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On September 28 2019 19:33 herMan wrote:
I don't see the point of having bounties placed on the strongest people in the world. Where is the bounty hunter who will take them down?
It was cool when the Straw Hats were new to piracy and enemies with bigger bounties kept showing up. I don't see why marines would be discussing yonkou bounties at all. Everyone knows who these people are and what they're capable of.
You'll always have the lone people like Mihawk that are extraordinarily powerful who might maybe do it, but yeah realistically they aren't going down to a bounty hunter of basically any type.
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Olli
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Bounties don't only serve the purpose of rewarding people who bring down criminals. They're also there to show how far some people have stepped outside the law, and how much the government is theoretically willing to pay for their heads, which might scare off some who would otherwise consider joining a Yonko's crew or collaborating with them. Put a number on someone's head and they're portrayed as evil. The higher the number, the worse they are. It's as much a message to the public as it is a reward for bounty hunters.
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On September 28 2019 19:33 herMan wrote:
I don't see the point of having bounties placed on the strongest people in the world. Where is the bounty hunter who will take them down?
It was cool when the Straw Hats were new to piracy and enemies with bigger bounties kept showing up. I don't see why marines would be discussing yonkou bounties at all. Everyone knows who these people are and what they're capable of.
The higher One Piece Bounties get, the further away from the purpose of IRL bounties they get. IRL Bounties people will actually expect them to be cashed in on, and the higher the bounty you put, the more likely that would become. One Piece Bounties are used by the WG to assign threat level.
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so exicted to know what the shichibukai bounties will be.
Expecting Mihawks to be the highest, obv. I'd give him like 2.2 Billion^^
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Bounties don't make much sense anymore. They made sense back when Zoro was a bounty hunter, and bounty was put on Luffy, so we can see the world acknowledge Luffy as a pirate. It stopped making good sense when bounty amounts were used by everyone in the grand line as bragging rights and comparing their power level to each other using the bounty amounts.
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they describe a threat level to the world government.
They are made to show every shmug in the world who to avoid, where to live, what to do.
how does it not make sense?
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Bounties are fan service by Oda so that the powerlevelers can jerk off to them.
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I remember reading that 1 beli = 1 japanese yen, so 2 billion beli would be around 18.500.000 us dollars which isnt really a lot when you think about it if these pirates are a threat to the World order
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18.5mil in non industrial times is not much?
I think your value of money is a little skewed
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On October 01 2019 16:53 sharkie wrote:
18.5mil in non industrial times is not much?
I think your value of money is a little skewed
Ok, so I quickly googled and found that Nami in the Drum arc mentioned that her coat is worth 28,800 beli. Thats 265 dollars by todays exchange rate.
Now. I dont know how much use it is to compare one piece economics with the real world economy but if a good coat is 29k beli then 2 billion is not really a lot. Thats my 2 cents
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Nami has pretty expensive tastes and that isn't even that outrageous for a coat in the US today and 18.5 mil is a lot of money.
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On October 01 2019 18:51 Slaughter wrote:
Nami has pretty expensive tastes and that isn't even that outrageous for a coat in the US today and 18.5 mil is a lot of money.
I looked up the bounty the US put up on Osama Bin Laden, between 2001 and 2011 it was 25 million dollars. Thats 2.7 billion beri. I take everything back, the bounty system makes sense. Oda is a genius
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Never mind...f*cking trolls :D
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Olli
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Shanks worse than Bin Laden confirmed
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Bad taste to compare fictional characters with real, but the scale and power of the Yonko are threats to the world order are at least several hundred times beyond that of Bin Laden and his organisation. Bin Laden dies, nothing really changes. Whitebeard dies, and the entire One Piece world changes. Also Bin Laden is but a man. In One Piece, these high bounty people are the equivalent of military power of entire countries.
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Yeah all things considered these people are more comparable to leaders of major powers. To boot if a Yonko dies the fleet is expected to break apart (like it did for Whitebeard) unlike heads of states who can be more easily replaced.
If the US would put a price on Ayatollah Khamenei or on Kim Jong-Un I'd expect the bounty to be significantly higher than on Osama bin Laden and even higher on someone like Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, which are more the people I'd compare Yonkos to.
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Olli
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This is heading into uncomfortable territory so please be warned to keep it civil in advance
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Elentos
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On September 28 2019 20:49 Zambrah wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2019 19:33 herMan wrote:
I don't see the point of having bounties placed on the strongest people in the world. Where is the bounty hunter who will take them down?
It was cool when the Straw Hats were new to piracy and enemies with bigger bounties kept showing up. I don't see why marines would be discussing yonkou bounties at all. Everyone knows who these people are and what they're capable of. You'll always have the lone people like Mihawk that are extraordinarily powerful who might maybe do it, but yeah realistically they aren't going down to a bounty hunter of basically any type.
Realistically if there was ever a single bounty hunter who could claim one of these bounties, that would just immediately be a new problem. Unless they're full time World Government contracted.
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On October 02 2019 00:38 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2019 20:49 Zambrah wrote:On September 28 2019 19:33 herMan wrote:
I don't see the point of having bounties placed on the strongest people in the world. Where is the bounty hunter who will take them down?
It was cool when the Straw Hats were new to piracy and enemies with bigger bounties kept showing up. I don't see why marines would be discussing yonkou bounties at all. Everyone knows who these people are and what they're capable of. You'll always have the lone people like Mihawk that are extraordinarily powerful who might maybe do it, but yeah realistically they aren't going down to a bounty hunter of basically any type. Realistically if there was ever a single bounty hunter who could claim one of these bounties, that would just immediately be a new problem. Unless they're full time World Government contracted.
Yeah but you might get the guys like Mihawk who only give a shit about fighting strong people and don't really seem to care to make trouble for the WG so long as they dont bother him.
Odds are though, with that kind of strength? Yeah they'll become the Yonkou they take out.
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Olli
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It'd be extremely funny if one of the Yonko took out the other three and the government had to fund them for life via bounties
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