This is more like a series of sub-missions, but I figured I'd elaborate on a sort of Bounty Hunters guild. With the addition of the Novakid, this seems like a perfect time, too. With thousands of cities to pillage, and millions of planets to hide, expansion throughout the universe has only served to wear defenses thin against attackers. As crime became more profitable and gangs became larger and larger, many of the richer cities have opted to hire private bounty hunters to track down and eliminate those pestering their cities. Enter the Bounty Hunters guild. It has morphed from it's origins of only hunting wanted criminals into a full blown protection program. Visiting a guild headquarters will give a listing of the current bounties waiting to be fulfilled: from wanted criminals, wanted players, large monsters needing extermination, and more. Basic information like the threat level, location, and bounty will be given. These will be randomized quest lines sending people to random planets. Generally, to make any kind of 'living' off of these quests you will have to be late game and be traveling to very dangerous planets in order to defeat dangerous criminals. Criminal defenses, like traps or vehicles, will serve to make every encounter a worthy opponent. At any given moment, there will be several quests a player can choose from to take. Besides money, the second reward (at least on later criminals) is their current equipment, which will be a randomized weapon that they just used to try and defeat you, or a gear they used to thwart you. I'm planning on leaving the OP a bit small for now, so roughly like this. I would like some feedback before I go full-blown with pictures and examples like people seem to be so fond of in Race addition posts. Would you wanna Bounty Hunt in space?
I like the idea, but how would a 'criminal' be determined? Would this give the inclusion of bad acts for a player to perform? Like robbing a city or PK?
I guess, perhaps if you kill some random citizen or some other thing against the law. Oh wait! I've got an idea... Maybe if you destroy an entire planet or take it over then you would be a full blown criminal and can't join the guild unless you pay for your crimes.
Brilliant! Something FFXII-esque with a sort of ranking system for bounties would be epic too. With name prefixes perhaps? Bounty hunting would be phenomenal.
I Love bounty hunting personally! In every single roleplay game,hardcore or softcore,im trying to be always Bounty hunter,its much like pirate on the good side,and aswell,the game is Gonna have ID's so you can make your own Identity! So logically i have to agree with this ^^
This is an amazing suggestion. I love the idea of bounty hunting, be it Star Wars, Metroid, or FFXII. I love it all. Starbound definitely NEEDS bounty hunting. This suggestion is a must have.
What about every bad action,give you some bounty,like on TES. For example,robbing may give you 20 bounty(per stealed item),Killing players or npcs that are allies could give 50,and etc.
It'd be really cool if one could goto the guild and pay a very large sum as a contract to kill another player. And then you can pay an NPC or another player at a price they choose to be your bounty hunter. You pay your money and it doesn't get paid out until the contract is complete. You could also revoke contracts potentially angering the bounty hunter and sending them after you!
Question: Let us assume players are able to put bounties out on each other. Let's also say I made some enemies, and they put a bounty on me. Would I be able to go and turn myself in/pay off my own bounty? For NPCs, taking them Alive might work, but how would you bring in a player Alive? How would you prove you had killed them?
Well it's kinda gruesome, but it doesn't really have to be. In Ultima Online you could cut up the body of the player/npc you killed. Albeit I wouldn't want that kind of gruesome thing to go on in Starbound, I could see maybe some sort of digital token dropping off of a player, like a digital signature that can be traced back to x person. (trying very hard not to use words involving finger or head)
Personal bounties are more vendettas than business, usually. Maybe there's a fee you can pay to get rid of a personal bounty (twice the reward?) but I don't see someone honestly doing this- after all, once you die you just come back with a little less money. As for proof of a kill, that could probably be hand-waved with whatever technology you're using for your log. Kill a bounty, scan his body with your logging device, get paid.
Bounty hunting would add so much, think of the rewards. You don't have to get currency, maybe you could get items or fuel all kinds of stuff. The more i can do in a game the happier i am.
Hmn, in addition to humanoid targets, how about large bounty monsters like in Metal Max? Once/if they implement the randomly-generated bosses Tiy would like to do, that would be a great use of the system. Metal Max 2 also gave you themed weapons based on the bounty monsters you beat, but that might be a bit hard to do for randomly-generated bosses. On the other hand, hand-designing unique monsters (as in MM) would be a bit much extra work for the dev team.
How about a Karma sub-system? I can't (shouldn't) open a new post over Bounty Hunting with my own ideas but id like to expand the ones that there are. As for being judged as criminal there could be a Karma system (calling it Karma just for example purposes, call it however) where your actions may trigger a certain felony, like for example; Crimes against nature: Pyromaniac - Seting way too many things on fire! Terraform Abuser - You have digged way too many blocks from a planet changing its atmosphere or enviorment Exctintor - You have killed way too many members of the same monster species Crimes against fellow players: PK - You have killed way too many players Petinator - You have killed too many pets (If they are even targeteable in PvP) Thief - You have stolen the belongings of other players Raider - You have raided another player ship Crimes against fellow races: RACE Murderer - You have killed many members of RACE race (Chancge RACE for Apex, Avian, Floran, etc...) Planet Plunder - You have stole materials from a RACE homeplanet! Other Felonies: Be born - The universe would have been just better without you! Free Faller - You have dropped from a very high height and survived, that should be a felony!... somehow Underwater Breathing - How could you live so much time underwater without being a Hylotl!? Among other crimes. These can be scored and the sum of all your crimes determines wether you are a felonn or not. And based on your karma is the bounty on your head. Also, to encourage both, Felons and Bounty Hunters, these should be prices to claim as each. Felon: Gets dire-looking equipment and redish nickname Bounty Hunter: Gets heroic-like equipment and blueish nickname This could be a sidequest where you can decide wether or not take part. How does it sounds? =)
It sounds interesting. If we were to go that route, there might as well be problems associated with having too good a Karma. Do too many good things and criminals 'll pay to make your day a little worse. An interesting dichotomy, but in order for it to remain a side-feature that doesn't make too big of an impact (as it shouldn't) it would have to be very difficult to become either bottom out or hit the top of the Karma bar. Like, a dedicated dickish or helpful effort.
I love your suggestions, these ones in particular. I really hope this gets added. After all, what would a galaxy be without Bounty Hunters? No one wants this...
