Perhaps Dust should look at the Bounty Mechanics of EvE. Let's say you put a 2 million isk bounty on a person. Someone else kills that person. But instead of getting the 2 million isk they get a percentage of what the suit was worth. let's say 15% of a 100k isk suit = 15k. That 15k gets taken out of the bounty pool and now there is 1,985.000 isk left. That way some guy who wants to split the loot with a friend will have to loose something like 133 suits @ 100k isk. Making it nowhere near viable to scam the bounty system.

Let other players know there is a bounty on somebody's head by having a bounty Icon appear on your Hud Next to the person's name.

-Gives something more for snipers to do in pubs.
-Gives blueberries more reason to be aggressive instead of hide in the back.
-Gives incentives to place bounties on the redline tanks.
-But Most of all, Gives you the warm and cozy feeling that people hate you so much that they are willing to put a bounty on you

-Marcus

Payout

Considering that the value of a dropsuit in Dust is vastly different to the value of a spaceship in Eve Online, the percentage that affects bounty payout based on assets destroyed would have to be increased in Dust compared to Eve. In Eve, the percentage is 20% of the value of the assets destroyed. If I were to destroy a spaceship worth 5,000,000 ISK belonging to a bounty, then I would get 1,000,000 ISK as a payout for that destruction. The bounty then loses his bounty value by 1,000,000 ISK. However, a dropsuit destroyed in Dust might cost only 50,000 ISK. For a bounty with a 100,000,000 ISK prize on his/her head and with a 20% payout rate, that amounts to only 10,000 ISK for bounty kill and the bounty only loses his bounty value by that same amount. 10,000 ISK is a drop in the bucket to 100,000,000 ISK. I would have to kill that bounty 20 times in one match in order to collect the same amount of money I would get from doing a 7-minute match of Ambush. That is not feasible and itGÇÖs certainly not profitable given the fact that I also might lose my own suits in the effort and I would have to kill the target 10 times to cover the cost of one proto suit I lose. The percentage would need to be adjusted for Dust 514.

If the percentage was 100% of the value of the suit lost, that would make it interesting. If I killed a bounty who was wearing a 50,000 ISK suit, then I would get the same amount as a payout and the bounty loses his/her value by that same amount. I would only have to kill that player 4 times to make the same amount of ISK earned in a 7-minute match of Ambush. This also means a much higher payout for the hunter if the bounty happens to lose his vehicle. This also means the bounty can clear his/her bounty from their head faster.