Suggestion to Deterring Dying to a Friend to Avoid Corruption Penalties

Just a suggestion to pitch to the Devs to possibly test it out.

Saw on the recent interview between Steven and TheoryForge regarding dealing with corrupted players avoiding penalties by dying to friends.

Another suggestion I have thought of you can toss around or completely ignore.

Instead of a chance of dropping a piece of the gear the corrupted player is using, have a piece of gear they are wearing be destroyed, but drop the highest material(s) that would correspond with the dropped gear.

Pros:
- It deters dying as a corrupted player because it causes the corrupted player a guaranteed gear loss even if they try to cheese the system by dying to a friend.
- The Corrupted player would still have to be able to make the item, have the other materials for it, and have a place to make said item, if they went the route of dying to a friend.
- It gives the player who killed the corrupted player more agency by allowing them to use that material to craft gear they actually want and is useful to them, as opposed to potentially being stuck with an item that is of no use to them.

Cons:
- It doesn't feel as good as getting a piece of completed gear from a corrupted player

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Otr

The green should have a say in what happens after he is killed.
There should be an option to activate the bounty and decide if it should be collected by everyone or by your allies or citizens or guild or by random BH only. Or a delayed activation, for the time when you see the player later.

But Steven's solution with the PK_value will work too once it is implemented.
Unless the games proves to be more fun now and we tell them to let it stay as it is.

Dolyem

Arya_Yeshe wrote: »

The bounty hunter should totally moonlight as a debt collector. If a PK loses gear, it should go straight to the victim by email. It’s like a high-stakes game of chance: roll in with your legendaries, and bam, they’re at risk. You’re basically forced to run around in trash gear if you want to pk, which totally takes away your edge in a fight.

And let’s not forget, you’re still stuck with that debt. When bounty hunters track down the indebted, they’ll snag a kill with a gear damage penalty of 100-200%. That means the indebted’s gear is going to take a serious beating, and guess what? They’ll have to cough up even more gold to repair it. The PKs and victims get to cash in on that right away, even if the PK decides to sell the damaged gear. The new buyer? They’re on the hook for repairs, too. There’s just no dodging that!

This is solid!

Players who don't fight back shouldn't be rewarded/reimbersed for dying. Otherwise you are taking away the risk factor for anyone who chooses to remain a non-combatant.

Dolyem

Otr wrote: »

The green should have a say in what happens after he is killed.
There should be an option to activate the bounty and decide if it should be collected by everyone or by your allies or citizens or guild or by random BH only. Or a delayed activation, for the time when you see the player later.

But Steven's solution with the PK_value will work too once it is implemented.
Unless the games proves to be more fun now and we tell them to let it stay as it is.

I don't hate it. But I'd say it's an open contract by default, but the player can make it a private/closed contract for a price.

As for PK value system, I don't have an issue with it as long as it isn't time-gated in regards to working it off. The time to get rid of it shouldn't be so little that it's nothing, but not so much that you're working it off for days for not many kills.

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