I read a lot of comments on here. I just started playing red dead on line today. And unfortunately I could not complete my first free roam mission, because I had one idiot who will not leave me alone. I was trying to meet a stranger in blackwater, and as soon as I enter Blackwater I was shot dead. I had no clue what happened, so when I respawned I tried to continue to the stranger. With the same idiot shot my horses and then shot me again. I respawned, went into my map to try to find him, and he shot me again. I just turned the game off, and came here to find a solution to this. And what I’ve read so far is not reassuring. I don’t like the ps idea. Had bad experiences with idiot switching to passive and you can’t retaliate.
Best idea I heard so far is a bouncy and jail system. Rockstar should track the amount of players killed by a single player and free roam. So if you’re out there fishing, or hunting, or maybe just going for a ride on your Horse. If someone comes up behind you and just needlessly murderers you, they will instantly have a bounty on their head. You then will spawn fairly close to that person, so you could be the first to retaliate and collect the bounty. Then Said person would be in jail, and will not be able respawn to free roam for 24 hours. After leaving jail if that person needlessly murders another player he would then have a body count, and an increase in bounty. With each murderer body count and Bounty will increase +24 hours in jail.
This will give us players that’s just trying to play the game and needlessly get interrupted by some idiot, the satisfaction of retaliating and getting something in return in the form of the bounty. Plus knowing that they won’t be back to bother us. And for those players who likes to constantly “watch their back’s” Will have an added intensive level of watching your back with the bounty on your head.