2)Placing a bounty on a non-criminal should be a criminal offense -resulting in a flagged status and security level reduction for the duration of the bounty.

I fully expect CCP to change drone mechanics in some way shape or form. If I remember correctly drones in general are a known issue in EVE. Give it a bit of time I say.

No it wasn't

Click the options icon in the top left corner of the selected item window. You can also press C to turn it on and off.

Cool feature but needs work. I don't like how the camera bounces around so much and you don't appear to be able to fix your ships position on screen.

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There has to be a way to have bounties still present a tempting-enough target to others, while also being a negative development for bountied players.

Having a bounty nolonger means you are bad or a criminal, it simply means that someone wants you dead.

Login music lol. You guys are funny. So this is what we came down to? Dunno how long your password is, but I spend max 10 seconds at the login.

CCP, great extension. Many cool things in there.

No, it was the complete opposite to your point...

Bounty has nothing to do with crime.

Reading comprehensions lessons... that's a new one

It's a pointless suggestion as that is how it used to be and CCP changed it for a reason and i thing it's better than the old system.

I guess is should have just said "STFU and HTFU"

It had nothing to do with committing an offence? You could only put a bounty on people with a negative security rating....

The feature is working as intended.

Obviously it is as the system was designed specifically in this way.

I as again - why shouldn't someone be able to incentives someone to kill you if you have wronged them?

Out of interest, how many times have you been killed for your bounty since the expansion?

How do you want to define "wrong"? Only in terms of what the server code can police? What about:

- I'm providing logistics help by moving assets of your enemies?
- You're out mining in a belt and I horn in on your action and strip the belt?
- I bump you at station undock so you can't warp off?
- I follow your shiny ship from gate to gate and provide a warp-in for the gank squad?
- I keep undercutting your prices in the market?

None of those can be detected by the server code in a reliable fashion. None of those cause a suspect or criminal flag or a kill right. All of them are possible reasons for putting a bounty on someone.

What is broken with the bounty system is:

- Not being able to filter out low-value bounties from your overview / local window. We need some way to say "only show the bounty tag if they have more then X million bounty". My choice would be to default that to 10 million ISK minimum before the tag shows up. This setting would also apply to the wanted tag on the portrait (and give us different tag sizes based on ISK amount).

- No limits on the # of bounties you can place. It's far too easy to place dozens or hundreds of bounties, which waters down the system and makes the tag useless. CCP should have placed a reasonable limit on this (say a maximum of 10 outstanding bounties) and added a skill to let you place more. Then you would have to make a decision of which 10 people / corps / alliances you hated the most and stick to putting bounties on those people.

- Bounties should expire after 30 or 60 days.

- There should have been filing fees (100k individual, 1M corp, 10M alliance) and taxes (2-5% of bounty amount) to add another small ISK sink to the game.

What CCP did get right is that if the corp/alliance disbands, you only get back 80% of the remaining bounty amount. Not sure if this applies to bounties placed on individuals. (Confirmed by a dev posting yesterday or the day before.)

Nothing ever stopped anyone from following someone around and personally violencing their boats.

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