It's fairly obvious that pretension is your game, and as such no real, civilized debate can be had with you. You're simply an aggrieved victim who deludes himself into thinking that new game mechanics that expose gankers to more sources of hostility will somehow make them concentrate on shooting each other and forget all about killing haulers and miners.

Promoting bounty hunting isn't the problem per se.

It's that you're doing it in the same manner, and for the same reason, that people promoted the removal of insurance to losses from CONCORD.

You will be solely disappointed when bounty hunting (and yes, I'm sure transferable kill rights will finally be implemented within the next year or two) has effects that are significantly different than the ones you hope for.

So would you consider it a victory or a loss if suicide-ganking, say, doubles after bounty hunting is implemented?

And a follow-up question: would you then search for other corrections that would mitigate suicide-ganking?

I see. Well, that's certainly a rational approach, when dealing with rational people. However, most EVE players aren't rational.

I could say something like "the tools for player policing already exist," and I'd be only half-right. They do exist, though are somewhat inadequate. (I'd also like to go on a quick tangent and mention that removing CONCORD would certainly be a boon to player policing.)

The real problem with this whole thing isn't that changes are bad, but that carebears, no matter how many player policing tools and player control they are given, won't ever be happy, because the concept of player initiative goes against their very nature. No matter how many bones you throw them, no matter how many opportunities for player control you will provide, they won't be happy until CCP's lengthy series of concessions reaches its logical conclusion: the removal of the ability to aggress anyone without consent.

And that brings us full-circle to the subject matter of this thread.

Next they'll make it so 1v1 duels don't allow people to have 5 neutral RRs on their side too!

I've been "following my own advice" for the past decade. The only reason I AM HONOURABLE FORUM WARRIOR is to let CCP know that there is indeed opposition to their tendency to soften the game.