it needs some update, the bounty system we have now it's extremely inefficient, and not convenient to use

we should have a Universal Bounty Database
it should have Target name, price of bounty, restrictions and discriptions

What's so inefficent about it? Kill a target, post a screenshot, wait for reward.

Uncrossed is the inconvenient bit.

Personally, I'd find a FLHook system that could tell you, based on your ID, which bounties you could currently collect, and even better, if any of those currently are online. But of course, not tell you what ship they're flying or where they are, but just to eliminate those times when you're itching for some game time but have nothing to do with a char.

Maybe I'm asking for too much.

Are you volunteering to do the work to maintain such a thing, or are you merely making suggestions without any thought to the difficulty in implimenting them?

EDIT, to Swift: It's been proposed before, multiple times. Shot down, too, for some reason. Maybe to get people to check the forums? I really don't remember.

http://forge.the-starport.net/gf/project/f...;release_id=110

Ahem! Cannon?

Yes its not a good system, LOOONG ago i did a "bounty" with my merc (wich i deleted just a week back)

I posted the Liberty Rouge's death, ID, IFF, Ship and all that in the LPI bounty board... i never got paid....

now, yes we need a upgrade... or maybe a new rule

Announcing a bounty and not rewarding or denying reward to the person who have completed the bounty within the bouty terms is not allowed...

LPI usually pays at the end of every month.

Besides, Hack isn't as active right now, doesn't mean LPI does pay the bounty hunters what they deserve.

A while ago I wrote up this kind of template to help out those in need. I even went and suggested that it's forced to be used. I think forcing is a bit of excessive though, but... So far the template has gone ignored though.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27246

The bounty system is player-driven. You can post a page of garbage or you can post a page of nicely laid out, legible and eye catching material.

Zapp keeps an index of active bounties pinned in the sub forum.

When you claim payment, just bear in mind the people paying are people for whom Disco is a hobby. Paying bills in real life sucks enough without us imposing it on ourselves here.

Spurious and disingenuous bounties are pretty easily dealt with.

FL Hook bounty system was considered before and turned down for a number of reasons - among which the fact that it would destroy the forum aspect of bounties.

As I said, it's player-driven. If anyone has spare time to compile a universal database of bountied people go ahead. People who are deovted to hunting on one character usually negotiate the system easily enough witha little patience. It should require a small bit of an effort to find work.

That, and normally a simple PM to the person running things, because as Athenian says - we have RL to deal with as well. The board I pay off of had nothing posted for two months - then a bunch of bounties, which I batch paid - and then nothing again for a while. Now there are some built up and I'll pay them when I have time. But a lot of the time I spend is acting as playground monitor instead of being just for fun.

Just for example, I spend at least 30 minutes every day just checking the validating membership for spambots, so that can make it easier for Korrd to delete them. Plus on average another hour (or more) going through watching for flames, trials by forum, and answering regular questions. Now - consider that I also work from 8 to 5 at a full time job, I'm married and a grandfather so I'm GOING to spend some time with family - paying bounties is at best a once a month thing for me.