Sounds good to me.

What would determine the value of the bot being destroyed?  This sounds exactly like what got M2S into trouble the first time...... well, the first time after launch.

You apparently dont realize that the market value and the production value are very different, and can fluctuate greatly.  Facilities, skills, CT level, standings can all affect how much it actually costs to produce a bot/mech, so assigning a value based on anything but the market value would be a crap shoot at best.  We already know what happened when a bot value was gleaned from the market data.... (for those eve'ers that dont know, many people exploited the hell out of the insurance system because it was enormously overvalued)

Your reward for killing another player is the loss they suffer and the possible loot you gain.  Obviously, the higher tier equipment they fit increases the difficulty to kill, but also increases your loot value if you kill them.

I think the only way to introduce a bounty system is to have players set the bounties themselves, with a stipulation as to what bot type they are piloting when the kill happens.  Maybe even a corp-wide bounty as well.  These could be set fairly low because its more of a bonus to killing them than the entire reason, obviously to avoid exploitation (at least if you're not dumb)

Then you run into the issue where you bounty is in a Communist corp, where they paid 0 for the bot and fittings, and will pay 0 for a replacement. The corp may just kill that player multiple times in the cheapest thing, just to clear it. In any case, the bounty doesn't personally effect the player, just their corp.

All-4-1 corps are basically the standard at this point.

I'm think of a bounty of "kill member of X corp in X bot type and recieve X bounty" that pays out for however much NIC they put up for it.  Internal corp bounties could be cool as well, but I'd doubt they'd need any more reason inside a corp to kill a corp enemy than the furthering of the corp anyway.

I do like the idea of seeking out players to get their bounties.  A kill in a heavy could easily pay 5-10mil NIC with the current market prices.  Obviously corp-wide bounties for lower level bots like assaults could be easier to find, but obviously less per kill.

Hell, I'd put up bounties myself on some random player just to see them squirm

The bounty is based on the bot they are in, and the cost associated with it.  The fittings are irrelevant.  This calculated cost is not including the fitting cost, only the bot.

I suggested this exact methodology to CCP years ago... '04 or thereabouts.  You can see how they've fixed their problem.  If bounties are to be issued then this is about the best method to make it work.
Also, if a bountied target is killed, their insurance pays the bounty first, with the remainder removed from their bounty.

Necro much?

Topic is dead its to exploitable. And I'm not gonna put a 100mill bounty on someone just so my corp/alliance will get some pocket change while we kill that person.

At least THIS thread was necroed only by a month (not 6 like some people did before )

Rise!

"you're not in an MMO to make friends, you're there to make enemies "

Sorry, but I can't take this post seriously with your face looking the way it does

-1 would rather have NPC bounties instead of that useless plasma crap.

Plasma should be something you scavange from dead robots - same for fragments.

they should not drop automatically and collectible by the combat mechs alone -> the combat guy should get a bounty.

BUT

not for semi-afk-farmable npcs spawns as we have them now.