I just checked the new bounties. It seems that the system is underutilized for various reasons. That being that some players rather do it themselves. No one wants to collect bounties btgat are just as much as the cost of the act without factoring in retaliation, or the price of the bounties themselves are ridiculous.

Some suggestions for improvement.
For voodoo:
1. Link the card base offering price to the average card price in credits and convert it to gc using the median conversion rate from the credit market.
2. Add historic data of actual bounties collected and their price.
3. The actual bounty to be offered can be calculated from these sections. Base price+ effort compensation + risk compensation.

Similar for ships.

Collectors can provide a rating against the bounty targets. We can use the chart system for that.
They can rate the risk, effort and total compensation or propose numbers they think is fair.

honestly I think its not so much that the bounty system needs improvement but more so that the people making the bounties need to actually post proper bounties.

Though I do agree and think some improvements can and should be made. But ultimately no matter what improvements are made, if the people who post the bounty wants to try to be cheap and hope someone will do a bounty for next to nothing, you can bet that unless forced to give a decent reward, there will always be a few people who post insane bounties that will almost never be finished.

Edit- take the 2 new bounties as an example. 200K for a hostile native on Davicni. A single HN is worth a little over 1 cred, which currently is worth about 270K. So that bounty essentially is asking someone to spend roughly 300K worth of goods for a 200K payment, and that's not even counting the retaliation they will probably get hit with.

What?! There is a bounty on me?




P.S. Remove the bloody Natives Nelson!

Cdv wrote:What?! There is a bounty on me?




P.S. Remove the bloody Natives Nelson!

I can't remove the Natives, once you collect a bounty theres no Cancel option

!@#$/^&*!*&)€£¥!



But seriously, I wonder who would post a bounty on me. Is it... you?(You know who you are.)

+1

dont ask questions you dont want the answer to CDV