12. Only members of official contract factions can do contract kills.
- Admin jail
- If you wish to do something like this, you are required to have permission from the Head Of Factions
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Ministry wrote:If the staff team want limitations on murder for hire, then limit it to official faction members only, not just one faction.
Ferdinand wrote:In my opinion, part of the reason why murder for hire has been limited to DieCo (LivePay) is to prevent the whole chain between the "contractor", hitman and the victim.
The victim gets killed by what seems to be a random person so they're likely to see it as deathmatch, while in fact the hitman has money and a second-hand reason coming from the person ordering the hit. Given that DieCo members are few and trusted, they are granted with ability to choose between orders which have a good roleplay background and reasoning from "this man called me an asshole, kill him" orders.
Given the current practice of PMing the killer 'why' the kill's been done is commonly used (without having to post a forum report etc.), I guess not much would change, as long as new hitmen (those not employed by DieCo) would be willing to comply and share information after the hit's been done - in order to confirm that it was in fact not straight-out deathmatch.
Another issue is that it's fairly complex to determine which certain situation the player is being PKed from if a kill is being done by a third, unaffiliated party (this largely applies to players having more than one person after them). Kevin wants to kill Peter. Peter stays in hiding while ordering a hit on Kevin. The hit is done. How would Kevin know to steer clear of Peter as it would be revenge killing, if he is not certain that Peter had ordered the hit? This is an issue in the old as much as it would be an issue in the new system with unlimited murder for hire roleplay.
Perhaps it also has something to do with the fact that this type of roleplay is interesting to many. Much like being corrupt in PD, being a hitman is appealing to a large amount of players, so altering this rule might result in an unrealistic number of hitmen. OOC rules regarding corruption in PD and SD are there solely to force a sort of realism and to prevent every single cop from being dirty or straight out corrupt, and it works.
The majority of posts in this thread are calling for altering the rule, and I have to concur. It'd be interesting to see it happen; perhaps at least a trial period could be given to see the consequences of allowing contract kills without involving DieCo. In my opinion pros would outweigh the cons.
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