Wait, isn't the bounty paid by the guy who's set it? So his expenses would grow drastically if the bounty isn't paid once, for one kill, but for every kill!
I don't think anyone would set up a bounty on someone, if the fugitive could just trololol the hard earned ISK away by playing as a pacifist, dying at every opportunity... especially as he can do it without any cost to himself, thanks to the free starter fittings...

Also, would suicides reward the wanted player?

You miss this part or did you just read my title and felt that it was enough to open your mouth?

+1

As long as the bounty is only paid out when equipment is destroyed, and is less than the value of the equipment, I don't see a problem with this.

Fred puts a 1 mill ISK bounty on Bob; this goes into Fred's bounty "pot".
Bob goes into a match in a 100K suit.
Jane kills Bob.
John the logi revives Bob; no payout for Jane :-(
Maurice kills Bob, who then bleeds out; 100K of gear is destroyed
Maurice gets 20K out of the 1 mill bounty pot.

i'm hurt, i gave you my Honest opinion and you attack me so blantently. i WANT a bounty system in Dust but i don't think it would work for Dust it self. you have to randomly be put in the same room as the person for the bounty for one so there is luck envoled. and even then, you might be working WITH him. so there gose your chance for getting the bounty in the first place.

in EvE, EVERYONE had a chance to clame the bounty, so it works there. In Dust....not so much. plus, who put a bounty on a faceless massproduced merc. they only do what they are paid to do, and they are immortal.

@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.

Sorry for coming down on you hard, but your argument was not based on what I had written and your argument right now shows a lack of understanding of how this mechanic works. also EVE Pilots are just as immortal.

Lest say someone from Imp Kills you or Trolls you and you want to get back at them in some way.

You would then search their name in-game under People & places

You then press X on their name to bring up the menu of how you want to interact (such as Info, add contact, send message and so on)

An option would be there that says GÇ£ADD BOUNTYGÇ¥ so you click it and ADD say 1 Mill ISK

Now a GÇ£WANTEDGÇ¥ sign is placed on the person that is selected profile Pic. So when he enters a match, ANY Players within that match will see this on his Pic and know if they kill him, they will earn extra ISK. (You know that Huge Screen in the War Barge that shows everyone in the match)

During the Match he will have some sort of a mark next to his Health Bar to attract a little more attention on him in order to invoke more Death upon him. This in turn will mess with his KDR, cost loss in SP that he could earn total for that match, loss in fittings and loss in ISK. The Community extracts your revenge for you.

For Players who kill him in any random PUB match, they will earn say 25% of his total gear (Dropsuit, Modules, Weapons and Equipment) within that life (and while we are at it how about they can gain some of that gear in salvage).

So if he is wearing a total of 100k in gear that means the person who kills him once will earn an additional 25k to their end total of the match (Thats a good ammount when PUB matches only pay around 250k). That 25K will come out of the bounty knocking it down from 1 mill to 999,975 ISK. Each time he is killed the same thing happens until the Bounty is completely gone.

do you really want that??? to make gank at others do you really know gamming history to even ask that there has been suicides and violence because of genk in other games like in WOW first of i think thats also a crime its called bulling but on a game if they do that ccp will be tryed to get sue because on openly bulling lolol and to be honest long term view i see many corps shutting down because they are gank at (and yes i call gank because thats not a bounty hunters think thats a gank thing) people said to me they are immortals proud and etc... if they are that they would not go down and do things like that that idea is a low point for me and for waht the results will make i think its a bad idea this bulling boad it will cause nothing but trouble

i dont have problem admiting im new in eve in any way but im a hardcore online gaming for more than 10 years i know and i saw first hand what gank brings in many many games just search what gank can bring google it there are a million sad stories

ok, now i'm PISSED. You are BLANTANTLY and PERPOUSFULY ignoring what i say in my posts. i said that it can not WORK in Pub matches because the team that the Target is on can not Claim the bounty. yah, that's totaly fair.

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.