EVE General Discussion

Think something is totally wrong with the bounty system,
Bad guys can place a bounty on the god guys who usually i flying expensive ships,
making them targets for gankers.
God guys can put a bounty on gankers, but it really doesn't matter,
because they usually loose the ship to concorde anyway, and usually a quite cheap ship.

Further more the bounty can be and is often used to harass other people with,
some people think it is fun to put people on other people with no reason at all,
except to annoy them.

Me my self now have in the last year or more,
every since the language chats got removed been harassed with bounties,
the reason is that i did make a new danish chat, and did try to build it up.

I did make one rule on the chat that, it was to treat other people nice,
some players did not like that, and did harass all new people on the chat with bounties,
and it ended up me giving up, running the chat, therefore no Danish chat with many players now.

But that was not enough, the players did continue to put bounties on my char every time i got shot,
but now i have had enough, when you do things like that to other players you don't even see or talk too,
and you keep doing it in more than a year it's not game related, then it i personal harassment,
and it is beginning to break me down.

It can't be right a game mechanic can be used that way, so please do something about it,
because it is totally broken, it was not god before, long time ago when it got changed,
but it was not broken, now it is broken, and maybe EVE would be better totally without it.

The trouble with that is that CCP has, to a greater or less extent over the years, pushed the possible EVE professions through advertising, and one of those appeared to be that of bounty hunter. Absolutely, you're right that it's completely meaningless at the end of the day, but they really shouldn't be advertising a system that is completely borked...

Bounty harassment! It's real!

Seriously, I learned in my my first weeks in EVE that the bounty system is not worth the trouble. Yes, it's broken but I would assume this is due to a 'fix' to prevent exploitation and lack of ideas to actually fix it.

And I can't imagine someone ganking you merely because of the bounty (payout isn't the whole bounty, it's about 20% value of the destroyed items). They will gank you because you have a shiny ship or you seem to be an easy target/miner.


My advice: Just ignore it.

Is something broken if it was never functional?

Is a pile of parts a broken thing, if that thing was never assembled?

we know, and for the most part I don't think anyone really cares. If they upped the payout percentage and I had a big bounty I could just get in an insured bs and kill myself with an alt to make isk. It used to be you got the full bounty on pod kill, and I made a bit of isk that way. For empire pilots it can be hard to get a legitimate pod kill.

the only way I really see it working is to have a trusted 3rd party hold the isk and payout on kill. Although that is generally more of a pita than it is worth.

this way a bounty is almost a kill bonus you get sometimes. I doubt many people are looking at bounties before they get in a fight.

Well i have ignored the continuous incoming bounties on my head for quite long time,
but when it just continuous and continuous well then i begin to fell it like something personal,
and not a game thing, especially when it is someone who i never run into or talk to in the game,
but after what i can figure out apparently know me from IRL.
then it is hard to ignore it,
and if a game mechanic can be used to kind of harass other players with,
without any way to defend you self, well then it is totally broken.

The players who keep putting the bounty on med knows i live in high sec,
far far away from where they are in 0.0 so i can not even use the game mechanic against them,
bounty on 0.0 players is kind of wasted, mostely bounty is anyway.

I live i high sec, using my frighter as a hauler when i mine,
so yes the continuous incoming bounties make my hauler a nice ganker target,
and if shot on my new ship, and so on and so on.


If the bounty system is only good for bullying,
then it should be totally removed,
my PvP char kills a lot of gankers,
and sometimes it get a little bounty,
but far from enough to make the system worth keeping.

Because every single time that happens it reminds me of that Russian guy that initially started foaming at the mouth in Cyrillic text in chat and upon landing in the Relic site immediately put a bounty on my head. It reminds me of a funny episode in my EvE life.
No, i did not. Even in retrospect it was worth every single Isk. And yes, he would have been attacked regardless, so it only results in a nice bonus for his killer.
But I ask you, is me smiling about his blown up ship and the character doing the blowing up getting some Isk as bonus a bad thing? I personally think not.

The bounty system is broken the same way a rock is broken.
It just sits there.
Doing nothing.
"Broken."

I actually like the bounty system. Not sure why carebears are mad about it. They pretty much asked for it the way it is now.

Honestly I don't quite get what you are complaining about. The bounty system is completely broken in the sense that no-one kills folk because they have a bounty. Thus having a bounty on you is meaningless. Now if you are saying that you are a role player and some how having a bounty is undeserved in your rp perspective - well then keep in mind that your actions are likely disrupting/supporting an enemy faction of an unfriendly empire and/or corp and/or alliance. Even though it may seem that your actions are de minimums, they are serious to your competitors. Thus your bounty is whole deserved.

BTW your freighter is a gank target in hs because it is a freighter - not because you have a bounty. People will kill your freighter because they can, which is the core of eve. No extra incentive is required.