Bounty Hunter Archive

---

Tanks wrote:

Very well written and thought out proposal. Too bad that it is neither practical nor even desirable by BHs.

---

First, a few questions:
Why do you believe it's not practical of desirable by Bounty Hunters?
Would Bounty Hunters not like to have more content and more of a thrill?
Don't we want to roleplay our Bounty Hunters more like the Bounty Hunters are portrayed in Star Wars?

With these questions asked, thank you for pointing out some flaws of the vision and some of your concerns about it. Especially the one about the static spawn NPC leveling, which really is a problem. I am sure there would be some people that would just sit at those spawns all day and report all Jedi there just for the heck of it. Still, spawn camping is a problem, not only with Jedi, but also with all other classes. Something has to be done, although I don't know how this problem could be solved.
Perhaps it would be better if a Jedi would also gain smaller amounts of visibility (compared to being reported by a player character) when killing non-factioned NPCs, yet again, this wouldn't really solve the issues with spawn camping for all players.
I would also like to mention that if you combine this system with my FRS proposal, your point about Jedi being Special Forces wouldn't weigh in so heavy anymore, as Jedi wouldn't be forced to be special Forces or even GCW factioned and thus not as prominently featured in the same.

Also,I wouldn't mind if you shared your thoughts about my visions of smuggler visibility and bounties as well.

Thanks for the reply!

Message Edited by Glzmo on 06-13-2005 07:30 PM

=======xgggggggggggggggggggggggg)

"I am the Senate."
GLZMO - visionaire extraordinaire, self-proclaimed guardian and enforcer of roleplay and Star Wars continuity in Star Wars Galaxies
Click here to read and support these Visions to improve and possibly save SWG!

"If you think somebody with the Smuggler Profession in SWG is a smuggler you likely think an ox is a full bull."

---

Glzmo wrote:
Why do you believe it's not practical of desirable by Bounty Hunters? Would Bounty Hunters not like to have more content and more of a thrill?

We'd like to have more content, but not at the expense of our current game play. Nothing in your proposal made hunting bounties more fun or enjoyable, just more difficult. Frankly, trying to catch ahalf-templated Jedi at a time where he couldn't completly kick my ass is hard enough, I don't need a new system to make it even harder.

Don't we want to roleplay our Bounty Hunters more like the Bounty Hunters are portrayed in Star Wars?

Has been said before, but why not make Jedi more like the Jedi portrayed in Star Wars: polite, defenders of good, and in hiding.

With these questions asked, thank you for pointing out some flaws of the vision and some of your concerns about it. Especially the one about the static spawn NPC leveling, which really is a problem. I am sure there would be some people that would just sit at those spawns all day and report all Jedi there just for the heck of it. Still, spawn camping is a problem, not only with Jedi, but also with all other classes. Something has to be done, although I don't know how this problem could be solved.

Then let's solve that problem instead of creating a batch of whole new ones.

Perhaps it would be better if a Jedi would also gain smaller amounts of visibility (compared to being reported by a player character) when killing non-factioned NPCs.

And this benefits Bounty Hunters how? Yourideas seem more like you are just trying to give Jedi a break, but sugar-coating it enough to look like you are trying to help us out. Again, post this on the Jedi forums and you'll receive a much warmer welcome.

Also,I wouldn't mind if you shared your thoughts about my visions of smuggler visibility and bounties as well.

I think there are enough proposals from the Smuggler community to let Wes handle this.

---

---

Glzmo wrote:

11.As soon asa Bounty Hunter aborts his mission, all his and his apprentice'smission relatedTEFsare cleared and he fails the mission. If this happens in the middle of the mission, combat is terminated immediately, the instanced duel is endedand all mission specificTEFsare cleared as well (for both the Master Bounty Hunter and his/herApprentice if applicable).

---

yea, a million pages later. sry i cant read everything but. I see a prob with only letting MBHs take the missions, then everyone will be MBHs. I am an MBH and i hate how everyone is a bh now. I think you could just open this up to any elite master. Maybe give BHs a bonus somehow like the apprentice thing

Half of these ideas are just modified from the Jedi thread he made... Why would a BH want an apprentice? go back to your Jedi Visions.. I think the Jedi Community has "helped" the BH Community enough with pub 20 kthxbye.

maybe any player should be able to be hunted by a BH when they get to -5000 faction points of given faction (Aakuan, Nyms, Jabba, Binyere etc) then once they have been engaged by a BH and won/lost fight the the faction points for that faction are set back to zero or -2500. more thinking would have to be done to make sure that it was harder to gain lose different faction points but it would make people more wary of who they were killing/farming/camping

ill be honest, i didnt read all the posts yet, but what if bountys on non-jedi players were set up like this:

first if you are reb you could put a bounty on a reb (reverse for imp)

neutrals can place bounties on both reb and imp but would cost more (opisite faction bounties would cost 100k credits times the number of times a bounty has been taken out on that person... Example: if Shareks is the target and this is the first time a bounty has been taken out on him it would cost you 100k credits to take a bounty on him. The next person to take a bounty on him would have to pay 200k and so on and so on)

you could not take a bounty on a player lower then lvl 80 and if that player drops a lvl after you take the mission thats his problem not yours this will prevent low lvl noobs from getting whacked every 10mins lol.

Players that reach a certin bounty cost (like lets say 5mill or 50 missions taken on them, should get an advantage like an email when a bounty has been taken out on them and by who)

To do a Non-jedi bounty mission you talk to a NPC bounty hunter and pay for EITHER: a npc to attack your mark OR you tell him you will take care of it (if your bh) OR you give him the name of the bh you want to do it.

Then system will then send the hunter an email with the targets name and give 24hour deadline.

NOW HERES THE GOOD PART

when the target is attacked members in his group can assist him, and members in the bounty hunters group can assist him IF THEY ARE FIRST AGRO'D BY THE TARGET OR A MEMBER IN HIS GROUP, this would allow for great pvp (i know this could be a cause for ganking.. but it would be more fun i think..)

If you succed in killing the target JUST THE TARGET... you can loot his items

end result: eventully a target would become too expensive for most to take a mission on him alone and entire guilds or friends would have to chip in to get his mission. The payout of looting his corpse would be worth the cost of paying the mission. A way to sweeten the pot would be if the target could at anytime bribe the npc bounty hunter to increase his mission cost example... if he is at 500k a mission, he could pay 250k to raise the next mission to 750k.

so sounds like it would suck big time for the guy who is the target? guess again HE KEEPS THE ENTIRE MISSION AMOUNT IF THE BH FAILS TO KILL HIM

what do u think?

Good post. I actually wrote a similar post way back in the day where each profession would have metrics that determined their visibility. For instance even crafters who sell their wares to smugglers/BHs and such.....would get vis if their clients got caught in a contraband scan or something.....essentially the system would use the item creator's name to add vis too. Of course they would probably want to add a Previous Owner attribute so that crafters don't get blamed for selling to a legit customer who return sold it on the market....... It's just sad that so many cool things could be developed for the game that would add to the depth and emmersion.......yet we're getting Mustafar........woopty dooo......oh wait that cooincides with the DVD release of the film......oh boy oh boy.......whatever. The media in general and most of the game publisher treat us like we're idiots anyway........I compare it to all the 80s toy commercials where they showed the toys talking and moving........and yet when I bought it.......DOh!!!!

this sounds a great idea i think that non jedi bounty's need to be a lot harded to get vis on but other than that it sounds a really good idea.

Top Stuff

5 stars

/sign /agree /cheer