Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: FEEDBACK: Jedi Missions No Longer Showing Player Name, or Bounty Payout
Maybe Tanks should be pushing for a different method of calculating mission payments.
We all know that currently the level of payment directly relates to the amount of skill points a jedi has spent, and therefore indirectly relating to the jedi's level. This has caused plenty of bottom feeding against jedi in certain ranges where they are unable to put up any sort of fight at all, which i believe is what the devs are trying to remove from the game, by removing the payment details from the terminals.
Surely it would make more sense if the payment was tied to the visibility of the jedi concerned. The more visible you are, the more wanted you are, therefore the higher the price on your head.
Visibility is already calculated by a number in the background, actions which cause visibility add to the number, once it passes a certain threshold the jedi is placed onto the terminals. This number can be related to the bounty quite easily with a very simple multiplier.
Message Edited by Daviepoo on 07-06-2005 04:13 AM
meninus wrote:
Ahhhh - the sound of BHs weeping - I love it.
Maybe I get to have some fun with my jedi now. I hate PvP and this is the best news a jedi could have right now.
Ah... you do know that Jedi is considered a PvP class, yes?
NPC Bounty missions will now work properly. The Mark will now be of appropriate difficulty based on the difficulty of the mission
Moved Player Bounty Hunting to the Master Bounty Hunter skill Box
Bounty Hunter Jedi missions (1) no longer list Jedi names and (2) prevent you from determining Jedi’s level via mission payout
You are prevented from determening the Jedi's level by looking at the mission payout on the terminal. Yes that means your gonna see how much you will earn but it also means that you don't know what level Jedi you are facing ! I guess it will be either be tha same ammount for every Jedi or a random generated one instead of the old formula ( Jedi skillpoints*1k).
Some of you are moaning that you wont ever see who your hunting......this is an assumption and nothing more. Yes, you wont be able to see the Jedi's name on the terminals but im sure the devs have thought about that, im pretty sure you'll get a name at some point so stop crying about something you don't know about yet.
Basically i as a Jedi with a BH alt like these changes, they will bring a much needed relief for young padawans and some much needed action for knights like myself. My point here is do not cry foul yet, wait for the official patch notes ( they might have more dtails ) and wait and see how things work out on TC and then if you don't like it, start complaining, not now when so many important details are unknown.
RAMBOW wrote:
Im just reposting what I had posted in another thread about 2 weeks ago... needless to say if these terminal changes go live this game will loose atleast 1 long time BH. I will not hunt in a dumbed down version of BH.
_Apache wrote:
CeboWookie...you seem to know more about what is going on than most of the people posting here. could you possibly post or send a link to the thread evryone is panicing about? I would like to very much like to see for myself.
Someone was able to copy paste the mistakenly posted ptch notes into the Jedi forums here
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Full temps know they will more than likely wipe the floor with a BH 1 vs 1. Hell, I would get excited at the prospect of a 70+% chance of winning every time.
Respec BHs look for easy marks as they have little/no experience in hunting. Moving Jedi missions to Master will sort that out. I don't take anything less than 150k unless there's nothing else online.
That's too funny. Seriously. I have a MBH/MRifleman/4000 CM alt and I killed 4 full temp Jedi ALONE earlier today. Needed money to buy a new pearl since my last one tuned to crap. A full temp Jedi has no better chance of killing a BH than a new padawan who hasn't dropped TKM yet.
I think this is the funniest reply I've seen so far. So your basically saying all BH need this template to compete, and lets be honest...they do. So now the BH resorts to having to take the FOTM just to use the terminals effictively now? Thats junk. I shouldnt have to change my template just to know I can use the terminals. If there going to put a BH up against a full template 1 vs 1 then ALL MBH templates need to have an even chance of winning across the board. Otherwise just remove the terminals and BH from the game totally.
From a RP point of view it would make sense to me as I'm not out on a personal vendetta, I just got hired by a client who wants someone dead. Sometimes the client knows who killed his father or whatever but maybe there was only a DNA sample sufficient for a biosignal available.
This is what everyone is all upset about???
NPC Bounty missions will now work properly. The Mark will now be of appropriate difficulty based on the difficulty of the mission
Moved Player Bounty Hunting to the Master Bounty Hunter skill Box
Bounty Hunter Jedi missions (1) no longer list Jedi names and (2) prevent you from determining Jedi’s level via mission payout
1) Moved Player Bounty Hunting to the Mater BH box....save that one till later.
2) Missions no longer list names........Ok, so what. It doesnt say that BH will NEVER get the name of thier marks, it says that Jedi names will not be "listed". There is a difference. Could still be a serious problem concerning Kashyyk though.
3) Prevent BH from determining Jedi's level via mission payout,.......Nowhere does it say that "Pay Outs" are going to be removed. Varied, sure. A BH may just get lucky with a Padawan fresh out of the village and a nice 200k pay out.
1) Back to issue #1....the only thing I see wrong with this is the reduction of active Jedi Hunters. Alot of BH are"Dabblers" andonly have Inv 3, and the rest of the skill points are put into a customized Jedi fighting Template. You limit that, and you limit the effectiveness of Bounty Hunters vs the Dabbler Jedi.
Issue #1 is my personal concern....the rest can be worked out. Maybe. 