Assassin for Hire? Possible?

I thought it would be interesting as an assassin class if people could hire you to assassinate other players in the world. You think this would be a useful tool? Like maybe one node hires you to Assassinate the other nodes mayor or king or queen if even possible? Like maybe if the king, queen or mayor was assassinated they lost their title (sounds harsh but realistic, without killing off the player completely) and got a debuff towards their village as a mayor, or metropolis as a king or queen.

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deakbo

If so, imma be the worlds first assassin for hire (;

y4mi

Splendid Idea I'll be sure to Hire :S

deakbo

You will be my first customer in alpha (;

yamihyper wrote: »

Splendid Idea I'll be sure to Hire :S

Warth

I'd like Assassin's bounties on people's heads. This should however not be done through:

the Cities Tax Funds, as that would lend itself to Abuse. There should be no way to get the Funds of the City into any persons pocket.
Don't limit it to a certain character class. If someone wants to collect an Assasin's bounty, then everybody should be able to do it. Make it a social organisation instead.

Personally, I'm a fan of all player generated content. There should be a way for people to put up an Order. Whether its collecting certain material for them, kill a player, kill a monster, bring a shipment of goods from the next Node etc.

Skuld

Why should it NOT be possible?

You can appearently trade everything so trading for service is no problem.
And as far as I know Steven mentioned somewhere that Assassination will be a thing as cities are no safe-zones so it should be possible to go and assassinate a player even in town.

Leroher

This is one of the things I want really badly, I see myself (my mc) being in a Mercenary/Assassin guild and being hired to kill people or be a decisive variant in a siege.

Damokles

Shure, i would imagine it possible. I know that my guild is planning a blacklist, with people getting points for killing those on it.

deakbo

No one really commented on the killing a king or queen what will be rewarding about assassinating a person of power? If at all possibld

Dygz

Queens and Kings will not be losing their titles just from being assassinated by an Assassin.
Especially not in cities where that's decided by vote.

I'm sure there will be some hiring of Assassins, though, yes.

Kneczhevo

Sure, I see a quest line to kill a king mob, as an assassin quest. That's easy.

As to a profession, where NPCs hire you to do assassination tasks, full time? To narrow, to niche. Your asking to be catered for your own progression, while excluding others from this material. Unless a non assassin can do them too. Then, what's the point?

Now, if you want to be hired , by payers, to assassinate other players, and become corrupted. That's in-game.

Edit. Assassins don't need badges and achievements. They are invisible.

Lfmr

I don't think that there should be in game mechanics to like, pay for assassinations specifically, but there should be the capacity to pay assassins through the standard trade UI, and I imagine assassins will be present in AoC, especially since there is a real consequence to not only dying, but also killing other players (Corruption)

If it were me, I would much rather pay someone else to do that dirty work for me, and reap none of the consequences.

Leroher

Kneczhevo wrote: »

Sure, I see a quest line to kill a king mob, as an assassin quest. That's easy.

As to a profession, where NPCs hire you to do assassination tasks, full time? To narrow, to niche. Your asking to be catered for your own progression, while excluding others from this material. Unless a non assassin can do them too. Then, what's the point?

Now, if you want to be hired , by payers, to assassinate other players, and become corrupted. That's in-game.

Edit. Assassins don't need badges and achievements. They are invisible.

In my case, I want it to be between players, but I wouldn't mind some npc mechanic in it, as long it's for everyone (every class) who would want that type of "job", like the bounty hunter system.

deakbo

Kneczhevo wrote: »

Sure, I see a quest line to kill a king mob, as an assassin quest. That's easy.

As to a profession, where NPCs hire you to do assassination tasks, full time? To narrow, to niche. Your asking to be catered for your own progression, while excluding others from this material. Unless a non assassin can do them too. Then, what's the point?

Now, if you want to be hired , by payers, to assassinate other players, and become corrupted. That's in-game.

Edit. Assassins don't need badges and achievements. They are invisible.

I was talking about other players wanting to hire you, never did I say NPCs would hire you. What do you think a debuff would be for someone hiring you to assassinate a king and you’re successful. How would that impact a kingdom do you think? I think it would be interesting to build your name across the world and have people hire you’ve from the four corners of the world. I just don’t know how they could make killing people of power beneficial. Maybe they just have to stick to non persons of power. Having people hire you to kill enemies of their guild etc.

deakbo

Dygz wrote: »

Queens and Kings will not be losing their titles just from being assassinated by an Assassin.
Especially not in cities where that's decided by vote.

I'm sure there will be some hiring of Assassins, though, yes.

What would be beneficial about killing a person of power then? How could they make that appealing to someone who wants a person of power dead? Will the town or city etc be given a debuff for a short time? Maybe when it comes to the time to siege they are “easier” to siege by giving it some sort of debuff

deakbo

Lfmr wrote: »

I don't think that there should be in game mechanics to like, pay for assassinations specifically, but there should be the capacity to pay assassins through the standard trade UI, and I imagine assassins will be present in AoC, especially since there is a real consequence to not only dying, but also killing other players (Corruption)

If it were me, I would much rather pay someone else to do that dirty work for me, and reap none of the consequences.

That’s exactly what im saying, I want other players to pay me with gold or items to assassinate either people of power or enemies of said player

halbarz

I hire you to kill all people above me in this thread

How many cookies would you want for this?

On a serious note: would be a cool idea, I guess it is possible because of the open-world PVP aspect. I would say start such a guild and make some money

Leroher

halbarz wrote: »

On a serious note: would be a cool idea, I guess it is possible because of the open-world PVP aspect. I would say start such a guild and make some money

Yes, we gotta start by making this type of guild and becoming famous in this aspect because of our well done job.

Dygz

kuddah wrote: »

What would be beneficial about killing a person of power then? How could they make that appealing to someone who wants a person of power dead? Will the town or city etc be given a debuff for a short time? Maybe when it comes to the time to siege they are “easier” to siege by giving it some sort of debuff

Could be all manner of RP reasons.
Ashes PvP is more focused on inanimate PvP objectives rather than persons.
Assassinating a Queen or King will not provide much of an advantage or benefit.

deakbo

Leroher wrote: »

halbarz wrote: »

On a serious note: would be a cool idea, I guess it is possible because of the open-world PVP aspect. I would say start such a guild and make some money

Yes, we gotta start by making this type of guild and becoming famous in this aspect because of our well done job.

Already in the works (;

deakbo

Dygz wrote: »

kuddah wrote: »

What would be beneficial about killing a person of power then? How could they make that appealing to someone who wants a person of power dead? Will the town or city etc be given a debuff for a short time? Maybe when it comes to the time to siege they are “easier” to siege by giving it some sort of debuff

Could be all manner of RP reasons.
Ashes PvP is more focused on inanimate PvP objectives rather than persons.
Assassinating a Queen or King will not provide much of an advantage or benefit.

Kinda unfortunate id want them to lose their title as bad as it sounds but it’s better then completely killing off the player completely which would be most realistic. I think killing a person of power should cause drastic problems for the Provence

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