Zodiac: Bounty Hunter System Released

[Gambet]

I finally completed my complex Bounty Hunter system. It took be a bit of time with all of the debugging and the large amount of code/time that was required to make sure everything worked correctly.

I've personally never seen a Bounty Hunter system like this before, so hopefully you all enjoy it.


Anyways, it has been released, and therefore, I have created this thread as more of an informational thread.


How it works:

At any time, you can access the Bounty Chart by saying "/bountychart" (without the quotes). When you call the command to see the Bounty Chart, you will be provided with a progress bar in which you'll have to wait til all the information loads before you're provided with the master control GUI.

At first, you'll notice that there are two tabs. The first tab, which is the main tab that you'll be used, is the Bounty Information tab. The second tab is the Server-wide Statistics tab, which shows some server statistics for the bounty system which I won't bother explaining since it's self explanatory.

Anyways, the Bounty Information tab contains two sorted boxes (alphabetically). The box to the left shows the current online players that ARE NOT bountied. The box to the right shows the current online players that ARE bountied. This was done for organizational purposes and to make it more user friendly. Under these boxes, to the center, is a refresh button. Use the refresh button to update the lists to make sure the information you're seeing as always accurate. You will not be able to carry out any actions if your list is not accurate, and the system will prompt you to refresh the list when you try to carry out an action with an outdated list.

At the bottom of all of that is the player information for the player that you highlight off of one of the lists. Here you can see how the player looks, and all the information pertaining to their bounty. You can see their current nickname, whether or not they are bountied, how much gold they are worth, how many times they have been bountied, how many bounties they have completed, how much gold they have earned from bounties, and you can see who has claimed their bounty.

Basically, how this works is you select someone off of the list of players without a bounty and you double click them to prompt another window that will ask you to set an amount of bounty for that player. The minimum amount of bounty you can set on a player is 2000 gold, there is no maximum amount. Please keep in mind that you are setting a bounty on a player based on your own gold. After you input the amount of gold into the next window, simply press enter and you would have placed a bounty on a player. Pretty simple.

Now, please keep in mind that you will not be able to claim bounties with players that have your same IP (I.E your other accounts). This was done to prevent abuse. Now, to claim a bounty, simple go over to the box that shows the players with a bounty, and highlight them to see if anyone has claimed them. If no one has claimed them, you can simply double click them, and you will be prompted with a confirmation window. Claim the bounty and the bounty will be yours to kill. You must claim a bounty in order to gain the reward for that player when you kill them. After you claim a bounty, go kill them and you will be given your reward automatically (you will be sent a message when you do), and all of the calculations would be dealt with automatically. [

NOTE: You can only claim one bounty at a time!


I think that's a basic summary of how everything works, if anything is unclear or if I've left anything out, then let me know and I'll be more specific. It's 5 AM right now so I can't really think much, been working on this system most of the day and just finished about 20 minutes ago so I don't really feel like thinking about much right now (I just want to sleep ).


EDIT: New command:

/bounty_personal

Use it to view your personal bounty stats.


Anyways, hope you all enjoy this system, because I worked quite hard on it. Please be sure to report any bugs/glitches if you find any with this system to me on client and I'll fix them a.s.a.p.


Enjoy

[Twinny]

This was a fun NPC to debug and test .

Suggestions: (Hopefully be able to add them myself)

Ability to track a bounty. Adds a gui box which shows player look, current name and location on your screen. Also when they are in the same level, they could like glow red or something.

Possibly add who set the bounty and maybe a short description why.

[zephirot]

Originally Posted by Twinny

Ability to track a bounty. Adds a gui box which shows player look, current name and location on your screen. Also when they are in the same level, they could like glow red or something.

Yeah, its annoying to chase them trough the whole OverWorld

[Andy0687]

Originally Posted by Gambet

Enjoy

The only way you could have set it up so that you can not claim bountys on the same IP is if you scripts have access to the IP (say the IP is stored in some variables or something) right?

If thats the case I thought stefan asked that servers remove scripts which give access to the players IP for security reasons, there is a reason its not enabled by default?

Or is Zodiac a special server.

[Lord Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Andy0687

Or is Zodiac a special server.

Well I don't think there's any arguing this

[Gambet]

I updated my first post with a new command that's available to the players. I'll improve the system as the time goes by whenever I get the chance.

[Devil]

Bleh, nice addition, I think?

[Andy0687]

Originally Posted by Gambet

I updated my first post with a new command that's available to the players. I'll improve the system as the time goes by whenever I get the chance.

But youve still avoided my question as to why you guys are using script functions that are disallowed.

[papajchris]

Andy, i believe i speak for all of us when i say who cares and get a life.

[Devil]

If you're using things which are disallowed, wouldn't that mean you'd get in ****?

[Gambet]

Originally Posted by Andy0687

But youve still avoided my question as to why you guys are using script functions that are disallowed.

I'm using functions that were a part of the server when I started working there. I don't know about what's allowed and not allowed and I wouldn't see how it could be abused. It reads the players last IP, which is exactly what you see when you open a players attributes, so whats the problem? If you werent allowed to view the players last known IP, then you wouldnt be able to view it when you open a players attributes.


This thread isn't about that, so stop trying to derail it into an argument.

[Andy0687]

Originally Posted by Gambet

It reads the players last IP, which is exactly what you see when you open a players attributes, so whats the problem? If you werent allowed to view the players last known IP, then you wouldnt be able to view it when you open a players attributes.

Originally Posted by Stefan

There should not be any ip-tracking on playerworlds, there are reasons why the ip of the player is not available to scripts -> privacy. It is a nice example of using the http functionality, but please disable it.

I am just saying what the word is. It was simply a question.

This thread isn't about that, so stop trying to derail it into an argument.

Again, im not trying to derail from your overly pointless additions to Zodiac, all im asking is why Zodiac gets priviledged advantages over other servers?

[Gambet]

Originally Posted by Andy0687

Bullcrap

Why don't you talk to the creator of the function, then? I'm pretty sure Yen added it, so talk to him.

[Andy0687]

Originally Posted by Gambet

[overly Mature way of quoting my perfect observation]

Why don't you talk to the creator of the function, then? I'm pretty sure Yen added it, so talk to him.

Funny the creator of the function is global banned.

Oh well, what can you do.

[Devil]

Meh, my question is answered above ^