i put a 2 mill bounty on you, you and your friend join a factional in a free suit, friend kills you, gets bounty, split both ways, jokes on me. Ever idea as good as this one needs an exploit free way of working or its broken. I'd love to say you know what boom i put 5 mill on your main and every battle you join your marked as a high value target, or even have the biggest price on my own head but its being able to do it without some fool trying to exploit the way it opperates. Sadly theres to many special cases with too much free time on there hands.

i put a 2 mill bounty on you, you and your friend join a factional in a free suit, friend kills you, gets bounty, split both ways, jokes on me. Ever idea as good as this one needs an exploit free way of working or its broken. I'd love to say you know what boom i put 5 mill on your main and every battle you join your marked as a high value target, or even have the biggest price on my own head but its being able to do it without some fool trying to exploit the way it opperates. Sadly theres to many special cases with too much free time on there hands.

It's an understandable line of thought you have, but that implies that the matchmaking is sophisticated enough to put him and a friend in the same match on opposing sides. Also that somebody else wouldn't murder him in the process. There is already and existent bounty system in EvE online that would work well with this each payout is a portion of the value of his fitting lost, militia gear is free so no pay out. In dust that method can work even better due to the fact there is no insurance.

i put a 2 mill bounty on you, you and your friend join a factional in a free suit, friend kills you, gets bounty, split both ways, jokes on me. Ever idea as good as this one needs an exploit free way of working or its broken. I'd love to say you know what boom i put 5 mill on your main and every battle you join your marked as a high value target, or even have the biggest price on my own head but its being able to do it without some fool trying to exploit the way it opperates. Sadly theres to many special cases with too much free time on there hands.

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.