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Bounty Abuse in new players
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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#41 - 2016-01-06 23:09:11 UTC
There is not much to be done about the bounty system.

Currently it is pretty much ignored. It would require a massive bounty before people went out of their way to kill you for it.

If you gave it "more teeth" people would just game it killing themselves with alts to get the bounty.

You could introduce NPC sentinel type bounty hunters to hunt down people with bounties. This would giv ebounties some "teeth" making it risky for a high bounty player to undock in a freughter for example but (in addition to introducing a non sandbox element) this would make placing bounties a serious source of griefing especially against new players.
Sitting Bull Lakota
Poppins and Company
#42 - 2016-01-07 06:32:52 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
There is not much to be done about the bounty system.

Currently it is pretty much ignored. It would require a massive bounty before people went out of their way to kill you for it.

If you gave it "more teeth" people would just game it killing themselves with alts to get the bounty.

You could introduce NPC sentinel type bounty hunters to hunt down people with bounties. This would giv ebounties some "teeth" making it risky for a high bounty player to undock in a freughter for example but (in addition to introducing a non sandbox element) this would make placing bounties a serious source of griefing especially against new players.


I hear you about it being toothless. You're right about how npc hunters would make it an extreme griefing tool.
Some would say that it should only be tied to criminal acts and killmails. I think this would be a mistake. Ninja looting missions isn't a crime. Bumping isn't a crime. Extrotion using wardecs or aggression mechanics aren't crimes. Ripping people off and going back on deals and running cons in the ship trading channel should be some of the most dangerous things you can do in EvE.
There has got to be a way to give bounties teeth without severly limiting who can be bountied or giving bounties glaring exploit/griefing options.

Anyway, there is no cause for alarm or variation in one's playstyle whether he has 0 bounty or 100 billion bounty. There is no economical way to collect it in highsec, and you'd get shot at no matter what your bounty is in low, null, or wh. At present, the alarm from getting bountied as a new player simply encourages them to start searching out more info on EvE. This is a positive effect.
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