Corruption And Bounty Abusing

Dear AoC,
i just wanted to annotate that the entire open world pvp system can only work if bounties are not abusable.
E.g.: 2 Friends -> 1 kills innocents and gets corrupted -> the other kills him and gets the bounty and so on.
Many players (sadly there is always some scum trying to abuse non intended "buggs") will try to find a way to abuse that bounty system by applying tactics as already shown.
How will you provide security and can you promise to figure such players out and ban them instantly?

Otherwise this could lead to very toxic behavior in the entire community (like: if he abuses it, i will abuse it as well)
and pve-players will be scared off and leave the game at worst.

Sincerely

Julixim

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Balanz

PenguinPaladin wrote: »

The flagging system lock outs that nikr brought up does help alot with the abuse possibilities. If they do use it for preventing such abuse with the curruption system.

Yes, I was unaware of those.

Now to spend even more time beating my head against the Wiki.

I am still interested in finding out how high level a loner a gang of eight lowbies can take down.

Ludullu

Balanz wrote: »

Yes, I was unaware of those.

Now to spend even more time beating my head against the Wiki.

Keep in mind, they are only talking about flagging rules so far. I'll probably ask a question about this for this upcoming stream to learn more.

I just supposed that it would be logical to apply those flagging rules to PKers too, but that is not a sure thing right now.

Nerror

JustVine wrote: »

2. If friends 'grinding their bh rank together to make loot drops from reds be higher' is seen as a popular strategy, what really happens is there are quickly more bounty hunters with max rank. This means that there are now slightly increased threats to reds on the server who think it is now a slightly more economically viable activity to pursue. Which also means that the sort of people who try to level up bh this way are more at risk over time because now you might have bh's that are capable of yoinking their gear. So it technically acts as a self regulating deterrent that will naturally fizzle out even if there is a big burst of dead greens in the beginning.

Good point actually. I like it.

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