Make mugging great again

Recently we got yet another mugging nerf as RR games in progress were removed from the lobby view. It's time to give something back to muggers and make the game more exciting and vibrant for everyone. We need more crying threads and bounties, this will benefit all players not just muggers.

Mug protection is now abused so much that it is no longer anything like it was intended to be, that is to protect offliners from being milked dry. It is now a just a cost of doing business for traders hiding behind it.

My suggestion is that we keep mug protection exactly like it is now for offliners. That would mean that someone could get mugged once for a moderate amount while they are sleeping for instance. But the moment their dot turns green the speed of the mug protection decay would be radically increased, let's say from 12 hours for 100% to 0% to 12 minutes. 

This would mean that anyone who has been mugged once and logs in would still have ample time to hide the rest of their money, but the abuse that we see now would decrease radically.

Edit:

Forgot to add that the faster decay mode would be irreversible once your dot turns green, so should probably not need a lot of coding.

Jussi for admin! 

R+

God yes!

If not this, any suggestions along the lines for a mugging BUFF are welcome.

I would suggest reducing the 12 hour protection to like 4-6 hour or something. It's still a free ride for he traders, and it's no secret it's not beingused as intended. If Ched can stop players from using bookies as vault cos it wasn't intebded for that, it's only fair we get some buffs in mugging as well. 

Turning too soft for a crime game

Another problem with the current system is that you cannot differentiate between a scammer and a buy mugger. Sure, eventually you get an idea but I don't think a buy mugger should be treated the same way the rest of the scum in torn are. 

It was so much better 4-5years ago, people would be brought down from billions to zero in minutes and there was lesser whining. People get mugged ONCE now and start throwing their toys out the pram.

If the bazaar buy-block is so necessary, I believe it should have a separate list, not the blacklist.

^Was initially suggested by someone else, can't remember who.

I see 100% agreement from the poll so far ;) R+



The last RR changes made me really sad and angry, I couldn't believe it. How much more softness is good for this game?

this addresses the need to keep the offliners from getting mugged dry, while aiming to limit or cut down on the unintended use of the mug protection mechanic

Hell yes! Will R+ when I get a chance!

Make Mugging Great Again!

I agree. Mugging is total shite now.

I remember in ched's announcement he said the first mug on a person when they have no protection should yield more cash, but that only worked on mugging people with below 100m cash lmao. 

Because of this, I wanna suggest that the rates for mugging are revised too. It currently scales down to 1% of their cash, I believe, which is kinda dumb. And that's with max mugging merits if I'm not mistaken. Should be around 5% for the super high amounts in my opinion. This gives a nice lump sum to the mugger, whilst keeping it balanced in my opinion. 

Not sure what others think about the mugging rates. If others agree, could you add it to the top post plz? Thanks :)

fully agree

I play a lot of RR, and have been mugged frequently. It's annoying as shit obviously, but that's my problem. This latest RR change is yet another pathetic pander to idiots to soften the game up even further.

edited to be slightly less visceral. @Chedburn come on. did this go anywhere near the committee? Surely you can see this is a step too far in the wrong direction.

100% yes please 

i subscribe to proxis view ... i get mugged as hell because i am not carefull ...

but this game is becomming way to soft 

Have seen similar discussion before on this...if you're online you should be fair game.

Hope you get some traction on this.

Are you selectively forgetting that the hide-money-in-bookies-workaround is no longer a valid one?

How  about the ghost trades? 

That is nowhere near an incentive for muggers. Ched simply removed a feature which wasn't being used as intended. Bit inconvenient for everyone that's it, doesn't mean people carry cash openly now.

Mug protection isnt being used as intended either. It is quite a joke at this point with near to no risk factor. 

No, I didn't even consider that because it's kinda irrelevant for this discussion. Nobody is going to keep interesting amounts on hand just because they can't use the bookie bank. That will only hurt new players, flower runners and so on.