Bountyhunting Improvements Alternate Proposal (CSM)

The proposed changes outlined are an attempt to bring balance back to the low-security regions (0.1 through 0.4). Making bounty-hunting a feasible means of generating regular ISK income should be a priority; as currently the incentive exists most prominently for piracy. There is a need to bring balance to the equation. Giving Bounty-Hunters the ability to display contract-kills as a decoration provides considerable incentive to pursue Bounty-Hunting as a profession. An opposing force to the notoriety of great pirates, will be the great Bounty-Hunters that hunt them.

The issue of alts collecting the bounty is minimized by the blacklist and other filtering features; while there may be some alts or cooperative third parties initially, with a little research contract issuers may blacklist and filter suspected alts and co-op third parties.

I believe this proposal is superior to a contract based system in that it still rewards roaming groups of bounty-hunters, is fair due to the reward being split evenly to all involved parties, and still allows for large completion rewards

• Bounty Contractors Mechanics
  • Bounties may be issued upon any with a negative security status.
  • Multiple bounties may be placed on one Outlaw.
    • The total amount of the bounties will be rewarded upon targets ship destruction (bonus for pod kill?)
  • Having a Bounty on you makes you ineligible to apply for insurance.
    • Attempting to leave station in a previously insured ship will pop-up with a message saying your current insurance has been revoked or refunded due to the risk of being hunted.
• Bounty-Hunter Mechanics
  • Bounties issued are not accepted as contracts, but rewarded upon ship kill.
    • Makes roaming groups of Bounty-Hunters more attractive, as everyone gets a cut, and everyone can get a piece of the action.
    • Appending the kill-mail and bounty-decorations tab to include the contractor allows the contractor/bounty hunter the satisfaction of knowing the kill was completed
• Reward/Payment Mechanics
  • Payment is made upon killing a ship whose capsuleer has a bounty on them. Payment will be split evenly among involved parties given they meet the guidelines of the contract.
    • Allows for large payouts on prominent pirates to be split, as it may very well take a team, with a great deal of effort to find them and kill them.
    • Multiple contracts on one outlaw may be fullfilled at the same time, with one kill.
• Post-Kill Mechanics
  • Activity regarding bounty-kills, Contract issuance, and Death as the target of a contract are listed/show in the ‘show info’ sheet.
    • Allows the Bounty-Hunter the bragging rights of a job well done.
    • Allows the Contractor(s) the satisfaction of vengeance.
    • Provides the Target with concrete evidence of the result of his misdeeds.
  • Kill-Mails will display Contractors as well as involved Bounty-Hunters
    • If Bounties, Bounty-Hunting, and Contracting the kill are to have some lasting significance… there ought to be a way to have kills as a result of Bounty-Hunting, or Issuing the contract tangible out-of-game.
    • Killmails listing contractors will not tally stats toward Contractors kill stats, preventing the purchase of kill-stats.
    • Killmails will list all Contractors on the killmail along with the Bounty-Hunters