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SolitaryTurnip
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 1724 Location: Your mom (burn)
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject: Bounty System |
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I know it isn't implemented. Maybe work hasn't even started on it. But, I just want to know how, in theory, will it work? Because right now, there's no reason for anybody to hire a mercenary, because agents and their poisons are better equipped for the job, AND they don't have to reveal an employer. Plus, it seems like it's equally as easy to search out an assassin as it is a mercenary.
I guess I just want to know if the bounty system will make it simple for people to post bounties and have them fulfilled, which might shift the balance our way. |
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Downtweak
Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 389 Location: West of October
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Because right now, there's no reason for anybody to hire a mercenary, because agents and their poisons are better equipped for the job |
I'd certainly have to disagree with this. There's a definite line between who poison will and will not kill, and it's not a spectacular or amazing feat to become more or less invincible to HP-damage poisons.
Unless you're going to sit around and keep hitting them (in which case a merc would have better chances than an agent), you need a really nice first hit to take certain people down, even if they don't run to the hospital to get healed. _________________ -Downtweak
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HR-Arden
Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Abbindolare
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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There will be a contracting system for mercenaries in the full game, but right now it's up to you to role-play it out. Ineol's method is a good example to follow.
I'm also going to refer you to the following thread. I'm sure it will answer a lot of your questions.
http://www.haelrahv.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=1275
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SolitaryTurnip
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 1724 Location: Your mom (burn)
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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Figured I'd put this here, cuz it's not really about etiquette.
Will we be able to have more than one contract at one time? Or can we take a contract, and then... um... un-take it? Cuz, I mean, someone could put a price on someone, and then a merc would get the contract, and then the person they were after could quit HR, or just be gone for a really, really long time. And what about if a merc takes a contract, and then their player goes on vacation for a month, or something? Will they lose the contract after an extended period of inactivity? |
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HR-Trevor Boss Type Guy
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 6683 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:35 am Post subject: |
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Contracts will be required to be completed in a certain time frame or they become invalid. It's too early to give a good answer on the other points. _________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato
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Mischeif
Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 277
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 9:08 am Post subject: |
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trevor...once again i must be your personal devils advocate...but, if they are in the process of being arrested, and log. then they "escape" of sorts. all they have to do is log every time, and wait out the statute of limitations youre speaking of and never face justice. with the statute in place, all we could then charge them with is criminal evasion. which if they are going up for say manslaughter, it goes from first degree felony to a second degree misdemeanor...not a good swap there. then if we keep a "close eye" on them, they can file harrasment. kinda binding our hands with a statute. |
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SolitaryTurnip
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 1724 Location: Your mom (burn)
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Contracts will be required to be completed in a certain time frame or they become invalid. |
Invalid like, they go away? If that's the case then I'm gonna have to agree with Mischeif about the evasion thing. Maybe they'd just go back to the queue of contracts? As you said, Trevor, it's too early to say anything definitive, but that's just my idea.
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trevor...once again i must be your personal devils advocate...but, if they are in the process of being arrested, and log. then they "escape" of sorts. |
Oooh, that's baaaaaad RP there *grins*. |
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senseandviolets
Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 358 Location: Land of the lizards.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe the time limit would only count down when both the hired merc, and target are in game? _________________ Behind every optic is a mathematic. |
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SolitaryTurnip
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 1724 Location: Your mom (burn)
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe the time limit would only count down when both the hired merc, and target are in game? |
I thought the timer would be there to make sure that nobody gets stuck with a contract for a character that doesn't play anymore or hasn't logged in in months. Or, to take contracts away from mercenaries who haven't played in months, etc. That way people won't get stuck with contracts that they can't fulfill, and nobody will get away clean because the mercenary with the contract went on vacation IRL or whatever. |
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Brokyn LLAMA SECHS
Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 3648 Location: Northern Georgia
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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which if they are going up for say manslaughter, it goes from first degree felony to a second degree misdemeanor |
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senseandviolets
Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 358 Location: Land of the lizards.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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I thought the timer would be there to make sure that nobody gets stuck with a contract for a character that doesn't play anymore or hasn't logged in in months. |
I hadn't considered that. I still imagine the timer for experation wouldn't be so short that a player could reasonably evade it by logging out for a few hours. _________________ Behind every optic is a mathematic. |
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HR-Trevor Boss Type Guy
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 6683 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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If someone is willing to not play their character for an entire day or even 12 hours or something to avoid a contract, that seems okay to me. The money would be refunded to the client probably. And this whole thing means it is probably likely the Merc could accept multiple contracts (but probably a limit to how many they can have open at any given time). _________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato
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SolitaryTurnip
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 1724 Location: Your mom (burn)
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Another note about un-taking a contract. If you go for someone and they kill you, could you un-take the contract? Because if you have to keep the contract until it's finished then people could just guard your grave or keep killing you while you're without your equipment or something like that. Just more ideas. |
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HR-Trevor Boss Type Guy
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 6683 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Dunno, with the fact you can take multiple contracts it doesn't seem too major of a deal either way. _________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato
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