Bingo Book & Bounty Hunter Occupation (ANBU)

[ViscaBarre]

What

This contains details and ideas on ways to implement Bingo Book and Bounty Hunter Occupation. Bounty Hunter would and should not be PVP-only - there are ways to provide PVE content with it.

New travel page is being re-designed in a way to take tracking as well as bounty hunting into consideration. As much future-proofing as there can be. New travel page can be added beforehand without these features.

I'll use Anbu as placeholder for clarity's sake, it's a familiar term for many. It'll need its own name, possibly one for each village.

Why

o Provide more things to do o Add one of the most beloved occupations and the one with most badass factor in the series o Add PVE content but in a way that it also supports PVP gameplay o Add more flavour and worldbuilding o This is hella cool boyos

Becoming a Bounty Hunter

o Unlock Bounty Hunter occupation at Jounin with content continuing to Sennin

• While it would be nice to have it available from chuunin and I'm not personally opposed to it, it makes more sense lore-/ability-wise to be available from jounin

o Each village would have their own Anbu headquarters in Village Menu where they'd apply for the position

• Relatively easy entry requirements
• Was thinking of something like kill 1 chuunin and 1 jounin from each village (10 total kills)
• This will lead to kill trading/players helping each other but then again it already happens with daily tasks and I don't consider it a super bad thing - if anything, it sparks life to PVP

o The Anbu headquarters would contain an Anbu NPC, personalized to fit each village, with whom the player interacts as a member

• Not necessarily the leader, could be ambiguous about it
• Different personalities? Dialogue? Be adult about it, varying characteristics.
• I can't remember what game it was (Shin Megami Tensei?) where if you die, Death mocks the shit out of you each time using a random line from a collection of dialogue. While that won't do in this game, could have some kind of awareness to player actions.
• No avatar for the Anbu NPC necessary, though it'd be cool if there was one mask type for each village that could be used on background (silhouette)

o The headquarters acts as the place of managing both the Bingo Book and Bounty Hunter occupation related things

• Browse and accept new NPC targets
• Claim rewards (special titles for certain targets could be one, also have bounty hunter specific currency: headbands? tags?)
• Set and manage player targets to "hunt"

o Player would have their own Bingo Book to keep track of ongoing and successful hunts when outside of village

• Display available NPC targets, but with redacted info "???" until they're accepted as hunts
• It would also act as a collectable feature, "I've hunted 3 out of 10 possible NPC targets" or "In my list of killed players I've got Ein and Law and Gojo and-"

Hunting

o Targets to hunt would involve NPCs to choose from to give PVE options if there are not enough players around, or for fun

• NPC targets could refresh once a week (display 1-5?)
• Some targets could be shared between villages, but there could also be targets exclusive to one's village
• Come up with background story, crime, reason for being wanted, etc. for the NPC target
• Dialogue when they are found?
• NPC targets could have spawn conditions such as weather (sandstorms for wanted target Sumie of Sands) and area (Leaf forest, Cloud plains) - the weather would affect the battle with the target

o Hunting for NPC targets could involve actual tracking by finding signs in the wilds

• Some kind of messages, "You see tracks heading east." "A faint scorch mark is found on nearby rocks." "You hear the air crackling with static. The target is near.
• Tracking system on travel page can be utilized

o Not all targets require killing. After weakening the target, player could be presented with options "capture, interrogate, kill."

• Player would have to make the right call depending on the posted Bingo Book request in the headquarters, eg. make it clear or semi-clear what the elders want to be done about the target.

o Player targets are available and could be displayed in headquarters' bounty board using their avatar

• Separate board from NPC targets
• It's been requested that players themselves should not be able to set bounties on each other due to abuse/alt farming/something
• How would the system set bounties on players? On what metrics?

o Bounty hunter occupation gives access to enhanced tracking (tie to level) to be used on player targets once leveled enough

Being a Bounty Hunter

o Succesful hunts provide experience towards player's Bounty Hunter level

• The improved tracking and ways to improve it could be main reward for leveling up
• At the end of level there could be a special target to hunt in order to level up, with difficult spawn conditions and battle difficulty
• Higher bounty level lets you take rarer hunts and track more players at once (cap at 3 plz for travel page re-work)
• It's been requested not to "make leveling the bounty hunter a chore like 3000 enemies like on TNR"
• Other rewards? Titles and frames have been suggested

[ViscaBarre]

Adding to

Being a Bounty Hunter

o Succesful hunts could reward ninja headbands (bounty hunter currency) to exchange for bounty hunting equipment and other items such as

• Sonar Resonator: Usable out of combat. Nullifies stealth effects from surrounding tiles for 15 seconds.
• Flares: Usable out of combat. Basically ping on map to coordinate attacks with your team.

Some of the NPC Targets could have ties to the NPC Heads of Clans.