Bounty gaming is a blight on the system. Maybe there is another way to inhibit it?

What if, say, having your bounty taken were to give you debuff (painful enough to make players think twice before dying but not so debilitating as to be used for abuse)? An effect could for instance to not be able to use /pay for 24 hours, to get an extended cooldown timer on teleports or for chat to post shameful messages about you for all to see. No idea how feasible this would be, but it’s an idea.

PaulOnFire wrote:

Bounty gaming is a blight on the system. Maybe there is another way to inhibit it? What if, say, having your bounty taken were to give you debuff (painful enough to make players think twice before dying but not so debilitating as to be used for abuse)? An effect could for instance to not be able to use /pay for 24 hours, to get an extended cooldown timer on teleports or for chat to post shameful messages about you for all to see. No idea how feasible this would be, but it’s an idea.

I think you’re onto something here, have something more to it. Bounties currents SUCK. maybe we could replace it with a completely different system, I wouldn’t know what though, It would be amazing to have “posters” for wanted criminals, maybe based on their kill streak or something, Not sure how it would technically work, maybe lets have a look at alternative plugins?

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GodsDead wrote:

PaulOnFire wrote:

Bounty gaming is a blight on the system. Maybe there is another way to inhibit it? What if, say, having your bounty taken were to give you debuff (painful enough to make players think twice before dying but not so debilitating as to be used for abuse)? An effect could for instance to not be able to use /pay for 24 hours, to get an extended cooldown timer on teleports or for chat to post shameful messages about you for all to see. No idea how feasible this would be, but it’s an idea.

I think you’re onto something here, have something more to it. Bounties currents SUCK. maybe we could replace it with a completely different system, I wouldn’t know what though, It would be amazing to have “posters” for wanted criminals, maybe based on their kill streak or something, Not sure how it would technically work, maybe lets have a look at alternative plugins? – Removed Off topic reply’s from this thread.

posters? ooh i like that 😀

maybe we could have a wanted poster board at cove! 😀

@Godsdead , instead of place the moneys balance, we should base it on their kill streak kinda like you said. If the kill streak is 30, multiply it by 2 to get 60. This keeps the op from being too op and the poor from being harassed. Who wants to kill someone for $2? No one. Who wants to kill for $500? Everyone.

Here is an interesting alternative bounty plugin, Godsdead:

http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/herobounty/

It functions similar to the one we already have, but what it does is keep bounties anonymous. That means you must pay a small sum to take a contract and you have 24 hours to complete it, but you don’t know who your target will be before you accept it.

+The positive+

-o- The plugin reduces bounty gaming because you can’t scan the bounty list for certain targets you’d like to deal with.
-o- The system adds an element of surprise to gameplay.
-o- Bounty hunters are encouraged to attempt hits on players who aren’t commonly targeted – due to the potential loss of money from accepting the contract.
-o- Players are also encouraged to go after big cash incentives than to deliberately harass small fry.
-o- Bounty kills are announced in main chat, meaning bounty gaming can be picked up on by observant players.

-The negative-

-o- Players in big crews or players with many friends are discouraged from using the system, because chances are they’d have to hunt and kill an ally. (This is a big minus point!)
-o- You might accept a bounty, only to find the player is offline or won’t be online while you’re playing.
-o- A player can still be alerted by an ally who randomly takes the bounty – so bounty gaming won’t be eradicated completely.
-o- Players can still agree to share the profits after informing their target of their intention to turn in the bounty. (Though likely only players who trust each other will do this.)
-o- The monetary penalty can theoretically be abused by killing the target player over and over and setting a new bounty each time.
-o- You get no visual recognition for being a renowned “wanted” player.
-o- The plugin tracks target players’ rough location, presumably also when they are invisible or in pitch blackness.
-o- I don’t know if the target player is alerted to receiving a bounty or not.

The problem with bounties in Minecraft is that death isn’t final. You’d have to find another form of punishment to make players want to avoid having their bounty turned in. It can’t be a monetary penalty and it mustn’t be able to be used as a siege mechanism or a way of handicapping a player in PVP.

So all in all, I’d recommend sticking with the current system for now. The aforementioned plugin is worth looking at, however.