Murder Counts

Summary

• Players can track Murder Counts and have a running Murder Fees amount they will be responsible for paying on resurrection as a Murderer
• Murderers who die while participating in a Town Struggle, around an IDOC area, or in a duel/tournament in the Arena, or while on a ship are not subject to resurrection fees
• Each murder count requires 72 hours, of time logged in on the counted character, to decay
• Players will remain Red (murderer status) until they have fewer than 5 murder counts on that character

Murderer Death

• Murderers that die in a Dungeon (not including Wilderness) will always have a minimum Region Restriction of 15 minutes put in place for that region (in addition to any restrictions due to recent murders)
• When players die, if they have 5 Murder Counts or more on their character, they will be responsible for paying off their Murder Fees Gold amount before they are allowed to resurrect
• Upon paying their Murder Fees, the player's Murder Counts will be reduced to 5 (if above 5) and their Murder Fees amount will be set to 0
• If a player elects to waits for their Murder Counts to decay below 5 and then resurrect, any Murder Fees for them will still remain in place, and will simply have to be paid off the next time they die with 5 Murder Counts or more

Slaying Murderers

• When a slain Murderer resurrects and pays their Murder Fees, the player that killed the murderer will receive anywhere from 25% to 50% (randomized amount) of the paid Murder Fees as Gold added directly to their Bank Box (previously was a flat 33% amount)

Murder Fees

• When a player commits a murder and is reported for it, that player's Murder Fee will default to 1000 Gold
• However, if the victim is able to report more than 1 player for their Murder, the Murder Fee amount will be increased by 250 Gold per additional player beyond the first: each of these additional players will be referred to as "Accomplices"

Example

A player is attacked by 5 different players in a dungeon and is killed (i.e. a murder with 4 Accomplices)

All 5 murderers will have a Murder Fee of (1000 + (4* 250)) = 2000 Gold assigned to them

Murderer Region Restrictions

• If a Murderer dies in a punishable location (i.e. not Grey Zone or PvP event) they will have an Region Restriction placed upon them for every region they committed a murder within during the last 60 Minutes
• Region Restrictions prevent a player from committing Aggressive Actions towards any Blue players in that area
• Region Restrictions also prevent a player from committing Beneficial Actions towards any Murderer or Criminals in the area as well (they may heal Blue and Green players as normal, however)
• The duration of all of these Region Restrictions will be (30 Minutes + (15 Minutes Per Highest Accomplice Count)) based on the highest Accomplice count of any of their murders occuring over the last 60 minutes regardless of location
• Murderers that die in a Dungeon (not including Wilderness) will always have a minimum Region Restriction of 15 minutes put in place for that region (in addition to any restrictions due to recent murders)

Wilderness

The Wilderness is now treated like a standard "Dungeon" for the purpose of assigning Region Restrictions However, Region Restrictions for the Wilderness will always have their duration reduced to 50% of the normal length that would be applied to Dungeons

Example

The following actions all occur within 60 minutes:

• The player commits a murder by themself in Pulma
• The player then commits a murder with 2 players in the Wilderness
• The player then commits a murder with 5 other players in Ossuary
• The player is then killed after running into Darkmire Temple

The player's Highest Accomplice Count for any murder during the last 60 minutes is 4 Players, for their murder committed in Ossuary with 5 people

The player will now have an Aggression Restrictions of (30 + (15 * 4)) = 90 minutes applied to Pulma and Ossuary The player will also have an Aggression Restriction of (90 * 0.5) = 45 minutes applied to the Wilderness