Bio Engineer Archive

We need more abilities to SURPRISE our mark. Most padawans simply RUN when they see a player on their radar.

IMHO, I'll probably be fine with what the CURB will bring combat-wise, but I'd love more methods I could use to catch a Jedi off-guard.

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NasherUK wrote:

The 1 mayor issue I'm having with BH at the moment is:

A lot of knights are making their alts into MBH just so they can take the mission on themself, then kill them with their jedi for free easy FRS exp with no loss over and over.

I say the devs should at least remove the FRS experience for killing MBHs until they find a more sensible system and start thinking stuff throughbefore they code it. THIS is reason for the increase in BHs, not people wanting tobecome a BH to play a BH.

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Message Edited by coronetrebel on 02-22-2005 12:13 PM

Message Edited by VozzParck on 02-24-2005 02:01 PM

My top complaints/suggestions, not in any kind of order:
1. Easier to use Bounty Hunter terminals.
2. High defense perks when fighting Jedi to actually make it a challenge for them and not a waste of time for us and higher defense in general.
3. Fire KD under the BH Carbines tree should do what it implies, light the target on Fire(maybe remove the KD part since there's Underhandshot)
4. Make carbineer knockdowns knock down more.
5. Increased payouts for player characters and NPCs alike.
6. Better accuracy on all kinds of Jedi, especially for MBHs using carbineer or pistoleer.
7. Some kind of non-Jedi, player character bounty system based on one or some of the following ideas:
-Players who have committed in-game no-no's(Exploits, violation of ToS agreement).
-Players who have been notoriously successful in PvP at the current time.
-Players who have developed in-game story lines where the target would agree to be hunted and the person who wants the person hunted pays the fee(for the RPers).

I know #7 would be kind of tricky since you'd have a lot of morons running around posting bounties on people for BHs to take based on no particular reason, but I think something logical based off of some of the ideas I listed can be came up with. All in all, when it comes to a BH fighting even the lowliest of Padawans, the Padawan usually wins which is stupid.

Forgot to mention.

The visability on all Jedi need to be raised A LOT even for the newbie Padawans who have next to no skills. You should get visibility if you are online or not. Being offline should give you half the amount of visibility you get for being online.
If little newbie Jedi have a problem with this, I say too bad. You chose to go Jedi and you chose the dangers and hardships it goes along with being a Jedi.

1. A tab on Bh terminals to seperate jedi and npc missions


2. Outside jedi can still heal tef'd jedi.


3. The BH carbine and BH pistol tree's need balancing, a bh carbineer gets a kd and a dizzy, while a bh pistoleer gets neither, making it near impossible to stop a running jedi.


4. 85% saber block needs a MBH counter, as any jedi over 170k is untouchable, unless unbuffed and/or stupid


5. Jedi can still break tef by running into a house, not sure if this is meant to happen.

• A person could show up on the boards if they are currently "Special Forces" (formerly "overt"). Say an overt person kills a lesser overt person or short changes a merchant with no combat skills. The lesser person could go to a BH terminal and create a bounty mission on that other overt person for payback. He could then also give instructions to deliver a message, etc... This would not only improve game play for BHs but also give a semblance of realism and justice/vengance for other players as well. Especially in cases where non-combat oriented players get short changed or perhaps scanned and made overt and subsequently killed by player characters. This would greatly increase the role of the BH for not only the BH but for other characters that will come to need their services.
  
• A checkbox in the player profile could be addedthat gives them the option to become listed on the BH terminals.
  
• Allow players to assign "grief" points to other characters (one point for one character to another, i.e. the player can only give one point to one other character name but another point to another character so they could have limitless points to give but only one point for each individual to avoidany one persongiving, say,200 points to the same person) then when the grief points hits a certain threshold (example: 150, or an accumulation of 150 individual grief points from 150 separate individuals) they would then become available on the BH boards, perhaps people could also have the ability to donate credits at this point to the overall bounty reward so if the person does hit the boards at the assigned number of grief points they could help determine the payout. Possibly a combination of combat skill of the player for which the bounty has been posted plus the donated amount by the players casting the grief points. This would also have the effect of "policing our own". The grief points would also reset to 0 once the bounty was made and characters could also get their one grief point back to reassign if they wish to that same character for a future bounty.

3) Player Character only BH terminals or a check box to search only Player Characters.

• I get sick of sifting through all of the NPC bounties when we really want to hunt the player characters. This really detracts from the game and is a waste of time, especially since it seems to be that all of the NPC bounties are bugged anyways.

4) An affiliation checkbox and/or tab.

• I'm a Rebel, I do not want to hunt other Rebels, nor do I care to travel across the galaxy to find out my mark is a Rebel and have wasted my time. Perhaps it could even be as simple as a showing only marks that are NOT your affiliation (i.e. neutral or opposing faction).

5) Better firing capabilities.

• Its been mentioned before but worth repeating. Transfering of weapons should have the time reduced or eliminated. A BH in Star Wars is known to have used multiple weapons at multiple times. The skills should reflect that, either reduce the time or do away with it. Perhaps the time could be reduced as skills are gained.


• This suggestion is probably one that should be considered for other professions as well, but we should have the ability to fire from our mounts either vehicle or pet. Especially if you are over water. I can see a loss of skill on the mount but there should be some sort of "cavalry" skill which increases with the skill of the BH. Vehicles (such as the speeder bike) had weapons in the movies, why not in game?


• As related to above, I spent an hour pointing my blaster at a Jedi mark who decided to take our fight to the oceans of Endor. If I'm on my lesser dewback who is doing the swimming for me I should be able to shoot him.

1. allow us to change our names temporarily while on a hunt. If you tend to be notorious for hunting Jedi,they tend toautomatically be on guard when they see a familiar name(even when they aren't necessarrily the target) or even worse they run.


2. Having the ability to hide or temporarily change your faction would help out withinfiltrating groups or guilds.


3. BH's should be able to hide on a radar when approaching a target.


4. If our droids can track atargets movements, why not let us be able to track a mark to the last place they logged out at?


5. Why would a MBH advertise his proffession on his Bio? We hunt other players. Why would wewant tolet them know what our job is?