concord getting in the way.

Someone else pointed out the smart idea of placing a bounty on a person just before you are going to gank them.

Someone 1 could be a alt on the same account (or more likely different for faster transaction) placing the bounty, someone 2 is the person ganking and collecting the isk. someone 3 is the person who is geting ganked and has a bounty put on his head for no crime.

So investing 200 mil (or even less) and being able to gank someone.

Of course.... the maneuver has to be fast to work, a chance exists that the person could see somehow they have bounty on head and escape (logoff) and latter get their own friend or alt to kill them.

Though,..... this brings up a idea to fix the bounty system and this, have it be so you can only place bounty after you get ganked on any gankers. Being that the police may not permit unfair useage of concord recognized bounites on honest law abiding pod pilots.

Though the bounty system itself more importantly needs a revamp, any significant amount of isk put on a person a player will just pod themselves in a shuttle. Its used currently more as a joke and e-peen then anything else (I know of a leader of x-death who has a billion bounty on himself, likely by himself, who says losing a dread is like a throwaway ship to him) Any other fixes are useless without fixing the payout being based on the amount the player loses when getting ship killed or podded..

Sigh.

So for the low low price of 200M, paid by my 1-man corp tengu alt, I can kill anyone I want in hi-sec?