Just throwing spaghetti at the wall here:

What if bounty comes out of the targets wallet?

It would be a doube whammy to the big pay high name targets, and bounty contractors would get the satisfaction of knowing that their targets are dead and in the neg on their isk bank

That way people are not forever doomed to looking over their shoulder

Well, this would be far too open to abuse.

Some bored hotshot, called Newbslayer, sits around Dodixie and picks out random casual called Captain Zoidberg, who is 2 months into the game and still doing LvL 3 missions in his spanking new drake. Newbslayer puts a 5bn ISK bounty on Zoidberg and kills him 20 seconds later. Then cleans up the pod with some smarties.

Newbie Zoidberg is now 5bn ISK in the red. Has lost his mission ship. Even if he sells of all his assets he will still be in debt and unable to buy a replacement ship. With no way to recover from the loss and unwilling to spend >100 $ on Plexx Zoidberg now throws the towel and unsubribes.

Congrats, you just griefed someone out of the game.

Cala

Edit:

This doesn't have to be a newbie either. Any alliance/corp that enjoys griefing and has too many ISK to burn can simply put out 50bn ISK bounty on a single player. Overall I don't think your idea works if implemented like this.

I understand you a 100%

But here me out, currently I just lost everything. My corp, my only mission running ship, I took the initiative to buy a plex which costed me 20 bucks hoping to be a good investment but I only got scammed out of it. Money is not easy for meto come by. I feel very stupid about it.

I'm just hoping I could have redemtion with you trusting me or better yet, get a friend of yours to do it for you and split it however you want with each other but I humbly ask you donate a billion of it for me kindly.

I'm open for anything, willing to join your corp for a given time to obtain that trust or anything else for that matter as I am unable to give you a security deposit.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bounty
From: Sent: 2011.10.25 15:32
To: ,

Lol. I actually did undock in my pod last night when full to the gut with red wine. Nobody was quick enough to get a lock though ;(

Despite your noble words sir I would still require a security deposit of 800m Interstellar Kredits to partake in the services you are offering to provide.

I offer my sincere apologies if this in not a satisfacotry conclusion to our negotiations, ;p

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Bounty
From: Sent: 2011.10.25 02:13
To: ,

I wish I could come up with something that can show guarantee to be honest.
All I can say at the moment is to take my word on it but I know with such a prestigious person such as yourself it means nothing.

I don't know. I see it as a win win for you if I do or don't cause people wouldnt always be after ya or that and with a lot of mula.
But I really would give you the amount as I posted before as I would. I take 1 bil and give the rest back to you.

I can't compete with you. You can grief me, kick my ass 24/7, I'm nothing. I just really need some help getting a nice sum of doe to get on my feet.

Tell me what I can do for you, I'd do anything.

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Re: Re: Re: Bounty
From: Sent: 2011.10.24 08:19
To: ,

So enlighten me as to what guarantee I have once leave station and insta warp my pod to you to be blown up that you then trasnfer the agreed balance to my wallet?

This is why I require the deposit you see.

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Re: Re: Bounty
From: Sent: 2011.10.24 01:45
To: ,

Damn, I don't have the doe. But also logically if I had that much money and was able to earn that much I wouldn't be offering to kill ya to obtain a billion of your bounty and give you the rest.

I hope you can trust me and I am more than willing to do this on your own time. I'm a one man corp trying to get started. No purpose of me trying to **** ya off cause I am deliberately in no conditrion to fight back. So I can assure you, I would do my best to keep ya happy. lol

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Re: Bounty
From: Sent: 2011.10.23 15:24
To:

This sounds like a satisfactory offer to me Sir. So as I can feel safe in the knowledge that you will not trick me please send me a security deposit of 800m ISK to put my mind at ease. When transferring the ISK put "Bounty Security Deposit" as the Description. Please confirm the date/time that you would like to come to Amarr to complete the terms of this transaction.

Regards,

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Bounty
From: Sent: 2011.10.23 10:41
To: ,

Yo, let me come and kill you perdy plz. So I can have a billion of ya bounty and give the rest to you.

<3 lotta love.

Which is why the entire bounty system is inherently flawed.

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..

Loop holes are probably the biggest hurdle for the development team they do not want ot create a system where payouts are advantable by the bountied victim.

They are making it worse, by simply ignoring this issue. I fully expect them to deliver the change next summer. Forget Winter, winter is just a GFX update and ships stats changes. Their real deliverance will be in the summer.

I, too, would like to see a usable bounty system, or the current one removed. Then I wouldn't have to have anything tied up in bounties. Only doing that now because there's nothing else the bounty system in its current incarnation is good for.

Which is why the entire bounty system is inherently flawed.

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.

CCP is affraid that if they reward bounty hunters, there will never be any piracy going on...

Current Bounty Hunting system does equate to excellence - it indicates mediocrity.

(2) To restrict who is able to accept a specific bounty contract

I'm not sure they could make it much worse than it already is as far as this goes....

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.

Is that in the pipeline for the Winter Expansion?

Or do we have to rely on this:

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1502656

http://eve-bigshot.com/?site=home

I love how our community is able to come up with the ways to fix the problem, and yet CCP is still in drawing boards?

Can i get a hint when or if that is going to happen this Winter or do we have to wait till Dust514?