One of the things that happens from time to time when you are pirating about is some foolish soul will place a large bounty on your head. Now, the bounty mechanic in EVE is not really one that works, unless you have a large price sitting there, say like 50 million isk.
Usually, most people would have an alt pop their pod and keep the isk, hence the flaw in the bounty system in EVE.
Being a new member of Ushra’Khan and with so many people “offering to help me with my bounty”, I thought it would be rather fun to do something else rather than have an alt pop me and keep the isk.
Back in Neo Spartans, when we would catch a pod and they would not pay the ransom, we would hold a “drone lottery”. For those of you who do not know, a Drone Lottery is where everyone in the gang would launch 1 drone and after a countdown, everyone would attack the pod with the drones. The person who got the killmail would receive 1 million isk from each member of the gang.
So, I said to myself, why not? This past Sunday, while everyone in the alliance was high with joy at making it to the finals in the alliance tournament, I announced a POD lottery, where the winner would get the bounty that was on my head.
Call it completing my ‘Pirate Penance’, cleanse my soul as it was and get rid of the bounty on my head.
I had everyone who was in on the lottery lock me up and launch one drone of their choosing. Needless to say, after the countdown from 5 to 1, as soon as I said engage, roughly 2 milliseconds I was back at my medical station in a new clone.
Congratulations are in order for NCC 1701E who was able to insta-pop my pod. Good job sir, enjoy the 50 million isk mate and thank you for taking that bounty off my head!!
See you out there!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Hehe, never thought of getting bounties on your own head that way ^^ I'll keep it in mind.
Ah yes, and congratz to NCC 1701E
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September 15th, 2009 at 8:39 am
That's awesome, sharing your bounty with your corp mates. Grats to the lucky winner.
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September 15th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Ha! congrats on the AT!
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September 17th, 2009 at 1:28 am
That's a great idea
But I always shed a little tear for the "recovered" pirates lost to our outlaw community.
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Galen Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Well, it was time. Low Sec piracy has it's rewards and it's fun. I've wanted to go live in 0.0 for a while now and enjoy that fun.
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