Bounty NPCs - A review

Imperialistic_Babble · **Joined:** Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:38 pm **Posts:** 381

Alright, so I am just going to put this out there. I think that weakening the bounty NPCs was a great thing. However, as I have told D and Achernar in the past the cost of the bounty NPCs needs to be scaled down drastically. When I logged off last night there was almost 40 obsidian in the bank. When I log on today I log on to... 1 platinum? Are you kidding me? What's the point of even farming coin and depositing it if it's possible to drain accounts that quick?

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| Old Forces 12, 1120       | -2300.00 | Enforcer Deaths | XXX  |
| Old Forces 12, 1120       |  -795.00 | Enforcer Fees   | XXX   |
| Frost Giant 25, 1120      | -1350.00 | Enforcer Deaths | XXX   |
| Frost Giant 25, 1120      |  -505.00 | Enforcer Fees   | XXX   |
| Frost Giant 23, 1120      |  -380.00 | Enforcer Deaths | XXX      |
| Frost Giant 23, 1120      |  -405.00 | Enforcer Fees   | XXX     |
| Frost Giant 23, 1120      |   -85.00 | Enforcer Fees   | XXX     |
| Frost Giant 20, 1120      |   -75.21 | Diplomacy       | XXX  |
| Frost Giant 20, 1120      |    -9.00 | Diplomacy       | XXX  |
| Frost Giant 20, 1120      |   -12.00 | Diplomacy       | XXX      |
| Frost Giant 20, 1120      |   -75.21 | Diplomacy       | XXX     |
| Frost Giant 20, 1120      |  -640.00 | Enforcer Deaths | XXX     |
| Frost Giant 15, 1120      |   850.00 | Deposit         | XXX    |
| Frost Giant 13, 1120      |  -680.00 | Enforcer Deaths | XXX  |
| Frost Giant 13, 1120      |  -700.00 | Enforcer Deaths | XXX |
| Frost Giant 13, 1120      |   -15.00 | Enforcer Fees   | XXX    |
| Frost Giant 12, 1120      |   -20.00 | Enforcer Fees   | XXX |
| Frost Giant 12, 1120      |   177.50 | Monetary Fine   | XXX     |
| Great Evil 8, 1119        |  1930.00 | Deposit         | XXX      |

Your account has a balance of 1 platinum, 1 gold, 5 silver coins.

| Ancient Darkness 15, 1119 |  4605.00 | Deposit         | XXX      |

Can I get an amen?

Kira · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:59 pm

Amen.

WickedWitch · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:00 pm

Yeah, after seeing how weak bounty NPCs are, I've decided there's no point (Yes, I am in a Tribunal. Haha.) in even putting coin in the bank for them.

Even the barbarian bounty NPCs die in 2~ rounds now from 1 thing hitting it.

Cost needs to be scaled WAY down, or for the love of god, just remove the stupid things, and buff the actual city guards. And have something scripted for if a fight breaks out in the inn, where a guard or two is summoned to the room.

jhorleb · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:22 pm

Yeah, I was good with wimping the bounty guards also, but there's currently some cities that don't have a high enough guard density (particularly that detect invisible), and the guards don't report over tribunal chat. This means you're forced to dump money for bounty NPCs just as an alert system but it ends up costing a fortune.

Bones · **Joined:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:36 pm **Posts:** 340

I've said it before and I'll say it again...I absolutely refuse to farm coin just to have it drained like that when there's not much you can do about it, and it's so easy to do in the first place. Nope. There is plenty of grinding to do in SK without the constant coin farming for trib NPCs.

WickedWitch · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:56 pm

Yeah. Like coin farming for vials. :cry:

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

And don't forget farming trib NPCs, that's also pretty boring.

laeZ1 · **Joined:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:11 am **Posts:** 941

... yeah.

... I hate doing that.

...cause I'm in a tribunal too.

Sepka · **Joined:** Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:27 pm **Posts:** 122

Can I join your club?

On topic, I agree.

Tragonis · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:48 am

We had 90+ Obsidian gone over night.

Wimp bounty NPCs = good.

Cost of bounty NPCs = no good.

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