nalf wrote: [1]Technical: How to compute the bonus? Just a kill/death ratio isn't enough. If Gunther kills a rant and dies as a rifle, it's certainly different then if I die as a bluci and kill a dretch.
[2]Conceptual: I don't like #3, since it actually punishes good players for being good, and rewards bad players for being bad. While it balances the game to some extent, it motivates people to be and remain bad players. This is my strongest reason against #3.
Well, since I don't love formatting as much as nalf does:
1. You compute the bounty by comparing credits spent to credits earned (or to be exact - evos to credits, some kind of rough exchange value can be calculated from test game).
2. First - make the armory/evo cost substantially higher (doesn'tmatter how much at this point, but for example +500 to lucisuit).
Second - divide the bounty into 3 (for example): low, medium and high.
Third - establish a rule: if you bounty is equal higher than your opponents' you get lower reward than standard, he gets higher.
Now. The best player in the world aka The Nab is running his dretch all the time against Filler.gm (naked rifle).
Unsurprisingly after 10 deaths, The Nab has 0 evos, for he didn't kill Filler. He spent 1500 ("150 credits for dretch" x10, example) credits and gained 0, so his bounty is rather low. Filler on the other hand has spent 200 credits (naked rifle - the amount of "evos alien gets for naked rifle" but presented in credits). Filler didn't die at all and earned 1500 cerdits, so his bounty is high.
Filler now buys lucisuit for 1500 credits, he's untouchable to The Nab (still dretch) but on the other hand for killing The Nab will get only 25 credits, so he aims his luci at the goon for the goon is rewarded with more credits.
What we have now:
1. You have to kill the bilion dretches swarming your lucisuit - that doesn't give you another lucisuit
2. You get your bounty lowered for killing weaker players.
3. To earn another lucisuit you have to kill a high bounty players.
4. You can stay naked rifle, but then again the low bounty drech will kill you fast, and get a goon.
But then again this might be totaly wrong
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