Bounty Placer: John Doe Collectable By Whom: Bounty Hunters, Mercs Ships Allowed To Collect: Fighters, Bombers and GB Fee: 1 million. Repeat Times Left: 1 Contract Conditions: Guncam evidence, must have informed to say John Doe wishes you the worst. Target ID & IFF: Outcast Target Ship Name: Toothless.Tom Target Ship Type: GB Message: (reasons if one likes to explain)
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Everyone who's been doing some bounty hunting knows what a mess the place is. This is not concerning blanket bounties, but those individual bounties.
Right now there is no format whatsoever and in some cases there some of the vital information is missing. So I suggest we ENFORCE something like this to be used for a bounty to be valid. (In meantime when we hopefully get a flhooked bounty system).
The "rigid" format achieves these objectives. At first glance people know the ID, name and how much for a wanted person. I know there are a lot of well written RP like bounties, but even those can be very befuddling at times when you need to search for all the relevant information. And I don't mind if there are some details missing like the ship type or so.
Also this achieves more chances people actually going after the bounty you just placed!
The wording is just an example, but the more relevant info in the title and topic description, the better. Please feel free to modify and suggest the template
I agree, bounties being posted in the bounty board are a mess most of the time.
This shouldn't be enforced, it should be given as a choice.
[17:45:39] Wolfs Ghost (Murphy): Tom, you have problems. Go kill yourself.
[19:25:12] Johnny (Jam): Tomtom, I will beat you with a spoon.
[14:22:56] Prarabdh Thakur: KILL HIM WITH A SHEEP.
[17:40:48] Eagle (Junes): Tom should be slapped with a spoon.
[11:32:18] Warspite: Thank you for being so awesome Tom. <3
[18:17:36] Metano: I love you tomtom
[20:06:24] Warspite: I will seriously give you epic head.
' Wrote:Edit: also, Tomtomrawr, fappin' like a boss.
I re-wrote it a bit. You can edit, copy paste and pin this Del if you want.
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Use this this template when placing bounties if you want. You don't need to fill all the info if you don't know e.g the armament of the target, but more the better. I would say all the asterisk marked are obligatory info. This is a suitable template for specific bounties, so this does not concern blanket bounties.
Using this template does not mean that you need to throw away the RP and your imagination. It just gives you the idea what is required to place a bounty that has all the essentials and makes people looking for work to quickly see if the guys is on the list. Personally I consider the most important bits to be Topic Title and Topic description and having the ID in the topic attracts the right people who might fulfill your bounty to your thread.
It would be greatly appreciated if the bounty you have placed and someone has fulfilled, you would edit the topic Description to read -CLOSED- so no-one wastes any time on it anymore. You can edit the description by editing your 1st post even after the thread has gotten replies.
Your local bounty hunter thanks you
- looqas
Code:
To Topic title: Target ID and Name of the target ship (ID makes it clear the targets affiliation)
To Topic Description: Fee and who places the bounty
In the message itself
[b]* Bounty Placer:[/b]
[b]* Collectable By Whom:[/b] Ship classes list
[b]* Ships Allowed To Collect:[/b] Ship classes list
[b]* Fee:[/b]
[b]* Repeat Times Left:[/b] 1 - for now. 1 means one time hit
[b]Contract Conditions:[/b] Guncam evidence and possible message to the target
[b]Area restrictions:[/b] If you want to restrict the area where the hit is taking place.
[b]* Target ID & IFF:[/b]
[b]* Target Ship Name:[/b]
[b]Target Ship Type:[/b]
[b]Target Ship Armament:[/b]
[b]Message:[/b] Any info of you or the target zone of influence or habits is greatly appreciated.