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Bounty Overseer NPC and Bounty Auction House to redeem bounty tokens
Vedia
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I think intrepid should make a simple reverse auction house system for actual player bounties to complement the bounty hunter system. This system doesn't have to be incredibly complex and should be easy to code and implement into the game.
You go to an NPC, insert the amount of gold you want to pay them, and then insert a player name in the text field below, the NPC then takes the gold and generates an auction house or "bounty auction house" listing (they could be seperate auction houses or on the same auction house) seeking that players dog tags or ear. If there is no player with such name you would get an error and no listing would be made.
Implementing it would require the developers to have all players generate and drop a specific item code on death (an item code for dog tags or the players ear) with the players creation tag on it or the item description reads "These tags/This ear belonged to (Player Name)".
The Bounty Overseer Auction NPC would generate a reverse auction house listing, whereby a player would have to have the appropriate dog tags or ear in their inventory to be able to "purchase" the listing.
Players could organise all auction house dog tag/ear listings by price, or search the names of the killed players of which their dog tags are in the players possession, in order to see if there's an active listing for the dog tags or ear you can redeem. (Simply make the auction house search through item descriptions instead of just the item names, so that the search can identify the player name tags which would be generated in the item description for each dog tag/ear)
Once a bounty is redeemed, the item is removed from your inventory and the amount of gold that was on the listing for that item gets sent to your in game mailbox from the Bounty Overseer/Bounty Auction House.
Think of it like the auction house system in Wow, except instead of buying items for gold you're buying gold for items, or rather "redeeming" the dog tag/ears for gold, and the listings would appear exactly the same (the principle of the auction house is the same but it's reversed to how it's conventionally implemented)
You go to an NPC, insert the amount of gold you want to pay them, and then insert a player name in the text field below, the NPC then takes the gold and generates an auction house or "bounty auction house" listing (they could be seperate auction houses or on the same auction house) seeking that players dog tags or ear. If there is no player with such name you would get an error and no listing would be made.
Implementing it would require the developers to have all players generate and drop a specific item code on death (an item code for dog tags or the players ear) with the players creation tag on it or the item description reads "These tags/This ear belonged to (Player Name)".
The Bounty Overseer Auction NPC would generate a reverse auction house listing, whereby a player would have to have the appropriate dog tags or ear in their inventory to be able to "purchase" the listing.
Players could organise all auction house dog tag/ear listings by price, or search the names of the killed players of which their dog tags are in the players possession, in order to see if there's an active listing for the dog tags or ear you can redeem. (Simply make the auction house search through item descriptions instead of just the item names, so that the search can identify the player name tags which would be generated in the item description for each dog tag/ear)
Once a bounty is redeemed, the item is removed from your inventory and the amount of gold that was on the listing for that item gets sent to your in game mailbox from the Bounty Overseer/Bounty Auction House.
Think of it like the auction house system in Wow, except instead of buying items for gold you're buying gold for items, or rather "redeeming" the dog tag/ears for gold, and the listings would appear exactly the same (the principle of the auction house is the same but it's reversed to how it's conventionally implemented)
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