Changes to the bounty system?

I'd be fine with a 10k bounty cap as long as /bail was removed. Players should only be able to pay off their bounty when they are alive. /bail has always been super annoying. Back when I was a bandit, when I would kill people on OP team, they would just be bailed and come right back to attack me again. It's basically the annoying player version of sheriffs coming back non-stop. Some people need to be put out of action for a little while for others to reap the reward of killing them. With this new cap, bounty should be harder to get and the reward from heads should be significantly buffed. Additionally, something should happen when a player hits max bounty. Maybe they would get certain buffs such as increased processing speed or faster reload. They would also be arrest on sight for sheriffs however.

 

I would say 10k, as its easier to get out of jail now. Also, my bounty was 76k when I got caught, and I mined out. Otherwise, I totally agree.

 

The jail should also be made far more interesting. If people are going to spend any long amount of time there, there should be miscellaneous tasks other than rock smashing. There should be opportunities for prison breaks, riots, pvp, etc.

 

Bounty Cap: No.
Bounty Decrease Offline: Yes.
Partial Bail Payment: Yes.

 

Maybe just arrest on sight.

 

KOS on sight, please no.
That would be a disaster.
Arrest on sight is pretty good I think.

 

All of this "The game is too hard!" nonsense in every area of Wild West is getting quite annoying. People complaining all the time about everything being too hard are going to ruin the game by making it even easier than it is. Your emotional arguments are silly. Get better, don't ask for an easier game.

With that being said:

Mining off bounty doesn't take that much time. It especially doesn't take that much time if you have a rank above member. Mining is meant to be somewhat tedious, for you did illegal activities to gain you this bounty. A bounty cap is stupid, for it does not parallel the amount of illegal activities you can do. If you can commit an infinite number of crimes (let's say, farm 2000 tons of cocaine), the amount of bounty needs to be unlimited to match that.

If there were a bounty cap, I'd get to the cap and then not be hesitant to attack people because all it would mean is going rogue for a couple of minutes. No bounty would be gained.

The ability to reduce your bounty with money in your wallet is a good idea. You should also be able to pay to reduce your bounty in towns (without being arrested). It shouldn't be cheap, however.

Having your bounty go down while offline gets rid of much of the "punishment" of having to mine off your bounty in prison. It would also place unnecessary strain on the server (I'm guessing) because it would need to keep tabs on literally every player's bounty, both online and off.

Edit:

What is the point of going to prison if you can just break out? lol.

Having PvP in prison is unnecessary. The vast majority of the actual Wild West map is PvP-enabled. Prison PvP also would be pointless, for you wouldn't gain anything. Pointless PvP can be found in the Brawl lobby.

 

Doges, reading the beginning I was like "man, you need to play Wild West more often and not as sheriff". When I began playing after the reset, I made like 81k bounty robbing the conductors, iMacro arrested me as the hero we never want and I spent hours mining... and I had no bounty drop boost! It is such a part of gameplay.

Only robbing conductors gives that much bounty. Guns are bugged and we get bounty only if we shoot for the first time but not for the next shots or the kill. People using sabers don't have as much luck. You need to fix the guns. We don't complain that we have too much bounty, we complain that others have too little.

 

If there was going to be a bounty cap, and if your bounty is at the capped level then your arrest on sight, it would need to be arrest on sight if your within 100 of the capped bounty - since bounty decreases 1 every 5 seconds you would go off the capped limit 5 seconds after reaching it.

I like the idea of bounty decreasing while offline, not too much of a fan of prison breaks though.

 

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• Make bounty count down while offline (possibly only in jail?). At least players can do something else instead of being forced to run the game so that it goes down. There really isn't anything special or fun about having to be forced to leave the game on overnight.

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Leaving the computer on just to play Wild West is a waste of electricity and money, so I agree with this idea.

 

I don't want a limit on the bounty. I want more ore in prison and the ore to count for more than 5 for a piece of coal.