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Considering the fact that SoE has made it so hard for another BH to tag along from the get go as opposed to happening to bump into a BH who has the same bounty mark and hooking up with him, the fact that SoE has tried to make it as "1vs1" as possible, i don't think they ever intended for a jedi's "friend" to ruin your mission by stepping in and finishing a job nobody but you is supposed to be finishing.

Shady? Hell yeah.

Exploit? Not unless a Dev says so, or something....

Working as intended? I HIGHLY doubt it.

Game is fubar, on my way out the door a second time. Breaks are good.

Check out the said jedi's response:

I am a BH that doesnt hide and fights straight up. No other reason than I enjoy it more.

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Jakber wrote:

Check out the said jedi's response:

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blah blah, I talk big to make this exploit sound reasonable

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Akast wrote:
nah just cheap had this don to me in MO but the stupid jedi cloned to mo clone center so i went in and killed him

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Good! Whether or not it's an exploit is beside the point. It's a cheap, chicken-shyte thing to do, and "rewarding" that Jedi by killing him is a nice way to help the Force regain itsbalance.

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Wolf24601 wrote:

How can anyone characterize it as strategy or fair play? These are the two ways I view it:

Role Playing:

"I don't want him to kill me...you deathblow me...put me out of my misery before he does..."

The Friend deathblows you, but the BH gets the money and you lose your force XP.

Since the game mechanics don't work that way, I present case #2:

Exploit:

"I don't want him to kill me...you deathblow me...that way I won't lose any experience since he is clearly going to kill me soon..."

The Friend deathblows, ruining the BH mission and saving you three hours of grinding. [emphasis added]

Everyone calls it an exploit in-game. When I had a BH after me the other day, all my friends started offering to dual with me as a way of helping. They almost got me killed trying to help me...but finally stopped trying when I told them it was between me and the BH.

Wolf

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That sort of sums up the way I view it. And I doubt if the so-called "Jedi" in question and their friend was roleplaying with the BH.

What's really boggling is that this problem has been going on for quite a while, and in my mind all it would take is a simple fix:

1. Disallow the /duel command on a target with a BH TEF raised. There's absolutely no valid reason for a Jedi to accept a duel request while dealing with a BH. -AND-


2. Either disallow the /deathblow command from anyone other than the Jedi and the BH -- to each other -- while there's a BH TEF in place. -OR-


3. The system drops any outstanding duels in place for the BH and the Jedi once a BH TEF is raised.

#1 solves the problem of the chickenshyte "tactic" of a friend initiating a duel after the BH attacks, with finger poised over a hotkeyed DB command.

With #1 in place, either #2or #3solve the problem of the Jedi friend doing a DB, even if they already had a duel going.

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Jakber wrote:

I tracked my jedi mark and found him hanging out on his speeder. I attacked and missed his speeder which got me a tell from jedi stating "Lol, you noob". Asked him to check /getvet to see who noob is, well anyways, on to what I really want to know. I started to gain the upper hand and had him almost dead when all of a sudden the jedi has a friend walk up next to him. Next thing I know I see the jedi is a corpse. I didnt do the DB.

I told the jedi he used an exploit to get away from me, he responds " this isnt an exploit having a friend db and it wasnt a fair fight anyways because I had no force". Force or no force thats not my problem but having a friend db to avoid a BH db, is this an exploit? or as intended? is this reportable? just curious. Ask many jedi, I am an honourable BH that plays fairly and so I expect the same.

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