Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Bounties on smugglers?
yimaz
Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:51 am
#27
A Mission/quest Smuggling system.
A Smuggler goes to his favorite crime organization (Black Sun, Hutt, etc....) speaks to an NPC or goes to a smuggler mission terminal and gets a mission ( you have to be in good standing faction wise to do these missions/quests for said faction). The higher the pay the higher the risk of it failing, missions/quests could be timed or have high spawn rates of NPC who want to steal the cargo. Cargo could be rare spice (one we cant make), rare ship components, rare loot parts or even a lot of credits. Items that could fetch a high price if you did not deliver it but sold it to other players or keep it yourself. Difficulty lvl would dictate the qual of the "shipment" and also the level of risk of failure. Now as a smuggler you have a choice. Run the mission and run the risk of failing or steal it, get payed by another player or keep it. If you run the NPC quests (the tuff ones)and finish it you get payed and a gift from the crime lord. If you fail or steal the "shipment" you go on the BH boards.
You could use terminals for low lvl smuggler missions, basic delivery missions with a good chance of success but not great "goods" to ship. Every smuggler could do these and they can do them all day long. Also have a "high end" NPC who gives you the tuff jobs but these quests can only be done once every 24hrs (server day) to prevent abuse.
Both terminal and NPC mission/quests give "Smuggler XP" that is applied to the underworld tree (rather then combat xp and similar to the way Investigation works for the BH's)
Please remeber this is only NPC and Terminal based, Smugglers should also be able to do player smuggling I just dont have any ideas for a good system of doing that.
If we could do mission/quests for crime loards and player smuggling we should have the content we need. If they also re-vamp our skill sets (a conversation separate from this one) we may have a shot at being all we can be. Justthoughts compiled from many past threads......
riotcontrol
Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:08 am
#28
yimaz wrote:Both terminal and NPC mission/quests give "Smuggler XP" that is applied to the underworld tree (rather then combat xp and similar to the way Investigation works for the BH's)Please remeber this is only NPC and Terminal based, Smugglers should also be able to do player smugglingI just dont have any ideas for a good system of doing that.If we could do mission/quests for crime loards and player smuggling we should have the content we need. If they also re-vamp our skill sets (a conversation separate from this one) we may have a shot at being all we can be. Just thoughts compiled from many past threads......
Contraband is outlawed (like in the Imperial Crackdown) and people are searched for contraband at Spaceport Shuttle Terminals. Depending on the Imperial or Rebel/Criminal presence, the searches are more successful in some cities (like Bestine or Theed), and in some cities, there are options to bribe the search team (Moenia, Eisley) They can hide it in a Storage Droid, but for larger quantities, they'd have to employ a Smuggler who would have much higher chance of passing through the contraband search. For 100% chance of passing through the contraband search, the Smuggler would have to transfer the cargo in his own ship (in other words, through a Starship Terminal), but would have a chance of being searched or attacked by security forces in space. Failure would have an effect on the 'criminal' visibility of both the player who hired the Smuggler (if he decides to rat on his 'employer') and the Smuggler.
nerfherder321
Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:44 am
#29
old idea, check from about... 3 months ago but still, its a good idea
yimaz
Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:55 am
#30
yep all old ideas from when we were working on the last re-vamp (patch 9 i think). It was a tuff pill to swollow after all the work to find a middle ground when the dev's said profession re-vampswere on hold till after JTL, the combat revamp and (at the time) the GSW re-vamp (patch 10 re-vamp at the time). Funny thing was the re-vamp they wanted to give us was a bug fix and the community fliped out, we made them push it to patch 10 then they pushed off indefinitely. Was a sad, sad day...
nerfherder321 wrote:
old idea, check from about... 3 months ago but still, its a good idea
Message Edited by yimaz on 11-09-2004 11:59 AM
Lorelai_Seabreeze
Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:34 pm
#31
Everytime they fail on a smuggle attempt or drop cargo at the first sign of trouble should result in a bounty.
Oh wait they cant smuggle,
well how about a bounty for bad slices
Oh wait they cant smuggle,
well how about a bounty for bad slices
ChrisCobra
Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:40 pm
#32
You dont get bad slices anymore.
And they have never been able to control the slice before the patch , so why dont ya shaddup 
NoStyleGuy
Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:46 pm
#34
i dont see why smugglers need to be hunted along with jedi (no offense to smugs but its hardly a combat prof) and what does slicing have to do with smuggler missions for BH?
Sound familiar?
Zemon
Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:51 pm
#36
NoStyleGuy wrote:
i dont see why smugglers need to be hunted along with jedi (no offense to smugs but its hardly a combat prof) and what does slicing have to do with smuggler missions for BH?
Lorelai_Seabreeze wrote:
And your not very bright are ya?
HA! It still fits.
(uh, /ignore me. I'm just bored at work, h-he-heh-hehe)