Thinking about this idea for a little bit.
Basically if you are being pursued by a guard you can type /surrender and your character will put his hands up/unequip their weapons and wait for the guard to catch up with them.
Guard them bounds the players hands and walks them back to town.
Player gets put into a stockadeor a cell naked where other players can throw tomatos at them.
Player then gets to wait a minimum of 5 mins where every minute they slowly gain some reputation back.
The rep can increase until they are at a baseline again so they can rejoin society.
All of your personal belongings will be returned to you at the end of the wait time.(stolen items will be taken back and returned to owner)
Higher offenders will also be executed at the end of their sentence where they lose their items.
Of course you will always have the option to suicide during this process and just continue being a criminal as usual.
This would solve the issue of having to run parcels and offer an entertaining experience for all people in town who can chat with the men on the gallows.
Make this also available for bounty hunters to turn in a criminal alive
Also arena that a criminal can’t leave for an option to gain rep!
Basically if you are being pursued by a guard you can type /surrender and your character will put his hands up/unequip their weapons and wait for the guard to catch up with them.
Guard them bounds the players hands and walks them back to town.
Player gets put into a stockadeor a cell naked where other players can throw tomatos at them.
Player then gets to wait a minimum of 5 mins where every minute they slowly gain some reputation back.
The rep can increase until they are at a baseline again so they can rejoin society.
All of your personal belongings will be returned to you at the end of the wait time.(stolen items will be taken back and returned to owner)
Higher offenders will also be executed at the end of their sentence where they lose their items.
Of course you will always have the option to suicide during this process and just continue being a criminal as usual.
This would solve the issue of having to run parcels and offer an entertaining experience for all people in town who can chat with the men on the gallows.
Make this also available for bounty hunters to turn in a criminal alive
Also arena that a criminal can’t leave for an option to gain rep!