Came to me earlier that CCP should have put a "Reason for:" attached to the bounty. People can't change their ways if they don't know why the newspaper hit them on the nose.

For me the reason was being so inconsiderate as to say hello. I guess in EVE people get hit with the newspaper simply because other people are sadistic asshats who enjoy hiting people with a newspaper just for the sake of hitting them..

Seriously this is a game for cyber bullys, I hope CCP fails miserably.

Two things I can tell about you (unless you're trolling). You are new AND you didn't read up on EVE online before downloading it. EVE is well known for its....unique..... community (which wasn't an accident, Iceland experienced a drop in violent crime in the early 2000s, because all the evil criminal psycos were EVE online DEVs).

Hell what most MMOs call Griefing, EVE online calls Tuesday night.



It's no one else's fault that you've chosen to play a game before understanding what it was really about.

For me the reason was being so inconsiderate as to say hello. I guess in EVE people get hit with the newspaper simply because other people are sadistic asshats who enjoy hiting people with a newspaper just for the sake of hitting them..

Seriously this is a game for cyber bullys, I hope CCP fails miserably.

If you didn't already know, CCP are saying NOT to place bounties on new players.

You have been warned.

For me the reason was being so inconsiderate as to say hello. I guess in EVE people get hit with the newspaper simply because other people are sadistic asshats who enjoy hiting people with a newspaper just for the sake of hitting them..

Seriously this is a game for cyber bullys, I hope CCP fails miserably.

You're absolutely right, I should have spent more time to figure out that EVE Online is nothing more than a 10 year old highly repetitive video game with psychopathic trolls for a community who enjoy inflicting pain and misery on others "for the lulz". Sorry I'm just not used to video games being so stressful and predatory.

If CCP had any integrity they would warn new players about what kind of community they are getting into before they sign up, but I have a feeling that level of honesty might eventually bankrupt a company that only releases a new video game once a decade.

Yes well, people aren't listening... because the feature is created in such a way that is all but encouraged it to be abused and used to harass other players, much like this video game in general.

Why am I bothering to sit here and spout so much negativity some might ask? Because I just paid $15 for this crapfest and I'm gonna get my money's worth one way or another.

I wonder then they qualify as "not new" players anymore, and how am I going to know that placing bounties on them is off limits?

If you didn't already know, CCP are saying NOT to place bounties on new players.

You have been warned.

Yes well, people aren't listening... because the feature is created in such a way that is all but encouraged it to be abused and used to harass other players, much like this video game in general.

Why am I bothering to sit here and spout so much negativity some might ask? Because I just paid $15 for this crapfest and I'm gonna get my money's worth one way or another.

If CCP dont want us putting bounties on 'new' players then CODE FOR IT, programatically stop someone from putting a bounty on a new player when you are working on your shiny new bounty system... (i.e. DUH)

Don't put nebulous statements on a website not everyone reads and expect that to become policy implemented in the game, and then punish people who 'don't follow the directive...'? Warning? On a website when you have CODE at your fingertips? What STUPIDITY.

Again, if its worth a GM making a policy statement that has any real value, then its worth CODING FOR IT.

That is all.

If CCP dont want us putting bounties on 'new' players then CODE FOR IT, programatically stop someone from putting a bounty on a new player when you are working on your shiny new bounty system... (i.e. DUH)

Don't put nebulous statements on a website not everyone reads and expect that to become policy implemented in the game, and then punish people who 'don't follow the directive...'? Warning? On a website when you have CODE at your fingertips? What STUPIDITY.

Again, if its worth a GM making a policy statement that has any real value, then its worth CODING FOR IT.

That is all.

I don't know.

I just war decced the guy that decided to put 100mil bounty on me. Now he will have a chance of getting it back.

Like I said, this is kinda par for the course as far as patches are concerned. They'll most likely code it so you can't place a bounty on anyone under 30 days old (maybe 60) at some point. But until then, much like can baiting in newbie systems, just don't do it.

I have been hanging out in the Help chat channel and Dodixie local handing out a few bounties here and there (ok more like lots of them) and i have been getting some vicious hate evemail!

Is anyone else getting lots of hate mail from people you put bounties on?

The worst are 5.0 sec status carbears and nullbears.

Hear Hear!!

I can't believe CCP didn't think of this being used... You know someone will come up with something 'for the lulz' on this game. Open bounties? To me, bad idea. Keeping them on neg sec status=acceptable. Putting them on corporations/alliances=acceptable. Now its an open market of putting out bounties. Maybe they want to seed the market of kill rights for the idiots that think Concord *won't* intervene? Then the bounty target can sell the killright?

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