Grim Starwind
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Posted - 2008.02.11 11:09:00 -
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Edited by: Grim Starwind on 11/02/2008 11:15:06
I think I just wet myself at the walls of text on page 2 of this thread..
Anyway, I was a pirate for a long time and I recall getting a 5k bounty once which seemed random and pointless. Apart from that no one has ever given me a bounty and I would honestly wonder why anyone ever WOULD spend alot of money on handing out a bounty. Because the person dropping the bounty will never know when the other person dies.. So who cares.
They need to do something amazing with the bounty system to make it:-
a) worth while to hunt people with bounties
b) some form of contract to take out a hit
c) let the bounty placers know that their bounty has actually been killed in their name
Alot more but those are main points.. it would be good if say I put a bounty on someone, then someone accepts that bounty.. and through that they can contact agents (which they've had to do missions for to capture smaller bounties first being NPC's then being young players with smaller bounties in close range of the agents system) and the agents then give them information on details such as how often they log on, when they log on roughly, what system they spend most time in, or are currently in. That way you could setup a camp or something to kill them.. say using a team mate to watch them or even your own alt to sit in the system and watch their actions. then you swoop in and kill them.
THEN, the person who placed the bounty gets a message "Grim Starwind has carried out your bounty placement on 'x' and has collected the payment."
BING!! Grim Starwinds Bounty points +100! ... - which I now use to purchase certain goods from the bounty catalogue at the Bounty Guilds office in the station (Like the Loyalty Points for current agents).
Erm, yeah.
EDIT: To add - This would make it more fun for myself, I'd actually log on to chase a bounty or even sit for a while watching from a station etc about a bounty in the system to see when he logs on myself etc. maybe even setup a fake contract for them to collect an item then when they leave the station PEW PEW they die. You know, LOADS of stuff. Pirates might think "oh no, don't do that.. then people will actually know where I am and come looking for me." Yeah well that's a good thing, if I do recall as a pirate i was sometimes bored that people just hid in stations lol, also it might give you an even bigger E-peen to know you do have a legit bounty on your head and that no one has managed to take it regardless of how many pro bounty hunters there may be. It would also make it more worth while for people to PLACE those bounties to know that "justice" will be served.. so to speak :)
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