New Bounty System

[Fiberwyre_P2P]

3 New Bounty Types

New bounty types don't need to be accepted for them to be taken from players.
The first person to kill someone with a new type of bounty will get the bounty.
(these would be IN ADDITION to the current bounty system.)

Chain Bounties:
Every $100 earned from PKing puts a $500 chain bounty on your head (denoted by a skull with chains on it). whoever kills you gets the $500, and the bounty jumps to them for $400, and then $300 and so on. Each time a chain bounty is taken, it jumps to the bounty hunter for $100 less until it drops to $0 and disappears.

If you spend more than 15 minutes in a PK zone without being killed, you receive your own bounty, it drops down $100, and the timer resets. (repeats until it disappears.)

Gang Bounties:
Every 25 gang points you get, a $1000 bounty is put on your head (denoted by a red skull). If an opposing gang member (meaning a gang tag is required) kills you, the $1000 is split between everyone on tag in their gang.

if you spend more than 5 minutes on tag in a pk zone, the bounty is shared between your gang members on tag.

Juggernaut Bounties:
Every 30 minutes, a $1000 bounty is put on a random player's head (denoted by a black skull). (Only selects players that are in PK zones.) Whoever has the bounty on them gains regenerating armor (up to 25 armor max) and receives 5x the amount of money they would normally get for kills.

If you spend 10 minutes in a PK zone without dying, the bounty goes away. You don't receive anything besides the money you got from PKing.

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in addition to the aforementioned ways of getting these bounties, people can buy Chain Bounties that can jump 3, 5, or 7 times, depending on how much is paid for them.
3 jumps = $600
5 jumps = $1500
7 jumps = $2800

People can also buy Juggernaut Bounties, but may only place them on themselves, and they cost $1000.

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Targeted Bounties (i.e. the current bounty system) would still be the only bounties to count towards the weekly health bonus and still would require bounty hunters to accept them before killing the target.

Other bounties could grant other weekly buffs to the top bounty hunter as well.

[jkldogg]

Great idea, but they probably won't do it since they want to take money out of the economy.

[Fiberwyre_P2P]

Originally Posted by jkldogg

Great idea, but they probably won't do it since they want to take money out of the economy.

In my opinion, it's better for the game if they make new ways to take money out of the economy by giving us new stuff to buy, rather than preventing money from going into the economy in the first place.

So I'm still hopeful
(The money was mostly just an incentive to get people actually participating in the Bounties, and therefore PKing, but if there's another way without adding money to the economy, I'm all ears XD)

[DarkRenji]

Looking good.

[The_Federov]

too much reward.

[Scoper]

Originally Posted by The_Federov

too much reward.

Lessen the monetary amounts..drastically, IMO.
That aside, would be a huuuge encouragement to pk

[bloodykiller]

Originally Posted by Scoper

Lessen the monetary amounts..drastically, IMO.
That aside, would be a huuuge encouragement to pk

why?? do u see how expensive guns r? with these jobs (you didnt even need a workers pot before) you'd be able to get to 50k (hours and hours of working lol) and buy dual p2ks which were 1 of the best guns..i think ove was the most expensive and it was only 100k, but which seemed like a ****load
plus this would be a fun way of making money, would definitely attract active players to play this game since u wouldn't have to get bored for hours working to own ur money..but obviously u dont understand that scoper cuz u enjoy mining rofl

[Scoper]

Originally Posted by bloodykiller

why?? do u see how expensive guns r? with these jobs (you didnt even need a workers pot before) you'd be able to get to 50k (hours and hours of working lol) and buy dual p2ks which were 1 of the best guns..i think ove was the most expensive and it was only 100k, but which seemed like a ****load
plus this would be a fun way of making money, would definitely attract active players to play this game since u wouldn't have to get bored for hours working to own ur money..but obviously u dont understand that scoper cuz u enjoy mining rofl

Don't tell me what I do and don't understand, you sound like Wil 2.0
And no, I don't enjoy mining. I did (haven't in months) most of my mining out of necessity

I say lessen the rewards because the way he has it set up right now would make it by -far- the simplest way to get a ton of money quickly.

I'm all for new ways to earn money, and i'm all for revamping the WHOLE money earning system to put out more money if people think it would fix something, but Not having a bottleneck system where one method of earning money far outshines the others.

You get what I mean? I rambled a little..

[Fiberwyre_P2P]

Originally Posted by Scoper

Don't tell me what I do and don't understand, you sound like Wil 2.0
And no, I don't enjoy mining. I did (haven't in months) most of my mining out of necessity

I say lessen the rewards because the way he has it set up right now would make it by -far- the simplest way to get a ton of money quickly.

I'm all for new ways to earn money, and i'm all for revamping the WHOLE money earning system to put out more money if people think it would fix something, but Not having a bottleneck system where one method of earning money far outshines the others.

You get what I mean? I rambled a little..

If you think about the way it's set up, it wouldn't outshine any of the current jobs.

for a Chain Bounty, you would need between 10 and 100 kills (since each kill is worth $1-10), which could take maybe 10 minutes, maybe an hour, maybe 2 hours or more. It depends on how good a PKer you are and how many other people there are to kill. In total, a chain bounty is worth $1500. 500 + 400 + 300 + 200 + 100 = 1500. And it would be split (not evenly, of course) between all the people who are vying for that bounty.

Mining can net you about 5k an hour if you're a low-level miner.
Digging can net you about 5k an hour.
Car missions can net you about 4.5k an hour.
Even slot machines can net you about 1.9k an hour.

the same applies to gang bounties. 25 gang points takes a while to get. and on top of that, it's split between your gang members on tag and you have to stay alive during a raid for 5 minutes to see any of your own bounty, which is easier said than done.

Juggernaut bounties only happen once every 30 minutes, and that equals out to 2k an hour, or barely above slot machines.

It would be less money than any of the current jobs, and it would encourage PKing AND raiding. I don't see too much of a downside to it.

(also, buying Chain bounties or Juggernaut bounties wouldn't have any net effect on the economy, since you're putting in and getting out the same amount. Juggernaut bounties even have the capacity to take money out of the economy.)

[TheJames]

I am adding a simplified bounty system tommorow on Era Dev.

[Fiberwyre_P2P]

Originally Posted by The_Federov

too much reward.

I agree it would make PKing a lot more lucrative than it is right now, but that doesn't mean it's too much reward. If people are spending more time PKing, then they're spending less time working, so theoretically, it should (or could with some tweaking) balance out, but add more fun to the game.

(Also, I realize not that many people work, and it would be more like less time standing around at unstick, and more PKing, but should economies really be balanced around people standing around not putting money in? Era's economy would be ****ed if its playerbase wasn't so lazy, or if mining was less boring.)

Originally Posted by TheJames

I am adding a simplified bounty system tommorow on Era Dev.

Oh really? Was that influenced by this thread, or have you already been working on it?

[TheJames]

Been working on it.

[TheJames]

My bounty system:

You go speak with the 'Hitman' he then places a bounty on any random player online at the moment. You then have to kill that person. After killing the person you then receive a cash bonus plus kill bounty points. Your kill bounty points will be sort of like a token, those with higher KB points obviously are going to receive awards (undecided at this time). You gain KB points by killing assigned targets. Aswell you lose KB points if you are killed if a target is placed onto you.

The rewards will be determined by Alfonso and Zeus. I'm leaning towards certain features and upgradable options for guns such as silencers, laser scopes and whatnot. :]

The system is completed now, just awaiting approval from Zeus & Alfonso.

[jkldogg]

Originally Posted by TheJames

You go speak with the 'Hitman' he then places a bounty on any random player online at the moment. You then have to kill that person.

This is beyond stupid. The bounty could be placed on someone who is somewhere (most likely unstick me) idling / talking to friends and not pking. Then you'll say "hey let me kill you", then of course they respond with something like "nope umad no kill 4 u". Then I'm guessing there would be some sort of thing saying "clear bounty", in which you could repeat the process again, only to have the same thing happen, repeatedly.

[TheJames]

Originally Posted by jkldogg

This is beyond stupid. The bounty could be placed on someone who is somewhere (most likely unstick me) idling / talking to friends and not pking. Then you'll say "hey let me kill you", then of course they respond with something like "nope umad no kill 4 u". Then I'm guessing there would be some sort of thing saying "clear bounty", in which you could repeat the process again, only to have the same thing happen, repeatedly.

Actually, isn't that how the bounty system currently works?

The person is totally unaware that they have the bounty on them. So they will be PK'ing and not know about the hit on them. You have 10 minutes to kill that person then the contract resets or you can reset it after 3 minutes if the person is idling/not pking etc..Unlike the other bounty system, this one you can kill players in events for the bounty.

You are rewarded a cash prize+1revive for sparring+kill bounty points..

After your kill bounty points go up you so does your rank/kill bounty level. You start to obtain more cash+1 extra revive on each level (5 levels total)

These kill bounty points will count as your rank, and will unlock certain features never seen before on Era after each level is reached. Aswell another reward will be added to it but we are currently working on it on Era Dev.(something new we cannot disclose)

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