Thank JC, looks like we are back to square one. Players are attempting to do CCP's job.

I truly hoped it was CCP's ad, i guess i was naive.

It wasn't a new bounty system.

And yeah it fooled me too. But it was an advertisement for a corp called New Eden Bounties. They were trying to find a way to incorporate it into their corp so that you can HIRE members of their corp as bounty hunters.

This was the advert during the AT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ypz9CQzQg

And this is their corp website, but not much on it.
http://www.newedenbounties.com/

From a thread that popped up not long after the AT,

Edit: just to be clear, this was a player sponsored add, not a ccpromise.

The bounty system is so worth it for the mails that poor capsuleers send generally begging and trying to negotiate a deal split the bounty.

The EOH-ppl ... well ... a few of them log on every day,
but i didn't check where they are or if they stay docked all day.
it. :)

They do ?
How do you achieve that ?

I don't care about tears, they **** me off, but i'm curious.

I mean ... i just kill them ... so how do you do it ? lol

The bounty system is so worth it for the mails that poor capsuleers send generally begging and trying to negotiate a deal split the bounty.

Those must be some really stupid pilots. I'd just kill myself with an alt and keep the whole bounty.

Problem is, the matter is equally inherently unsolvable. There's no way CCP could prevent you from having an alt kill yourself; and even if they could, you can always have a corp member do it, and split the isk.

It just has to low a priority and not very much support by the PvPer's player base, since it could actually harm their playstyle by becoming hunted themselves by capable PvPers instead of them hunting more or less helpless miners and PvMers.

It would good for CCP to at least attempt to fix the bounty system. I mean, it is totally useless right now.

All they have to do, is to announce that the following expansions are going to have experiments with the bounty system, so that they can figure out which one works the best.

Since the current system is pretty much a dead horse and rotting, and nobody would mind the experimentation, cause at least it would be a sign of progress rather than stagnation.

And the funniest part, all CCP has to do, is look up player's suggestions and start from there, cause any one idea from the community is far better than what we got right now, which is nothing, just a label.

Or maybe CCP is afraid of the Troll army that will rise to defend that dead horse? Cause when we finally can hunt down suicide gangers and pirates in empire. The empire sec and the game will get a new flavor and an ISK sink ;)

CCP needs to adapt or die.

I think there is always a way that CCP can come up with at least an improved version of a bounty system. I mean all they got to do is just look into the ideas that people suggest. For example:

Concord gives out random licensees to the wanna be "bounty hunters". Think of these licensees, as license to kill, authorized by CONCORD. These licensees are granted to players with security level 3.0 and above. Licensees are a commodity so they can be traded, as there is a limited number of them, - here CCP can work out a mechanic of how it is delivered and replenished.

How does bounty hunter gets the right to kill another player? When the intended "criminal" reaches a bounty say of a100 mil, and his security level drops below -1.0. This would authorize a bounty to pod him, and unless he is podded, bounty hunter can choose to destroying his ships, instead. When he finally does pod him, license is revoked on the target and he gets paid.

Bringing 1 on 1 fights in empire.

This is my idea in less than 5 mins of thinking on it, and it is by far better than what we have now.

I hope you can agree that there is ALWAY room for CCP to do something about this, unfortunately it seems it is a dead mule that CCP wants to ignore, as long as possible.

Bounty system is essential to a healthy empire, and what we got is stagnation. Just think how quickly the miners would respond to those Goons ;) But placing bounties on their hads and the privateers would indirectly protect them.

Fun for everyone.

Yet, another great example, How another Player(Inari Kobayashi) came up in a short time with a better Bounty System than a current one. And he is not even paid to think on this!

Thus, it is inexcusable for CCP to have a Bounty Hunting System that is almost 8 years old and without any change, since the Beta - Please, allow it to sink into your mind deep and hard.. - 8 years nothing change, Still with me?

Great idea but could even simplfy it a bit

If A wants to take out a bounty on B then has to buy a bounty from Concord this gives A a fully transferrable contract to kill B for a limited period of time (1 week or 1 month at different rates). Buying bounty puts the amount of the bounty into escrow.

A can put the bounty contract up on the contract system (and risk an alt of B picking it up) or trade it to a known bounty hunter corp/player.

Basic bounty works for 0.0 or low sec but A has to pay a premium for a high sec bounty to allow kills in high sec. This would be paid to Concord and amount to a real ISK sink (no bad thing as far as the economy is concerned).

Bounty can only be taken out on players with negative security rating.

Bounty generates kill mail to show A what has happened and the total loss to B. I am sure with a system like this bounty hunter reputations would soon spring up to ensure a robust mechanic.

If i recall correctly from Alliance Tournament 9, during live video breaks, there ran a short clip telling us of a new Bounty Hunting system that is coming soon.

It wasn't a new bounty system.

And yeah it fooled me too. But it was an advertisement for a corp called New Eden Bounties. They were trying to find a way to incorporate it into their corp so that you can HIRE members of their corp as bounty hunters.

This was the advert during the AT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ypz9CQzQg

And this is their corp website, but not much on it.
http://www.newedenbounties.com/

From a thread that popped up not long after the AT,

Edit: just to be clear, this was a player sponsored add, not a ccpromise.

Correct, this was not a CCP advert but an advert for New Eden Bounties. It's a system that is being developed at the moment (slowely) and will hopefully be launched come Fanfest 2012.

However, please note that we are not affiliated with the Big Shot bounty service, which seems to be mostly inactive.

Have you thought of posting this in the 'Features & Ideas Discussion'?