Player Bounties?

I know the red-named people are smart enough to carry the dolls, but that's the chance you take when killing anything in the game, player or mob - whether they drop items or not.

Oh, Kittennice, I totally forgot that the normal mode already has light blue names lol. That's probably where I made you confused. The computer I'm using has some weird colour issue that there's hardly a difference between white names and blue names. I just forgot. Anyhow, when I was mentioning blue-named people in my last post, I meant a super dark blue. Maybe even change all the times I said blue to green so that they'd be having obviously green names to avoid the confusion. I was just referring to a way that we could separate the bounty hunters from the hunted murders. The people who aren't in PK mode at all would remained completely untouched.

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Reworded

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But to become the hunter, maybe THAT'S when we talk to the guard, get a GREEN name, and we can enter PK regularly as if using a white/red-name. Though, with the advantages of being a green-named PK'er, you can have a list of the red-named players (that are close to your level) and choose who you want to hunt down for a set price (supposedly based on how many player's they PK'd).

However, if a red-named player is killed by a green-named player, no items should drop (in my opinion), because this should be the advantage of being a red-named player killing other red-named/green-named players (as in normal PK). So either way, you are awarded, but it depends on which side you take and you gamble on who you want to kill; such as, "Is it worth killing so-and-so as a red-named player or a green-named player?" and "I will get only money [guarenteed] if I kill so-and-so as a green-named player, but I may get some good items [if they don't have a doll on them] if I kill them with a red-name."

The bounty on their head would be on them for as long as they're considered murderers, and the green-named players would stay green-named as long as they're stuck in PK mode under that status.

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So when putting this into gameplay, a player can choose to enter PK normally, and kill his/her way up into becoming a murderer. When his/her name is pink or red, their name will automatically join the universal "Wanted List."

The other option is to enter PK mode in alliance with the guards and obtain a green name. From there, you can obtain a quest that gives you the "Wanted List" (however, your list is changed to have players near your level).

Green-named players can attack any player in PK mode except other green-named players. All other players in the standard PK mode, it's still a free-for-all, killing any PK'er.

Once a green-named player has killed a player on the wanted list, the reward is mailed to them. However, the bounty remains on their head for the remainder of the time they're in PK mode, but that specific green-named player cannot collect the reward for that specific PK'er more than once. Maybe the player is even taken off of their list in the quest.

i will become a notorious killer, then get on an alt on another comp and kill myself

^ nuff said

Rep for this would leave out anyone who did not pk. Bad idea unless the person you killed drops their rep and you pick it up.

Make the rep a specific pk only rep that has no bearing on anything and its fine.

Kittennice - Heavens Tear wrote: »

That's very interesting. But I'm telling you now, people will lose interest and won't be eager to do it if it's only rep. Killing a person is much harder than going through an fb. I personally would go in pk mode reguarly for the money. Rep is meh to me.

I think we should leave the pk system alone because we can't make them go back to blue instantly. There is a set time limit for going back to blue.

I like the random generator (Like Bounty Hunter quest). It will prevent alts from killing. And instead of unable to trash, let it be trashed but they can't get it again until the next day. And there can be more than one person who gets the quest because there may be more hunters than killers in that level range.

Giving a fee is a bit too much if it's only rep. You already pay money for badges for rep which is way easier. I still think pink should be untouchable because it's close to white but not red so there are 2 groups of 2: White/Pink (Hunters) and Red/Blood-red (Killers) but that's my opinion...

I wouldn't give a specific time limit. Only because a person can cheat and go off-line or stay in town etc. The time a hunter takes is how much the amount will decrease by so that's good enough. Then they can choose to trash that quest and wait another day for a new person or try their luck more.

Loosing things is a bit too much. There is some chance a player can drop an item upon death (Whether hunter or hunted). That's punishment enough. How about the killers can place bounties on each other. The more money on a killer, the more probability of that killer being on people's to kill quest. (Coin sinkage?) Also, Duke Blacke can tell the last seen spot of a killer a hunter has on their quest list for a price (Another coin sink maybe?)

I thought the rep was a nice idea. By killing the "bad people" your reputation grows so it makes a great reward. Also, the amount of rep it gives is pretty decent.

The person doesnt have to pay to get a quest, but if they do pay they can choose their reward(Whether to get an easy 5 rep or to get a tough 20 rep).

I added Pink names because they are generally not many red names, mostly pink names and pink-red names.

As for the go offline thing, maybe we can have people volunteer to be the "bad guys". They of course will recieve a reward.

Maybe you can make it like an alliance thing. 10 teams and each person pays xx amount to join a team. The people on the team PK all day and at 12:00 AM the team with the most kills gets a prize and of course there will be 2nd place prize, 3rd place prize and constellation prizes for everyone else. Also, make this one a random choice so you cant make a team too strong, its all random who you work with.

Its an interesting idea that you have to play around with. You should put this in the suggestion forums after you get everything figured out.

Lol i like the duke black idea. He has a big mouth and i bet his 9(?) wives can help out too b:chuckle

Malego - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Make the rep a specific pk only rep that has no bearing on anything and its fine.

Not sure what you mean. Can you explain a bit more

Malego - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I meant have it be rep, but NOT the rep you get for the rank gear. Have it be a separate rep that means nothing.

That wouldn't give people a lot of incentive to go out and PK. It would be like WC'ing to kill someone-- granted, I've never played on a PK server, but... I would think not a lot of people would answer the WC if it offered no incentive to kill this person. Same with this idea.

The reward would have to be worth something, give some sense of accomplishment for killing this player.

Tisa - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Main turns as red as possible, log in on 2nd computer, kill main in a remote area with alt..voila.

I like the general concept of the idea though, just reward shouldn't be coin or anything that can easily fetch coin. Maybe spirit or like 25-50k exp for example.

If you really want to see competition, make it rep. and make the levels like 1x can hunt 1x, 2x can hunt 2x, and 2x gets 20 rep, 3x gets 30 rep, 10x gets 100 rep from each kill, unless a difficult kill, where they get more rep, such as the leader of Nef, CQ, or another lead fac

IDEA! You could get a certain amount of money while red, thus increasing the red population and decreasing the demand for reds

I kinda like the idea.. but i think it would be cool if you could personally place a bounty on another player.. like, i goto an NPC and it'll ask me who i want the bounty on, in which case I type the players name. Then, it will ask me how much money I'm puttin out as the bounty, could be anywhere from 20k to millions, depend upon lvl and demand.. then, when bounty hunters goto the same npc, they get a list of people that have bountys placed on em, they pick one, two, however many they want, and go hunting. Once the player thats on the bounty list is killed, they dissapear from the bounty list. Multiple players could take on the quest to kill one particular player in a squad, almost like a squad of lvl 50's trying to kill one lvl 100 or somethin.. dunno, food for thought..

impossible to do so:

a) i go kill players lower level than me till i go blood red and go to arch.
bring one of my alts on my laptop and get Head Hunt of my other char.
squad and go into instance.
leave squad and kill and get reward.
repeat.
woot level 90 without spending on oracles.

b)most Cash Shoppers are high level pkers. if they get 200+ people on their trail ticking their charms and guardian scrolls, theyll RQ.