or that the new bounty system isn't an ISK sink

What needs saving is these froums from people like the OP. I swear Riot Girl cries more then any 1000 high sec players.

I Will Save you all.

No. Partly because the ISK isn't gone, and partly because it has nothing to do with bounties.

Either way, it's not a sink.

Sometimes you don't need to read the first sentence, but the last sentence to identify the quality of a post.

But that goes for the isk in an account itself too. Of course that would be an isk sink, but it hasnt got anything to do with bounties primarily

Let's say ALOT of miners quit cause of this, then CCP has a meeting and says, hey guys, I think that whole bounty thing, well, you know, we're losing money. Retribution 1.1 release notes: Mining barges no longer reward bounties.

Then miners resub, they stlil have the isk, since it was never removed.

I'm not trying to insinuate that miners will unsub en masse due to bounties, I only used this as an example since it was the first thing that came to mind.

Actually, carebears make a lot of the items that the EVE economy is based on. Get rid of the carebears, and the game goes down the tubes. Someone has to make the cheaper ships, you can't always depend on the nullsec alliances to supply stuff.

I just want to point out that you are still not going to be able to place bonties on people with a high sec rating.

No it's not mentioned.

The evidence of absence is not the absence of evidence.

That's like saying, I have 100 million in my wallet, I dont' plan to spend this because I want to help the eve economy, but I"m not sure if I can manage to keep this isk in my wallet. I dont think we would call this an isk sink, because you can't predict the future.

But why do you want people quitting? CCP doesn't need the revenue? What real life corporation would be happy with loosing customers/subscribers?

"Bounties have no effect on who can be attacked legally where."

Concord is still effect then??? :)

a) Its not an isk sink. It comes back
b) Anyone can clear any bounty on themselves by suspending their account for 6 months. If you choose to do this, be sure to enter "To clear an undesired bounty" on the form CCP gives you when you suspend your account.

"Bounties have no effect on who can be attacked legally where."

It appears you don't put bounties on someone you want to grief and then your friends can kill them in hi-sec. This indicates you don't gain the right to legally attack in hi-sec just because of the bounty. :)

Perhaps the bounty system will have the complete opposite affect?

Seems to me that miners would love to have those bumping stabbers blown to bits.

If griefing miners starts to become something that can earn you a bounty, perhaps it will thin the miner hater herd?

How exactly is griefing players until they unsub going to "save" EVE?

I know people are going to rage over the bounty system, hell that's exactly what the OP is already doing,

they'll just rush to the forums and cry that they're going to quit if CCP doesn't make it so that bounties can't be placed on them. I expect the OP to be one of those people.

Pretty sure that's exactly what I did, and what you're doing.

A bounty doesn't generate a free for all flag, it generates a contract that someone has to accept in order to shoot that person. It means that if I'm flying around with a bounty you don't have the right to shoot me until you accpt the bounty contract.

Are you trying to say that you can't shoot people in high sec with a bounty on them? Because I'm pretty sure that's not right, seeing as they removed the need to pod; seeing as you can't pod anyone in high sec.

goon with a hardon over ganking miners

"After the break; Eve needs saving?

More compelling news, at 11."

I love these people who keep trying to fit their square peg in CCP's circle hole.