Adoniah Carrefour
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Posted - 2011.12.05 20:08:00 -
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I am fairly new to Eve .. if it makes a difference to the Devs or whatever, this topic is the first I have read on the forums that has inspired me to actually participate. I play this game with a small group of friends and that's how it will stay regardless of how impractical it may be in the game world . Most of the game mechanics that punish the little guy make sense within the greater scope of Eve and so, although they might make my life difficult they also make sense and create the challenges inherent to Eve that make it fun to play.
All that being said, FIX THE FVCKING BOUNTIES!!
The fact that this idea in particular creates a profitable pursuit for small corps and gangs, which the most ambitious and dedicated of your new players are going to be in, should make it an easy sell. On the flip every pirate dreams of being chased across the galaxy by bounty hunters. That's like a 'thing', which was obviously intended for Eve but ended up being every grifter's wet dream. The system as it stands makes literally no sense. I can't think of any other game mechanic that makes entirely no sense to me, except this one. The one that I would most like to make some sort of workable sense doesn't. It makes more sense for me to just go gank. Not the sort of elegance I have come to like so much from this game.
No new skills are needed and screw the insurance problems (although of course they would pay the bounties and of course being a wanted criminal should affect your ability to get insurance, the fact that it doesn't is also completely illogical but I digress) this idea is ace. What's the effing point of tier 3 hunter-killers like what we got with the expansion if there is no game mechanic that allows players to profit from going hunting? What's the point of having criminals if you can't get paid to chase them? Where's the bling? I have to be a slimy scam artist to be Legend in Eve? No epic criminals who escape capture for months, years? No good men with bad connections that can get the job done? Fail, man.
I get miners or griefing miners. Or I go fight for the man in nullsec in some anonymous fleet. Wow, epic. Or, this basic spreadsheet payout scheme that makes the Bounty Office button in my station services into something that does something other than mock the reasons I started playing this game. How about that for a reason to fix the effin' bounties? |