Bounty Hunter Archive

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killallyall wrote:

Just my 2 cents, but not sure on the formula that was first posted for Investigation XP, cause yesterday I had a $226,000 mission and was awarded 7533 points of Investigation points. That formula states I should have only gotten 4520 points instead. Not complaining, just curious where that formula came up. Also did another mission later last night and got 7500 Invest points.

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Well, last I knew (i.e. when I was grinding BH) this was the payout. It was originally set at 1 point of Investigation XP per 100 credits earned, but that rate was doubled to 1 point of Investigation XP per 50 credits. As for where else you can find that information, I think it appears in just about every Bounty Hunter guide.

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BenkeiHami wrote:

For NPC missions you get 2% of the payout in Invest XP, for Jedi its about 3.3%

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This is news to me. Two percent is the same rate as 1 point of Investigation XP per 50 credtis earned (1/50=.02=2%), so I guess that is what I was saying too. The three-point-three percent payout for Jedi missions (what the former poster obviously ran if the payout was 226,000 credits) almost exactly matches the payout the former poster said he got. I am curious as to how much the second mission (the one in which he earned 7,500 points of Investigation XP) was worth in terms of credit payout. If you receive 1 point of Investigation XP per 30 credits on Jedi missions, that would exactly match the 7,533 points of Investigation XP for the 226,000 credit Jedi mission. If the payout is set at such a rate, my guess would be that the second Jedi mission was for 225,000 credits, something that could have easily been overlooked to be assumed as 226,000 credits like the first mission mentioned.

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DrakeyTheWizard wrote:

thats helpful for me aswell nice post mate. 1 more thing how long will it take me to be able to hunt jedi? to get 3xxx ?

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Well, it depends on how quickly you run missions, and how frequently you run them. However, my rough estimates in my guide were based on pre-JTL standard missions times. The following is what I found...

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Bugs and time are what will slow you down the most. Time wise, if you are a hardcore gamer, you can run the first 70 missions at 15 minutes per mission (that's really moving though), and cap at 10,000 XP in seventeen and a half hours. The rest of the missions run in about half an hour each (again, that's hardcore gaming with no setbacks), so that's 68 missions totaling 34 hours. If you are totally hardcore, that's fifty-three and a half hours of gaming (two hours in there for the minimum of two server shutdowns you'll run into) to get from Novice BH to Investigation IV in one sitting. You're eyes might bleed if you do that, so I recommend running a few hours a day, and hunting something on Dantooine when you get bored. A month is a respectable time to finish the whole tree, in my opinion.

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I didn't say specifically the amount of time to get from Investigation II to Investigation III, but if you cap out at 10,000 points of Investigation XP before training for Investigation II, you would only need 6,000 more points of Investigation XP to train in Investigation III. Under the payout system I suggest running (basically make sure every mission is worth 16,700 credits), you can get that last 6,000 points of Investigation XP in 18 missions, at half an hour a piece as I was saying, totally 9 hours. So to go from Novice Bounty Hunter with zero points of Investigation XP to a Bounty Hunter trained in Investigation III, if you were grinding straight with no setbacks, you could do it in 26.5 hours. Of course, this depends on your own speed at which you complete missions, but if you follow my payout system (novice level missions of at least 7,100 credits and level two missions of at least 16,700 credits) you will need 70 of the novice level missions and 18 of the second level missions. Simply multiply 70 by the amount of time it takes you to run a novice level mission, and add it to the product of 18 and the amount of time it takes you to run a second level mission.

Message Edited by wyzer301 on 12-13-2004 10:51 AM

Realized I was incorrect in my first post. The "Investigation XP" as I called it is actually indeed Bounty Hunter XP. Don't know why I was so convinced otherwise. Anyhow, my bad.

Tears of joy I hope

A respec BH tries to get help in the game, but nobody wants to help him. Finally, someone tells him to go to the bounty hunter forums for advice.

When he goes there, his title doesn't really show what he is asking for, and everyone assumes he must be glad to be earning double XP, but they don't know the real reason, so they click in to this post.

Then they realize he isn't only a respec BH, but hasn't even visited the forums before - his post is blank!

Man was that a good story, I'm crying right now. No really I am, it feels funny the water going down my cheek...

do it like all other BH's did and do it you NOOB i spend weeks on grinding BH XP pre-CU and youre whining about 18k XP youre not worth to wear the MBH tag

Let's turn the clock back to 1.5 years ago, it was much worse than this. Find some faction bases to slice.