Killing innocent players in Ultima Online is part of what makes Ultima such a unique and exhilarating game world. There is actual risk when a player ventures into unguarded territories from both monsters and other players.
However, a player killing innocent players does not get to do so without consequence. Whenever a player kills an innocent player if the innocent player reports the murder the murderer will accrue bounty upon their head. The victim is also able to add up to an additional 1,000 gold pieces onto the bounty. Increasing bounties yield longer risks and costlier bribes for murderers to avoid the effects of a the atonement punishment system which prevents murderers from attacking innocents for a period of time once they have been ‘shamed’.
The bounty board will let any player in the world know where a murderer’s bounty currently sits at.
To check your current bounty, long term murder count and cost of your bribe a player may say, “I must consider my sins“.
- Long term counts are accrued for every murder of an innocent player. Each long term count is 40 hours of time a player shall spend known as a murderer.
- Short term counts are a property of the player’s current bounty. For every 125 gold of bounty the player shall receive 1 hour of statloss penalty if their heads are turned in.
- A murderer is able to bribe a bounty hunter to remove their temporary atonement penalty time. It costs 500 gold per 1 hour of statloss to remove.
Murderers may enter any of the five warring towns unless their ministers implement the Disciplined Guards bonus.
The guards of all but one neutral city, the city of Roache, will also not permit murderers to enter.
They will only be attacked by guards if they perform criminal acts upon innocent players as any other player would.
A few regions exist in the world in which murderers will not yield severed heads to bounty hunters when killed and therefor can not be put into atonement while fighting in these regions.
In these regions murderers may still accrue long term murder counts for attacking innocent players.
Statloss Exempt Regions in Atria:
