Oh dear!

Just ignore the bounties, will you? They don't do anything. It's how we say hello in these parts.


That was years ago.

As for the law-abiding high-security status pilots getting salty over having bounties placed on them, they're all supposed to be omnipotent immortal demigods responsible for the death and destruction of countless NPC lives, so I don't know why they get so sooky about it vOv

The DEVs removed the restriction because they realized that there are many, many ways to commit "crimes" or do generally terrible things without losing security status.
More than that... "good guy" and "bad guy" are relative.

Some examples:

- A guy in your corporation/alliance is disgruntled. He has access to pretty much all the corp hangers. He steals everything and walks away from the corporation/alliance.
Corp/Alliance theft does not affect your security status. The thief in question may have a 5.0 security status. Under the old system, you could not place a bounty on him. But now you can. And so you place a bounty on the thief.
------------- The thief responds by placing a bounty on all his former corp/alliance mates. In his eyes, you were all douchebags and the reason he left in the first place.

- You are peacefully mining in a belt. You see another mining vessel inching close and closer to you. You do not recognize this player. He has never been in this belt before. He has a positive security status and is in and NPC corp. There is nothing unique or interesting about his profile.
Then, when the player is less than 2km from your ship squad of Catalysts comes out of warp right on top of both of you. The Destroyers target and blow YOU up. The other player is unharmed.
Obviously that other miners was either an alt character or a friend of the ganker. Under the old system, he would be untouchable. But now you can slap a bounty on his face!



Please note that a bounty does not make a player a legal target anywhere in the game. It is a separate from the aggression and combat mechanics.
All a bounty does is offer a nice little prize if you decide to kill said player.


edit:

Yes. It is.

And I know where you are going with this.
Even though bounties really do not do much... making newbies "immune" from bounties for ___ amount of time sets a precedent and opens up a Pandora's Box of other things that newbies probably should be "immune" from.
And then the veterans will come in, make brand new alt characters/accounts, and take full advantage of those protections.

Well that was just mean. Of course 1mil is a trivial amount, but it is ultimately meaningless as I am not going to re-sub.

The last 9 days in EVE have reminded me why I leave every time I come back.

Fly safe and try to be kinder to people.