Or make it 1-1 ratio. take away the 5% ship to bounty ratio.

Or make it 1-1 ratio. take away the 5% ship to bounty ratio.

This would be a new revolution in farming.

Also, insurance isn't an issue. There would be a clause in insurance that they will not pay for "repossessed" ships. That will mean bounties.

Ah, so I can use an alt to absorb the negative sec status, put bounties on freighters, and deny them any chance of insurance when they get ganked.

Awesome.

The bounty would be the same as a wardecc. You have a time span where it tells you that it goes into effect. (24 hours).

Btw You can suicide gank in high sec so any of this bitching over dying is pretty pointless. haha a couple 7mil destroyers or something is < a bounty that will get a high sp target killed.

If you have to keep adding "but" and "if" into your idea to keep it from falling apart at the seams, that's a good sign that it's a bad, poorly thought out idea.

No, that's a sign that the thread allows 6000 characters per post. Already had to delete flavor text to add clarifying lines in the main post.

Answering questions about a proposed idea is what the rest of the thread is for right? The main post is for proposing idea, the following posts are (presumably) to try to make an even more solid suggestion.

If your proposal requires more than 6000 characters worth of legalese to prevent trivially obvious abuse, that's a good sign that it's a fundamentally bad, poorly thought out idea.

Remember double-apocalypse guy? His ideas were better than this.

Sounds like a bitter vet. Just so you know, the 12 person player base this game has won't be able to fund it for long. Your pride and joy "take your cookie and laugh at you for bringing one" game either needs to bring in more people to fund it, or it's going to die off.

hence the mail I'm sure we all get that says "please come back to eve! we need your 10 bucks for lunch money dood"

Ah, now we get to the real point behind all this.

"EVE is dying because you're all bullies"

And apparently handcuffing player freedom is, once again, the supposed solution. Tell me, OP, did you read Riptard's blog, by chance?

Sounds like a bitter vet. Just so you know, the 12 person player base this game has won't be able to fund it for long. Your pride and joy "take your cookie and laugh at you for bringing one" game either needs to bring in more people to fund it, or it's going to die off.

hence the mail I'm sure we all get that says "please come back to eve! we need your 10 bucks for lunch money dood"

You're in for a real surprise.


We are all alts of the first person who replied to your post. You've been frantically replying to a single person.

It's about making bounties more relevant.

Do they need to be?

This isn't about making high sec safer or less safe.

It's about making bounties more relevant.

Aren't there things CCP could be doing that are perhaps more important? Are bounties really what they need to be worrying about right now?

PS. Oh my god thanks so much Kaarous Aldurald. I'm so glad you pointed that out. Please go on.

There's been a tutorial that's been glitched for... 3 years now? 4? don't you think that if your logic held true... that would be fixed by now? tutorials are pretty important to new players.....

If your proposal requires more than 6000 characters to prevent trivially obvious abuse, that's a sign of a well thought out idea. If your proposal doesn't come close to 6000 characters, you've either proposed a tiny change, or you're not thinking it through.

Basically what this whole tread has been saying is... And I agree.

You're complaint, that CCP advertises bounty hunting as a viable profession and it isn't, is perfectly valid and is quite true. The solution is pretty obvious and quite easy. CCP stops advertising bounty hunting (or at least the bounty system) as a viable profession.

Exactly. How about doing that, instead of something no one really seems to care about. Sure it has 'potential' as you said earlier, but you know what? There are bigger problems to address.

Besides, apart from the weird bounty system already in place, you can always rely on you know, making deals with players. Pay a "bounty hunter" to go and shoot your target for ISK. No clunky interface or whatever required, just some player interaction and boom. Done.

Sure thing.

You can't claim that you want to make Bounties relevant, while simultaneously saying that you intend to exclude people with negative sec status being involved.

It only shows that your underlying purpose is to functionally remove it.

Or am I wrong? Because if I am, you go way past misguided into the realm of mentally handicapped.