Justice system bounty, was the bounty supposed to be across all of Tamriel?

HeroOfNone

I seem to remember at one point that bounties would be town or alliance based, but it seems any time I might go on a murder spree in ebonhart or steal stuff in the rift, the gaurds in Marbruk would like me to have a discussion with their blades. I thought at some point I heard the bounties would be regional. Was this a fever dream, something that had to be removed, or something planned for future updates?

HeroOfNone

Well a few people seemed to remember it being talked about as being regional but no longer having it. Just some feedback with the bounty system and stealing as well.


The fact that we have a bounty in a town we rob and kill people in makes sense, but the wide spread notification everywhere seems a little heavy handed and borderline lore breaking. Game play wise I understand though, you don't want someone stealing and running off to another town for a while.

As a compromise, would it be possible for your bounty to be wracked up at a town, then when you go to a different town or faction, they want you to pay a portion of the bounty to clear your name in just their faction/town?

Say you wracking up a 1000 gold bounty in daggerfall and run to wayrest or teleports to riften, the bounty for your name there is only 250. You csn pay the 250 off in riften, but still have that 1000 to pay in daggerfall. Until that runs out or you go back and pay it off, other towns you visit will continue to ask for 250.to pay off the 1000 you'd either have to visit the town again and turn yourself in or visit a fence.

If you built up a 1000 bounty in daggerfall and then another 1000 in the rift, you can expect if someone in the rift catches you they will get their bounty first and then the full amount from daggerfall.

A few other feedback things to add difficulty:
- remove stolen items when entering alliance wars, or prevent entering when you have stolen items
- give a time decay till stolen items expire
- disallow anyone from looting bodies they didn't have a hand in healing an a at Acker or hitting them
- Using a way shrine removes all stolen items or reduces values.

Thanks

Nestor

This whole bounty thing is pretty easy to take care of. Just take off your armor, let the guards kill you, and resurrect, your bounty is gone. The only trick is dropping your loot off at the bank before you sacrifice yourself to a guard.