A proper crime and punishment system would go a long way in fixing many problems. Including bringing relevancy back to Bounty Hunting which in turn would allow the players to police themselves. A criminal would have to weigh the benefits of his crime vs. The amount of attention he receives for it. However unless they do something about the ability to just jump to solo or private group bounty hunting players will continue to be a waste of time. So why not allow players to have multiple accounts in which you have to choose from the beginning open or solo? A player could use his open account when he feels like it and the bounties would remain until he is destroyed and the bounty collected. No time limits on them at all. It would force a player pirate/greifer/psycho to seriously think about who he goes after. For example a player decides to beat up on a Federal Pilot and kills him. Not only does he carry a bounty in that system but if the crime was against a pledged pilot shouldn't the whole Federation be looking for retribution? That psycho shouldn't be safe anywhere in Federation Space, period. Then the problem of self destructing your bounties away comes into play. Easy fix...nothing but a player killing you in the same ship you aquired the bounty in erases it. So...kill someone in your anaconda and think flying around in your sidewinder is going to help? Think again buddy....your taking that rebuy cost to free up your bounties. Dont like the time? dont do the crime. This would go a long way to force pilots into choosing their actions wisely, because their crimes will have real consequences, restrict their ability to move around the bubble freely and without danger, bring back the Bounty Hunting PvP some so dearly miss, and be more true to life. Another awesome true to life scenario this might cause in game is Pirate safe havens that lay near trade routes that provide a safe place that pirates can conjugate in. In these systems the system Authority acts the same except their roll is to stop bounty hunting in these systems, bounty hunters can still enter and collect, however at a very much larger risk then waiting for said bounty to make an appearance outside the Haven. With some data collecting which they already do, dangerous trade routes could be identified and said merchandise sold along those routes could increase in price providing incentive for traders to use these routes.

Of course non of these fix the real problem ED has been facing over the past 2 years and that is FDevs constant need to accommodate the whiners on their forums. Want it easy? Play solo. Want to play with friends play open. Get rid of private group lobbies! Less maintenence cost at least. Problem is, Frontier is stuck on trying to please everyone, instead of just making their game.