Bounty Hunter Archive

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Vegitaa wrote:
No prob man, understood completely. But as an FYI you can out up your AFK tab while crafting of course, but actually "crafting" you need to be sitting at the keyboard. UNLESS you are using a crafting program (3rd party) that moves the mouse and double-clicks for you). Which can get you banned permanently.

It's not a valid arguement for keeping recursive macros. A valid arguement for that would be a Duelist Stance macro, a Force Aura Macro, a COB macro... these are standard fair for most combat professions these days. I'd say most combat professions have some sort of defensive/offensive skill that lasts 15seconds-10 minutes and needs to reapplied. Setting up a macro to do that for you (so you don't forget) is a good reason to keep recursive macro's.

As far as the AFK Jedi in homes, it's lame. I don't support it. But I don't support anything that is done for the intention of griefing (yeah, I know.. may not be considered griefing by some, but it's all in the perception). I will add though that recently I've been moving inventory all over the place due to the upcoming Bunker House I'm going to get. So what a BH PERCIEVES as me AFK in a home may just be me organizing the 400 items I have. My intent is to get organized, the BH may percieve it as "hiding" or "griefing".

Any change you make to someone using their own home is going to be badly recieved by the community. Of course the blame will fall on both the Jedi and the BH'ers. The community (crafters/entertainers/and newbies) will percieve it as "The Jedi abused the system" and "The BH'ers whined which nerf'ed how I spend my time". It's a no win situation no matter how you look at it and those that have used this "trick" will just find ways to continue to do it. (Following a pet in circles as said above, going afk in instanced dungeons like the corvette or avatar..etc..)

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I totally agree that even if AFK recursive macros are taken away, someone would find a way around it. Jedi house sitting, and any possible "solution", involves screwing someone. If nothing is done, then the BH gets the shaft becasue time was wasted tracking the Jedi down only to find someone ther etha is incapable of fighting, and no-one likes having their game time wasted. If BH get a way to force their Bounty out of the house, or are able to break into the house, then the the Bounty (trying to be generic since someday there might be others besides Jedi) has a legitimate gripe.

I really think the best solution is one that gives the Bounty and BH an advantage/reward forfighting and an even bigger reward for winning. It might also help if there was a disadvantage/penalty for delaying a fight (within combat range for a certain period of time without engagement perhaps) and a penalty to the losing side. This would mean that a House sitter is making it worse on themselves by staying in-game while being in range of a BH, and at the same time making it wotrh while to both parties to fight it out and see who wins. It should also prevent Fight Clubbing since the loser actually loses something.