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

halbarz wrote: »

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

Assassins guild here we come (;

Campfire_Goth

At the very least the corruption system will open itself up to bounty hunters and mercenary type players to go after people attacking noncombatants.

In essence if a particularly deadly, corrupted, player seems too much of a challenge I could see a select, few, number of players with the skills to take out the corrupted parties for the right amount of money on behalf of the kingdom/node population.

deakbo

Ljosalfar wrote: »

At the very least the corruption system will open itself up to bounty hunters and mercenary type players to go after people attacking noncombatants.

In essence if a particularly deadly, corrupted, player seems too much of a challenge I could see a select, few, number of players with the skills to take out the corrupted parties for the right amount of money on behalf of the kingdom/node population.

Or maybe if guilds start to develop a rivalry and they think someone is getting too powerful in another guild they can send an assassin after said player to take his gear if his gear is takeable depending on his corruption level

deakbo

Thanks for all your comments anyone else have any input?

Twang

What if they made an order where you can be hired to join guild wars as a mercenary, and could be organized into a group or solo basis.
Or Node wars, for player pooling means other than guilds and nodes.

Payed most for unique player kills and less for repeat. Limited deaths maybe. Pay limit.

Just don’t see incentive moneywise to see someone get killed once.
Assassins Could work for an anti bounty hunter mechanic.

Atama

Killing someone once isn’t that impactful so I don’t see how much interest this system would have.

The bounty system will pretty much be an assassination program though. Players with enough corruption will get bounties placed on them, and bounty hunters can go after those players to eliminate them for rewards. That sounds like an assassination job to me. So if you want to play an assassin, just become a bounty hunter.

GodIsHereForU

Glad there are people who want to start a mercenary guild all we need is a mayor who wants to run stuf on the military node and we are set to kill everything that moves! for a price.

Jubilum

if there is a significant penalty to being assassinated as a King, then said king should have a bad ass group of NPC Secret Service surrounding him at all times capable, of subduing a would be assassin with one shot. If you are going to assassinate an elected leader you need a plan and there needs to be real risk.

winner909098

kuddah wrote: »

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

I agree, while they shouldn't lose their title, it could cause npcs to do worse or go away in mourning.

deakbo

Atama wrote: »

Killing someone once isn’t that impactful so I don’t see how much interest this system would have.

The bounty system will pretty much be an assassination program though. Players with enough corruption will get bounties placed on them, and bounty hunters can go after those players to eliminate them for rewards. That sounds like an assassination job to me. So if you want to play an assassin, just become a bounty hunter.

It could be impactful if they are corrupted and lose their gear. Maybe someone has beef ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Atama

kuddah wrote: »

Atama wrote: »

Killing someone once isn’t that impactful so I don’t see how much interest this system would have.

The bounty system will pretty much be an assassination program though. Players with enough corruption will get bounties placed on them, and bounty hunters can go after those players to eliminate them for rewards. That sounds like an assassination job to me. So if you want to play an assassin, just become a bounty hunter.

It could be impactful if they are corrupted and lose their gear. Maybe someone has beef ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If someone has enough corruption that they will lose gear then they will probably already have bounties on them and this is redundant.

deakbo

jubilum wrote: »

if there is a significant penalty to being assassinated as a King, then said king should have a bad ass group of NPC Secret Service surrounding him at all times capable, of subduing a would be assassin with one shot. If you are going to assassinate an elected leader you need a plan and there needs to be real risk.

Which is what I’m hoping for I think this would be an insane concept which could add some more depth to the game, being a person of power could be risky but rewarding. In real life it’s something people of power have to think of. Stripping their title is really the one thing I can think of other then killing off the character completely but ofc that’s too harsh AHA

mcstackerson

I could see assassinating a leader limiting/locking out the abilities/buffs they get as leaders for a period of time. Similar to how there are ways of taking out node services for periods of time. I feel like that fits the "lore" of what assassins are for, they kill the leader to limit the enemy's ability to coordinate.

Might be good if there was some kind of gold sink associated with it, similar to the siege system, where the assassin or the person hiring them had to pay for the chance to get these added benefits to killing a leader. If the assassin dies, they lost their chance and they have to pay again if they want another attempt.

deakbo

mcstackerson wrote: »

I could see assassinating a leader limiting/locking out the abilities/buffs they get as leaders for a period of time. Similar to how there are ways of taking out node services for periods of time. I feel like that fits the "lore" of what assassins are for, they kill the leader to limit the enemy's ability to coordinate.

Might be good if there was some kind of gold sink associated with it, similar to the siege system, where the assassin or the person hiring them had to pay for the chance to get these added benefits to killing a leader. If the assassin dies, they lost their chance and they have to pay again if they want another attempt.

I like the idea in your first paragraph but I don’t know if an assassin should necessarily have to pay to try to kill a person of power I think it should be more expensive for the person who wants the person of interest killed. Maybe you have to pay a set amount of gold to even send the assassin after a king and queen

Warth

kuddah wrote: »

Atama wrote: »

Killing someone once isn’t that impactful so I don’t see how much interest this system would have.

The bounty system will pretty much be an assassination program though. Players with enough corruption will get bounties placed on them, and bounty hunters can go after those players to eliminate them for rewards. That sounds like an assassination job to me. So if you want to play an assassin, just become a bounty hunter.

It could be impactful if they are corrupted and lose their gear. Maybe someone has beef ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

everybody will attack reds anyway. They are loot piniatas and can't fight back without attaining even more corruption.

Kneczhevo

@wrath

Please don't use the term "loot pinatas" for toon/players. It will confuse the community with caravans. Just saying... 😁

deakbo

Warth wrote: »

kuddah wrote: »

Atama wrote: »

Killing someone once isn’t that impactful so I don’t see how much interest this system would have.

The bounty system will pretty much be an assassination program though. Players with enough corruption will get bounties placed on them, and bounty hunters can go after those players to eliminate them for rewards. That sounds like an assassination job to me. So if you want to play an assassin, just become a bounty hunter.

It could be impactful if they are corrupted and lose their gear. Maybe someone has beef ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

everybody will attack reds anyway. They are loot piniatas and can't fight back without attaining even more corruption.

That’s actually facts tho I didn’t even think about that. If you’re corrupted you’re kinda fucked.

deakbo

Kneczhevo wrote: »

@wrath

Please don't use the term "loot pinatas" for toon/players. It will confuse the community with caravans. Just saying... 😁

I feel like people know what it means

Great Brae

I can see this going well in military nodes along with bounty hunters. We should also have spies to infiltrate other nodes to gather info for conquest, assasins would do well say take out political leaders.

deakbo

Great Brae wrote: »

I can see this going well in military nodes along with bounty hunters. We should also have spies to infiltrate other nodes to gather info for conquest, assasins would do well say take out political leaders.

True, spies would be an interesting concept I wonder how they would benefit more specifically

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