Bounties

To place a bounty

You can only place a bounty against a player who has seriously wronged you — concretely, whose military relation toward you is sufficiently negative.

• Your military relation score with the target must be — or lower (the lower it is, the higher the bounty)
• You cannot target yourself
• No level, building or alliance prerequisite
• Each attack you suffer lowers the relation by 5 points: a single aggression is enough to meet the threshold

How the reward is calculated

You do not pick the amount yourself: it is derived automatically from the severity of your dispute with the target. Per negative relation point, the rate is:

• — units of metal
• — units of silicon
• — units of deuterium
• Final amount = |relation score| × these three rates

Examples

• Relation at −5: 2,500 metal + 1,500 silicon + 500 deuterium
• Relation at −20: 10,000 metal + 6,000 silicon + 2,000 deuterium
• Relation at −50: 25,000 metal + 15,000 silicon + 5,000 deuterium

Choose an objective

When placing the bounty, you define the exact condition that will unlock it. Four objectives are available:

• Military victory: a real combat won by the attacker — the simplest condition
• Fleet destruction: destroy a defined percentage of the target's ships in a single combat
• Resource pillage: bring back at least a minimum amount of metal, silicon or deuterium stolen from the target
• Specific ship destruction: shoot down a certain number of units of a chosen type (e.g. 10 battleships)

Multiple posters, a single bounty

• All bounties placed by different players against the same target are pooled into a single envelope
• Each poster can only have one active contribution per target (but can edit it at any time to change the objective)
• Each contribution keeps its own objective: the avenger must satisfy at least one of the deposited objectives to cash in

Claiming a bounty

• The game automatically detects combat outcomes satisfying an objective and pays the full bounty to the avenger
• Immediate payout to the avenger's homeworld, no fees, no splitting
• A bounty can only be claimed once: the first attacker to fulfill an objective takes the entire envelope and the bounty is then closed
• You cannot claim a bounty on yourself
• No impact on your honor or military relation: the bounty changes nothing beyond the combat itself

Target side

• The target is notified as soon as a bounty is placed on them, but the identity of the posters is never revealed
• Active bounties are public: any player can open the Bounty Office and see who is under contract
• The target cannot remove the bounty — only each poster can remove their own contribution

Expiration and cancellation

• A bounty expires after — days if no one satisfies any objective
• On expiration, the bounty is simply lost — since no resources were committed when posting, there's nothing to refund
• A poster can withdraw their contribution at any time; if no poster remains on a target, the bounty is archived