Reporting and Placing Bounties One In The Same?

[Blackbeard]

Just wanted to bring the subject up since I thought that reporting someone for murder and placing a bounty on their head were two separate options.

[Karik Verlee]

They are related but different. To report someone for a murder gives them a long term count and a short term count, even if you place 0 gold on their head.


Now if you put 1gp-10kgp and report them they get the short and long term count as long as a bounty posted on them.

[Lazarus]

So its worst to report the bounty? Does that mean they can't macro off the kills if theres a bounty on their head?

[nightshark]

Bounties are only collectable from a character with 5 or more short terms.

Having a bounty or not makes 0 difference on timer to 4 short terms or 4 long terms.

Clicking "ok" on the bounty gump will report the character for murder, with no bounty. Posting a bounty is pretty much entirely pointless as the only thing it will serve is a sense of satisfaction to the killer. I know on OSI some dude bountied my deep stat for 50k and it was the happiest moment of my life.

[BenBrawl]

pretty much the only the bounty is for, is in hopes of someone checking board and seeing Player X has a 50k bounty, killing him and get the bounty. By killing the PK he is most likly in stat and will either have to macro kills or take a skill loss and res.