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Yup, we read that. Once the mechanics are in game and players have had a chance to play it, the community can have a better idea of if and what rewards it needs and we address that then. But, the idea of giving extra rewards for PKing is something that this community has struggled with and risking the whole BH idea over that seems the wrong move to me.
What's the point of adding this in then if there isn't a bonus to attract people in?

That depends on the bonus you are looking for. Having lots of people pking in the same place and being easily able to find a target of your level may well be bonus enough. If you get plenty of kills, you are going to make money in BH.
This'll be dead on arrival. No reward at all and people are going to tp into clans and die. Who would want to risk their gear + 10k to just go to the wilderness and die 100%? And I'm saying this as one of the people that'll profit the most out of this idea. No one but big clans will make money out of this since we'll be able to stack the wilderness with our members and increase the odds people teleport into us. When people understand this is happening they'll stop coming. Please speak to PvPers for PvP updates.

16-Jul-2014 18:04:55

2Dew

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I thought the crucible was pretty cool; however, I think the main downfall of that is players could just easily climb back into the crater back into the spawn. Adding some aspects of the crucible would make bounty hunter far more enjoyable. I think the community did decide as a whole craters were wanted back, but it's not in the new dev blog...? So, adding in ideas with the crucible and the crater, we could have the set-up be the craters, and there's no leaving unless you kill your target, and the most kills by the end of x minutes gets the god bow,sword,wand (or whatever it was called). I think it would be a cool feature to add once the poll ends, and we decide as a community what else we want.

16-Jul-2014 18:05:28

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We are definately going to need a couple of things done for this to be a success.

1. Poll the removal of PvP worlds vs. the implementation of BH worlds, as it is, the community is not big enough for the both of them already, we need to pick which one is better for the overall health of the game. Sure, having options such as PvP worlds and the wilderness are great, but when there is a divided community doing all 3 with barely anyone to fight in each respectively, then we have a serious problem.

2. I would agree with the suggestion to wait until BH has passed a poll to make a rewards system, but i would also ask that you would make it apparent to the community as a whole to what you are planning on doing with it in the future.

It's a no brainer at this point that we are going to need extra rewards to keep BH fun and active, otherwise, what is the point of using them? But just make sure to keep the community abreast of the situation and EVERYTHING you plan on doing with it.

3. Definately going to have to say that paying 10k for a target is not something people will look fondly upon, especially if there are no rewards. Let's face it, not everyone reads the dev blogs, and when people see that they will need to pay 10k for a target without the knowledge that in the future a poll could pass where they recieve extra loot from that target, then they will most likely just vote no (since they lack the knowledge to vote properly). Please make sure this is addressed in the right way!

What we have tried to do is to add another feature to the Wilderness rather than add BH worlds. The Wilderness will behave in exactly the same way in BH worlds than in every other world if you are not out hunting a bounty so hopefully players will naturally gravitate to there to make PvP better for everyone.

We'll look at removing that 10k charge for bounties, that's not a problem.

16-Jul-2014 18:05:56

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Yup, we read that. Once the mechanics are in game and players have had a chance to play it, the community can have a better idea of if and what rewards it needs and we address that then. But, the idea of giving extra rewards for PKing is something that this community has struggled with and risking the whole BH idea over that seems the wrong move to me.
What's the point of adding this in then if there isn't a bonus to attract people in?

That depends on the bonus you are looking for. Having lots of people pking in the same place and being easily able to find a target of your level may well be bonus enough. If you get plenty of kills, you are going to make money in BH.
This'll be dead on arrival. No reward at all and people are going to tp into clans and die. Who would want to risk their gear + 10k to just go to the wilderness and die 100%? And I'm saying this as one of the people that'll profit the most out of this idea. No one but big clans will make money out of this since we'll be able to stack the wilderness with our members and increase the odds people teleport into us. When people understand this is happening they'll stop coming. Please speak to PvPers for PvP updates.

If there are clans about there waiting to kill people... isn't that what we are all after?

16-Jul-2014 18:06:48

Im Nate

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Yup, we read that. Once the mechanics are in game and players have had a chance to play it, the community can have a better idea of if and what rewards it needs and we address that then . But, the idea of giving extra rewards for PKing is something that this community has struggled with and risking the whole BH idea over that seems the wrong move to me.

That's the same thing you said for pvp worlds, you would add them with no bonus loot but would look at adding stuff in the future. Here we are a year later and that hasn't been addressed so its hard to think this will be any different. Maxed Sept 24th, 2015 - 134th to max

16-Jul-2014 18:09:10 - Last edited on 16-Jul-2014 18:10:18 by Im Nate

Bounty07

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I know this is irreverent but I honestly think the current prices of supplies E.G. Brews & Restores are way too expensive and people can't afford to pk. I suggest you do something about that and fast.

No one even bothers Single clanning anymore...

16-Jul-2014 18:09:56 - Last edited on 16-Jul-2014 18:10:46 by Bounty07

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Bonus rewards are a necessity and must be polled in a different question on the same poll as the general bounty hunter content. It'll just be dead content on release otherwise, people will just continue to PK as they do now.

I'd be worried that would encourage people to vote no on BH as a whole. We've seen that in similar polls that we have done where players have voted no on an entire concept because one option isn't what they want.

16-Jul-2014 18:10:47

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