Hi all. I recently got back into AO again after several months due to the full release update. One of my favorite things to do as a PvE player was NPC bounty hunting.
I have a Navy Captain who was demoted a long time ago due to reputation being reset for everyone, and I never found the time to level their fame back up. Now that I’m playing again, I’m noticing the bounty boards don’t work like they used to.
The assassination contracts are flooded with low level positive rep NPCs, leaving no room for criminals to spawn. Only minibosses, rival, and players show up. I tried clearing out a few pos reps with my bounty character, but no criminals ended up spawning in their place. This is the same for every server I join.
This feels like a bug right? But I’m not in the discord nor do I wish to look through every single trello card to figure out if this is an intentional change. It’s a little annoying since it’s also affecting bounty quests for my lower level pos rep characters and I don’t feel like losing all my fame just to be able to complete them 
Any answers or insight appreciated, and sorry if this is already a known bug or something? lol
Thanks!