This system is awful. You never say if it works in high sec. If it does it breaks highsec trading; if it doesn't nothing will ever happen.

You seem to think that strangers would never agree to split free money. Under this system there'd be way more money in finding someone, telling them to get in a rookie ship, and splitting the cash than actually hunting anyone.

So when you fail missions, does it work like the current mission system and you lose agent standing? In which case, who do you think is actually going to be able to hunt bounties after about a week?

You can't "fail" a bounty mission* you just hunt the target till you kill them and collect the reward or give up the bounty right. There would be no repercussion for giving up a bounty right.

*Aren't actually "missions" per se, as there are no set-in-stone steps to complete the objective and would also confuse newbros if it were to be labelled as such, it's more of a goal. The bounty agent just provides a bounty right (much like a kill right) that allows you to kill the target. The hunter goes in the steps to find and kill the target, by whatever means necessary.

So can I stack them, or is it one at a time?

If I can have multiple, what stops me just taking every single bounty in the game?

If it's limited, what do I do when every single one I get is either in another TZ entirely, a titan pilot, jita trader, or hiding out in a C6?

I have bounty on me right now. Would multiple people be able to hunt me, or just one?

Given that I am almost never in highsec, who do you think is actually going to bother claiming my bounty?

Right, so, if I can only get one at a time, then how the hell do you propose anyone ever actually collect any? Timezones and different areas of space would make it incredibly unlikely that bob the hunter going to his hunter agent lodge would actually receive a bounty it was even remotely possible for him to hunt, nine times out of ten anyway.

If bob has to cancel and try again a dozen times before he finds anyone it's actually possible t hunt, what do you think the chances are of bob being able to make a living hunting people down?

A Solution to Create a Near-perfect System

A bounty hunters' stubbornness and will to find the target and complete the bounty is what will separate the cream from the crop. A hunter that keeps accepting and rejecting just to find a "easy" kill will most likely do better in another career path. Plus the "spy network" (not quite the same thing as a locator agent) will give you the most recent station they docked in or a general idea of where the target may be to give a chance of finding the target.

I most recently docked in a station in Deklein, thirty jumps away from the nearest highsec entrance.

How does knowing that help you claim my bounty? Are you going to burn thirty jumps through hostile nullsec to hunt one guy?

What if it's a bounty on a wormhole guy who hasn't actually been in a station in months? Or on a station trader who hasn't undocked since 2003?

How do you propose anyone actually make a living from this if they can only have one bounty active at a time? I just don't understand it.

Searchable kill rights.

I see nothing in this proposal that explains how this "near perfect" system of yours is going to work in high sec?

How do you propose to allow for a hunter to kill a target with a bounty and NOT incur the wrath of Concord?

The bounty right allows the hunter to kill the target anywhere(except in stations of course), anytime. Please note that bounties will more often than not be placed on pirates and gankers more than anything else, so killing pirates and gankers in lowsec and highsec will actually help the flow of trade as now there is a force to counteract pirates and gankers.

You ever actually look at how many freighters have bounties?

I like this system, or the general idea of it, a lot. If only one person can hunt you, even in hisec, I don't imagine you'll see freighters ganked left and right. Just make it so when you get your random target it expires in say three days. If you can't find the person by then you lose the bounty and someone else can get it from the pool. Maybe limit to five targets at a time.

The bounty right allows the hunter to kill the target anywhere(except in stations of course), anytime. Please note that bounties will more often than not be placed on pirates and gankers more than anything else, so killing pirates and gankers in lowsec and highsec will actually help the flow of trade as now there is a force to counteract pirates and gankers.

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.

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.

There are still problems that have been mentioned, but the bounties offered could list both last time and location docked.

The bounties offered could be weighted to region or by jumps from current location, or even jumps from a selected location, though that begins to make targeting a friend or alt more possible- you go someplace remote and keep turning them down till you get yourself.

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?