Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: to payoff or not to payoff...
SlashNBurn wrote:
Hello to all the BH's. First off, I am a jedi (boo hiss) sorry, I know. Anyway I wanted to get your feedback on a situation I had last night.
I ran out to join up with a group of my guildies and grind some XP. As I arrived on the scene I see a blue dot and the corpse of a jedi. The guy just took out the jedi and was standing around for a bit. I hop off my speeder and get an update from everyone. We get all set to go back to the grind when we notice the BH is still standing around. I asked him if he could please leave now that he killed his mark. (I could see him sending tells to his buddies with all of our names... perfectly legal, just would have been a pain in the butt). The guy says he is going and after another minute or two he takes off.
The group fell apart after this (argh needed 30k to get my next skill) and I headed back to the cantina. About 10 mins later another guildie says he found a spawn of CL 111 NPCs and he asked for some help with them. I was going to log but decided to give him a hand.
Halfway into the 3rd one a blue dot shows up. I make a break for it (being in that horrible 160k range with a borked template atm). It is the same guyfrom before. Of course he wrote down my name (the lowest CL in the group from before, 20 below his 80) and went to get my mission. Still can't complain too loudly at this point.
I get to a safehouse but cant go inside... TEF working maybe? I don't know. So I continue on foot. The guy is a CM build and eventually gets a mez and like 20 DOTs on me. Okay so maybe it was 5. As soon as it wears off I hit him with a root and burst outta there, grab my bike and I am off.
I couldn't enter my house when I arrived so I drove around for about 10 mins. Then I bee line for my place so I can log out for the night. The guy shows up 10 seconds later (he was good). This is where the confusing part comes in... (sorry it took so long to get here).
He parks outside my house and starts sending me tells to pay him off. I told him that I didn't think I should have to pay him for an encounter that I "won". I was no match for him in combat, running and living = win for right now. The guy talked to me for a good half hour about how he will get me next time I come on, or in a week from now. And I am being dishonorable for not just paying him off. I don't get it. Is there any reason for me to have paid him? Why is that the honorable thing? If he fought me and incapped me and asked, then sure I will pay up.
Now I know people love to throw the grief word around a lot these days. So I don't even want to touch that here. But is it "cool" lets say, for this guy to pick my mission back up in a week to specifically target me since I wouldn't pay him off? He could keep my mission, but trust me he won't find me for the next 3 days or so and I doubt he wont hunt some one else in the mean time.
Any feedback would be great. Sorry this got a bit longer than I intended.
My Bh doesn't take "bribes" or ask for payoffs but there are many that do. From the Jedi perspective I'd say never ever pay off a BH. its a waste of credits because all it does it prolong the time before you do get killed. But if you choose to pay thats up to you 
Many BH are true to their word and will drop the mission and not hunt you for awhile. Others aren't and will stab you in the ey with a janta knife as soon as they receive the tip. It all depends on the reputation of the BH you are dealing with. And with pub 20 rolling in soon the I wont hunt you for x amount of time is kind of moot
*dangit, can't edit.
Kicking a nuna across the street can be reported but it won't get ya too far.
diepa wrote:
This same thing happened to a guildmate of mine. The was hunted by a BH and escaped...I think someone picked him up in a vehicle. Anyway the BH, starts sending tells to the Jedi saying he has to pay the bounty because he would have killed him, this was not paid. This BH then, with some of his guildmates started exclusively hunting my guilds low level Jedi.
So as I said above, I would never pay, but some of the people who play this game are tools and will try to extort credits from you
Ummm....This may be a little different, especially if the vehicle is an unattackable vehicle. That would be a borderline exploit. If you get out of it because you use an exploit, the BH has a legitimate complaint...assuming he hasnt also used one. He should be compensated for his lost droid(s) and wasted time if his mark cheats. I'm not implying that this is a cheat, but it may be if the vehicle is unattackable.
Borta-of-Scylla wrote:
diepa wrote:
This same thing happened to a guildmate of mine. The was hunted by a BH and escaped...I think someone picked him up in a vehicle. Anyway the BH, starts sending tells to the Jedi saying he has to pay the bounty because he would have killed him, this was not paid. This BH then, with some of his guildmates started exclusively hunting my guilds low level Jedi.
So as I said above, I would never pay, but some of the people who play this game are tools and will try to extort credits from you
Ummm....This may be a little different, especially if the vehicle is an unattackable vehicle. That would be a borderline exploit. If you get out of it because you use an exploit, the BH has a legitimate complaint...assuming he hasnt also used one. He should be compensated for his lost droid(s) and wasted time if his mark cheats. I'm not implying that this is a cheat, but it may be if the vehicle is unattackable.
BenkeiHami wrote:
I wouldn't pay anyone if I were you, no saying that he's not going to just come back, maybe he couldn't even kill you if he tried. But the BH is well within his rights to hunt you along as your mission is on the terminal.
at least if oyu pay the BH you are assured some time to run away
with my jedi I tried getting the BH to pay me not to DB hehe...he insited on kding me tho 
I think oyu know how that ended
Glowstix wrote:
nah don't payoff. imo it's a sleezy thing for it to even be requested. shows a lack ofcharacter and greed.
not to mention selling themselves out.