I wish you could pay money to have NPC's attack people in high sec.

The bad post bounty thing is awesome, but it just seem so pointless to put bounties on people who never leave high sec.

It's like being able to wardec an NPC corp, but not be allowed to shoot them in high sec stil.



I want to hire NPC mercenary pirates that can be used to go after these people who are WANTED in high sec.
Any bounty the NPC got from killing the player, would then go towards the bounty paid out if someone blows up the NPC. Including a sum of the money paid to hire them.

This. ^^

I've lost all my business contracts for selling Fuel Blocks over this so I'm just simply leaving the game until the entire thing is' re-thunked'.

How do you lose your business contacts over selling fuel blocks, and how is that related to the bounty system?

I'm so confused.

Risk increase due to bounty on head means his "big contracts" are now too risky for his patrons.

I think it's an awesome result of the new bounty system!

But in reality, all these 100k and 1m and even 10m bounties mean is (haha, you now have a wanted sign). I have set bounties on players I want to die, and it wasn't a joke bounty of 10m.

I want the ability to bounty the NPC empires. Only by mailspamming the thousands of people in all the newb and FW corps over and over and over for 50m a pop can we demonstrate how functionally annoying these mails are to get.

You don't treasure those bounty notifications?


Well I guess when you only get a few they feel more important.

The Mittani is deploying thousands of minions to address the evils of AFK mining in hisec, and mostly plays the game while not even connected to the Internet!

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So the problem simply is that many people dont like the wanted-sign on their picture because they dont feel like criminals.

They are right that a wanted-sign implies a criminal usually, which is not the case anymore with the bounty system,
because everyone can have a bounty on everyone without any reason.

BUT, if the sign has no meaning, why is it there at all ?

A SIGN is there to have a meaning. If it hasnt, it shouldnt be there !

So i think the best solution would to remove it completely.
There are other places where you can check if the person has a bounty.
Also configurable ones like the overview settings.

this sums up my feelings pretty well.
i'm all for the new system of being able to place a bounty on anyone, however, the sign now means "this pilot flew past a troll"

i'm pretty sure that's NOT the intended meaning

i do like the idea of getting npcs to attack players.. in the beta i saw npc pirate ambuses in some wierd places, like outside stations, and i really miss that

edit: oops
edit2: damnit, that last edit was nonsence, wake up -> forums -> coffie is an order of event that results in stupid posts

Totally agree with the OP. By all means see how the new bounty system plays out, give it time. Having said that, having "Wanted" plastered all over quite obvious Empire players such as the one I am using to post, just because I undocked in Amarr in an Orca is silly. Having "Wanted" as a banner on a portrait is something that should be earned. Some players are trying to be bad just as hard as I try to be good, with this char. The "wanted" banner looks so cool on a bad character, but it is wasted on a character such as this.

I'm not sure what to suggest, but perhaps the "Wanted" banner only shows if you have a billion or more in bounty? /shrugs

How are you defining who is innocent? Is an alliance leader that's never fired a shot but orders thousands of players to go out and kill others innocent? How about the industrialist that builds guns? The definition of innocence is one that I don't want to tie to a single mechanic. You people decide who you think are innocent and who you think are not.