Territory Bounties have been soft launched — meaning the system is live in the game, but we will not turn on automatic scheduled bounty creation right away.

In short: when a bounty is running, cartels in the matching strength tier fight for tickets on a specific territory. The leader when it ends takes the win — vault cash, cartel respect, armory loot, and sometimes bigger prizes (including rare/legendary territory perks). Wrong tier or timing means your wins still count as fights, but they do not add bounty tickets.

Soft launch plan

• Ship without a schedule — no weekly auto-spawn at first. Bounties will only appear when staff start them on purpose.
• Let the code settle — run it live for a couple of days and watch for bugs from the new systems (combat scoring, resolve rewards, UI, etc.).
• Fix anything that breaks — if something feels wrong or broken, report it and we will patch before wider trials.
• Volunteer trial runs — once things look stable, invite a few cartels to try a real bounty on their territory (or a suitable tile) so we can gather feedback.
• Dial in rewards — repeat a handful of trials across different cartels and rarities until the payouts feel fair and exciting.
• Then go full chaos — when rewards and flow feel right, turn on the regular schedule and let bounties spawn on their own.

Looking for volunteer cartels

If your cartel wants to help stress-test a Territory Bounty during the trial phase, say so in this thread.

I am especially interested in hearing from higher-ranked / competitive cartels (using the highscore boards as a rough guide), but any organised cartel that can field fighters during a live window is welcome. I will be directly reaching out to offer the trials for cartels in the top of the rankins and work my way down to get a good mix of tests with different rarities and rewards. I expect this will go on for a couple of weeks likely before we have things tuned to a point where the schedule makes sense to turn on.

Ideal volunteers can:

• Field enough online attackers during a live bounty window (often a couple of hours, longer for higher rarities).
• Give honest feedback afterward — pacing, ticket clarity, rewards, fairness vs other cartels, anything confusing in the UI.
• Accept that trial payouts and timings may still be adjusted — this is about learning, not locking the final economy on day one.

When you volunteer, please drop:

• Cartel name
• Rough strength / who you usually compete with
• Preferred trial window (timezone + days/times you can show up)
• Which territory you are willing to fight for(and possibly lose)

What to expect during trials

• Staff will announce / spawn a bounty for a chosen territory, tier, rarity, and theme.
• There will be a short upcoming period, then a live scoring window, then resolve with rewards.
• Feedback in this thread (or reports via the usual channels) is hugely useful — especially if something feels unclear, unfair, or too swingy.

Player walkthrough: https://cartelempire.online/Forum/Thread/7517

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help us get this right before the scheduled version goes wide. Looking forward to the chaos — after we earn it.