Suggestion: Bounty System

[Prahadigm24]

Hey devs and folks,

What do you guys think about introducing a bounty system in the good old Ultima Online style? It should be implementable and add some fun to PvP. Here's a set of exemplary rules, these could be fine-tuned:

Everytime you are killed and you have not initiated the fight (i. e. you are the "victim"), you can put a bounty on your murderer's head - of at least 10 pp. This could work with a message window asking the victim whether he wants to put a bounty or not, or by introducing a simple command like "/bounty".

Bounties put on a PKer will aggregate, until he is finally killed. If a dark elf PK named "Inkie" has a bounty on his head, he will drop "Inkie's head". I think our client provides head graphics for most of the playable races, so killing a dark elf will yield a dark elf head and so on. The player who killed Inkie can loot the head and will be rewarded with the total platinum bounty when he turns it in.

For turning in, you could set up a bounty NPC at or close to each bank. These new NPCs would accept the heads of the PKers and give out the plat reward connected to each head. They could also tell players who are the 10 or 20 players with the currently highest bounty:

Inkie 45 murders 1310 platinum
Meanie 41 murders 650 platinum
...

(Kills only count as a murder when the victim choses to report it by issuing a bounty of at least 10 plat.)



Here's a picture from UO, bounties were posted on bulletin boards in each city back then. It certainly added some flavour to PvP:

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[Ravenlof]

i like

[Titanuk]

not classic

[Ravenlof]

Originally Posted by Titanuk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

not classic

lots of things arnt classic.... why not draw more towards pvp?

[Pudge]

sounds fun. although i dont know how popular it would be.

[Ziggy]

you can put a bounty out on someone with out a 'system'

[Kelsar]

As much as I like the idea, it also means we're farther away from seeing r99 live if it were to it implemented. UO will always have a special place in my gaming heart. No other game has been so open and free to do what you want while being ruthless to its players. It was by far the most advanced PvP game until they had that expansion that changed everything about PvP.

[gloinz]

Originally Posted by Ziggy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

you can put a bounty out on someone with out a 'system'

[Knuckle]

Let's take a poop and think on it.

[Kelsar]

Originally Posted by Knuckle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let's take a poop and think on it.

good idea