Bounty Hunter Archive

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unde wrote:

TAKE BH OUT OF THE GCW. I cant imagine a Bounty Hunter flying an x-wing. I think for our Bounty Hunters to be as strong as they should be we need to be taken out of the GCW at a certain stage to continue advancement past Master Bounty Hunter. If we are neutral us being strong wont be an imbalance to the game. My Solution:

After Master Bounty Hunter, the player has a choice of entering the BH Trials as a neutral player. There are three trails:

1. Jabba The Hut Trails
2. Valerian Trails
3. Swoop Trails

Trails should involve task to prove yourself to the faction. Each faction specializes in certain areas. When joining the Jabba Faction you will be trained more in carbine, Valerian faction more pistol and Swoop faction more LLC. Every faction will give training in all weapons but each faction specializes in a certain type. For example.

1. Jabba The Hut Specializes in Carbine, therefor we have: Carbine(HIGH) Pistol(MED) LLC(LOW)
2. Valerian : Carbine(MED) Pistol(HIGH) LLC(LOW)
3. Swoop : Carbine(MED) Pistol(MED) LLC(MED) Balanced

RANKING SYSTEM
Upon join the Jabba and Valerian faction you will be entered in a rank system. This is perfect cause, as we know, Jabba and Valerian are enemies. This cannot work like the Light and Dark ranking system(being overt). It has to be done with bounties. You get more bounty xp(invest xp) for killing a member of the enemy faction(Jabba or Valerian) and less xp for Jedi and even lesser xp for smugglers. (Or it can work like the Dark vs. Light system where u become overt at a certain point in your training to your enemy faction.)

Unfair to smugglers? Well Hans Solo didnt get away from his bounty with skill it was more with luck. Which is perfect cause I hear in the smuggler revamp they are getting a luck modifier.

Jedi bounties should only be given by the Empire. I feel it is not the Rebellion way to hire bounty hunters to kill Dark Jedi. Light Jedi(The Rebellion) are more political. This is an awsome idea because the rebellion will once again have that under dog feel to it.

Lastly, The Swoop faction are for those that do not want to compete in a ranking system with an opposing faction.

Thanks for reading.

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I've been asking for this for months so I think it's a good start. I also appreciate the fact that you acknowledged our issues and are implimenting some changes to help us out. The standard "wait until the combat balance" answer would not have cut it after this patch.

I think that if you get this to go live, and fixed the droid tracking issues (Jedi in particular) we would be fine until the combat rebalance. I know the droid tracking issues are difficult to fix, but as a BH this is a critical game-breaking issue for us. We simply can't do our missions without them.

Message Edited by Tsunami_Redrum on 06-29-2004 06:10 PM

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Smron wrote:

While I do enjoy the fact that I will be able to spend more points on medical or extra combat skills, I really feel that this 'solution' makes the Master BH tag the only thing worth while in mastering the profession... Now I might as well drop my BH, keep Investigations 3, and pick a combat profession that stands a better chance against the Jedi than underpowered BH. Personally, I agree with everyone that said make Jedi Missions available to Master BH so there is at least a reason to master this profession, also so that an artisan can not hunt a Jedi with the right mix of skills.

I'd rather the devs fix Bounty Hunter entirely, or if we got a revamp in the very near future (one that works)... This quick fix could alleviate some of our problems but bring in bigger headaches.

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In a way this proves that this is just aband aid and that the Bounty Hunter profession is still broke. At this point there is no reason for me to keep Master Bounty Hunter or even pursue it as there are better combat choices available... Which is why I think BH still has problems. But at least I can do a Command BH now.

Oh just remember you might want to check the amount of point it takes for a base take down crew. You might be able to make a character with all the requirments now as a one man base take down crew.

Message Edited by JeanLaffite on 06-29-2004 05:16 PM

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WILDMAN_SOLO wrote:

Jesus H Christ and all his holy saints. Cant any of you stop to think for just 1 freaking minute !!!!

This is not a good idea, I know we are all desperate for some kind of fix but freeing up SP so we can dabble is not the answer and by you all saying it is you are in fact succumbing to TH view that BH are overpowered to the point where they cant ACTUALLY FIX THE SPECIALS WE CURRENTLY HAVE.

Fix means repair what we have NOT GIVE US MORE SP SO YOU CAN NERF OUR SORRY ASSES BACK INTO THE GROUND WHEN ALL THE WEASEL PUMPING JEDI CRY THAT WE CAN KILL THEM WITH OUR UBER L££T FOR THE WIN MASTER TKA INVEST 3 TEMPLATES

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Message Edited by MagusZDark on 06-29-2004 03:17 PM