I would like to add the ability to place a bounty on players. Once a bouny is placed have it show a $ in green over their head so that any who shoot them in a Pub match will get a bonus to their ISK reward.

EDIT: It will bring a new breed of PUB Bounty Hunters and with it should come a Bounty Kill Board showing the Top Bounty hunters.

If this idea was already up please link. Thank you

Seriously?


This is New Eden. You clearly have not lived here very long.

Let me make it a bit simpler. There is nothing to do in this game BUT kill and be killed. There is no industry, there is no other roll but combat. Do you think people come to this game not to get killed? This just adds to objectives.

@Ragmesesis

What the frakk are you talking about? Are you high or just trolling? The New Eden galaxy has seen countless players ganked nonstop for the past 10 years straight and not one player was reported to have committed real world violence or a single suicide just because of what happened in Eve Online. There is no evidence of such things ever happening. At least to my knowledge and I have been playing Eve Online for nearly 7 years. I have heard everything and seen everything.

This is because every new player is quickly conditioned to accept the harsh reality of New Eden: adapt or die. If you come here expecting everyone to act nice we will do everything in our power to prove you wrong.

That shows a certain lack of understanding of the situation as a whole. The people you describe are a small minority of the gaming community, and people with real world mental issues, and probably shouldn't be playing a game like EVE or DUST when the concept of bounties and ganging up on others is a common and even encouraged to some degree. Also keep in mind that some games might even play on a self-enforced honor system. That is to say that, for example, I see a player with a bounty being attacked by one of my teammates, I will let the fight rage without interfering. If the one with the bounty wins, then I walk in a mop up the kill, if my teammate wins then he claims the bounty with no outside help from me.

If a Bounty system is introduced, then that will be part of the risk involved in playing this game. The risk of getting a bounty and becoming a target for other players to claim that bounty. I might even go so far as to assume that CCP might even implement a base of rules or criteria in order to actually place a bounty on a player. Like for example you could only place a bounty on someone who's made a certain number of kills in the last, say 5 games. If they've done less than that number then you can't place a bounty. For those who don't want a bounty then they can simply keep track of the kills they score and make sure they don't pass the bounty line.

Maken Tosch And yet not a single one of those cases are tied to Eve Online or Dust. Therefore your point is moot (valid, but moot). As for that happening to other games, that is a small minority as Lonnar mentioned because I don't see any news about those cases posted on the 6 o'clock news or even on CNN for that matter. Hell, even the infamous Jack Thompson (that wack job of an anti-gaming lawyer/advocate) didn't seem to bring it up as often if he did at all.

Yes, it is sad that players do kill themselves or commit other forms of violence in response to what happened in a game, but let's look at it closely.

For starters, no one would ever do that to anyone or to themselves unless they were already mentally disturbed to begin with. In that case, they should not be playing any game that allows for high level asshatery like Eve Online encourages. It's like that one case I read years ago about this one grown man who had suicidal tendencies as he was chatting with people on a certain Instant Message channel (back was AIM and MSN Messenger were popular) whose main topic was just basically a chat room full of A-holes. It was a channel that predated the likes of 4Chan or Something Aweful forums. And this guy was on that channel. He then posted a live feed from his room in which he committed suicide in front of the viewers. Most of the viewers thought he was joking and decided to push him further by posting comments like "Go ahead, kill yourself" "DO IT, I DARE YOU!" etc. etc. etc. Only a few of the viewers noticed he was actually serious and tried to tell everyone in the channel to stop and call the police while some tried to convince him to stop. It was too late.

After the media posted the story, a lot of readers didn't feel sympathetic to the guy. For one, why was he in a chat channel that was full of ass hats to begin with? He was not there looking for help. He was there asking for a reason to kill himself. Looking for that one "push" to finally make him go off the cliff. I know it is saddening, but I later learned that such a man was just looking for that kind of trouble and there was nothing anyone could have done to stop it. If the chat channel didn't exist he probably would have found the motivation to kill himself from elsewhere. It was inevitable. The man was disturbed from the start.

Again, Eve Online has no record of such players... surprisingly after 10 years running under such a cruel climate. Even if someone does try to commit suicide, New Eden isn't the kind of culture that tries to encourage it. Players will rally to help that person.