Hey there,
I've been noticing with assassins we're sort of seeing a situation where contracts are only being placed perhaps 15, to 30 minutes before the hit takes place and only with small amounts of gold. The immediate follow up is the contractor who takes it gets paid a large stipend for their services privately.
This feels a bit off. Ideally contracts should be accessible for all guild members, and the actual handler of the money should be the guild specifically. We shouldn't have private payments happening, essentially moonlighting the guilds services.
To make this construtive, I had some ideas that perhaps there should be a few hour or even a day delay before a contract goes live so that every guild member can have an equal shot at going for the reward. And the guild should also clamp down on moonlighting, it wouldn't be hard for the DMs to investigate individual hits just to make sure there isn't a overwhelming bypass of the guild its self.
These are just thoughts here, but the current state of 100k to 200k thrown down on a whim in short duration hits and not a properly paid out high value bounty means that it's only appealing to very select guild members who are in with the contract placer, instead of widely available to everyone with a class token.