Bandit Bounty Hunters (A KoS reduction initiative without affecting anyones playstyle)

[nexventor 429]

I am going to try and make this as brief as possible but still cover everything.

 

PLEASE NOTE: I am an AVID KoS enthusiast

 

Ok so before phones/tv's/cars/ etc reputation would spread quickly. Take the wild west for example, we know the stories of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Erp and the like and that is because of word of mouth, eye witnesses and evidence which we can't replicate in this game... or can we?

 

My proposal is this...

 

1) We incorporate non intrusive player identification like this

 

 

From this thread

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/202570-squad-xml-for-dayz/page-2#entry2165459

 

2) We have a notice board in say 3 towns (this could be increased or decreased) where you can see who was killed but instead of saying who killed them, it just shows the emblem. Or it could slowly build over time eg. The first kill your clan makes the notice board only show a portion of the emblem and it gets clearer, with the more kills - the more reputation. 

3) You can opt-out eg Don't upload an emblem. It will just say Player Nex killed by unknown entity at Stary or something to that effect. - THIS POINT IS DEBATABLE - it could be changed so that instead of saying "unknown entity" it could say killed by player with orange mount backpack, asian appearance or using a SKS etc etc. The more you kill the more details revealed. But obviously by simply changing clothing and weapons you can stay ahead of the game. 

4) Message board areas would be stalked creating some interesting situations.

5) Clans would seek revenge on other clans for killing their mates

6) Bounties could be set (totally ingame though no IRL currencies eg I have a 60 round M4 mag for anyone killing any member of "KoS clan")

7) The hunters could become the hunted.

 

My team would absolutely love to be revenged for our dastardly deeds. Sometimes it is nice to be wanted lol. I am not positive it would reduce KoS but it would allow revenge, it would allow some awesome encounters.

 

Thoughts?

Edited January 21, 2015 by NexVentor

[Pandema 352]

Question.

 

Who is maintaining a message bored with up to date kill info in the middle of zombie infested towns?

Who the hell is spreading the "emblems" of people who kill lone survivors, or kill survivors from a great distance?

Bounty hunting on a public hive (which the game is built around) is completely fucking useless since theres umpteen dozen servers that the person you're looking for may be on.

[nexventor 429]

Thanks for your questions

 

Who is maintaining a message bored with up to date kill info in the middle of zombie infested towns?

 

The message bored is maintained by the game, it doesn't require someone to go up to and input the data, it works just like a kill feed etc but instead of displaying the info on your UI, it updates the notice board. You haven't played the mod I take it? The had something similar in the MOD but it would only last ten minutes and just had "Player x killed by player Y"

 

Who the hell is spreading the "emblems" of people who kill lone survivors, or kill survivors from a great distance?

 

Not a 100% sure what you are asking here. 

 

Bounty hunting on a public hive (which the game is built around) is completely fucking useless since theres umpteen dozen servers that the person you're looking for may be on.

 

The game is "built around" public but I doubt very much it will stay that way, private shards are the future and becoming more and more popular. TBH I can't even remember the last time I played public. Regardless though, if it is useless (which I don't agree with) then it still has no negative effective. However it might be the difference between a friendly or hero player seeing somebody with an emblem that they recognise has many kills, normally they would let him go cause you know they are friendly but now they know he is a murder and engage. 

[Sleeves 98]

If you want an identification that you are a bad guy, go eat another man and contract kuru. Bam, you got the shakes and everyone knows you are a sick twisted fuck.

[ValentinBk (DayZ) 60]

If you want an identification that you are a bad guy, go eat another man and contract kuru. Bam, you got the shakes and everyone knows you are a sick twisted fuck.

Or that someone made you eat human meat under gunpoint :D

[sachad 1016]

Or that someone made you eat human meat under gunpoint :D

 

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