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19 February 2008 - Bounty Hunter Combat Changes and Rewards.


When we introduced Bounty Hunter in December 2007, we intended it, alongside Clan Wars, to be the first of a series of enjoyable PvP minigames. Three months on, we have had a chance to look at your Bounty Hunter feedback and comments, and have come up with changes that will really improve it!

For information on future PvP content and minigames, keep your eyes peeled. We have news for you in the coming weeks!

Combat Change:

First on our critical ticklist was the multiway aspect of Bounty Hunter. Occasionally, players would walk into Bounty Hunter and be ambushed by clans wanting to kill them for their items. This was not how we intended Bounty Hunter to be used.

So, this week, we have made Bounty Hunter single-way combat, meaning that only one player may attack another player at any time. There are two exceptions to this rule:

* You are able to attack someone who is in combat if they are your Bounty Hunter target
* You can be attacked when in combat if you are the Bounty Hunter target of your opponent

We would like to remind you that Bounty Hunter is a dangerous minigame, and you risk losing your items when entering the caverns.

Cash Rewards:

We have introduced another reason for being a bounty hunter: cash rewards for defeating your bounties.

Mandrith loves to reward bravery, so players who kill 10 or more bounty targets will earn cash rewards based on the market value of their combat items. This cash amount is worked out by taking only the second, third, fourth and fifth most expensive combat items you are carrying and giving you access to an amount of coins based on their value. You will have to defeat at least 10 bounty targets to receive your reward, which you can do by speaking to Mandrith.

There is a limit to the amount you can receive per 10 kills, according to the crater you entered:

* Low-level crater - You may receive a reward up to a limit of 40,000gp for 10 kills
* Medium-level crater - You may receive a reward up to a limit of 80,000gp for 10 kills
* High-level crater - You may receive a reward up to a limit of 120,000gp for 10 kills

A summary of your kills will be given when you exit each crater. You do not have to kill all 10 players in one go - Mandrith will remember how many more kills you need for your next visit.

Bounty Locate Change and Rune Rewards:

Some of you felt that the Bounty Locate spell was only available to members and was slightly too high-level, giving the advantage to more experienced players.

Well, we have made tweaks that should make the Bounty Locate spell more accessible and affordable! Firstly, we have reduced the Magic level required to cast Bounty Locate to 32, and reduced its cost to 1 law rune, 1 air rune and 1 fire rune.

We have made the spell available to F2P, and once you have made 10 Bounty Hunter target kills, you will receive a prize of 15 law runes, 15 air runes and 15 fire runes - the number of runes required to cast 15 Bounty Locate spells!

To get a running total of how many targets you need to kill, or to receive your rune rewards, visit Mandrith outside of the Bounty Hunter volcano. You do not have to kill all 10 players in one go - Mandrith will remember how many more kills you need for your next visit.

Link: http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=1097

In other news…

Mandrith has decided to make some amendments to his tutorial, so you may visit him at any point to read more about the Bounty Hunter changes.

Due to the recent improvements to Bounty Hunter, it will no longer be possible for you to take Summoning scrolls, pouches or summoned familiars into the dangerous minigame. This is because familiars cannot help you fight in single-way combat areas.

Players who return to their own gravestone in time can now pick up their Recipe For Disaster gloves if they died with them.

We've had a few words with Ordan at the Blast Furnace about his maths skills. He was getting a bit confused but he should now quote you the correct price for the amount of ore you wish to uncert.

The bank scrolling issue has been fixed so that it will now jump to the row of your bank that you were looking at when you last opened the bank interface.

Anyone have the possibility to check out the new BH right now?

I haven't even tried BH out yet anyway

I might try it in a few minutes, just got up ^^.

Do you think anything else changed in runescape like color?

~XxChronic2007xX

No nothing has changed, All my scripts work

Thanks for the quick reply.

~XxChronic2007xX

That's crap :( I KNEW they wouldn't bring pking back. Even I used to get more than 120k per pk :p

this will kill the bounty hunter way of trading items to your main. shame.

but i might actually go to bh now :D
~RM

lol runescape gayer!

From: Rasta Magician
this will kill the bounty hunter way of trading items to your main

So you cannot pick-up items that people drop anymore?

From: Rasta Magician
this will kill the bounty hunter way of trading items to your main. shame.

but i might actually go to bh now :D
~RM

How this will kill it. I think jagex just made it a lot easier.:spot:

i would have to agree transfering with an army is possible again now :D as long as your not to far off in comb…you can now be save when your a single player inside of the BH

From: HyperSecret
i would have to agree transfering with an army is possible again now :D as long as your not to far off in comb…you can now be save when your a single player inside of the BH

POSSIBLE?!

Can anyone confirm this?

In theory it should be fully possible. But do you still get penalty time if you kill someone that weren't your target? Anyone with the possiblity to check this out, please fill me in. This might be the thing SRL needs now.

Gold transferring should be easier but theres still a risk to get killed cos many people can have u as a target at same time and mass attack you..
and jagex lowered the requirements to bonty locate spell

From: codx1
Gold transferring should be easier but theres still a risk to get killed cos many people can have u as a target at same time and mass attack you..
and jagex lowered the requirements to bonty locate spell

I think you can only get targeted once at the same time.

Oh well, this is good for us (transferring), but with the new rewards if you kill the target…

This is essentially the system I suggested they change to when it was first released.

The only other thing I wanted in addition to the changes was for you to be trapped in the crater until you killed a bounty.

Of course, this way makes it much easier for transferring than my way would have, so I can't complain.

I'm excited to try it out now. The old way was such crap, this should be much better.

From: EvilChicken!
POSSIBLE?!

Can anyone confirm this?

Might this be helpful?

* You are able to attack someone who is in combat if they are your Bounty Hunter target
* You can be attacked when in combat if you are the Bounty Hunter target of your opponent

Well this should help out RWT but I think we all know why they put in rewards for 10 target kills and make the spell f2p and lower it to 32 mage so people would get a RWTer as bount and kill him easy enough but this makes thinga alot easier.

I am pretty pleased with this update. I have been building up an army of fighters and might even go to BH on my main now. Without the possibility of getting mauled by a 30 person clan, BH has some fun-factor to it now.

I like this update more with the tele to bounty decrease.

So would this work for transferring? Does EVERYTHING get dropped when you kill someone in bounty hunter?

From: nobody u kno
So would this work for transferring? Does EVERYTHING get dropped when you kill someone in bounty hunter?

Yes, you do loose EVERYTHING (no keeping 3 items), but I think they forgot to mention, that multiple people can be assigned the same target, and with the lower teleport spells, it makes it very hard to get away….

I went there earlier, prepared to die, but did not expect to be able to be attacked by more than 2 people, but was owned by a small clan…

I think this update made it even harder than before…

~RAM

I think this update provides both benefits and disadvantages to transferring stuff. Although you can't get attacked by 10s of people, the Bounty Locate spell is f2p and only needs level 32 magic to us, which makes the risk of either source character and destination character being randomly jumped higher. If you have already got the items onto the destination account, I believe that it has become easier to get away with the goods. I think that it has become harder to actually initiate the trade (i.e. getting two characters to kill/be killed before someone attacks either), but it has become easier to complete the trade since you can only be attack by 2 people max.

Also, I am wondering if someone starts to attack you whilst you are waiting for the penalty, would it be better to just tank him/her, as with enough teleports, it wold be very hard to run away.

But You Can Only Attack Your Target, What If Your Not Assigned With You Autoer?

awesome update, I would like it if there were some multi-combat areas to spice it up a bit, but other than this works out great for me.

Got like 20 kills yesterday ;)

if you can get targeted by everyone when you've killed someone who isn't your target but the people attacking you can't be targeted then you're screwed.
but maybe i misread, and when you kill someone who isn't your target you can only be attack by 1 person at a time.

~RM

Need more p2p bounty words.

ps. i dont use macros

From: takeNout
but it has become easier to complete the trade since you can only be attack by 2 people max.

I was under this assumption also, but As I mentioned, this simply just is not true… More than 1 person can have you as their target, hence, YOU CAN BE ATTACKED BY NUMEROUS PEOPLE AT TIME !

~RAM

From: lakerzz8
I am pretty pleased with this update. I have been building up an army of fighters and might even go to BH on my main now. Without the possibility of getting mauled by a 30 person clan, BH has some fun-factor to it now.

yeah the reason i didnt go was because i was sick of getting jumped by clans.

From: RAM
YOU CAN BE ATTACKED BY NUMEROUS PEOPLE AT TIME !

I guess the chance of that happening is rather small..?

I don't like it actually now, it is boring if you one-item because you can't clan anyone :(

Well, I transfered a rune platebody from a "worker" to one of my range pure character, and it worked perfectly. My range pure had 73 range, and my worker was level 22. I went into BH with both of them, and into the middle. there I quickly killed my worker, and stayed in the middle for the three minutes, with a full inv of swordies. another player was unlucky enough to teleport to me, and I owned him also, a mage pure with a low level. :p
Now I only would need to get my ranger high enough to get into the second arena, and tehn do the same thing to him with my main. :D (of course I am not doing that yet, still gathering more items form my workers, cause once I advance, it is ireversable) I think this update made it easier than before to trade items between accounts. (but that is only my opinion)

Yeah its an awesome update, much better no more getting teamed by big clan. And I like being able to tele to my target and dds special him to lala land. But the price for laws is going to go up. =0

From: Timer
But You Can Only Attack Your Target, What If Your Not Assigned With You Autoer?

All the update does is limit who you can attack when the person you are attacking is in combat and who can attack you when you are in combat.

From: RAM
YOU CAN BE ATTACKED BY NUMEROUS PEOPLE AT TIME !

As said, the chance is relatively low and it still beats having anyone being about to attack you.

This is better than before IMO, now PKers are good in the game.

the best way i can think of is have a three way kill

one player has the items and attacks the middleman
middle man kills player with the items and
reciever picks the items

dangerous- in deed

although if the player with the items attagks first than he ddies do you still get penalty? i dont think so since i killed someone who wast my target and i didnt get penalty.

From: Stur Pure
(of course I am not doing that yet, still gathering more items form my workers, cause once I advance, it is ireversable)

There are a few overlaps in levels. Crater 1 is 3-55, and 2 is 50-55. That means that if you got a lv50-55 char, you can enter both caves.
Same for 95-100, can enter cave 2 and 3.

I think there is a small glitch with there bounty targets. If your current target leaves and you were attacking him, you will start to run, but it leads you to your next target.

Wow lol I think that I just found a loop hole in the system which will let you get alot of bounty without getting killed. Get a friend who has alot of accounts than fight him repeatedly. Lol I might try this…

Nice idea..:rolleyes:

From: RAM
I was under this assumption also, but As I mentioned, this simply just is not true… More than 1 person can have you as their target, hence, YOU CAN BE ATTACKED BY NUMEROUS PEOPLE AT TIME !

~RAM

But that also works in reverse. If the number of players is equal to the number of targets (which is obviously true, because each player has one target) and one person has more than one person attacking him, it is also possible that you could not be anybody's target.

still is pretty lame on F2P, everybody stands right by the cave exit, fights until getting beat, and then exits through the caves

I miss the old wildy…

From: Drew_Dawg
still is pretty lame on F2P, everybody stands right by the cave exit, fights until getting beat, and then exits through the caves

I miss the old wildy…

Most people in F2P did that in Wildy too.

I think the new version is pretty fun. I like standing in the very middle of the crater and waiting for somebody to Bounty Locate next to me. If you kill them, you can take their stuff.

If they immediately start running, you get about 10 free attacks on them, which is free xp, so no complaints. If they stand around and duke it out, there's a slim chance you might actually kill them as they're trying to escape.

Of course there's the risk that you might get double and even triple teamed if you get unlucky and have someone hunting you, and then it can be a pretty long run for yourself.

Now its a lot harder to transfer items to your main. You gotta keep going in / out until your 2 accounts are each others target.

No, you can still attack other players

Its true about the whole F2P caves :/ Really hard to get loot.

And it seems that when Ive almost killed my target, my hunter (ALWAYS) pops up. Its annoying.

The biggest problem with BH now is the level restrictions.

A lvl 3 doesn't want to get pwned by a lvl 55. And a lvl 56 doesn't want to get pwned by a lvl 100. There's nothing fun about that at all.

I trained up a nice lvl 50 character for BH. And fighting with him in the low level cave is pretty fun. But at some point he will outgrow the low level caves, and then he'll be worthless. I have several good pures that I used to pk on, but they're all in the 60-65 range, so they're worthless for Bounty Hunter.

What's the point of fighting in BH on a character that will eventually become worthless? There's no point to it at all.

They need to fix the level restrictions somehow to make it so characters of any level can have fun.

One way would be to make it so that you can ONLY attack your target, and your target can ONLY attack you. And then they could have people assigned to other players that are near their own level. That would keep high level players from just pwning anyone 30 levels lower than them that walk by.

By the way, I'm starting to think that BH can be a good money-maker. All you need is a main and 4 or 5 wussy characters to beat up. If your main wears full rune or better, they will get up to 30k per kill. The only catch is that you need to target your own people for death.

I'm also thinking that someone should make a Bounty Hunter script. Take some noobs without any items and go in. Let people kill you all they want, wait 2 minutes then go in again. It would be free kills for people. You could have them set to auto-retaliate, so they might actually gain some levels along the way too. If we all picked one world and did this, we could have caves full of punching bag dummies to beat up. If you use signed/unsigned, you could have one dummy and one real player on each world. Anyway, it's just a thought.

I agree with tara, they should put in a similar wilderness type system to fight people only around your level, but then again, that would just become pking. Sigh* i miss pking so much. By the way i like the script idea too, but soon Fagex would catch on and ban everyone doing that

I just filled my friends pure account with goodies and transferred them to my friends main. I got him as my target the second before he killed me. 2m + to him.

Yeah, its simple to drop trade now, just go in BH and get killed, easy money for that person.

And I agree that there should be craters like that too. I had a 54 Range pure which got to 56, and now I cant go in the med level crater otherwise Ill be smashed.

Tarajunky has a good point there.
I had the same ideas.
Why don't they make a cave for 10/5 level ranges?
3-10, 10-20,20-30
or 10-15,15-20,20-25?

And have the same system?
Finding your target would be easier, and it would be a lot of more fun:D

PvH

even though this is an old topic..


If that was done PvH then it would be much easyer for people to trade items (without the limit) because there would be so little people in each level range.

all you would have to do is make sure the 2 chars are the same level (near). which most people who are friends.. are. (this wouldn't work for bots of course).

Since they reduced the number of BH worlds, they're all fuller now. Harder to find a specific person to fight.

I still think we could make some simple SMART scripts that would log dummy characters into each different BH world and let people kill them, wait 2 minutes then go in again. It would be kind of like a reverse fight caver, lol.

From: tarajunky
Since they reduced the number of BH worlds, they're all fuller now. Harder to find a specific person to fight.

I still think we could make some simple SMART scripts that would log dummy characters into each different BH world and let people kill them, wait 2 minutes then go in again. It would be kind of like a reverse fight caver, lol.

Hmm, sounds like a cool script…
See the proggies:

ZOMG ZOMG, I got you an uber 1337 proggy:

Died: 1288312 times
Ran for: 3 years, 6 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 5 hours, 7 minutes and 1 seconds!

Or something like that..
Think about it, who would use it in the first place:p
Second, do you really think you could level people out of the bh?
There are like 200 people, and if you are a noob, they get like 200 exp from you (50 hp * 4 exp).
Woow, thats a lot *lies*:duh:
Doesn't seem to be that usefull eh?
As you need a lot of exp.
And than 200 people?
200 times 1 level at a rate of 100 exp per minute? (200 exp every 2 mins max).
Doesn't sound that good:p
Still a cool idea, but nog worth it.

PvH

It wouldn't be for leveling YOUR characters, it would be for people playing BH to benefit from. A humanitarian script. :) You get xp from BH, but if you kill your target, you also get money from Mandrith.

Sorta like the old bot reporter scripts that some people would run. It didn't benefit their own characters at all, but it was for the greater good.

There are 3 BH free worlds. If people ran one signed and one unsigned on each world, that's still only 6 SMARTs, which a lot of people could run simultaneously in the background if the script was efficient.

I don't think it's ever gonna happen, but I still think it would be cool.

I haven't even tried BH , but anyway it looks like it getting better

only thing is, i think mandrith gives exp for the rarity of the equips ppl are wearing… and since they wouldn't be wearing stuff.. =X