Nice idea with bounty tracking it would add a great cat and mouse dynamic whilst giving the gankers and griefers the style of play they really want. I had similar idea whilst putting some ideas down around crime and punishment as a whole in the following link
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...system-without-reinventing-the-(karmic)-wheel . Effective PvP bounty hunting would be a great addition to the game and the mechanism you suggested is pretty much off the shelf anyway, with the friends system and mission systems.
Somethings I would add to your ideas though is:-
1 . Factions / powers would have separate parallel bounty system to the Pilots Federation one but working on a similar principle as you outlined. Galnet would indeed be a good place for the PF bounty board.
2. Suggest that tracking would be done by NPC system security ship scans and also by cmdr scans with report crimes on. This would even up the playing field if a cmdr in a weaker ship is interdicted and attacked if they could survive long enough to scan their attacker then this would alert the chasing bounty hunters. Even weaker cmdr's could pose a threat to the strongest.
Combat logging and mode switching would be a major obstacle to overcome to make bounty hunting and the game itself play better. Hopefully the new changes coming down the line will deal with this. Perhaps cmdr's that are on the bounty boards are forced to play in open at least for a period of time.
Hopefully the karma system could be constructed that persistent cloggers would have a percentage chance of character death if their ship is destroyed. Let say one confirmed instance of Clogging then a 10% chance their characters dies and they would start from scratch. The chance of character death would increase with instances of combat logging. Lets say 10 confirmed instances would be straight character death, back to the sidewinder.
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