Bank Heists!

I thought this up while thinking of ways that you can get LE, but will also be challenging and quite fun

If you want a small summary, TL;DR, you rob city/town banks for emeralds.

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will give you LE, and if you're determined you could use it as a primary source of getting emeralds.

However, I also want it to be a challenge and fun..

So here's how it should work.

The main idea is, you infiltrate a city's bank, go through several challenges, in order to get to the main vault and claim your prize; emeralds.

There is one catch.. they are not the same difficulty, and they have different challenges, puzzles, and guards.

How will this difficulty be divided? It should likely depend on the level of the city, for example; Ragni might be simple for mostly everybody, however if you go and rob Corkus's bank, you will face MUCH harder challenges and mobs.
However it should likely be worth it, as more difficult banks should likely yield more emeralds. (Detlas might give you 5 EB, but Llevigar may give you 1 LE, so on and so forth)

Edit: as suggested, I put in an emerald sink, the amount of emeralds you get will vary, as such, one time you might get 32 EB another you may even get 10 EB.

And just for a bonus, the more you rob a bank, the less emeralds it will yield..

Detlas is the one exception to this rule, despite being a low level city, it's widely used as the main place to trade on the server. As such, their bank will be much more stocked with riches, and, as such, have much more harder challenges.

Now to how your heist will play out.

There will be a side place in each bank where an employee working against the bank will allow you access to the vaults… for a price.

This price may be keys, emeralds, certain items, accessories, items from other shops around the map, etc.

Let's take almuj for an example..

[1/3] Almuj Bank Worker: Psst, hey, over here, friend.
[2/3] Almuj Bank Worker: So, through this door, is the vaults, it contains all the riches of this bank.. I will let you in, if you want to claim something in there… for a price.
[3/3] Almuj Bank Worker: I heard over in Nemract, that Potion Merchant has a nice potion brewed up in his lab, gives you all sorts of buffs. Go get that potion, bring it to me, and you can head in…

after getting the potion…. which will also have some challenges in it, such as getting past the merchant and also getting past hired mercenaries.

[1/2] Almuj Bank Worker: Heheheh, so, you upheld our little deal. What a fine potion that is…
[2/2] Almuj Bank Worker: Head on in, go claim your prize.

then the heist begins, and your challenges commence.

However you can't just milk the place for emeralds, there's a time limit between heists.. may be 12 hours, may be 5 days, depending on the bank level.

Here's a little script I made showing what would happen if you talked to the bank worker while you're still on your time limit.

[1/3] Almuj Bank Worker: Psst, hey, over here, friend.
[2/3] Almuj Bank Worker: So, through this door, is the vaults, it contains all the riches of this bank.. I will let you in, if you want to claim something in there… for a price.
[3/3] Almuj Bank Worker: Huh? You've robbed this place before? Your time limit is still running, come back in 12 hours and 8 minutes, and you can infiltrate this place again.

NOW. For the actual heist.

This will be similar to a dungeon, you will have several stages, each varying in what you must do, you might need to solve a puzzle, you might need to run against the clock, you might need to do parkour, you might need to avoid guards in an extremely stealthy manner, on and on and on. And, in some rare cases, you may need to escape a cell inside the prison in order to re enter the bank. Which will be an extra challenge..

also just to throw this in, you gotta do it alone..

Edit #2: I think a small add in would be to state that this is not linear to the story and would just simply there for the fun of it. You don't have to rob banks, and story and lore wise the hero will likely never do it. So this idea can still surface, though the character's role will still be as normal...

just convenience

Thoughts? Please, if you have any ideas to add to this, put them down below, and I might add them.

 

We aren't bandits and the last thing we need is more Le entering circulation

 

theres a huge reason i put in time limits.

and besides I'm 90% sure id probably only let highest banks even get over 60 eb

 

We already have a quest where we rob the Almuj bank, and this shouldn't be repeatable unless if you want inflation to increase by 1000%. Besides that like Yuno said we aren't bandits, and it would completely contradict the player's role.

 

Hundreds of players, if not thousands robbing banks is BOUND to increase inflation. No matter the challenge vs. reward, we don't need any more ways of getting money.

 

we kinda do but those should be money sinks too.

 

Doesn't make sense lore-wise

 

I think that it would be fun to do, but because of the reasons stated above, I don't think it should be added.

 

This is a lot but if u want a sink hole why not fix guilds (harder then said, I know) add vault/bank system and adding raiding /robbing but that would not fit the wynncraft style

 

In the quest where u need to get le for that sick person u technically steal and also in the quest thanks vaults u steal soo

 

So you want to rob the place... that holds your stuff?

 

Those quests had good reasons to have the heists. Jungle Fever has you tricked into thinking you're helping out a sick man (and technically the banker just gives you the emeralds when you ask him after the labyrinth), while the Thanos Vaults is ambiguous - it's implied that the treasure there is lost and rightfully belongs to the NPC, but also that you're stealing it. Having the player rob banks randomly without any reason sort of ruins the whole point. You're a Wynn soldier who travels the provinces trying to help the locals out. You don't always do the right thing, but you always have decent intentions.

There's another problem in that some places are implied to be way richer than others. Almuj, Llevigar, Cinfras, Detlas and Thesead are all said to be well off, while Olux, Gelibord and Nesaak are poor. All of these places have banks, and it wouldn't make that much sense to have them all dependant simply on level. Olux would have more wealth than Llevigar and Almuj...

 

tbf lore wise you are a huge asshole
You've done some terrible things

 

and also lore wise, as a player you're either completely oblivious to anything or borderline retarded

 

lore wise again, you've betrayed your kingdom

 

when did that happen?

 

GTA Wynn confirmed

 

Whenever you rob a bank

 

But aren't banks just tied to a city?
There's no tax. *Timothy Tod flashback*

 

To be honest, I like this idea.

I don't like the way it impacts the economy though.

If we could somehow add a money sink into this, like a chance of succeeding or losing, this could world.

+ 0.5