I was thinking more along the lines of someone having to accept the bounty. They check a list of bounties, pick one, and then go hunting. It wouldn't work if some random bullet happened to fly by and hit someone who luckily had a bounty on their head.

I worded that badly, but what I'm saying is, anyone could be a potential Bounty Hunter.

Unless they still have to get a tag when they accept a contract, kind of like the old (Postman) tag. Then it'd kind of be obvious.

Every time I read your messages MontyPython the words scream out "envy" to me. YOU want to personally hunt Bounties and are co-signing with anything that could further you to that point. Back to more important matters.

Exactly, Frankie. You all keep whaling about these lame weapons that I don't seem to see, before the "upgrade" of the FN Mark, I heard little noise about our weapons. Actually, before I took hold of the business, I heard NO noise about the weapons.
I still firmly believe a gun is as good as its user. Hence why I've beaten Mp5 Navies with dual handguns. But, moving on.

Even with a list in which players can select who to hunt, the person hunting you is STILL as random as if there wasn't any specifications, as of now, people blow thousands of dollars just to be chased by the big bad Bounty Hunters. Who the hell is going to place a RANDOM bounty? There's NO way that system is going to work unless money is spawned, like I originally said. Which docks the entire perk of the "Bounty Hunter" idea.

Also, originally, PI, PPA and BHer or businesses of that sort were "said" to hunt and raid and etc, but weren't really obligated to do it, they mainly "looked" good. Only recently have they been obligated to uphold the "heresay", which they've been doing, well.

In case you haven't noticed, there's only one thing I do well on Era: Idle.

That's it.

I'm not in this for me. If I really wanted to hunt bounties, I'd probably, I don't know...PK on a regular basis, actually show up for tryouts when they're held, then after getting rejected mass out my disapproval of bounty hunter in general (likely in caps with little or no puncuation), then go post a forum post with a thread title like "MAKE BHER PUBLIC ITS NOT FAIR PS WIL SUX". I'd only make the forum post after I'd sufficiently recovered from the shock and spent plenty of time with my box of kleenexes.

Recently, I think you've done all those things. Probably not shown up to the tryouts because you've missed them, seeing as they're Rare.

Look, it's really quite simple. When you contract a Bounty Hunter you're getting your dollar's worth, you're paying a high class pker to do a job for you. Hell, if you want to pay a party or an individual to collect a bounty then by all means do so, no one is stopping you. Bounty Hunters is established to make sure your request gets carried through elegantly and quickly. It's really that simple, I don't understand the purpose behind this thread.

Maybe you should read the first post?
seriously read before posting.

Okay, fragman claims BHer is inactive, which is ignorant bullcrap. I have a bounty to collect whenever I am on tag, the business is as active as the players make it. A public system was suggested, which is stupid and I've responded to in my previous post. Once again, what's the point of this thread?

Bounter hunter is most certainly not active. Five bounties have been collected since last Thursday (a total of about $2500; I didn't log the money). That doesn't seem active to me.

That does not mean it is not active, Your staff you are not supposed to be sided like that. How many bounties were placed since last Thursday?

maybe people just aren't placing as many bounties? or the people that do have bounties don't play very much and it's hard to complete. you never know. don't be so quick to assume.

Frankie just poked a huge whole in your logic,and I dont support making bher public at all.

Now you guys are saying PPA/Bher are just gangs with special guns,but isnt that the case with gnags too? I mean there is only a select few in gangs that have the gang gun,and those people can use those guns ontag and offtag while PPA/Bher need their tag on. Both jobs play an important role on era and making them public would be idiotic. If you are going to argue that our guns are to lame look at the gang guns,we have to compete with those whether we are helping a gang or going after a bounty.

Chris wasn't accusing the Bounty Hunters of being inactive, he was accusing the business itself as not being actively used. Whether it be bounties not being placed or bounties not being completed -- it's just not fulfilling its purpose.

Bounty Hunters are way too expensive.

Really? Because it sure looks like he is. If you need I can highlight the portion for you.

If he was accuse the business of being inactive he would have said how many bounties were placed now how many were fulfilled.

probably the main reason why not many bounties are being placed is because the minimum price is too high. I don't see why you can't just lower it instead of lowering the prices, AND making it public. that's just dumb.

Interpret it how you wish, but if the problem was just Bounty Hunters being inactive I'm sure he could easily just replace the owner. The topic of this thread is the concept behind the business itself and the fact that nobody uses it:

I kinda agree. I don't like when I see Bounty Hunters asking their preys though to please step in a pk zone so they can kill them and then revive them. If I buy BH, I expect you guys to come in and kill the guy and make him feel like dirt. :mad:

Zeus is right,I mean members of bounty hunters shouldnt just ask their prey to step into a pk zone you gotta trick them,once they start doing that Im pretty sure they will be good then. I mean its so obvious when a person with a bher tag comes up to you and asks you to follow them lol.

They do try to trick you from when i've had bounties on me, I let them kill me though

wil had the most clever ways to complete bounties. he never directly asked you to go in a pk zone but most of the times he was able to.

I remember he PMed me asking if he could spar me for a bit because he wanted to get used to sparring people with level 10 speed (I was staff at the time and had 10 speed) at first, I told him that I would give one of his friends level 10 speed and they could mess around in a private spar room, but eventually I was just like whatever, and sparred him. he beat me, and then said "Bounty Complete" and I face palmed.

back in those days I was always on working tag so BHer could NEVER get me 8)

Okay dear Xelnaga, what's the point of BHer?

If it's as active as Players make it, it's certainly not active, so it has to change.

making it public isn't going to make it active.

lower the price and I'm sure more people will start placing bounties. there's no reason to make it public.

if actual player activity is an issue, give it to someone else?

I think it would be funny to make Bounty Hunter into a NPC place and rent NPCs that follow you around and kill for you =P. That might work.. but yeah I suppose the prices should be a little cheaper or be more active. But seriously NPCs that follow and kill for you might be interesting lol.

that's pretty much what PPA is lol

it is? rofl like i pay attenction to PPA and BHer =P w.e i still think a npc that follows you around killing people for you for 10 mins would be funny.

Right now I'm not using PPA, because I know that Wil Soul and 5 of his other people are going to rush this dude and kill him and I won't get anything out of it.

But if whole Era rushes this person and tries to kill him, because there's a bounty of 5000$ (yes I would place so much for so much fun) now that'd be cool!

no...just...no....

the whole era won't be rushing the person because if sales makes it the way I think he is, if 1 player accepts a bounty then other players won't be able to take it.

well yeah.. PPA = personal protection agency. you hire an agent and they basically kill everything that tries to attack you for a certain amount of time.

Incorrect.

People wont use the system if its public

Zodiac has a public bounty hunter system. Basically anyone can put a bounty on a player. When someone kills that player with the bounty, the killer receives the money. Its really popular there or was if its not around anymore. And if remember correctly, as you kill more players with bountys you get ranks or w/e. Just something fun to brag about.

I'm pretty sure this is Era not Zodiac. just because Zodiac has one thing doesn't mean Era should have it. derp derp

People are not using it right now.
As Chris Vimes proved, z_Z

making it public isn't going to make people want to place bounties more.

And plus, can we just mass " Kill this dude for 100$?"

Okay, let me clarify. If/when a public bounty system is made, it would be nothing like the current bounty system which has obviously failed. We wouldn't simply "just make it public", it will be a lot more involved than that. It is common sense that just deleting Bounty Hunter and allowing anyone to complete bounties wouldn't change anything...that's not what I'm doing.

Being a member of Bounty Hunter, I'd have to say the business itself is pretty useless. The small amount of fun I get while on Era is pking other people; so considering I wasn't a member of Bounty Hunter, it'd be entirely pointless for me. I don't really understand why you would pay anyone a single dollar to have fun for you, it just doesn't make sense to me.
I'm sure someone else has mentioned this already, I haven't read this thread over yet.
Anyway, if you really wanted to hunt someone down, I'd say do it yourself. Not only will you get the actual feeling that you did it on your own, but you don't have to hurt your wallet either.
I remember back when I first started, raiding and pking were pretty fun experiences that drew me into Era instead of another playerworld. Promoting businesses like Bounty Hunter, in my opinion, contrasts to what I believe Era's "goal" is. Players should be doing things for themselves instead of relying on businesses to do things they should be doing.
Even besides all of that, I think we're overpriced.
I'd support any price drop of our services, even if it was 25 a kill. I'd have much more fun.

25$ a kill the list would be up, i would set a bounty on everyone!! Muahahaha :)

I'd be doing bounties like crazy... I wouldn't mind it at all.