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It would be great if we could claim the severed heads of dead criminals as proof of a kill for bounties.

I think system chat should say 'xxx was killed by xxx' whenever somebody is murdered, because it is a pretty big thing to lose a developed character and the whole world should know about it.

Although that would be interesting perhaps, it's certainly out of the theme for the game. If you wanted to go slightly less gruesome ears were often taken as trophies as well.

Edit: Was referring to posting people's names explicitly.

Both are great ideas

Sevenless wrote:Although that would be interesting perhaps, it's certainly out of the theme for the game. If you wanted to go slightly less gruesome ears were often taken as trophies as well.

Out of the theme for the game? the game will eventually have Jersey Devils, Hidebehinds and all sorts of other mythical monsters in it. Do you even "know" what is planned/what this game is supposed to be? I know you were away from the "Seatribe community" for a while but how do you not know that this ISN'T a historically accurate simulator? Severed heads would fit EXACTLY into what Jorb has stated his vision for the game is.

This is early colonial North America and no mention of scalping?

I'm disappointed. This should defintely be in the game. Trophy scalps and a global message on system or something when the game determines a character that has played a certain length of time dies.
(aka a main or a character close to one)

/2 cents


but it fits into the era

The Indians picked up scalping from Europeans, not the other way around.

Yup, scalping is actually a really good idea.

But, the indians did not pick it up from europeans as they were doing it 100s of years b4 teh white people came. It just so happens that it was practiced in North American and Europe simultaneously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping

Putting in functionality to blast the killer and victims name is probably not good idea. Sometimes half the battle is trying to figure out who the killer was.

I think getting some sort of token is a good idea. Maybe even make it an item you can study to get better in certain skills.

Arillious wrote:Putting in functionality to blast the killer and victims name is probably not good idea. Sometimes half the battle is trying to figure out who the killer was.

I think getting some sort of token is a good idea. Maybe even make it an item you can study to get better in certain skills.

Nope. Bad idea. Leads to the farming of alts by the hundreds.