You=everyone. there is no roleplay. sanbox isn't sandbox when you are funnel'd into a potentional for-profit person because you be seen in a chat. but this isn't limited to being bountied "only because you exist in a chat", it also applies to the fact that a large part of the free will of this game is gone now. if someone even knows that you exist, then suddenly you have these consequences on you. This changes the open world nature of the game and frankly I'm surprised no one brought these basic things up at your meetings.

[The problem with the current system is that it marks just everyone who has a bounty on him as a criminal. No matter what. And thats not just plain silly but more than unrealistic and even unfair.

CCP, you propagate the fact that a character's reputation in EVE is his most valuable property. But with this patch, you just damaged everyones image who might play the game in a more helpful manner than others. People who are known for their selfless acts of helping other players (especially helping newbies) are now marked as suspicious.

The actual problem with that is that people believe what they see, not what they hear. If there is a new player who might have heard of this helpful guy mentioned before he might want to know more about him and the first impression that he will get from this guy's information window is a big picture of a wanted criminal.

I thought you were quitting for good forever for realsies this time.

Most of the people I've spoken with don't like it.

Camon, why would they like it? You literally took "Wanted" and threw it out the window in terms of connotation and what it means. 100k bounty means absolutely nothing. It means nothing to the person who paid the bounty. It means nothing to the person who has it. It means nothing to the person who receives the reward. (yay, 20k!). All it means is a big ugly WANTED sign that gouges into my fantasy world of having a (good) player.

However, what this new bounty system allows us to do is to put money on eachother and say "I want to reward someone for killing this guy or this corp or this alliance". It then becomes a matter of whether someone decides that money is worth it (in hi-sec, 100k ISK is never worth it. In lowsec it almost always is). If you have a high enough bounty that someone might be willing to take a CONCORDOKKEN to kill you, you now can choose whether you just want to accept it, or if you want to live life looking over your shoulder.

What does any of this have to do with the goons? I'm not a goon. You're not a goon. Natsett is a goon but that doesn't make him wrong a priori. I don't even speak to any goons on a regular basis, which actually makes them, strangely, one of the least represented in my circle of contacts.

Get over your obsession. Learn to play EVE the way EVE is meant to be played, which means that I can do anything I can manage to do to you, and you can do anything you want to do back.

might i suggest that time spent badposting about a game you have declared you are quitting is a prime candidate for time to reallocate