I dislike the jail time, anyone agree? I feel so discouraged to have fun raiding towns because with just -1,500 rep you get 6 - 8 minutes in jail. I know i’m just bad at the game or weak but most of the time playing the game is sitting in jail waiting 10 minutes so I can play the game. I like the jail system don’t get me wrong, I just don’t think that I should be punished for playing the game how I want to play it. I mean its a mechanic in the game so I shouldn’t be punished just because I want to use the mechanic of robbing places. I think the jail times should be ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM 1 minute. I would like to play the game thank you.
You aren’t supposed to be actively raiding towns, thats the reason threats are a thing to begin with
If you kill and destroy a bunch of shit, you’re a nuisance, raiding towns isn’t supposed to be “fun”, you have the option, but the MC will kick ya
I do agree that stealing a few private chests and immediately starting a threat is a little extreme, but you don’t need to steal private chests, and overall the normal chest routes are better
keep in mind you can surrender to have bounty cleared/rep lowered, although you will still have to wait a bit in jail, you can surrender before you get high bounty
Not our fault that you want to raid towns and have 100 MC Soldiers following you. The game isn’t supposed to be easy to just do illegal things. For god’s sake, it’s ILLEGAL. There should be atleast something to stop it since this isn’t Jailbreak or Mad City.
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You should probably be more strategic with raiding then. Get max level, max out your gear, know what to do when a captain attacks you, and learn how to dodge the AI attacks. After that when you finally get captured it won’t be annoying it will be a nice break. Sometimes I even try to get into the world news as much as possible by just raiding towns. Also make sure to kill captains it’s fun.
I’d say a small decrease in jail time is fair. Maybe instead of 0.5s for 1 bounty it could be reduced to 0.35-0.4. No one should wait 6-8 minutes
i think an increase in jail time may be necessary. with a maximum of 15 minutes for the worst of the worst (murder of civilians and MC, killing the captain, evading, destroying property, killing others). i agree with the chest part, rather than someplace being “under threat” there should be another option when theres a tiny issue happening and somebody needs to be arrested for it.
A notification can come saying “The Magic Council are dealing with a minor threat, breaking buildings will still result in a fine and/or being labeled an accomplice.” The symbol should be the MC sign (such seen when somewhere is under threat) but maybe gray. As well as about 2 soldiers responding to the issue.
Raiding towns is supposed to be discouraged to begin with since it can mess with others players doing their routine as well (Getting quests, shopping, upgrading items, enchanting, etc) So the punishment is a decently long time to give downtime against a powerful player constantly destroying towns and give people a chance to pickup quests and do their thing.
Just send mail to someone who’s a villain and ask them to break you out. Sometimes it works for me.
If you do ever get caught, then just go and do something else while the game is still running. It’s a fair punishment for people ruining cities. I don’t mind it if you kill NPC’s, but if you end up destroying cities which people need, then you will get punished harshly. It’s your own fault.
If you really don’t want to get caught though, then I’d recommend quickly destroying cities and running away.
I mean if you are being annoying to other players by raiding towns and killing NPCs over and over there should be a decent punishment to you.
I disagree with everyone in this thread saying raiding towns and being evil is inherently ‘discouraged’. Sure you get a threat, but you also make a lot of money from places like summer hold and get boss drops if you’re killing mobs like king david, captains, or the executioner. There’s risks and rewards on both sides of the reputation spectrum.
I only raid the towns that have the lowest population and if I see another player I stop raiding it. The towns I raid are normally the ones with nothing important in them. Most of the time I dont even destroy the shops its just the bank and then I sit there killing magic council. It just gives a lot of xp really fast and thats why I do it. Just today I raided with 3 other friends and we all went from level 40 to 60 in maybe 15 minutes. Plus I only raid in servers not populated with a lot of low levels so im not messing with anyone. I do get where your coming from with the ruin progression but it is a mechanic in the game and 10 minutes every time is a bit much for a dude that looted 3 private storage’s right?
Also, WAIT THERES BOSS DROPS. I only raid the towns with no blacksmiths because they dont have anything important, such as bell town and riverville. its easy to go to a different city and farm, but you say there are boss drops? Ima go to a low populated server so I can raid summerhold without messing with anyones progression rq and see what I can get.