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Advice required: I want to Bounty Hunt..how can I do that?

Ok, first I have to admit I have been in EVE since 2004 and I have seen very little combat (I am a hangar whore). I have been in a few large fleet battles but I did not last long, not because of skill points or skill point allocation but more because I hate losing ships because I am very far from rich and every loss costs me a lot of time to recover and since I am inexperienced, I tend to get worked over a lot. I have read all of the tutorials and “I think” I have a solid understanding of how combat works but reading never compares to actual combat.

With that said, my character is very specialized; I do not have one trade skill, industry or corporation management. I only fly Minmatar; all ships below black ops and Marauder are at level 5. I have 100% skills in Shield and Armor tanking and all of my projectiles are level 5 besides capitols and over all, decent missile skills, and 180 skills 90 are at level 5.

Please understand I am not giving all of these stats to “gloat” or “show-off” but so that the person (or persons’) providing advice can get an accurate background on my combat capabilities. I have a lot of questions so if you guys don’t mind being patient with me I will bullet point them.

  1. If I have a bounty on a player do I have the right to lock him up without being “Concorded” in secure space?

  2. If I have a bounty on a player is he notified of this bounty and can he lock me up without being Concorded as well?

  3. If I have a friend with me does he have to pick up the bounty as well? (so that he is not Concorded)

  4. If I attack a player with a bounty will I become hostile to other players in his corp or just in his group?

  5. What ships of my Minmatar background would you suggest for such a task since I have so little combat experience but I am now willing to lose so that I can become a better pilot?

  6. In most cases will myself and another player (who will be equipped to rep me) be enough for me to take on 2-3 players at once? (I know this is a situational based on skill and skill points but I thought I would ask)

7.How do I track down the players? 8. Is this even worth it?

Thanks in advance for your replies and any advice/suggestions you with to add would be more than welcomed.

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aragaer [ Editor ]

If by bounty hunt you mean bounties offered in Bounty Office, then the answer is you don't actually want to do it, since it's broken.

  1. In order to get a bounty for a person you have to podkill him. And CONCORD still considers it a crime.
  2. If someone has high bounty on him, he simply undocks and his alt or corpmate kills him collecting that bounty.
  3. If someone keeps bounty on himself, that's just a badge showing how badass he is.
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minerboob

  1. No
  2. No
  3. No
  4. Entire corp
  5. Try asking this as a separate question. Use a lot of ships, see what works.
  6. Depends on what they are flying. Its a 50/50 proposition. If you are new this falls off some. I tend to like UN fair fights. :) Bring more people.
  7. There are agents you can look up people with.
  8. Hell no

Sorry, but bounty hunting is NOT a profession at the moment. (no matter what CCP says) it should be fixed soonTM.

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harlock
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To add up to number 1 : you can lock anyone without being concorded ;)

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harlock [ Editor ]

What you should understand is that : bounty hunting system is heavily broken, untill CCP figures out how to make it viable / profitable ;)

It still can be profitable to get as "target of opportunity" people with high bounty on their head. But as mentioned : requires to pod them, which might be quite difficult.

Also you might find yourself fighting a complete gang of pirates when you expected only one of them.

Duno if there are weathered bounty hunters around, but I wouldn't consider this as a viable profession.

7-8/ agents can help you find the people you're looking for. And no, as previously said => I doubt it's profitable as a regular profession.

But opportunities can arise, of course.

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