But only if there is a visual clue in the character protrait if he is the desiganted main character or not.

Unnecessary clutter and one more useless feature to slow down already way too script heavy forums.

Why are you not prepared to place a bounty on forum alts?

So, thoughts?

I think there's way more pressing needs to the game not the forum, plus CSM should be focus GÇ£onlyGÇ¥ in the game.

CSM running out of things to discuss?

How do you define "designated main"? What if I designate my forum posting alt as my main? What impact will that have in the rest of my game? What if the highest skill point character on my account is in an NPC corp and is only used for stealth bomber fleets?

Why are you not prepared to place a bounty on forum alts?

Per the subject, we have a LIKE button for posts. Why not allow folks to see the current bounty of a character here on the forums and then add to it?

Of the many big subjects that the CSM is going to be discussing next week at the Summit in Iceland, this is one of those 'little things' that, with enough support, might actually happen in short order. This isn't something that needs or will get a lot of ~Summit time~, it's just an idea that was floated in casual conversation with CCP and I've not seen a single person say it was a bad idea yet. I mean, I can eve mail people out of game, why not show them some lethal affection as well?

So, thoughts?

Forums should display the bounty as well, yeah (:

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Hey! Just because it takes two or three seconds to type each character on an iOS device doesn't mean the forums are script heavy. No, it just means you have more time to consider your words carefully

also slow down the posting on your forums to avoid being tagged with a bounty. Their are a great deal of perfectionists out there who will go mad having a WANTED tag over their avatar.

This game leaves people paranoid. All this will do is make the paranoia worse...

This game leaves people paranoid. All this will do is make the paranoia worse...

And this is a bad thing in your opinion?

I was wondering how long it would take for someone not to read the OP or start trolling just for the hell of it. First page, congrats, m8!

Per the subject, we have a LIKE button for posts. Why not allow folks to see the current bounty of a character here on the forums and then add to it?

Of the many big subjects that the CSM is going to be discussing next week at the Summit in Iceland, this is one of those 'little things' that, with enough support, might actually happen in short order. This isn't something that needs or will get a lot of ~Summit time~, it's just an idea that was floated in casual conversation with CCP and I've not seen a single person say it was a bad idea yet. I mean, I can eve mail people out of game, why not show them some lethal affection as well?

So, thoughts?

It's the EVEiest version of a dislike button that could ever happen, so it's pretty much a must.

Oh, and it would give them a reason to integrate the new bounty system with EVE gate properly so we can see bounties on profiles and have GÇ£wantedGÇ¥-overlays on the (forum) images.

Should the forum bounty exceed the ingame bounty, the "wanted" label will turn blue.

GǪor maybe yellow?

GǪor maybe yellow?

Hey! Just because it takes two or three seconds to type each character on an iOS device doesn't mean the forums are script heavy. No, it just means you have more time to consider your words carefully

We need to take this further...

Report shitposting alt, which helps others identify morons.

Dislike, seriously, and auto block for unpopular comments.

It's cute idea and seemingly harmless but I'd rather see CCP actually fix the forums. At the very least having posts turn up when they are posted and not at some random future time.

I bet in a week "top 10 wanted" list will consist of forum troll alts only. Also forums will be even less active than now.

Why are you so concerned about mains versus forum alts? If a bounty is placed on a capsuleer who posts in Galnet, why wouldn't the bounty (in "real" in game ISK) be applied to that capsuleer?

So anything that goes against your suggestion you consider trolling...?
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A button to add bounty? No
A display of current bounty under the portrait? Yes.

If people want to add bounties to the goon-alt-trolls they can do it in game and not have any misclicking/petitioning/technical complexity that comes with a button to place bounties.

That and a dislike button.

I see an influx of crap forum alts attempting to wrack up bounties to be taken by their mains. Either way I think it'd be an entertaining feature.

I see an influx of crap forum alts attempting to wrack up bounties to be taken by their mains. Either way I think it'd be an entertaining feature.

I do not understand how people do not yet understand that there is literally no way that you can profit by claiming your alt's bounty.

As for the idea; yes. I would love to be able to put bounties on people from the forums.

Maybe I don't fully understand the bounty system but it still seems you could claim an alts bounty using friends or a separate account since lots of people do have both.

You can claim the bounty with an alt. You can't do it profitably, though, since the bounty payout is a maximum of 20% of the cost of the ship that the bountied person lost.

If you're flying a 100mill ISK ship, and you blow it up with an alt; you get 20mill, and lose 100mill. That's a loss of 80mill. Not profitable.

Seeing as how forum posts have often had ramifications in game anyway, I find the potential irony of a bad posting forum alt having the highest bounty in EVE to be quite amusing.

Please put an add bounty button.

And apply it to the whole account distributed evenly among all the characters.

Devious.

While I like the general idea, it's most likely a bad idea, unless there are some precautions being taken: By code injection (some cross-site exploit, a browser add-on, proxy server or whatever) you could essentially forge a site that will drain all your money just by visiting it. Sure, CCP could probably detect something like that in their logs, etc., but it's still something to consider and the reason for me saying "no" - at least for now. There'd have to be some confirmation dialog that can't be clicked by JavaScript or anything similar.

Also, I agree with some posts above, people would just use anonymous alt characters even more (bad idea).

Per the subject, we have a LIKE button for posts. Why not allow folks to see the current bounty of a character here on the forums and then add to it?

Of the many big subjects that the CSM is going to be discussing next week at the Summit in Iceland, this is one of those 'little things' that, with enough support, might actually happen in short order. This isn't something that needs or will get a lot of ~Summit time~, it's just an idea that was floated in casual conversation with CCP and I've not seen a single person say it was a bad idea yet. I mean, I can eve mail people out of game, why not show them some lethal affection as well?

So, thoughts?

Given that CCP is already hard pressed with lack of manpower relative to amount of fixes and upgrades EVE needs duplicating already existing feature from EvE client in to forums seems largely a waist of time. Should be CCP wasting any man hours on EVE forums it certainly should no be on any such gimmicks.

Nice idea.
But only if there is a visual clue in the character protrait if he is the desiganted main character or not.
Not going to waste precious iskies on worthless forum alts

Seeing as how forum posts have often had ramifications in game anyway, I find the potential irony of a bad posting forum alt having the highest bounty in EVE to be quite amusing.

+1.

I don't understand, can you clarify?

We commonly use alts to post, we just have all our alts in GSF along with our mains. NPC corp alt posting is a pubbie thing.

If I will be able to add bounties out of game I'd also like to update my skills out of game as well.

isn't worth it. Trolls already use alts which basically do not play the game. Dislike button... sure why not, but place bounty won't have a big impact. (edit: just use the client for that)

Per the subject, we have a LIKE button for posts. Why not allow folks to see the current bounty of a character here on the forums and then add to it?

Of the many big subjects that the CSM is going to be discussing next week at the Summit in Iceland, this is one of those 'little things' that, with enough support, might actually happen in short order. This isn't something that needs or will get a lot of ~Summit time~, it's just an idea that was floated in casual conversation with CCP and I've not seen a single person say it was a bad idea yet. I mean, I can eve mail people out of game, why not show them some lethal affection as well?

So, thoughts?

Bounty Hunting session at the CSM Summit - I brought this up one minute in. Not one frown in the room. Lots of smiles. I think this may actually happen but, "No promises." They have to say that but... I'd wager we are going to see it at some point.

tl;dr:
1) Doesn't result in any useful bounties, since people will just use forum alts
2) Doesn't give you useful info about who PLACED a bounty on you either, since it's probably also a forum alt
3) Obscures useful information about posters due to them now using forum alts
4) Dampens productive and honest arguments and discussions in the subforums where serious things are supposed to be discussed (like this one).