22 January 2013

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.

15 comments:

  1. Sadly the name has been removed from the reddit post.
    Something, something harassment

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  2. out of curiosity why does a bounty bother you so much?

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    1. A bounty doesn't bother me in the slightest. I deliberately wrote this blog post from a neutral point of view. Personally I find this really funny. No idea how you get the impression that a bounty bothers me.

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    2. I already noticed orea did not have a bounty either and rectified this.
      You're welcome.

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    3. I think your saying a bounty is a form of harrassment. If so, are you saying that your no longer bothered by the bounties therefore you are no longer being harrased?

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    4. I'm not saying that, Nadori Lynn is saying that. I am not Nadori Lynn. I have no idea who Nadori Lynn actually is.

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    5. I am still curious why people are bothered by bounties then.

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    6. No idea. I think as a game mechanic it has been pretty successful. Finally there is a way to get paid for PvP, albeit generally a small amount. Anyone who takes it personally is probably in the wrong game. Taking things personally in any online game is a sure route to madness.

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    7. The best explanation I've heard is that it's more about the prominence of it. To someone who doesn't understand what bounties are, someone with a huge WANTED sign over their portrait looks like a criminal or otherwise 'bad guy', and they don't want to be classified that way.

      Some people also assume that having a bounty (even a small one) is likely to make them more of a target (or even in some cases, believe it makes them a *legal* target), even though that's generally not the case.

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    8. The prominence of the 'WANTED' banner is quite possibly excessive. Under the old system there weren't too many people who had this banner. For the few that did having a third of the portrait missing wasn't terrible.

      Given the higher number of pilots with bounties now maybe there should be some new way of indicating this, reserving the giant 'WANTED' for only the top 10.

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    9. But I like my WANTED banner. :(

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  3. LOL, such rage.

    Reading the mails sent out by this pilot was the highlight of my morning :-D

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  4. Here's the full text of what Nadori sent. It was my corp CEO that did the bounty in the first place, and it myself and a friend who put this up on Reddit.

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    Bounty
    From: Nadori Lynn
    Sent: 2013.01.20 22:33
    To: Apoc

    Look asshat, I'm not going to waste my ISK putting a bounty on you in return so you can feel like a wanted criminal bigshot, and I'm not going to give two cents about the minimal sums you throw my way, so why don't you just keep your money, find someone a little easier to frighten, or someone willing to play your games?

    Sincerely,

    Captain Lynn

    Re: Bounty
    From: Nadori Lynn
    Sent: 2013.01.21 12:23
    To: Apoc

    So you asked your corp mates to put just as meaningless sums on me as to not waste more of your own ISK. I can't imagine what your life must be like, if this sort of harrassment of random people actually gives you satisfaction. You have my pity.

    Sincerely,
    Captain Lynn

    Bounty
    From: Nadori Lynn
    Sent: 2013.01.21 12:30
    To: Xal

    "A nice relaxed atmosphere where we can chat and make isk."?

    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,
    Captain Lynn

    Re: Bounty
    From: Nadori Lynn
    Sent: 2013.01.21 18:39
    To: Xal

    I see, you actually do encourage this sort of childish behaviour. What a wonderful CEO you must be. Shall I add more ISK to your corporation so you can have a really exciting time mining?
    The most amusing thing is that none of you have ever met me, had any affiliation with me, or anyone I know, and that you believe it upsets me on any emotional level if you all harrass me with minimal sum bounties, to feed your twisted satisfactions. And it simply doesn't. You just throw your ISK away.

    Have fun.

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  5. I placed a 100m bounty on someone who killed me. Just so I can see if and when he is killed, not because I have any feelings towards my killer.

    But Captain Lynn might want to refrain from flying haulers for a time.

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