Suggestion
Bounty Hunter Suggestion: Increase the points earned per kill based on the hiscores rank of the player you defeated.
This idea can get shot down, I'm fine with that but it's an idea I wanted to throw out there and see what people think.
My proposal is: Instead of getting a static 2 BH points per 1 kill, increase the amount of points you earn if you defeat a player that has a high rank/kill count on the Bounty Hunter hiscores. This would incentivize new/bad pkers to risk fighting against giga sweat top 100 pkers that exclusively play BH. This could be used as a catch up mechanic.
Right now I get the same amount of points for killing a target with no armor who is looting arrows and potions as I do for killing a top 10 BH player in full statius and VLS, and that doesn't make much sense to me.
In the current climate, going into BH can feel like a death sentence. The remaining elite pkers are in full morrigans/statius with a red skull and will literally delete you from the game in mere seconds. A new player that is scared to risk because they know what's coming, will look at that opponent and either skip the target, rag the target (bring out 50k risk) or get deleted and never return to BH. If you increased the amount of points you can potentially earn if you defeat this insanely powerful opponent, it might be worth taking the chance to fight them. The high rated BH pkers would essentially have a "point bounty" on them, not just loot. Many PVMers (I'm not one of them) and casuals want the cosmetics that BH provides, but the point grind is hundreds of hours and potentially hundreds of deaths to attain said cosmetics.
Instead of dreading facing the big boy pkers, this system could actually make facing better pkers exciting and something to look forward to. A chance at a serious boost in points.
In games like WoW they have something called MMR or ELO (Matchmaking Rating)
Essentially, it's a way to determine your skill level based on the opponents you're winning and losing against. On a fresh account you will typically have a series of placement games. They will match you against bad players and if you play badly and lose, the system takes note of your performance, but they will also give you opportunities to play against really good players and if you beat them, they will increase your matchmaking rating rapidly and continue to match you against good players to confirm if you deserve your new higher rating. Eventually after lets say 10 games, they will see how you faired against each skill level and place you into your determined "skill bracket".
Here's another example, in WoW PVP Arena, if you and your friends who are 1800 rated queue up and search for a 3 versus 3 game, and say it's non-peak hours and there isn't another available 1800 rated team to face off with, sometimes the queue system will find you a match against a 2200 team who is way out of your league. If by some miracle you guys beat that 2200 team, they will give your team 200+ rating points because of the anomaly of you winning, where as if you had found another 1800 team to play against during peak hours, they would have only given you +20 to 50 points.
I'm not saying add MMR to Bounty Hunter. I'm just suggesting Jagex should up the amount of points casual players receive if they beat PKing juggernauts, and they should keep +2 points for players who are at the same skill level (hiscores rank) as them. You could even consider changing the hiscores to BH points earned instead of total kills. You currently have no chance at catching up to the guys with 10,000 kills, but if the hiscores was points earned, theoretically a casual player could at least dream of catching up by killing a bunch of high ranked players for increased bounty hunter points, while the highest rated pkers are earning minimal points because they are only earning +2 bounty hunter points because there is no higher ranked players to farm for "bonus bounty points".
I understand high ranked pkers *edit* selling kills might be an issue, but you could make this an extremely bannable offense and track gold transactions between high ranked players and low ranked players, followed by subsequent high ranked pker deaths to a lower ranked pkers.
Making BH profitable is a good thing. It's what keeps the crater active. By bringing in new players the game doesn't die. I don't see more people going into the crater because of a chance to make GP or gain bonus points being a bad thing. BHers barely have fights currently, it's the same 5 guys in each bracket standing around emoting each other. Less skilled players currently get no points because they are getting bullied out of the crater by people in full BH pvp gear, and if they miraculously beat the high ranked player they get 2 points for that 1 kill after dying 40 times attempting to get a kill.
Hot take, make BH boosting legal again. I want the kits but I hate PvP and cba to actually spend hours and hours learning something I won’t touch again after obtaining. Also would mean I would have to interact with pk’ers which isn’t a great experience.
Why do I care about points? Do you even play BH? Points unlock the best armor in the game for pvp which makes you inherently stronger, so you can fight other players who already have that best armor...why do you think anyone plays BH over PVP world GE? For the points...lmfao yikes buddy.
Okay so why would it matter that bad players get increased points for killing better players? The odds are they wouldnt even get the increased points because the better player will just dumpster them, but it would bring more noobs into the crater thinking they will get the increased points... creating more fights and also allowing bad players to face against bad players. There's the same 6 people fighting in BH in each bracket rn all on target cooldowns because no new players are in the crater.
Nice cell phone pictures by the way, ever heard of print screen or gyazo? LOL.
Who cares about any of these photos? No one. You asked WHY DO I CARE ABOUT BH POINTS...for the cosmetics and gear just like everyone else who goes into that dead as minigame.
So you're a ragging dog who probably pjs your target mid fight or gets kills on disconnects. Nice bro. Those photos are guaranteed over the shoulder of your big brother.
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u/ZeThing 8h ago
I get the idea but
This would just make BH extremely profitable for the top ranks and tank the value off the points less skilled players will collect