So, I volunteered to be a "bounty" ship this weekend - it was quite fun on the whole however the bounty missions themselves (play 60 games) whilst pretty easy to complete - are time consuming, you get targeted a lot more and generally die faster as everyone tries to get the coal, but thats what I signed up for beforehand so its understandable.
The issue I have is the level of reward for being a bounty ship - if I was grinding ships, completing other missions - staying alive and getting points, upgrading commanders, etc I would have got far more "in game" rewards than the few containers that you get (2 mega, 2 or 2 normal and a load of signals and economic boosts).
From a quick tally I reckon you get 5000 Doubloons of items for literally hours of gameplay and many many deaths - yes, some of the games were good, but most consisted of "Detected" - 12 ships of barrels traversing and death
SO, to complete all 60 bounty games I think it took me 4 hours on Friday, 4 Hours Saturday AM, 8 Hours Saturday night and 2 hours this morning - thats 18 hours for £13.86 - £0.77 an hour.
The rewards were NOT told to us in advance so once we had signed up we had to make the most of it and try and get some enjoyable games amongst the excessive targetting.
Come on WOW - please give the bounty players SOMETHING worth their time, because at the moment you are paying way less than national minimum wage for us to be massacred :)
Oh, and good job all those that killed me - I think I managed to survive maybe 10 games overall (Although I did use every ship in my account and some of them are dubious).
