Or place cheap bounties on non PvP ships e.g. freighters/miners, who may have expensive ships and pod ratings and profit enourmously?

In fact place cheap bounties on anybody and potentially profit substantially?

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But honestly, I'd go further and that and allow bounties to be payed when ships are destroyed, as well as when pods are (two separate payouts, if ISK is left for the second). And also, include implant killmails (upcoming patch...) into your payment method.

Always pro ideas to discuss making the system actually usable, so bravo Bienator.

Alas, because of the ways it could be exploited, it is extremely hard to make Bounty workable, even with your suggestions (I like the idea of the ship loss partially paying out as most decent low sec pilots are slippery when in their pod). Having non-blue or same alliance won't stop it being abused sadly, because it takes just seconds to create a neutral alt to cash in.

implementation details
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- a hunter won't get any payout if he is in the same alliance or blue to the bad guy

i say make a new bounty agent

that gives out random bounty's to random people with a set amount of time to complete it in say 3 days

Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't the no insurace payout thing mean that you can "steal" insurance? Place bounty, kill or suicide gank him so they get no insurance. You won't get it too, but this would be horror for miners in HighSec.

If a bounty is collected, the pirate does not get an insurance payout on their ship (thats where it hurts the pirate). And if the pirate is under GCC, that insurance is paid directly into the bounty.

I know there is a way to abuse this, please find it as I cannot taint my own ideas...

Bienator II you say its a artificial well all rules in the sandbox are but if the bounty system is to ever work it must be made so that people cant collect on their own bounties. if you have an idea that would stop people from being able to collect their own bounties im more than willing to hear it

hmm i gues this coud be a beter idea...

I think Blenator's idea works. Interesting how it mimics npc pirate bounties.

Any thoughts about making the bounty system part of the contract system?

Someone will make a gambling establishment and a char with its name and put 500M bounty on it.
Someone will make alt for scamming in Jita and bounty will be placed on his head.

Highsec wardecs are a two way street. While the deccer usually has an advantage, the target can effectively fight back if they so choose, or just evade the dec. Its not really part of this thread, but I have no problem with a bounty hunter model, where bounties and bounty hunters can freely shoot each other. I do object to proposals that allow a bounty to be shot without any way for the bounty to proactively defend themselves.

@Bienator

I'm more in favor of contract kill system. It's actually possible now, but without actual contract system, so you must rely on the other party honoring the agreement.

Simply I issue contract for killing someone. I may also put into contract that I will reimburse up to 200M or other amount of damages to mercenaries due to Concord if they're successful. I would be able to demand damage of certain ISK amount, or podding etc.

The contracts wouldn't advertise in CQ anymore, as they aren't bounties.

Not really crazy about this idea.

Fundamentally, you don't have to undock to play the game, and the current bounties on people are basically to be at the top of the most wanted list (Eve Online Hold Em) puts a ton of their characters with 500m+ bounties to just advertise their service.

How do you plan to stop the most wanted list from being an advertisement board as well?

Read the first post and most of the first page, Like the idea as a whole with few tweaks here n there.
would just like to add that you shouldn't be able to claim a bounty you place yourself.