I posted this in another thread:
You can go from notoriety 0 up to 10 in 30 minutes, then it takes 10 hours to drop.
I would prefer it if the higher notoriety levels took progressively more effort to achieve, but last longer when you reach them.
Something like this:
Notoriety
| Kills to raise level
| Time to drop level
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1
| 1
| 15 min
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2
| 1
| 25 min
|
3
| 2
| 30 min
|
4
| 3
| 1 hour
|
5
| 5
| 1.5 hours
|
6
| 8
| 2 hours
|
7
| 11
| 3 hours
|
8
| 17
| 4.5 hours
|
9
| 25
| 7 hours
|
10
| 40
| 10 hours
|
Simple, flexible and acheives the desired result!
+1
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I agree on the simple. The rest is a clear no. Neither is it more flexible than what we have, nor does it achieve anything. Unless the goal is to limit notoriety to PvE only.
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Keep in mind, one of the goals of notoriety was to get seal-clubbing under control. It already is weak for that in the current implementation. A dedicated seal clubber can still kill several people before ATR response times become any problem. It's not hard to see how many newbies in sidewinders some seal clubbers apparently destroyed per evening, if bringing it down to half a dozen per evening apparently still is a big improvement. After that, he in the current system goes AFK for the night and is ready for another tour of seal clubbing on the next day.
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With this suggestion given, seal clubbing will be "limited" to destroying a newbie sidewinder in a starting system every 15 minutes. So come again if you think that this achieves the desired result, but be warned doing so could paint you into a corner.
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What notoriety really needs, as already mentioned here, is more gameplay. There's plenty of players around who, despite being active in combat, manage to avoid getting notoriety. Accidents can happen, but having one point of notoriety is not that bad. You just have to stay outside of one or two systems for a limited while, it's not like you can't play any more. Things only get grim when you rack up enough bounties to get a superfaction bounty. If somebody managed to get a superfaction bounty by accident, i urgently want to know how!
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So yes, for those who are used to the flawed "crime goes completely unpunished" we had before, this now suddenly is sooooo painful and they are in dire risk of dehydration of crying. But outside of that, the punishment side of the new system is mostly fine, i only dislike that you can simply AFK notoriety off. But the real issue is that it currently doesn't add anything but inconvenience for being a criminal.
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We really need two things:
1. No more AFK-ing notoriety away. Instead, after the two hours (which can also be dropped to one hour) notoriety does not drop but you get the offer for a redemption mission. Complete the mission (which can be as easy as "report to station XY 20 LY away") and your notoriety is reduced by one. Reject the mission (means, you -decide- to be a criminal) and the mission will only be offered again after 48 hours of playtime.
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2. Provide activities which are only available to criminal players. High-pay smuggling missions, extra-hard wing assassination missions with higher pay, etc. So sure, being a criminal would force you operate out of an anarchy system. (And btw, outfitting a ship could be more expencive in anarchy systems, just saying... ) But it would also provide new venues of gameplay.
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That's what the current crime system actually still needs. We don't need to soften it and to pamper criminals, like so many people here for some reason thing to believe. Instead it should actually add to the game.
