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Or flesh out the jail setting more so it's a setting and not just a blank box.

Here's the problem I'm having, I think.

I've got a good feel for how you'd run the bounty hunter side of things. The game's new so I'm not penalizing a lack of tl;dr, but I have a few ideas on how to float a bounty hunter, what incentives I'd have to capture criminals, what would cause my character to work together with other characters, and so on.

But by comparison I'm struggling a little, I think, to figure out how I'd integrate a criminal based upon the very limited information here. Unless you do have a crime syndicate (which might expedite the swift release of certain criminals and make it make sense - something to consider) I'm not exactly sure how my criminal would run into other criminals criminalizing and make it make sense and be IC. Plus, if there's unlimited planets, there's still the entire factor of if there's a bounty out on my character why don't they run the fuck off to Jupiter to lay low for a couple of months until the bounty dies down. And criminals need to actually pull heists and the like to get a bounty on their heads, right? Or piss off the right people.

Plus, I guess, it's like this. For your game to run, you need criminals to get caught, right? When criminals get caught, the bounty hunters have incentives. They get money and whatever. The criminal can't tag for X days and has to put any plots they had in mind on hold until they escape.

Basically, as of right now with what limited information I have, if I was a criminal I feel like I'd be more like a monster of the week NPC than anything else. Definitely can be fixed, but you just need to flesh out that side a little now and balance things out, or maybe reconsider it being a straight bounty hunter/criminal deal and consider the fact bounty hunters can have bounties on their heads as well and make it more muddled in general. Plenty of ways you can take it.

Hmmm, yeah, I see exactly what you're saying. I'm glad to hear that there's potential to work around this, though. I'm going to give it some thought to see if I can come up with something decent and post it again in the new post.

(Also, when you mentioned unlimited planets to hide in, I started thinking maybe I should narrow the space travel down to a single solar system? Maybe less cool, but better parameters.)

Thanks so much for giving me feedback!

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Re: Firefly/GOTG bounty hunter vs criminal thing

Re: Firefly/GOTG bounty hunter vs criminal thing