Goonhub
04-30-2013, 04:45 AM
yeah as much as I'd love to see a debt system just for the dark humor of how messed up it'd get it would probably go really bad in practice, folks intentionally using it to make themselves a target so they have an excuse to kill anyone who looks at them funny. the example cogwerks gave me to dissuade me from this track was some dude who takes out money to buy a bunch of laser guns, defaults to incite everyone to come after him, and then uses the guns to kill everyone.
one less abusable possibility (I guess) is that defaulting causes an NPC predator to appear with the deadbeat as a target, and the critter doesn't drop anything on death so there's nothing to gain from the situation, but I doubt anyone wants to bother coding it
also regarding money in general
someone was doing a funny bridge toll gimmick some recent round, they'd set up card swipes on either side of the airbridge and hooked up a remote signaler to the door bolts. he was charging a pretty low fee and I thought it was clever but when there's basically no law enforcement and death is no big deal folks decided they'd rather just break in and try to bash his head in
maybe he should've hired a bodyguard for a split of the profits idk. having one bulletin board designated "Recruiting Board" for minor tasks/odd jobs in arrivals (or at the info booth) could be cool for organizing stuff like that better. if you're a bored staff assistant with nothing better to do you'd check that out for an opportunity to do something gainful before resorting to tearing down the walls
one less abusable possibility (I guess) is that defaulting causes an NPC predator to appear with the deadbeat as a target, and the critter doesn't drop anything on death so there's nothing to gain from the situation, but I doubt anyone wants to bother coding it
also regarding money in general
someone was doing a funny bridge toll gimmick some recent round, they'd set up card swipes on either side of the airbridge and hooked up a remote signaler to the door bolts. he was charging a pretty low fee and I thought it was clever but when there's basically no law enforcement and death is no big deal folks decided they'd rather just break in and try to bash his head in
maybe he should've hired a bodyguard for a split of the profits idk. having one bulletin board designated "Recruiting Board" for minor tasks/odd jobs in arrivals (or at the info booth) could be cool for organizing stuff like that better. if you're a bored staff assistant with nothing better to do you'd check that out for an opportunity to do something gainful before resorting to tearing down the walls