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Bounty on your targets?

TheNamelessWonder

TheNamelessWonder

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So I hit a bot earlier today. It had some LETs, killed a few of my guys. Neato.

But now I have a 75% bounty on that bot. That bot didn't actually do anything, I attacked it, and its lethals killed some of my flak. If this bot is an actual player, this player could be offline, and yet earn a 75% bounty for me by not taking any action.

This somehow doesnt seem right, perhaps some change is in order. Someone shouldn't get bounty simply for being attacked.
 
Azzer

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Re: Bounty on your targets?

Sure they should! The bounty system is a "Revenge System" - and so you really need to question the meaning of revenge.

When I devised the system, I tried to think about times I played the game, and reasons I would want to get revenge on someone - and things such as defending against me, or pwning me when I attack them, have been reasons I've thought "Right, I'm gunna come back and get you!".

I hope that clarifies the reasoning for the bounties :D
 
TheNamelessWonder

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Re: Bounty on your targets?

But I didn't get pwned or anything. I pwned that guy, he killed maybe a million of my gardeners, and I took like 150 acres or something. I win, and I also get a 75% bounty on him. Sounds to me like it encourages repeat hitting. He stands against me once, even if not online at the time, and then I get major incentive to come back.
 
Azzer

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Re: Bounty on your targets?

Well that's how the system judges it at the moment ;) He did, afterall, kill a million of your gardeners for no real troop losses! :p

The "value" assigned to land in this system (compared to kill damage) may need tweaking, but we'll see how things go further in to the round.
 
Davis

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Re: Bounty on your targets?

i kind of agree, i thought one of the things that a lot of people get pissed off about is repeat attacks and IMO this whole new bounty system is like uber encouraging it just seems to do the opposite of what people want. I mean I was confused for an hour or so when i randomly had a bounty on a guy i hit and i didn't have land loss but it had it that i stole 200 land from him... and i was like wait i stole land from him and he didn't steal from me yet i have a 50% bounty on him, obviously hes easy land so i can go back for more land AND get some bounty :p just doesn't seem right imo
 
DarkSider

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Re: Bounty on your targets?

Have a bit of patience, this will only happen at round start when loosing a bit of acres or troops can get somebody on your list with a huge bounty. Once your list is full you'll need to take serious damage for somebody new to make it on the list. I'm more worried about what happens mid-round when most on you list are too hard to go for(top allies, too strong with counter route).
 
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