Bounty Box

Master Shredder · 09-13-2017

Not only is the bounty box just used to block you from using your inventory, It also has a terrible mechanic that it drops whenever you kill a designated baddy. What is the point of this exactly? that I have to re pick it up everytime i kill something for the next 80 times

Dusty · 09-13-2017

It's to balance out the fairness of baddy hunting. You know how people in Pyrat caves would just hit all the baddies in the room and have them follow them and then spam them with bombs? Yeah, the goal was to prevent that and make it a bit more involved than just spamming sword/bombs/arrows.

When you defeat a baddy you are practically tossing a box on top of them and capturing them.

TGG · 09-13-2017

Posted by Dusty

It's to balance out the fairness of baddy hunting.

Is there a reason it's equipped in the bottom inventory slot rather than the top?
Not an issue on PC, but large thumbs + small screen means it accidentally gets tapped a lot while attacking, which opens a long menu to tap through and close.
Maybe I'm alone with this problem though.

Reemas · 09-13-2017

Posted by TGG

Is there a reason it's equipped in the bottom inventory slot rather than the top?
Not an issue on PC, but large thumbs + small screen means it accidentally gets tapped a lot while attacking, which opens a long menu to tap through and close.
Maybe I'm alone with this problem though.

Same issue happens to me too. Using the call option is cool but its annoying to do that. Losing the bounty makes you lose a baddy kill because someone kills a baddy that you have been working on. I then have to work an entire new baddy and it takes longer to do the quest.

4-Lom · 09-14-2017

Posted by Dusty

You know how people in Pyrat caves would just hit all the baddies in the room and have them follow them and then spam them with bombs? Yeah, the goal was to prevent that and make it a bit more involved than just spamming sword/bombs/arrows.

My suggestion with the current system, if balance is what you're looking for - make the bats, rats, crabs and snakes required 50, ambush soldiers/lizardons/black oozes 35, green oozes 75, and the rebels/pyrats 100. The bandits, due to limited space and numbers, feel about right in the middle just as they are.

Right now there is a big difference in the amount of time each bounty takes. Crabs and ambush soldiers, for instance, take an enormous amount of time (especially when there are other players competing for them), while lizardons get finished in less than 10 minutes. I like the difference, though - even though it is inconvenient at times it provides variety.

Reemas · 09-14-2017

I find the snakes to be the most time consuming. Also, sucks when I bring a snakes health down only for it to be killed by someone else and they get the bounty for it. Snakes are about the only quest that ive had my bounty stolen multiple times.

In addition, it has been the one quest i use the "call" feature the most for the box. Feels like im using some mystical magic (the force) to bring the box back to me.

Rusix · 09-15-2017

Anyway to lower the slime kill requirements? I swear unless it is me. I die 4-7 times per slime killed. May just be me but those things are impossible it seems

4-Lom · 09-23-2017

Posted by Rusix

Anyway to lower the slime kill requirements? I swear unless it is me. I die 4-7 times per slime killed. May just be me but those things are impossible it seems

Try hitting them against a wall. Like smash it so it hits a wall then keep smashing it.

Otherwise, hit it, then walk forward 1 step, then hit again... you can 'stun lock' it this way as long as you don't get hit by some one else (or another blob).

Failing that, git gud.

Tricxta · 09-24-2017

Bounty contracts are long overdue for a balance in terms of making each task take a similar time to complete (or was this never meant to be the case?). Dusty, if you'd be so kind, could you please enlighten us as to why this hasn't already happened?
The task of changing a few numbers doesn't seem all that demanding..

4-Lom · 09-24-2017

Posted by Tricxta

The task of changing a few numbers doesn't seem all that demanding..

Meanwhile I've got almost 300 grasshoppers and I've been waiting months for the witch to ask for them. Randomized or not, it's putting a damper on being a busy little ant preparing for the winter.

Colin · 09-25-2017

Posted by Tricxta

Bounty contracts are long overdue for a balance in terms of making each task take a similar time to complete

No purpose or reason for that to be a thing, having a variety is better.

If they were intended to all be the same (which they shouldn't be) then that's how the system would have originally been developed.

Brett · 10-13-2017

Does call bounty even work? Died with my box within the screen, box randomly dissapears 50 baddies into the quest... Really don't want to restart it.

Nvm. Box got warped 2 screens away.

4-Lom · 10-14-2017

Posted by Brett

Does call bounty even work? Died with my box within the screen, box randomly dissapears 50 baddies into the quest... Really don't want to restart it.

Nvm. Box got warped 2 screens away.

It does work, but it's only when you're within a couple steps of it onscreen... like... if it's stuck on a tree or a cliff just out of reach.

Brett · 10-14-2017

Yup, was just confused because my box randomly vanished.

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Master Shredder That shotgun guy 👌 Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: The United States of America Posts: 334	Bounty Box Not only is the bounty box just used to block you from using your inventory, It also has a terrible mechanic that it drops whenever you kill a designated baddy. What is the point of this exactly? that I have to re pick it up everytime i kill something for the next 80 times

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Dusty Should be fixed. Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 6,359	It's to balance out the fairness of baddy hunting. You know how people in Pyrat caves would just hit all the baddies in the room and have them follow them and then spam them with bombs? Yeah, the goal was to prevent that and make it a bit more involved than just spamming sword/bombs/arrows. When you defeat a baddy you are practically tossing a box on top of them and capturing them.

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Reemas Registered Bomber Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Clock Town Posts: 401	I find the snakes to be the most time consuming. Also, sucks when I bring a snakes health down only for it to be killed by someone else and they get the bounty for it. Snakes are about the only quest that ive had my bounty stolen multiple times. In addition, it has been the one quest i use the "call" feature the most for the box. Feels like im using some mystical magic (the force) to bring the box back to me. Last edited by Reemas; 09-14-2017 at 04:55 AM.

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Rusix The Eternal Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: York Town Posts: 1,152	Anyway to lower the slime kill requirements? I swear unless it is me. I die 4-7 times per slime killed. May just be me but those things are impossible it seems

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Tricxta The muffin man Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Burger Refuge Posts: 2,262	Bounty contracts are long overdue for a balance in terms of making each task take a similar time to complete (or was this never meant to be the case?). Dusty, if you'd be so kind, could you please enlighten us as to why this hasn't already happened? The task of changing a few numbers doesn't seem all that demanding..

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Brett Registered User Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 167	Does call bounty even work? Died with my box within the screen, box randomly dissapears 50 baddies into the quest... Really don't want to restart it. Nvm. Box got warped 2 screens away.

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Brett Registered User Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 167	Yup, was just confused because my box randomly vanished.