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Bounty Hunter reward farming abuse.
Xnate13X
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I'm not 100% about this system. From what I understand there are rewards for hunters and corrupted players lose corruption as they die but not gold.
There are 3 players in my abuse here, all friends.
P1, P2, P3.
P1 is bait.
P2 is PKer.
P3 is BHer.
P1 sits outside closesy spawn area to available PvP spot without NPC/player interaction to the tavern you want to claim rewards at. P2 wears nothing but a cheap weapon and kills that player over and over until ineffective at killing players anymore. P3 now kills P2 over and over to gain BH rewards. Then the 3 rotate roles until everyone has earned the rewards and players remove themselves from corruption due to deaths. Either that or P3(BHer) pays for kill farming to unlock rewards from someone with a corrupted player farm created by above method. If the rewards are really good, charging IRL currency can easily be made this way.
Maybe there are repeatable rewards that are good/worth farming and this is farmed solely by a singular person with 3 accounts? I doubt they'll be THAT good, but it's a concern if so.
Is this possible? From everything I understand from reading up on this system, it seems entirely possible.
Change my mind, I encourage it because I've been thinking about ways this will be abused lately, haha.
There are 3 players in my abuse here, all friends.
P1, P2, P3.
P1 is bait.
P2 is PKer.
P3 is BHer.
P1 sits outside closesy spawn area to available PvP spot without NPC/player interaction to the tavern you want to claim rewards at. P2 wears nothing but a cheap weapon and kills that player over and over until ineffective at killing players anymore. P3 now kills P2 over and over to gain BH rewards. Then the 3 rotate roles until everyone has earned the rewards and players remove themselves from corruption due to deaths. Either that or P3(BHer) pays for kill farming to unlock rewards from someone with a corrupted player farm created by above method. If the rewards are really good, charging IRL currency can easily be made this way.
Maybe there are repeatable rewards that are good/worth farming and this is farmed solely by a singular person with 3 accounts? I doubt they'll be THAT good, but it's a concern if so.
Is this possible? From everything I understand from reading up on this system, it seems entirely possible.
Change my mind, I encourage it because I've been thinking about ways this will be abused lately, haha.
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Green: full penalties
Purple: half the penalties
Red: four times the penalties of green, being 8x more penalties than purple
There's this also:
That's what happens when you make unnatural PvP systems just to appease the carebears, strange interactions like that will happen for sure.
System is bad, isn't it?
There's also the debuffs that will be applied on the PK against greens and purples too, the debuffs on the PK should be against greens only
corrupted spawns in vicinity anyway, people won't be able to spawn camp the corrupted, that's the idea
Why? P2 loses so many levels that the character pretty much has to be discarded or the player has to spend a vast amount of time to relevel them. We don't know how much and it depends on their level, but it might be four day's play or two week's play. You have also lost all the time you invested in P1 (and maybe P2 if you discard them).
You have progressed the BH along their career path, but you have also sacrificed all the fun inherent in the BH career path --> the thrill of hunting reds and killing them (and getting their potentially significantly valuable loot).
It appears similar to buying 19 crappy sub sandwiches in order to get a free crappy sub sandwich. Sure, you got a free sandwich, but it ended up costing far more than it was worth, right?
But, theorycrafting about the possibility is fun.
There is no delevel, I think I remember the sandal god explicitly saying this.
Right, I didn't think there was de-leveling. Only current level exp loss/penalties no one cares about if they go away when you lose your corruption or they can sit on the P1/P2 IRL black market accounts/alts
they won't care. Therefore, not losing anything by abusing this method.
& Even if they spawn somewhere nearby, P3, the BHer, will know exactly where, already be close and beat anyone else to them.
Yes, but people do this because it's faster, to get ranks, rewards, etc...
You can work 5 years and blow all your money on super old/rare trading card packs and hope you get what you want. Or you can buy the exact card that you want at a premium and get it instantly.
You'd be surprised how many people RWT. Especially if they're not good or have the time for PvP but want the rewards/unlocks.
There will be no gangs of reds killing each other for cleansing corruption points.
Let red kill red and hunt each other, this is a world of hurt, let them sort out their stuff.
If you use the same characters for these scheme, pretty quickly you'll get to a point where it'll take you more time to clear the corruption than it would've taken you to just find a real PKer. You could maybe do this with lvl1 chars, but we don't know if there'll be any BH limitations in that kind of situation. I'd imagine Intrepid would at least put level-depending rewards, so that lvl50 BHs can't just endlessly profit by killing lvl10 PKers.
He could even be a realyl serious bounty hunter, becomming like an undercover agent, infiltrating the PK community just to backstab them later
You'd hope. With the evidence I see atm, it's possible. This is why I figured I'd throw my idea out there so that way they make sure to think "abuse" through very thoroughly before releasing a system like that.