because it puts some weight on the decision making process. Somebody just did something to you which has been perceived of being unfair and you want revenge but know that it might be difficult for whatever reason so you put a bounty on the bad guy. This was your decision. It shouldn't be possible to get something back later if you feel better or need some ISK - its not a wallet ;)

here the exploit:
- ducks put bounty on the purple frog freighter alliance
- purple frog is sad
- ducks say no problem frogs, just pay us the bounty we retract it
- frogs: yey!
- ducks: bazinga! we don't retract but thanks anyway

in fact, i can't think off a single usecase where i would like to retract a bounty i payed without it being a scam in some form.

Most player are only a bit over enthusiastic about the new button they can smash when they're bored. This will end in 1 or 2 weeks and all of these Minibountys will be gone in a month when these players got killed once or twice. it's still a huge improvement to the old system that was broken as hell and i, personally, like these changes.

Perhaps we should make the minimum 500bil so that only Chribba and the goons can put bounties on people....

What is the problem?

Like Frying Doom said as well, I too like the changes they made to the extend that it now serves the purpose it is intended to do. However, several players warned CCP Punkturis and others in the dev blog that the system had major flaws in its design.

The first problem is that bounties are indefinite. There is no expiration timer. Thus a person will keep it if the bounty is too low and he never leaves the station or remains in high-sec without wardecs. These minibounties as you call them will remain on many players for quite a while, if not for the rest of their life. Just have an alt destroy your ship then? Great, just because some bored player puts a bounty on you, you have to do all that to remove it again. Which brings me to the second problem.

Bounties, in its current form are too easy to put onto players. There is no reason needed. Just search for any random character and add a bounty and you're done. Do you actually want that player to be hunted down? Not really, chances are you aren't even at war with them. Or even met them in EVE. Heck, large alliances have corps putting bounties on each other.

The end result is that, save for the few bounties that really matter and work very well with the current system, the vast majority of these "mini-bounties"are meaningless. Ergo: the current bounty hunter system is flawed and needs drastic changes to make it really work the way it is intended.

So what you're saying is,

You're afraid of a 100k ISK bounty?

You are pointing out exactly what they intended to fix. Why do some of you not seem to understand that?

So what you're saying is,

You're afraid of a 100k ISK bounty?

You are pointing out exactly what they intended to fix. Why do some of you not seem to understand that?

A 10% tax for the placing and withtrawing of bounties is putting "some weight on the decision making process".
And sinse when does CCP develop anything based on whether or not players will be honorable in their dealings with other people?

Discreet Bounties is happy to place such anonymous bounties on your behalf.

Make them expire and it would be used seriously as well I think, also make the wanted tag a bit smaller lol