Criminals must pay with jail time

[Mitre]

In short, it would be nice if ESO added jails to the game. It wouldn't have to be exactly like Skyrim but at least another option rather than paying the fine or running from the law. Also, it wouldn't hurt to make the guards a bit more interactive with some personality and humor thrown in. For example a guard could suggest taking a bribe if one of the stolen items of his choosing was offered. They would in turn look the other way and let you pass. Just a few thoughts and would like to hear from other players.

Otherwise, having a great time playing the opening Morrowind and exploring the volcanic island. The Korean MMORPG (BDO) just don't get it. The wildlife is too friendly unlike here where you actually get attacked even by a mud crab. The scenery is fantastic. The combat is smooth and although a few balancing issues remain it has been a great experience so far.

[watchdog79]

A big no to jail time from me.

Perhaps you would have fun staring at four walls, but I won't.

[Mitre]

Originally posted by watchdog79:

A big no to jail time from me.

Perhaps you would have fun staring at four walls, but I won't.

Lockpicks

[The Infinite Archiver]

In Skyrim there were ways to get out of prison, while you needed lockpicks, I no doubt see why it can't be implemented, perhaps with a way so you can go into jail, breakout and as long as you have not been detected, you can erase your criminal bounty/record and then escape.

[Mitre]

Originally posted by Ratak the Warden:

In Skyrim there were ways to get out of prison, while you needed lockpicks, I no doubt see why it can't be implemented, perhaps with a way so you can go into jail, breakout and as long as you have not been detected, you can erase your criminal bounty/record and then escape.

Exactly! Nobody says you have to wait in jail for hours but even if you did it would add more importance to not getting caught.

Other idea I have is the corrupt guard could bribe you to let you go if you give him one of your items picked randomly. Just throwing some ideas out there.

[Redwood]

I'm glad getting in trouble with the law is not such a big deal. I keep breaking it accidentally.

[crazycupmuffin]

After 5 years without adding something like a jail, I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

As a Thief and Murderer in ESO. I fully support the idea of adding in a jailing system in the game. It's way too easy for me to remove bounties from my head and makes breaking the law in the game less of a feature and more of a 'why even have it' kind of a deal.

#bringjailstoeso

[Vazkulator]

throw those filthy grey skins polluting our cities all the way to prison, skyrim belong to the nords

[Valravn]

100% support this. To counter act the jail time make theft/murder more profitable but more dangerous.

You then get put into an instance with other criminals without equipment which you have to try and escape from, the instance should be pretty damn hard. You get all your stuff back at the end of the instance.

Instead of sleeping off jail time you can choose the option to 'Serve your sentence' which maybe gives you an exp debuff or maybe even a stat decrease depending on how long you're in there for? Not so sure about this part.

It's far to easy and profitable for me to doing my murdering rounds in Desheen.

[crazycupmuffin]

Originally posted by Spectre v13:

100% support this. To counter act the jail time make theft/murder more profitable but more dangerous.

You then get put into an instance with other criminals without equipment which you have to try and escape from, the instance should be pretty damn hard. You get all your stuff back at the end of the instance.

Instead of sleeping off jail time you can choose the option to 'Serve your sentence' which maybe gives you an exp debuff or maybe even a stat decrease depending on how long you're in there for? Not so sure about this part.

It's far to easy and profitable for me to doing my murdering rounds in Desheen.

Put yourself in jail then. If you get caught, make a pretend space your jail and sit there for an hour. There you go.

[Mitre]

Originally posted by Spectre v13:

100% support this. To counter act the jail time make theft/murder more profitable but more dangerous.

You then get put into an instance with other criminals without equipment which you have to try and escape from, the instance should be pretty damn hard. You get all your stuff back at the end of the instance.

Instead of sleeping off jail time you can choose the option to 'Serve your sentence' which maybe gives you an exp debuff or maybe even a stat decrease depending on how long you're in there for? Not so sure about this part.

It's far to easy and profitable for me to doing my murdering rounds in Desheen.

I agree .. these are all great ideas on how the game can be improved. It will only help add to the immersion and add more weight to any crime. Perhaps Bethesda/Zenimax is listening.

[Ghetto Gecko]

It has for sure negative but also positive points. Biggest negative point is probably, that you get dragged out of your planned gameprogress. If you are into a quest and a guard is catching you, then you lose all the feeling for the quest you were in, when you decide to get jailed.

Positive point is, that it have space for "escape-quests". Even alone with lockpicks, or you can arrange some public players, who are fighting through the prison, to rescue you.

[Valravn]

Originally posted by crazycupmuffin:

Originally posted by Spectre v13:

100% support this. To counter act the jail time make theft/murder more profitable but more dangerous.

You then get put into an instance with other criminals without equipment which you have to try and escape from, the instance should be pretty damn hard. You get all your stuff back at the end of the instance.

Instead of sleeping off jail time you can choose the option to 'Serve your sentence' which maybe gives you an exp debuff or maybe even a stat decrease depending on how long you're in there for? Not so sure about this part.

It's far to easy and profitable for me to doing my murdering rounds in Desheen.

Put yourself in jail then. If you get caught, make a pretend space your jail and sit there for an hour. There you go.

That's not really particularly fun is it? That's not the world reacting to my actions in game. I know you're not a big fan of the jail idea and you're probably right, it probably won't happen.

Still it's fun throwing around ideas, whether or not anything actually happens.

[Valravn]

Oh Mitre did you ever play Archeage before it went to hell? That game had a criminal system where if you attacked other players and were killed as a criminal your peers would actually judge you and potentially jail you. You could also escape.

[Mitre]

Originally posted by Spectre v13:

Oh Mitre did you ever play Archeage before it went to hell? That game had a criminal system where if you attacked other players and were killed as a criminal your peers would actually judge you and potentially jail you. You could also escape.

Actually, I was thinking of the way it was based in vanilla Skyrim mostly. I believe this can work and perhaps they have even looked at this.

For example I did the quest recently called "Breaking through the Fog" where it had a interesting twist instead of the linear go and fetch this quest we are used to. Nobody says that you will need to wait real hour time in a jail cell interrupting your questing. It would be just an added element thrown in to enhance the gaming experience for everyone.