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Title: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: PSNews on 02/10/2015, 07:30
The Planetside 2 servers will be coming down at 6am (Pacific) for an update.  Estimated down time is approximately 1 hour.

Bounty System

Exact sweet, sweet, revenge on the last person to kill you by placing a bounty on them for other players to claim that will award both you and their killer bonus experience! From the kill screen after your death, you can click the "Get Revenge!" button under the image of your killer to buy a bounty contract worth 3 kills.

·         An enemy that kills a player with a bounty on them will earn an extra 100xp for that kill.·         When a player you have an active bounty set on is killed, you also get 100xp for that kill.o   If you set a bounty on someone, then killed them, you'd get an additional 200xp - 100 bonus for the bounty kill, and 100 bonus as the person who set the bounty.·         Bounties stack, and you can have multiple bounties placed at once. That means those bonus 100xp events will happen for each active bounty on the player. (Un)Popular players with a bunch of bounties active on them could be veritable XP explosions.o   If you killed an enemy with 4 active bounties on them, you'd get 400 bonus xp for that kill in addition to the normal xp rewards.·         Players with an active bounty on them have a unique spot indicator to denote their status as *hunted*.  This indicator behaves just like the normal spot indicator. Once the bounties are cleared, the indicator returns to normal.·         Hunted players will also see a small indicator on their HUD to let them know a bounty has been placed on them. Once the bounties are cleared, the indicator will no longer appear.·         Hunted players that go on kill streaks longer than 3 will be awarded 25 additional bonus experience for each kill.·         Bounties will persist through log off.·         If you placed a bounty on someone, but aren't online when someone claims their kills, your experience will queue up and be waiting for you when you log back in. Membership Purchase Change

If you're not a member but decide to purchase a membership, you'll now receive all the additional XP you would have gotten as a member for your most recent game session (everything you earned since the last time you logged out). We showcase the actual value on a new button on the death screen next to where we display the experience graph.

In addition, we have incorporated several minor bug fixes as well.  

Source: Game Update Notes (http://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?forums/game-update-notes.73/)

Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: MaringKaplan on 02/10/2015, 11:07
Ok so how do I place a bounty? What key do I press?
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: Karbooo on 02/10/2015, 11:22
Can you put bounty on allied player? I would spent my monthly salary on some allied noobs like Synho and Laluman so I can enjoy the xp farm.
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: JohnnyDread on 02/10/2015, 11:32
Ok so how do I place a bounty? What key do I press?

There will be a new button on your death screen. There you can add a bounty to your killer. As far as I know you can't randomly place bounties on anyone. It only works for your most recent killer. It also costs 25 DBC...

Can you put bounty on allied player? I would spent my monthly salary on some allied noobs like Synho and Laluman so I can enjoy the xp farm.

Sadly doesn't work. You can't place a bounty on your own faction and you can't cash in on a bounty by team killing.
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: stonedmedic on 02/10/2015, 11:43
25 dbg for extra 100 xp? sounds like an idea from some uber think tank
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: JohnnyDread on 02/10/2015, 12:55
25 dbg for extra 100 xp? sounds like an idea from some uber think tank


Each bounty is for three kills.
So 25 DBC for 3 x 100 XP but I agree stupid idea.

It would be much more fun if you could place an arbitrary number of certs as bounty which is then payed out over the next 3 kills. Basically how bounties work in EVE Online. As an example I place 1000 Certs bounty on choon2. Bunkster kills him and gets 333 Certs for that kill.

The reason they don't do this is obviously that they don't want you to transfer certs from your BR 100 with 10k saved certs to your new alt character. (through a third character you place bounties on)
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: stonedmedic on 02/10/2015, 13:51
yea good idea johny. hunting someone down for 300 certs seems really nice, but for 300 xp it's just not worth it. i'd rather revive 3 guys.
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: MaringKaplan on 02/10/2015, 16:27
Oh wow... I wasn't aware it was going to cost me real monnies... I just thought it would be a nice game addition. And it's true. 25 DBC is WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too much for 100 xp
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: MummelWurst on 02/10/2015, 19:01
think of it guys, it is not necessary to use, apart from that, it would only cause whiney-whiney-drama on forums and reddit from the most hunted players, so deal with it, abuse it, when possibly and keep playing :)
Title: Re: Bounty Update - 10/2
Post by: JohnnyDread on 02/10/2015, 20:20
Latest news. Placing bounties on friendlies that TK you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/3n7whs/listen_fellow_nc_brothers_apparently_we_arent/cvlubyj