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Absolute Zero wrote:*edit* Actually... An Arena based tournie would be extremely easy to set up... Have everyone who wants to participate sign up their characters they want to use, only fights against the other participants count, each level gets a champion. Round Robin style scoring, best win % wins since you can't assume everyone's going to have the same amount of fights, so you can't go off kills... Wouldn't need a story, it's essentially a slugfest...

I'd still go for a tennis tournament style, you'd have grand slam, feeder tournaments mens/womens finals (bot/con - maxi/pred ) seeded players and what not.
It's easy to work with bye's and weather won't be a problem.

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Anyway. What's the progress on this?

I can't remember if this was covered or not ...

I'm guessing more than one person can accept the bounty (it would be pointless if only one person could accept a bounty). Therefore, will they be obligated to display their progress (if hunting more than one target on a team) or can they simply breeze in with claims for all the heads and claim the bounty?

sure. i'll scalp burn for -1 energon lol

Burn wrote:I'm guessing more than one person can accept the bounty (it would be pointless if only one person could accept a bounty). Therefore, will they be obligated to display their progress (if hunting more than one target on a team) or can they simply breeze in with claims for all the heads and claim the bounty?

I think that's best left to the individual hunter.

As long as everyone who accepts the contract posts to say they are doing so, then the hunters should be able to use whatever methods they want.

Merc wrote:Anyway. What's the progress on this?

Still one last piece to sort out then we're off. Ill probably have to wait 'til Tamz's scalphunt to kick it off though, as xmas will be a busy time here...

Psychout wrote:As long as everyone who accepts the contract posts to say they are doing so, then the hunters should be able to use whatever methods they want.

ahhhh but that would give the hunted warning!

Next thing you know we'll have a bunch of cowards avoiding certain players because they know they're after them.

Perhaps hunters can have the option of private accepts?

Hmmm... The option of private contracts should always be there, that's true.

They will have to be limited to licensed hunters only though, as otherwise it'll be too much for me to keep up with.

I've also come to the decision that ill be 'running' this as my 'WarPorn Industries' team to begin with (most of you will know that this is exactly what it was created for, a new bio due soon will also help explain...) and that WPI will be the organisation issuing the licences. Ill pull them out later as the 'guild' settles and the game starts to run itself.
(Don't like that idea? Please suggest something better...)

The Hunters Creed wrote:1) 'Licensed' hunters will have their names added to the first post of a specific 'Hunters' thread.

2) There is no formal structure to the Hunters, but 'Guild' has been used as a collective term.

3) These are the basics behind the guild operation:

Transmission wrote:APPLICATION TO PLACE A BOUNTY

Applicant Name :
• Do you wish your name to be disclosed? [ ] Yes [ ] No
• Do you wish this bounty to be disclosed publicly? [ ] Yes [ ] No
(Public disclosure will alert your target that a bounty has been placed upon them)

Name of intended target :
• Do you wish to place this bounty on the entire team? [ ] Yes [ ] No
• If no, please list the names of the individual bots you wish the bounty to be placed on.
(Please also provide links to targeted team/bots)

Do you wish this to be a public or privately listed bounty? [ ] Private [ ] Public
• If privately listed, please provide the name(s) of the bounty hunter whose services you wish to engage.
(Please note that a publicly listed bounty means any bounty hunter may accept the contract)

State the time period you want this bounty to be open for:
(By default a bounty will remain open for two weeks, if not claimed by then it will be automatically closed)

Value of Bounty (in Energon):
It is advised that you read the guidelines regarding costing of bounties
(Please state again whether it's for a team or individual bot(s) or both)


Please submit your bounty request to the hunters thread or to any of the listed hunters from the first post and wait. Request of, and/or acceptance of, a bounty application is no guarantee of completion.

Transmission wrote:Bounty Guidelines, per individual target
Standard bounties as rates by Power level as set by guild consent.
These are not mandatory, but keep these enforced where possible to ensure all hunters are working to the same standards.

Lvl 0 = €500
Lvl 1 = €1,000
Lvl 2 = €2,000
Lvl 3 = €3,000
Lvl 4 = €4,000
Lvl 5 = €5,000

Anything above level 5 is negotiated on a case-by-case basis between client and hunter.

4) To accept a public bounty a hunter must post to say he undertaking it. This does not exclude other hunters from also attempting the bounty. Private bounties must remain private until after completion and then can only be be disclosed at the clients request.

5) *NEW* In the case of Private bounties, only Licensed hunters can be 'brokered' (payment organised by WPI)

I know forum access is somewhat interesting as of late, but would licensed hunters deserve their own posting location to "hide" their intentions from the broader community? Targets could be submitted by PM to Psych or a hunter, it be posted, and to encourage community the success of the bounty could be posted in GD once completed.

I think it would be good that a target be told afterwords that they were singled out - but if desired the bounty payer should still keep their anonymity. Perhaps each submitted bounty can optionally have details released to both the hunters and the community and those details are provided at the time of submitting the bounty? (e.g. Source Faction, Source XP, Source "Rank/Average Level", etc. to anonymously indicate source but still provide enough information to make things interesting)

Also, to ensure payment, I'd recommend that a bounty be posted only after monies was transferred from the source's account to whatever holding area is deemed; like an evil pay-pal which disburses upon completion of MDK.

Could the licensed hunters get their board titles changed to show their hunter status?

'fraid not, it requires admin to change usertitles.

Shame really, as I miss my Warlord title. This new one's rubbish.

Psychout wrote:'fraid not, it requires admin to change usertitles.

Shame really, as I miss my Warlord title. This new one's rubbish.

They seem equivalent to me.

Wingspan wrote:

Psychout wrote:'fraid not, it requires admin to change usertitles.

Shame really, as I miss my Warlord title. This new one's rubbish.

They seem equivalent to me.

And dont you forget it!

i miss my Goddess title.

Psychout wrote:'fraid not, it requires admin to change usertitles.

Shame really, as I miss my Warlord title. This new one's rubbish.

And none of the admin would be willing to do it?

There is only OS who even dares touch HMW, and he's permabusy.

Couldn't CB do it?

why cant OS delegate som of his jobs to other mods? if all the burden is falling on him, can't he basically hand out assignments to other mods?

Name_Violation wrote:why cant OS delegate som of his jobs to other mods? if all the burden is falling on him, can't he basically hand out assignments to other mods?

Not if it's admin only stuff.

Though, if OS is busy doing other stuff, and he's the only admin for HMW, maybe there needs to be a second one who can handle the more board based admin stuff while he works on whatever top secret black project he's working on.

Don't forget that whatever is done it cannot crash or break the rest of seibs; all the login/user account basics are inherited from phpBB so it's not a from-scratch seibertron code base.

So I'm not surprised that the maintenance of anything related to the HMW code (financials, forum acccess, etc.) in the slightest fashion is delegated to him only. Without some serious process and version control it's very difficult to have multiple hands in a single code cookie jar. The delegation you mentioned does make a lot of sense - but even that takes (significant) preparatory work so that an average (or below, like Psych ) moderator can make significant changes to the game.

User titles in specific though - that does seem more board related BUT it sounds like it would require some level of site code modifications. Frankly though, I'm just glad I'm no longer a "Mini-Con"... it was embarrassing how long I had that title.

Wingspan wrote:Don't forget that whatever is done it cannot crash or break the rest of seibs; all the login/user account basics are inherited from phpBB so it's not a from-scratch seibertron code base.

So I'm not surprised that the maintenance of anything related to the HMW code (financials, forum acccess, etc.) in the slightest fashion is delegated to him only. Without some serious process and version control it's very difficult to have multiple hands in a single code cookie jar. The delegation you mentioned does make a lot of sense - but even that takes (significant) preparatory work so that an average (or below, like Psych ) moderator can make significant changes to the game.

User titles in specific though - that does seem more board related BUT it sounds like it would require some level of site code modifications. Frankly though, I'm just glad I'm no longer a "Mini-Con"... it was embarrassing how long I had that title.

I'm not saying they'd have to do anything drastic. Just handle the minor things that are board side that they can't do as a mod. Like user titles. Things like that.

You guys really like the idea, huh?
OK. Well I like it cos it cant be forged like a sig can, so Ill check it with the admin about it, answer may take a while though.


To recap;
A thread will be started in GD advertising the 'licences' for bounty hunters, awarded to applicants once they have scalped an existing hunters complete team.

Clients fill in the form on the first page and either:
1) Post it in GD. The hunters then 'declare' they are going for it publicly and race for the scalp, there is nothing to stop non-hunters joining in. First person to post the last kill wins.
2) Submit it privately to any hunters they choose and resove the bounty via PM's. This is an option for licenced hunters only.

Completed bounties are sent to me for payment by the winning hunter until a better system is devised.

Have I missed anything?

Psychout wrote:You guys really like the idea, huh?
OK. Well I like it cos it cant be forged like a sig can, so Ill check it with the admin about it, answer may take a while though.


To recap;
A thread will be started in GD advertising the 'licences' for bounty hunters, awarded to applicants once they have scalped an existing hunters complete team.

Clients fill in the form on the first page and either:
1) Post it in GD. The hunters then 'declare' they are going for it publicly and race for the scalp, there is nothing to stop non-hunters joining in. First person to post the last kill wins.
2) Submit it privately to any hunters they choose and resove the bounty via PM's. This is an option for licenced hunters only.

Completed bounties are sent to me for payment by the winning hunter until a better system is devised.

Have I missed anything?

When are we going after the first set of hunter licenses?

If I don't get one, I'll have disgraced my name...

Good news everyone!

OS wrote:Sure. That won't be a big deal to do.

There ya go, good call AZ. Your licences will be your forum usertitles.

Now you all gotta agree on a name. We'll start with: 'Licenced Bounty Hunter'

Your go chaps...
This should be fun...

or we could do faction spicific titles liscened bountyhunter, hitman for hire, mercenary, assassian, ect

hired goon here at noon

Psychout wrote:
Good news everyone!

OS wrote:Sure. That won't be a big deal to do.

There ya go, good call AZ. Your licences will be your forum usertitles.

Now you all gotta agree on a name. We'll start with: 'Licenced Bounty Hunter'

Your go chaps...
This should be fun...

I perfer just hunter, unless we could get a rank of hunter based on how quickly/efficiently we can score the kills.

Name_Violation wrote:or we could do faction spicific titles liscened bountyhunter, hitman for hire, mercenary, assassian, ect

hired goon here at noon

If we did that, I'd have to be 'S Ranked Maverick Hunter'