Knightsong
10-07-2007, 06:03 AM
How many times has this happened to you? You join a group, and everyone in the group is pretty much on the same page,...except one guy. And this guy is attacking everything, more importantly he's attacking other teams mobs. They care nothing for what anyone else says in the party, they have their own agenda. They got a quest they need to complete. These players need to have some justice thrown down upon them!
My proposal would be a bounty hunting system, something expensive enough to not be abused, but available enough to work. Here's how it would go. In each town or zone we have a sherrif or guard or some other authority figure. You can go up to this guys and pay him a silver and report someone's name as having performed a criminal act. Once that person recieves 5 complaints, they have a bounty on their head and their name goes up on a list that you can scroll through. Now if they continue to get complaints...the bounty keeps going up a silver at a time. Now when a bounty has been put on your head, an annoucement goes out throughout the realm that said character has a bounty and at that moment they can be attacked. They can't attack back because remember, this is justice. They can run or try to elude you, but when they are finally killed, a scroll will drop. You take this scroll to the guard or sherrif and collect whatever reward has been put on their head. Now to further the justice we should do this, each time that person logs on, there should be an announcement to let everyone know they're on. Their name should also have a little set of scales beside them so everyone knows this character needs some justice. Furthermore they should not be allowed to delete a character that has a bounty on their head, and they should not be able to create a new character until their bounty has been collected. Now once a bounty has been collected on a character, it frees them and they can go about their Fiesta lives as normal. Well, mostly normal. For 30 days after your justice has been served a frowny face icon should be listed next to their names to let everyone know that they recently were in need of justice and to beware that this players can be disruptive.
Is this alot to consider? Certainly, but it may be the only way to change their behavior. And disruptive players need to be pruned from the game. We all have done something at some point to offend another player. I've accidentally attacked another players mob, or looted something I thought they were leaving to rot. I've even "saved" people I thought were "running" from a mob only to have them completely chew me out for the kindness of my act. The point is, I don't do things intentionally to bother people. The people who do need to go. What do you think of this Justice system? I think it covers the basis enough to be functional for all.
My proposal would be a bounty hunting system, something expensive enough to not be abused, but available enough to work. Here's how it would go. In each town or zone we have a sherrif or guard or some other authority figure. You can go up to this guys and pay him a silver and report someone's name as having performed a criminal act. Once that person recieves 5 complaints, they have a bounty on their head and their name goes up on a list that you can scroll through. Now if they continue to get complaints...the bounty keeps going up a silver at a time. Now when a bounty has been put on your head, an annoucement goes out throughout the realm that said character has a bounty and at that moment they can be attacked. They can't attack back because remember, this is justice. They can run or try to elude you, but when they are finally killed, a scroll will drop. You take this scroll to the guard or sherrif and collect whatever reward has been put on their head. Now to further the justice we should do this, each time that person logs on, there should be an announcement to let everyone know they're on. Their name should also have a little set of scales beside them so everyone knows this character needs some justice. Furthermore they should not be allowed to delete a character that has a bounty on their head, and they should not be able to create a new character until their bounty has been collected. Now once a bounty has been collected on a character, it frees them and they can go about their Fiesta lives as normal. Well, mostly normal. For 30 days after your justice has been served a frowny face icon should be listed next to their names to let everyone know that they recently were in need of justice and to beware that this players can be disruptive.
Is this alot to consider? Certainly, but it may be the only way to change their behavior. And disruptive players need to be pruned from the game. We all have done something at some point to offend another player. I've accidentally attacked another players mob, or looted something I thought they were leaving to rot. I've even "saved" people I thought were "running" from a mob only to have them completely chew me out for the kindness of my act. The point is, I don't do things intentionally to bother people. The people who do need to go. What do you think of this Justice system? I think it covers the basis enough to be functional for all.