Notorius Pirate Mission/Bounty

[Terox]

Just an idea.

 

We have the ship report letters that are commonly dropped between missions, most of these seem to be discarded, unused.

My suggestion.

 

Have a small number of ai pirates with a high bounty/ high value drops,  sailing around randomly attacking players, that can be intercepted by players if they come across them.

Have the ship letter drop update of these pirate last known locations.

The more failed attempts by players or players sunk when attacked the higher the bounty

Any ships the AI pirate captures is added to its fleet to make it even more difficult or as the pirates notoriety increases so does the fleet size (Within reason)

When that ship dies, its automatically replaced by another AI pirate and so the cycle begins again.

 

Vary the type of ship and the skill level of the crew to make it more diverse to the extent that a fleet of players is needed to take out the higher value AI pirate

 

 

[Vonrich DPR]

An idea I had for this was to allow players who become pirates on PvE servers to initiate PvP even on a PvE server.  The downside to doing this is that 1) free or neutral ports may refuse to do business with pirates or charge a premium to pirates if their fleet BR isn't high enough, 2) pirates can only craft 4th rate and below, 3) pirates have high aggro with non-pirate NPCs while players of a nation have no aggro against their own nation, low aggro against certain nations and medium aggro against others (tbd).  So it's harder for a pirate to play the game, but they have PvP privileges on a PvE server.  Of course, all players could initiate PvP against a pirate.  Just an idea to spice things up a tad on PvE without making it full PvP.

[GrapeShot]

Won't work -there are no pirates in the game, just another national faction called pirates for some unknown reason.

Edited February 12, 2016 by GrapeShot

[Lord Roberts]

Pirates love to exploit this game and if there was a bounty system pirates would just claim each others over and over till the cows come home.

[Black Bart]

Pirates love to exploit this game and if there was a bounty system pirates would just claim each others over and over till the cows come home.

 

well pirates sink or cap those with Bountys on them, and the loser gets Dura lose or lose ships ?  it could work, if you got "killed" by some with the bounty report. like a mission.  EVE have bounty system and you dont see them exploit it