Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Stop the exploiters!
ther34p wrote:
Heard a classic one last night. A friend of mine (Jedi) was being tracked. He knew the BH was after him so he went planet hopping. He would use only the main planets with the 'round' starports. Every time the BH caught up with him he would launch to another planet. He eventually started getting tells that he was exploiting the system lol!
OMFG!!!!1111!!one!!one!11!!1 kill te sploiter!11!11!!one!!!!one!!1!!1
l337 jedi h4x0r n' their sploitz............
Message Edited by EmporersFist on 09-23-2005 11:49 AM
ther34p wrote:
Heard a classic one last night. A friend of mine (Jedi) was being tracked. He knew the BH was after him so he went planet hopping. He would use only the main planets with the 'round' starports. Every time the BH caught up with him he would launch to another planet. He eventually started getting tells that he was exploiting the system lol!
That's just funny. I had a similar mark that didn't want to "fight" per say... He just wanted to annoy me until I dropped his mission. This guy didn't go offensive on me at all, for 2 days. He would just root/run/heal all the while mocking me, blowing up bikes, etc. It was like a challenge. I finally caught up with him on the second day, laid a trap for him, and nailed him.
Patience...... pays.
mindspat wrote:
lbfoofoo wrote:
thats not an exploit, thats just damn funny. being able to launch into space might be some sort of exploit but its things like that that make chasing the jedi fun. some bh get mad but i like when they do that. I love the thrill of trying to get to the jedi before he leaves, its more of a rush.
::Starport Attendant:: "Excuse me Sir, I realize that your ship is only 30m from you but you are not allow to enter it"
::Jedi:: "Why? My ship is right there and I can see it."
::Starport attendant:: " Yes Sir, but there's a Bountyhunter shooting at you and you are suposed to let him attack you."
::Jedi:: "But my ship is right there! The darned platform is open!He's trying to kill me!!!! I'm going to get on anyways..."
::Starport Attendant:: "Sir, that is exploiting becasue you are not suppose to run away if someone is trying to kill you."
::Jedi:: "You are saying that I am supposed to 'not run' away if someone is trying to kill me even if my ship is right friggn there!?!?!?"
:: VVvvRRRrroroooooOOOoommmm!!!! ::
Funny. It doesn't really make sense when you think about it.... a lot of things don't. I say, let em run to space. It would be a lot of fun to chase a Jedi through an Asteroid field and/or through hyperspace to another system. You SHOULD be able to blow a Jedi's ship to bits in space, and I'm appalled that that functionality in space was seemingly overlooked!
I know... Master Pilot's can waste any player in space in 4-5 hits, usually less right? That's becase space PvP damage is at the 100% level of PvE. All they need to do is install the same damage modifier system that the ground system uses, where damage is roughly eqivalent to 1/3 the PvE output. Problem solved. Would make the space game more enjoyable anyway!
And yes..... ifthe system were in place, and a Jedi was in another player's ship, it would be attackable too. THE ONLY thing that happens when a ship blows up is extremely minor credit loss (which could be debited from the offending Jedi's account?) and wounds to the occupants who died.
But BH's SHOULD be able to blast other's in space.... WHO'S WITH ME!?!?! OVERTHROW THE MAN!!!!!
lol... seriously, anyone agree?
ther34p wrote:Heard a classic one last night. A friend of mine (Jedi) was being tracked. He knew the BH was after him so he went planet hopping. He would use only the main planets with the 'round' starports. Every time the BH caught up with him he would launch to another planet. He eventually started getting tells that he was exploiting the system lol!
I've done that before to a BH with an attitude problem. I wanted to kill all the fun from it since he was being so rude the whole time, so I lead him around, and just when I thought he was about to give up, I stopped and let him catch me, only to send him cloning in less than a minute I believe.
mindspat wrote:
My understanding is the issues with Jedi in space and exp loss where what caused exp loss to be removed from PvE death.
If a Jedi were in an MP ship and the ship was destroyed and/or the Jedi were killed due to plasma leaks it would cause the Jedi to loos EXP in the same way they would while on the ground. Short of recoding this feature to not be applied in space they simply turned it off for the entire system.
I was under the impression it was turned off due to the CU. Our correspondent at the time, Son_Gouki (/salute) was requesting that all XP loss be turned off for a month or so to allow Jedi to get used to the new system, find it's nuances, it's do's and don'ts and to allow some time for the bugs/glitches/exploits to be found and edited out. PvE death loss was shortly thereafter turned off, and never turned back on again....
If realism and logic are what you're going for then you should be campaigning for docking fees at all star ports as well as a maintenance cost on the nessesary items needed to keep a ship running. Otherwise, this whole being able to launch while TEFed thing goes against similar decisions devs had made regarding Jedi under a TEF (i.e. Mobile homes and things of that such.)
mindspat wrote:
lbfoofoo wrote:
thats not an exploit, thats just damn funny. being able to launch into space might be some sort of exploit but its things like that that make chasing the jedi fun. some bh get mad but i like when they do that. I love the thrill of trying to get to the jedi before he leaves, its more of a rush.
::Starport Attendant:: "Excuse me Sir, I realize that your ship is only 30m from you but you are not allow to enter it"
::Jedi:: "Why? My ship is right there and I can see it."
::Starport attendant:: " Yes Sir, but there's a Bountyhunter shooting at you and you are suposed to let him attack you."
::Jedi:: "But my ship is right there! The darned platform is open!He's trying to kill me!!!! I'm going to get on anyways..."
::Starport Attendant:: "Sir, that is exploiting becasue you are not suppose to run away if someone is trying to kill you."
::Jedi:: "You are saying that I am supposed to 'not run' away if someone is trying to kill me even if my ship is right friggn there!?!?!?"
:: VVvvRRRrroroooooOOOoommmm!!!! ::
lbfoofoo wrote:
you can't leave the planet if you are agroed right? so why can jedi leave if BH agroed? If he's not agroed let him leave, we'll find him on another planet. the space attack thing i agree with though. if we have a bh mission we should be able to attack the jedi in space. we don't have to cause damge to his ship that needs to be repaired. maybe once we gt the kill his ship respawns at the space station with what ever damage he had when we first attacked.
Jedi can't leave if agroed. There was a reason he chose only the planets with the round starports (distance between terms and loading area).
Reading this thread the responses are excellent, shows that some BH's actually take their prof seriously, and put some effort into it (boom droid at terms etc). Patience does pay off :-)