Busting

How about the time you get jailed for is some kind of calculation between the targets level and time in jail.

make it potentially 0.02 multiplier per level (level 25 and below all treated as the same)
E.G
Level 25 (and Below) = 0.5 x Time
Level 50 = 1 x Time
Level 75 = 1.5 x Time
Level 100 = 2 x Time

So a level 60 in for 6hrs would be
1.2 x 360 = 432 minutes
7hrs 12 minutes

I think this would be best, makes more sense than one person messing up and then everyone ending up in jail for a whole day.

If you don't want to be in jail for a whole day then don't try to bust people who are in for more than 12 hours lmao

Yuno_Lift [121252]If you don't want to be in jail for a whole day then don't try to bust people who are in for more than 12 hours lmao

with that logic if you get caught trying to bust you will never get out and everyone will just stalk the lower times.

This would still be a broken system, look at the jail. People who are in for less than 8 hours are still gone instantly meaning busting is still a race to be the first.

Dunc [217831]

Yuno_Lift [121252]If you don't want to be in jail for a whole day then don't try to bust people who are in for more than 12 hours lmao

with that logic if you get caught trying to bust you will never get out and everyone will just stalk the lower times.

This would still be a broken system, look at the jail. People who are in for less than 8 hours are still gone instantly meaning busting is still a race to be the first.

This.

All this change has done is make the jail relevant to busters, and it is now VERY relevant. You can't even self-bust with that much time, the game prevents an attempt. I agree with the OP that a different metric to assign time in jail is probably the best answer. I want the jail to be meaningful, but not just busters, and PA teams.

Dunc [217831]

Yuno_Lift [121252]If you don't want to be in jail for a whole day then don't try to bust people who are in for more than 12 hours lmao

with that logic if you get caught trying to bust you will never get out and everyone will just stalk the lower times.

This would still be a broken system, look at the jail. People who are in for less than 8 hours are still gone instantly meaning busting is still a race to be the first.

The jail is a race to be first because people are not selectively choosing who to bust yet. Once they start doing that there won't be a jail full of people in for 24 hours. This suggestion would do nothing other than encourage busters to continue racing to bust everyone out as quickly as they can, which would improve nothing.

Yuno_Lift [121252]

Dunc [217831]

Yuno_Lift [121252]If you don't want to be in jail for a whole day then don't try to bust people who are in for more than 12 hours lmao

with that logic if you get caught trying to bust you will never get out and everyone will just stalk the lower times.

This would still be a broken system, look at the jail. People who are in for less than 8 hours are still gone instantly meaning busting is still a race to be the first.

The jail is a race to be first because people are not selectively choosing who to bust yet. Once they start doing that there won't be a jail full of people in for 24 hours. This suggestion would do nothing other than encourage busters to continue racing to bust everyone out as quickly as they can, which would improve nothing.

Rich people will just get friends to buy them out, while the fight for lower times just continues.
This suggestion provides lots of people in jail at reasonable timings that you can try to get out. People will always get greedy and go for that 1 extra bust putting them in jail.
Most people busting for PA's are higher level so the times in for failing to bust them will still be quite high

I don't think we need even more incentive for level holding.

Lower level players are already easier to bust, why do we need the penalty for failure to be lower as well?

im fine with the new jail times to be honest by the time your a high level just pay the damn 2m to get out if your above level 50 and cant spare 2m theys days then your doing something wrong.