Bounties As Intended

The new bounty system has been hailed as a success by everyone as far as I can tell. The people placing bounties are happy that their ISK won't simply be claimed by the person they are putting the bounty on. The people out hunting for PvP are happy as they earn a little ISK doing what they enjoy and if they are good enough might even make a living from it. The only people that seem to be unhappy with this change are the random people who acquire bounties just by happening to be in the same system as someone with ISK to burn.

Last night I was told by a corp mate that someone he knows had been placing bounties randomly on people who didn't already have one. I think this is a fairly common thing to happen, my industry character has 100,000 ISK on his head just for docking at Jita 4-4. In case you don't know, 100,000 ISK is the minimum that can be placed on a character in one go. This is how much was put on Nadori Lynn's head just because she didn't have a 'Wanted' sign across her portrait. Unfortunately Nadori Lynn took offence to being bountied in this way and complained.

I hope you realize you're a CEO who encourages and engages in pathetic harrassment of random strangers by placing insignificant sums of bounty on them just to annoy them for your own twisted satisfaction. I pity both you and your members. You do however not strike me as the type who wants people to place a bounty on you in return so that you may feel like a bigshot wanted pirate, and seeing as you're a lowsec mining corporation, perhaps it would serve to make your days a little more interesting if I were to put a real sum on the heads of your entire corporation as a little karma for you. Continue to pursue this harrassment at your own risk.Sincerely,Nadori Lynn

Very quickly this email was passed widely around so everyone could share the enjoyment of this person's tears. Of course with New Eden being the place it is when others discovered the outrage Nadori was suffering at being bountied they did what any good capsuleer would do and add to the bounty. When I was told about this message her bounty had already hit 50 Million ISK. I logged in to check this morning and found it had increased a lot further.

Bounty: 855,700,000 ISK

The effects of her complaint being posted to Reddit are obvious and will probably see the bounty rise past the billion ISK mark. There is still a very long way to go before Nadori makes it in to the top ten most wanted people in New Eden. I strongly suspect this thing will blow over long before that happens. I also suspect Nadori just learned an important lesson about nourishing griefers with tears. It's probably going to be a little while before they whittle that bounty back down to zero. Might be a good time for Nadori to get more involved with the PvP side of her corp.