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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2012.12.07 17:00:00 -
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The difference is that somebody with a big bounty is stuck with a dilemma: they can either confine themselves to cheaper ships, or they can accept that while flying the more expensive ones, people are likely to want a piece of them. Again and again and again.
They guys at the top of the list are going to have their flight habits, preferred ships, tactics and hangouts studied in detail, and then somebody will show up with the perfect gang to slaughter them when they're at their most juicy. If they want to avoid being that kind of a target, they need to confine themselves to cheap ships. Which will just attract the second tier of bounty hunter who don't feel able to take on a faction-fit rattlesnake, but feel well up to taking on a Tech 2 HAM drake.
Don't let the 20% fool you. The advantage to a big bounty is that by the time it becomes small enough to not attract attention again, the mark will have lost upwards of four times the value of the bounty on their head.
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2012.12.07 17:07:00 -
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The obvious solution being, "don't put bounties on Jita alts"
Or are you saying we need WiS PvP? 
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2012.12.07 17:15:00 -
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there is no such thing as a perfect, non-exploitable system. I confess, I don't see the point in being able to place a bounty on yourself, but other than that I see a system that actually works, whereas the old one didn't. At all. Not even a little bit, it basically amounted to giving your enemies free money.
So some people are going to abuse it. That's EVE: ignore those sphincters, get on with the game and enjoy getting paid for your pew, that's how I see it.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2012.12.07 17:22:00 -
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So, lowsec and nullsec don't factor into your reasoning then?
We're talking about a PvP mechanic here, of course it's going to be less useful in highsec!
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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