EVE General Discussion

Seriously though, I understand as a bounty tool it's broken. But posting something about it every two weeks won't get it fixed.

Besides, This is the wrong forums section for player suggestions and ideas.

Someone posted a suggestion not too long ago that sounded promising. Bounties as contracts, to be bid on by bounty hunters.

DMC, you say it's a tool that is used for grief and exploited to antagonize and annoy other players. It only works like that if the player in question lets it affect them. Folks need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

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what sensible human being would argue against addressing a Broken, non-functioning, meaningless system???

who would argue to keep something in game that has no value whatsoever???

But it does have meaning. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Bounty your enemies once and you receive a notification any time they die with a bounty on them (even if it wasn't your bounty).
It's also a nice little bit of extra isk for killing them which can be the difference for a ganker deciding to gank them or not if you put a real bounty on them.
And because it doesn't pay out everything at once, you can't use an alt to abuse the system.

Literally every other system people propose can be broken by alts, or doesn't allow you to bounty a competing miner (so the gankers always gank them instead of you) or a bumping mach (So anti gankers don't lose isk ganking them) etc etc.
And if you want to do it like a contract for someone who you believe needs punishment, there is an entire forum section where you can advertise for 'bounty hunters' at a price. You'll just have to be trusted enough or use a third party to do so.

You must have me confused with someone else. I definitely don't post about the Bounty System every two weeks and I definitely didn't create this thread. Also it's mainly new players who get worried and freaked out about it because they don't know anything about it other then somebody for no reason at all just marked them as a Bounty target.

As for the current Bounty System game mechanic, it was a complete waste of Dev time. I agree CCP could have done a much better job with the actual game mechanics and created a meaningful 'Bounty Hunter' career option, could have even included some extra skills to train and or added some special Implants, etc, as well as created some new PvP 'Bounty Agents' to give out Bounty Contracts to qualified characters.

In it's current state, it's just a tool that's largely exploited and used for grief with the sole purpose of antagonizing and annoying other players. That's it and nothing more. Probably what CCP intended all along. The Bounty System itself doesn't affect or place any repercussions on Bounty Characters nor does it discourage players from engaging in criminal acts. Not to mention the actual Bounty payout itself is just a twisted sick joke.

In my opinion anyone who places a Bounty on other players is just wasting their ISK.


DMC

This system is funny, I got my first bounty when I was congratz a player for a Raitaru and someone didn't like it.

I just found it amusing that CODE donated all that ISK to PL when I went pop...

There has been a lot of this lately. I'm betting it's like one dude who is really really bored.