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#18, "Mercenary offices for PCs."
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In the same way you have Bounty offices where players can put a price on the head of another player in their PK range, and thus have an assassins anonymously murder the target and earn the copper for it, it might be interesting to expand the excisting mercenary guilds to include Player Characters among their ranks.
Now, this can take many forms indeed and it would open up quite a few new roleplaying possibilities imo, and mostly for the Warrior and thief classes. Should a player's role include or even focus upon it, they could go enlist themselves in a mercenary guild and offer themselves for hire to other players or maybe even cabals. They could serve as bodyguards or escorts (warriors), spies (thiefs) or soldiers or, well, whatever really. All the kind of stuff mercenaries irl do. What it would come down to is that they could announce to other players that their sword and/or skill is for hire for a price (which would be done in a similar way bounties are placed), and then they could go about their usual bussiness (ranking/pk'ing/whatever) until someone comes to the mercenary guild, reads the available info and the price of the enlisted mercenary player, and then contacts him to strike a deal and an agreement on the length, nature and duration of the service to be provided.
That someone could be anything from a lowbie mage that is looking for a high-ranking warrior to rank up through his painful levels quickly, (and of course, the higher the rank of the mercenary the more he can charge for his services), or even Cabals that can use these players to do their dirtywork for them without the enemy cabal really knowing that they were behind it, or to have the mercenary act as a spy.
Etc. The possibilities are quite numerous I think, and it shouldn't be all that hard to code. ...right?
Anyway, flame away.
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[View all] , Valguarnera, Wed 19-Mar-03 05:24 AM
March Contest is done!,
Valguarnera,
02-Apr-03 02:59 AM, #64
The In-town-duel,
Abthalok (Guest),
31-Mar-03 04:02 PM, #62
Mage services.,
Urden,
31-Mar-03 01:44 AM, #59
Writers..,
Nightgauntish (Guest),
31-Mar-03 01:03 AM, #58
Gloves!,
Dallevianish (Guest),
30-Mar-03 03:23 PM, #54
RE: Gloves!,
ORB lives (Guest),
31-Mar-03 04:02 PM, #61
Guides.,
Boldereth,
30-Mar-03 03:27 AM, #46
Mobs for seeing hidden (the other idea I keep forgettin...,
Quislet,
30-Mar-03 02:15 AM, #40
Power level concerns.,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 02:32 AM, #44
RE: Power level concerns.,
Quislet,
30-Mar-03 01:33 PM, #49
Outside the confines of the contest. (n/t),
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 01:56 PM, #55
An idea I keep forgetting to mention: 'portfolios',
Quislet,
30-Mar-03 02:15 AM, #39
Horticulturist - or something,
Young Nastyman,
29-Mar-03 01:23 PM, #35
Impractical for technical reasons, unfortunately.,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 02:18 AM, #43
Race only items in the various cities,
Hutto,
29-Mar-03 04:06 AM, #34
RE: Race only items in the various cities,
Quislet,
30-Mar-03 02:16 AM, #37
Well then,
fleshofchaos,
26-Mar-03 08:32 PM, #31
RE: Well then,
Karel,
29-Mar-03 04:06 AM, #33
Morale boosting,
Quislet,
30-Mar-03 02:16 AM, #38
RE: Well then,
Karel,
30-Mar-03 03:23 PM, #57
Higher Level Mercenaries,
Hutto,
26-Mar-03 08:32 PM, #30
Cleaning Fairy,
RealShea,
24-Mar-03 10:21 PM, #29
RE: Cleaning Fairy,
Quislet,
30-Mar-03 02:16 AM, #36
Engraved and Carved Items - Tattoos,
Sniggle,
24-Mar-03 10:21 PM, #27
Porters,
Ululari,
23-Mar-03 08:03 AM, #25
Right, here we go.,
yimadapul,
22-Mar-03 12:37 PM, #24
Portrait Artist,
Ululari,
21-Mar-03 06:54 PM, #23
RE: Portrait Artist,
Ululari,
24-Mar-03 10:21 PM, #28
Purposeful distension,
Jake (Guest),
21-Mar-03 03:51 PM, #22
RE: Purposeful distension,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 01:42 PM, #50
RE: March Contest: (Reply to this post to enter),
v_vega,
21-Mar-03 02:50 AM, #21
Outside the confines of the contest.,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 01:43 PM, #51
There's no place like home.,
RealShea,
20-Mar-03 01:29 PM, #18
Smith's,
Krivohan,
20-Mar-03 12:02 PM, #17
RE: Smith's,
Astillian,
24-Mar-03 12:43 PM, #26
Bounty hunters (IMMs),
Llohuir,
20-Mar-03 05:00 AM, #16
Power level concerns.,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 01:49 PM, #53
More games,
Hutto,
20-Mar-03 03:16 AM, #15
Traveling,
Gastaad (Guest),
20-Mar-03 02:59 AM, #14
Mercenary offices for PCs.,
Spa (Guest),
20-Mar-03 02:51 AM #13
Need clarification:,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 01:59 PM, #56
re:,
Spa (Guest),
31-Mar-03 02:07 PM, #60
huh?,
Quislet,
01-Apr-03 09:15 PM, #63
All I can say to this is....,
Spa (Guest),
02-Apr-03 12:43 PM, #65
Orb Idea 1,
ORB,
19-Mar-03 11:24 PM, #12
Transportation methods.,
Quislet,
21-Mar-03 01:54 AM, #20
I like this one,
Xandrya,
28-Mar-03 08:55 PM, #32
A smith.,
Krivohan,
19-Mar-03 10:57 PM, #11
Locksmith that makes keys,
RealShea,
19-Mar-03 05:34 PM, #10
Steeds,
Uncle Bob,
19-Mar-03 05:12 PM, #9
Far too complicated.,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 01:46 PM, #52
RE: March Contest: (Reply to this post to enter),
Falstaff,
19-Mar-03 04:31 PM, #8
RE: March Contest: (Reply to this post to enter),
Zulghinlour,
30-Mar-03 02:15 AM, #42
Suggestion for level limitation,
Falstafff (Guest),
30-Mar-03 01:33 PM, #47
Surgery,
RealShea,
19-Mar-03 02:42 PM, #7
RE: Surgery,
Quislet,
21-Mar-03 01:43 AM, #19
Pay for Concealment,
RealShea,
19-Mar-03 02:39 PM, #6
Power level concerns.,
Valguarnera,
30-Mar-03 02:34 AM, #45
Zombie Making,
RealShea,
19-Mar-03 02:31 PM, #5
RE: March Contest: (Reply to this post to enter),
Snarf,
19-Mar-03 02:25 PM, #4
RE: March Contest: (Reply to this post to enter),
Zulghinlour,
30-Mar-03 02:15 AM, #41
RE: March Contest: (Reply to this post to enter),
Quislet,
30-Mar-03 01:33 PM, #48
Shields and Boats,
Scorbus,
19-Mar-03 11:04 AM, #3
RE: March Contest: (Reply to this post to enter),
Dr. Flush Tag (Guest),
19-Mar-03 09:32 AM, #2
Please think of the kittens,
Captain K (Guest),
19-Mar-03 05:45 AM, #1
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