EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi,
I've been playing EVE for about 3 weeks now and I completed the tutorial and the military career mission. I would like to enter the bounty hunting career in the game but I don't know where to start:

I have 2 corvettes, 2 Tristans, 1 Venture and a Catalyst. U would like to find a corp that would be able to help me learn basic PVP techniques and how I could get ISK from hunting bouties. I understand that I would probably have to start on frigates and corvettes as I cannot afford to replace my Catalyst.

It would be really great if someone could help me find a corp that I could start bounty hunting in.

Thank you!

Confirming, bounty hunters aren't a serious thing.
The closest thing to it would be whit I do wich is targeted and direct mercenaries (see link in Sig for more details).
But even that's a little (read a lot) screwy at the moment and definitely not a great place for a newbro to begin his PvP career.
Waaaaaaaaaay too much patience, blue balls and alt play to be appealing.

Goo have some fun shooting innocent folk in the face , when you get the hang of that then think about hunting wolves

So no one has quite explained why Bounty Hunting doesn't really work as a career choice in Eve yet. I will try my best.

Since we are immortal capsuleers, the bounty system can't tie the reward system to the death of the bountied character or the collection and submission of their corpse. There's simply nothing to stop that Wanted person from getting themselves killed by friends (or more likely, an alt) and collecting on their own bounty.

In order to circumvent this, the bounty is rewarded based on the value of the Wanted person's ship when it is destroyed. And upon destruction, you will only get 20% of the total value of the destroyed property. Often, trying to locate the target and catch them while they're in a valuable ship is incredibly inefficient in terms of making ISK, and there's a very real possibility that you will simply end up a corpse in the vacuum at the end of said encounter. Collecting on bounties usually ends up being something you accidentally do when engaging in regular PvP.

And, as another player mentioned, you do not get special privileges in terms of Crimewatch reaction when you are hunting a bounty. Unless you have an active killright on them, or they have recently engaged in naughtiness, or your corporation is at war with that player's corporation, shooting them in hisec will likely result in your getting CONCORD'd. You could go ahead and say "screw it, I'm gonna make it work for me", and give it your best shot. But most people don't find it worth the time, and in fact the placement of bounties is often a sign of affection or irritation. Some people like being bountied just because they like that Wanted poster on their portrait.

Yes the Bounty system in this game is pointless, especially when folks hide behind CONCORD and still misbehave. I think it's ironic CONCORD sends a person a notice a bounty that is placed on them, but then will kill the aggressor in Hisec should someone act on that bounty.

If you want to be a mercenary, there's plenty of ways to get paid to kill people. If an industrial corporation gets wardecced, you lend them your PVP help at a price. Or if someone has a high bounty on them, you could potentially hunt that person down and try to kill them while they are in an expensive ship. You will get paid 20% of the value of their ship, and you'll get some of the loot that's inside the wreck.

Is it cost efficient? Well, no not really. But if it's ~*FUN*~ for you, then by all means go balls deep on that content!