So you are proposing that a PLAYER can place a bounty on ANYONE in the game and doing so means that the player with a bounty get NO Concord protections in high sec? I can only begin to imagine the ways this can be used to grief other players.

Even worse than this is the fact that a member of the CSM would side with an idea that allows players to circumvent Concord protections in high sec. These are indeed dark times for EvE.

A few issues

1) 'Just clear current bounties' sounds nice but are you talking about waving a magic wand and erasing billions from the game, billions that people spent on bounties? Or trying to figure out who gets what share of a diminished bounty returned back to them?

2) If you can quick cycle the bounties then I would set a bounty on someone and rifle through the files to have my own personal concord avoidance ticket to gank people with. If it had a time delay then it would die as you wound up with folks who hardly ever log on except to find fights.

3) Only people who killed you? So scammers cannot be bountied anymore? Is that only people who got the kill report or anybody who was on the kill even with a single gun or drone?

a) I do like the spy network but I would modify it to show the last ten gates the person took with time stamps

b) I agree that the bounty system needs a rework

c) I really like the idea of matching the bounty common usage of time slots to the hunter

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Less exploitable, how?
The current system cannot be exploited for profit, and it cannot be used to harass or grief someone. While this crazy OP idea would be difficult or impossible to exploit for profit it is rife with possibilities for being exploited for the purpose of harassment or grief.

In the OP idea what prevents me from placing bounties on every player in another corp or for that matter everyone in the game?
What prevents me from keeping them under bounty FOREVER?
And please do not try to tell me the costs would, if you make the fees paid high enough to prevent most of this type of abuse then those fees would be so high that few people would pay it and the cost of the bounty.

I still want to hear why you think it is good to allow a player to bypass the Concord protections that CCP has deemed important enough to have in the game before I started and to keep in the game to this day.

Moving away from responses to the quoted post.

Bounty hunting in this game is broken because at it's core the system is flawed beyond belief.
It allows for anyone to place a bounty on anyone or everyone else in the game for any or no reason at all. Because of this CCP has to maintain standard Concord protections in high sec to prevent the system from being abused as a tool for harassment and grief. The end result effectively kills any bounty hunting that might happen in game. And the OP's suggested overhaul does nothing to change that.

If you want to create a bounty hunting profession in game then I suggest you pattern it after the real world, it is a system that works all we have to do is transition that into the game and here is just a brief and not well thought out idea to get started.

Anyone that violates the games rules gets a criminal flag that is semi-permanent, it would only reset once the character has a ship and / or pod destroyed.
Every player with a criminal flag would be listed in game and that list would be accessible to all players.
Any player in game can place a bounty on anyone on that list.
Any player that wants to hunt bounties can hunt for anyone or everyone on this list.
Kill a player on the list and collect the full bounty amount.

What does this do for the game?

Those who want to bounty hunt can.
Those who successfully kill for a bounty get the full payout instead of today's 20% of value of ship etc.
Those who commit crimes face a greater possibility of punishment for their actions since they know they could be placed on the bounties list and they have to face that they may be hunted by players that want to do that sort of thing.
Those who do no commit crimes are protected against harassment and grief by those who would abuse a poorly thought out system.
Concord protections become irrelevant since those who can have bounties placed on them are already legal targets.
And best of all it is all done by players with the exception of the flags and list.

then what's to stop me from collaborating with my target and splitting the bounty? I also like content that new players can jump right into, but:

1. I dont think bounty hunting is the kind of thing that 1 day noobs should be doing
2. I imagine that there would be bounty hunting corps like Mercenary Coalition that the new players could join to get into this content.
3. I would rather have a good, water tight system that is inaccessible to new players than a crappy one that anyone can take part in (which is essentially what we have now)

You sure are stretching alot of things to fit your purpose. First, it's FAR and away from an insult to say bad CSM. That is not in anyway a violation of any rule. Nice try. Now if I were to call them a bunch of dipsh**ts and ****tards, those are insults, but I didn't.

Second, there is ALOT of hard evidence to support my stance.

Here's a few:

The bounty system does NOT work. Factual. It was also NOT supposed to be a free for all shoot anyone with a bounty in High sec. Factual. The war system was designed to allow people to shoot others in high sec and not get concordokkened. Since it does not work, and does not grant freedom to shoot whoever has a bounty, it is also factual that it requires war decs, or ganks, or playing with aggression mechanics and alot of stupid to make work. Factual.

The war system is paying Concord to look the other way so you can shoot someone for a week. Fact.

Your thread's whopping 590 views is nothing. A mere glance in the life and death of Eve F&I threads. Fact. Of those, several are one CSM who IDK how he even got elected, and who's ideas on the subject are just as bad as the idea in OP.

Most people view bounties as a laugh point, a 'how many people did I p*** off' thing. There is not much in the way of seriousness to them, except for when they get high, then it's the pilots who have them who care, to see how high they can get their bounty.

Most Low sec and Null sec players I've interacted with over the past 6 ish years follow this mentality, and only care about losing a bounty, not getting one. The Bounty system does not work, and cannot work along side Concord. Concord/Factin Police 'protecting' high sec makes it impossible to chase bounties without kill rights, which are a war/crime watch mechanic. See, the problem with all this is I can put a bounty on anyone at any time, for anything. So because some random put a bounty on me, now I'm showing up on your agents list? Even if I have a 5 standing or more with that agent? See how broken and unusable that is?

And one more thing: Don't take a like or two here or there as 'support.' Remember we don't have a dislike button.