Am I safe in High- Sec space?

Safety is a spoon.

I recently re-activated and was running some level 3's with a buddy when someone jerk off in local put a bounty on me. I messaged him to ask why and he simply replied "why not?". He then, along with his friends, proceeded to continue to increase the bounty on me until it reached 73,000,000ISK. Is this common? What's the purpose? Am I safe in High- Sec space?

Look on the bright side; now, when people click show info on you, you look significantly more like a bad ass.

posting in a bounty whoring thread

Bounty Whoring is the new black.

Bounty Whoring is the new black.

I recently re-activated and was running some level 3's with a buddy when someone jerk off in local put a bounty on me. I messaged him to ask why and he simply replied "why not?". He then, along with his friends, proceeded to continue to increase the bounty on me until it reached 73,000,000ISK. Is this common? What's the purpose? Am I safe in High- Sec space?

Here I am just a few days under two months into EVE, and some little ****-ant targets me and bumps my ship while I am salvaging in a belt in high-sec. So I ignore the jerk, move on about my business, only to find out later that he or she has put the minimum bounty on me. Now I still feel relatively safe, but I have lost a level of anonymity, which is also a survival tactic. I know we are in the sandbox, so it's all in the game, but there should be some kind of downside to the random bounty placer -- perhaps they have to escrow 10x or 100x the bounty, or the bounty should have a time limit after which the bounty placer loses the his escrow and has to reset the bounty and escrow.

So questions, what can I do to mitigate or eliminate the bounty? What can I do to make the jerk wish he/she had never been born?

Here I am just a few days under two months into EVE, and some little ****-ant targets me and bumps my ship while I am salvaging in a belt in high-sec. So I ignore the jerk, move on about my business, only to find out later that he or she has put the minimum bounty on me. Now I still feel relatively safe, but I have lost a level of anonymity, which is also a survival tactic. I know we are in the sandbox, so it's all in the game, but there should be some kind of downside to the random bounty placer -- perhaps they have to escrow 10x or 100x the bounty, or the bounty should have a time limit after which the bounty placer loses the his escrow and has to reset the bounty and escrow.

So questions, what can I do to mitigate or eliminate the bounty? What can I do to make the jerk wish he/she had never been born?

The only thing that bugs me abut the new system is that I don't have any bounty yet.

Also, OP is a ****.

I'm amazed by how many people still don't understand that bounty =/= legal target...

I recently re-activated and was running some level 3's with a buddy when someone jerk off in local put a bounty on me. I messaged him to ask why and he simply replied "why not?". He then, along with his friends, proceeded to continue to increase the bounty on me until it reached 73,000,000ISK. Is this common? What's the purpose? Am I safe in High- Sec space?

So... you haven't quit?

I thought you quit again

Showing your IQ level there if you are actually having to ask. Keep on with your own self-inflicted humiliation.

Oh, and you are blocked, so no need to bother further. That would be really dumb.

He's not the only one showing his IQ level

The downside is that the system tells you who placed the bounty. The only way to get rid of it is to explode. If you want Retribution (pun intended) put one on him too. If the bounty was placed by an anonymity corp, then ask them what it would take to find out who placed it. If they still refuse, just put a bounty on their corp.

Or, like me, you could just move on and get over it, because the bounty system is only rewarding under certain circumstances, and if you have a high sec status in high security space, and do nothing criminal, then your bounty is going to be hard to profit from.

That's not to say someone might not try. Even if you didn't have a bounty.

Didn't really answer his questions but I'm curious about how having a high security status while in high security space and not do any criminal activity would make the bounty hard to profit from?

For example, a player with +5.85 security status in a +0.5 high security system minding their own business with a 100 mill bounty.

DMC

Didn't really answer his questions but I'm curious about how having a high security status while in high security space and not do any criminal activity would make the bounty hard to profit from?

For example, a player with +5.85 security status in a +0.5 high security system minding their own business with a 100 mill bounty.

DMC

Haha I have to admit, I laughed out loud at some posts in this thread. Thank you, General Discussion forums. You have changed my perception of having a bounty on my head. I embrace it now.

Arrrr

Am I safe in High- Sec space?

When you receive a bounty and you do not want more bounty added the things you should not do are;

Contact the person who put a bounty on you
Complain about it in local or any other public chat
Post about it in eve-o

Assuming you don't do this and the bounty remains small you can have some fun getting rid of it, go suspect in a t1 frig or cruiser and see how far you can get.

Look on the bright side; now, when people click show info on you, you look significantly more like a bad ass.

But what's the point when everyone has the same sign on their portrait now? Everyone and their uncle is now a "badass" in EVE by that standard. There's nothing unique about it anymore, it means virtually nothing now.

I recently re-activated and was running some level 3's with a buddy

The fact that you can place a bounty on YOURSELF is fairly unique, wouldn't you say?

You're doing it wrong. Unsubscribe again, you have failed EVE.