Had a near miss yesterday with someone who’s found a even worse vehicle to use for under the map free kills, the Avenger.
I went through the motions to report him, plus a few others who were exploiting the Orbital Cannon on some poor saps and then joining back via a friend.
Hopefully something good comes from it, but the real issue needs solving.
If it were me, If someone’s caught trying to dodge paying for a shot, I’d have the original 750k deducted from their account, plus another 750k for trying to dodge it to begin with.
Caught doing it again? The original amount plus 1.5mil and so on and so forth for every attempt afterwards.
Don’t have enough to cover one of the taxed shots? 1 week in Badsport for every shot you can’t pay for.
Somehow keep doing it in badsport? R* start doing stat resets or outright bans.
Of course a simple option would be for the game to take the money and save it before shooting and ONLY refund the player if the intended victim leaves the lobby before the shot is made.
The player can then choose to either pick another target and get their moneys worth or back out of the cannon and then have the 48min cooldown kick in while he’s refunded his money.
This way the user can either waste money on someone he didn’t intend to kill or get his money back but be unable to use the cannon immediately if said target decides to return to the lobby.
Combine that with the punishment for trying to dodge paying for and the Orbital cannon now becomes a much less effective griefing tool.
Want to ruin someone’s day from the comfort of your facility? better bring the money and don’t even try to weasel out of paying for it.
