Make bounties more accessible to the people who actually want them - Raiders

[Raphael]

I think this was a recent change but not sure, but remove blockades stopping the collection of bounties. Raiders are the main groups going after bounties both in-game mechanically and out-of-game via player-made deals, raiding often is done by the skin of your teeth especially when you consider 3 people countering you plus the one or more nations you may be offensively engaging.

It's incredibly easy to flip someone 4v1 and blockade them, basically leaving bounty collection down to oversight or chance that they choose to not blockade you for whatever reason. My understanding is that this change was made due to the idea or the action of someone exploiting bounties and giving blockaded people money in niche situations where they are too weak to counter and break a blockade, but simultaneously winning at least one of their wars. Seems like an incredibly niche scenario to break an entire feature over, but I maybe there were just huge exploits happening idk.

 

Proposed change: Remove blockade's impact on bounty collection. Allow bounties to be collected regardless of blockades as long as the bounty existed prior to the war being declared.

 

This allows bounties to be utilized fully in-game, and collected by the main group that will be going after them: raiders.

 

I'd also like to use this thread to pitch another change to bounties: Damages. Allow a player to set a bounty for pre-set thresholds of damages up to $100m (based on value of infra destroyed and money stolen combined). This form of bounty I feel is more flexible than a single nuclear bounty but not as committed as an attrition bounty. You can often do big damages on a nuke run without winning the war, for example, but people want a bit more for their money than a single nuke. Just a thought.

 

[Thalmor]

I agree that blockaded nations should be able to collect bounties. 

Tweak: The funds are discharged after the blockade ends. 

[Raphael]

27 minutes ago, Thalmor said:

I agree that blockaded nations should be able to collect bounties. 

Tweak: The funds are discharged after the blockade ends. 

yeah that's fine too

[Morbius]

As a raider, I support this.

[Sweeeeet Ronny D]

If I was the person dumb enough to waste money putting a bounty on somebody, I would hate to see this change, as it means less possible damage done to the person I want hit.

[Raphael]

On 5/31/2023 at 2:47 PM, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

If I was the person dumb enough to waste money putting a bounty on somebody, I would hate to see this change, as it means less possible damage done to the person I want hit.

Fair but do you want game mechanics where the intent is to trick players into screwing themselves over?

[Firwof Kromwell]

1 hour ago, Roberts said:

Fair but do you want game mechanics where the intent is to trick players into screwing themselves over?

I think Ronny is used to that as is