This.

By God, this.

CCP, stop waiting and make it happen. I want to hunt bounty heads.

Punctuation > Bounties

we have spoken about this but its a little more complicated to implement. for example what makes a character obvious it has a bounty?

Does having a bounty in a shooter game really any more or less likely to be shot by the other side?

When there is a cluster of enemies in an area is anyone really attacted to the bountied player, do they even know who they are in the clusterfuck of players?

Does putting a bounty on a player really change anything?

in addition to these questions there is still a lot more to think about and we have a lot more that we find is more deserving of the developers time.

This isnt the first time you have suggested this shad, nor do i expect it will be the last time. Though i warn you its probably not going to happen any time soon.

+1

The only question I have is if teamkills should count for bounties. When friendly-fire is activated in FW 2.0 should teamkills pay out bounties?

And knowing that Factional Warfare 2.0 will not have any ISK payouts, the bounty system would be much helpful.

Agreed, I see this being just another method for endless grief

Only works in free roam

No dust is like other FPS games all matches are instanced , restricted to an certain amount of players , have a time limit , and players don't have much of a choice on where to fight in IA and FW. Unlike Dust GTAO have a free roam mode and I believe bounties don't work in matches besides the free roam.

Dust player are always forced on teams and you will expected to die in an FPS lobby based games. The system is competely random and out of your control , so the bounty hunter would have constantly jump between lobbies if he truly wants to kill the bounty. Additionally since random players can get the bounty the bounty hunter will nearly never get the kill because by the time the bounty is placed on his head and gets into another match he would be killed in a few minutes.

Also some players would be more likely trying to find a few targets out of about a dozen others and focus on killing them than working for their team , but they would be competing against 15 other members teammates.

The way if I see it would work would be if it was "game-y" the the player with the most Wp in and during a match would get marked as a high valued target and whomever kills the target gets the extra isk or whatever reward .

No, it doesn't strenghten it at all. There is no purpose whatsoever for other mercs to be bounty hunters on a game that matchmakes and shuffles players around in battles against eachothers. The bounty would be set, the player would spawn in battle and probably die to some random guy that wouldn't even know about the bounty prior to killing him and would shrug and gladly accept the extra money for something as trivial in Dust as killing another player, something that happens all the time. On the other end, the target would feel it unfair to lose stuff to something as usual as getting killed once.

It needs EVE intervention to mean something. EVE pilots are the only ones that can get a bounty system working in Dust.

You are right though on a Bounty Hunter class not working for this. It would be a cool title to have, but that would really need looking at.

Unless there is some element of open world I.E dropping in on someone doing PVE if you know that they are on a district killing drones and hunting them down in that open space. There is not a convincing way to implement bounties in pubs or FW.

I can imagine the bounty prices on their heads.

CCP Logibro = 5 Million
CCP Frame = 10 million
CCP LogicLoop = 0.01
CCP Cmdr Wang = 1 million

It would be fun collecting those bounties. lol