The new Bounty system is overall a big improvement but I think it still needs some tweaking as regards newbies. With the addition of the Safety switch, far fewer newbies are getting tricked into flagging themselves and getting ganked or Concorded - this is good for player retention but frustrates a lot of the professional griefers. What they have taken to doing now is placing Bountys on every new char they can in starter systems, almost like trying to make it the new 'rite of passage'. Many of these newbies are still trying to understand what 'high' 'mid' 'low' slots are, and getting a notice a bounty has been placed on them just needlessly scares them. A couple of changes could ameliorate this situation, and help with early retention of new players.

1) Set the min Bounty higher - 500k or 1m will at least slightly reduce frivolous bounty tagging.

2) Find some criteria by which newbies who have not gotten into trouble yet can be protected from having a bounty placed on their head. Perhaps a combination of never had a red or yellow flag -plus- still below 100k Skill Points.

If none of those arguments works, consider this: in a short time, the vast majority of the players in game will likely have ongoing Bounty tags - this means all the effort so many have put into creating the perfect char screenshot highlighting their 'assets' will find the lower third of those photos perpetually covered by Bounty banners - the new Eve 'covered up' policy!