Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: BH Honour
Raazeur wrote:
If honour is what you seek, then being a Bounty Hunter is not the profession for you. Bounty Hunters are the scum of the universe, our profession dictates that we are cold, ruthless killers willing to do whatever is required to kill our mark. Glory and honour is not something a Bounty Hunter should care about, simply money and death.
"Bounty hunters. We don't need their scum." - Admiral Piett (The Empire Strikes Back)
Even among smuggler (who shouldn't care about anything but money and to stay alive), there is a code of honor, or a code of conduct as you will... That can apply to BH as well
What is the point of honor? The only purposeofbounty hunting for me is the credits
I usually hunt whoever has thebiggest price on their head.With the exception of current orformer guildmates.
i won't attack someone who's LD, and while i've never attacked an AFK jedi, the way things now stand with Kash i might change my policy.
while fighting, i'll do anything that's not an exploit, as that's how a BH would likely do it - if they're half-dead from a lair, fair game, if they're drained from a duel (but not IN a duel), fair game, planting my bombdroid and telling it to stay and then luring the jedi to it, fair game.
i've only ever hunted alone, and have never exploited or smack-talked, and have probably left as many jedi IC'd as i've DB'd, because to me if you've IC'd one, you've won the fight and I'm not so hardcore that i'm in it to steal xp from someone (this is particularly true when i can't find any decent priced Jedi's online and am relegated to hitting the lower-level ones - seems plain old mean to kill some of the newer ones)
ktanner3 wrote:
Dlek_Krego wrote:
BH Honor = oxymoron
Pretty much sums up my view. To those that think differently please explain how someone who captures a person or kills a person for money is an "honourable" profession ?
If you choose not to hunt those in your faction then you are an honorable "soldier" for your faction. I am a loyal soldier to the empire and only hunt on the side.If I wanted to be more like the fetts I would hunt either faction and not belong to either of them.
Shock-N-Awe wrote:
ktanner3 wrote:
Dlek_Krego wrote:
BH Honor = oxymoron
Pretty much sums up my view. To those that think differently please explain how someone who captures a person or kills a person for money is an "honourable" profession ?If you choose not to hunt those in your faction then you are an honorable "soldier" for your faction. I am a loyal soldier to the empire and only hunt on the side.If I wanted to be more like the fetts I would hunt either faction and not belong to either of them.
Is a police officer not a honorable profession then? He gets paid to bring in the bad guays and the state/city & county hes in is the employer. I bring in people who commit crimes against the empire and the emperor is my employer. Now, im allowed to use deadly force more ofen then a police officer but then again most cops dont encounter people who have laser swords. Think of stormtroopers as beat cops and Bounty Hunters as SWAT.
The differnce between a Police officer and a BH is that a Police officer will go after ANYONE witnessed of a crime, not turn a blind eye to the murderers and drug dealers, and instead go killing the petty pre-teen shoplifters to pay for his doughnuts.
Message Edited by Dlek_Krego on 06-23-2005 03:22 PM
I myself am a RolePlayer, i used to rp in everquest and only played (evil based) charaacters.
right now i am only at CL 14 and working twoards my novice BH, however my old EQ guild said it best in their motto
"We are evil, not a$$ holes."
I intend to rp my character as if i were a BH in the old west, ie. bounty hunters want money.
opon taking a mark, i will inform them via e-mail that i have them as a mark. I will also inform them that if they wish to buy the contract from me or turn themselves in that will be acceptable.
if they wish to fight we can either meet or i can hunt them.
I will never send them a "tell" when i am in the area. they will have to be cautious and alert at all times untill i get my credits.
why would i not send them a "tell"? well would a person who was sent to assasinate you call you in the middle of the night and tell you he is at your front door, and could you please come down and let him in so he can cut your throat? I dont think so.
i will use any tactics i can to defeat a mark (accept cheats)
the point of the game is to play within the parameters of the game. and i hate cheaters.
if the mark is LD i will not attack. (this is beyond the marks control and not his/her fault)((again: I am a bounty hunter, not an a$$hole))
if the mark is AFK i will attack. (this is completely in his control)
i feel that if the mark is AFK he should have gone to a safe house or logged off to go do what he wanted to do and then log back in once he was ready to play. (especially if he knows there is a bounty on his head)
however i am still learning and i know next to nothing as i have only been playing for one week now.
if anyone has any advice to give please do.
thank you
Macross
Bounty Hunter to be
PS. I will not hunt my guild mates especially my guild master (lvl 80 jedi knight) who is training me in the arts of PvP.
so i hope to gain some insight into the mind and tactics of a master jedi.
For the vast majority of my BH life I have found myself having no moral issues with killing Jedi rather they be LD, AFK, same faction, or lower paying buyouts. Recently, however, I have found myself in situations where I have been unable to bring myself to a deathblow. As a matter of fact I let a level 37 Jedi live last night after incapping him- he was down in only about 3 shots and that just seemed pathetic to me. I think that my mercy may be drawing to an end though as my bank account is shrinking steadily and Jedi are my only real source of income.
Dlek_Krego wrote:
Shock-N-Awe wrote:
ktanner3 wrote:
Dlek_Krego wrote:
BH Honor = oxymoron
Pretty much sums up my view. To those that think differently please explain how someone who captures a person or kills a person for money is an "honourable" profession ?
If you choose not to hunt those in your faction then you are an honorable "soldier" for your faction. I am a loyal soldier to the empire and only hunt on the side.If I wanted to be more like the fetts I would hunt either faction and not belong to either of them.
Is a police officer not a honorable profession then? He gets paid to bring in the bad guays and the state/city & county hes in is the employer. I bring in people who commit crimes against the empire and the emperor is my employer. Now, im allowed to use deadly force more ofen then a police officer but then again most cops dont encounter people who have laser swords. Think of stormtroopers as beat cops and Bounty Hunters as SWAT.
The differnce between a Police officer and a BH is that a Police officer will go after ANYONE witnessed of a crime, not turn a blind eye to the murderers and drug dealers, and instead go killing the petty pre-teen shoplifters to pay for his doughnuts.
Message Edited by Dlek_Krego on 06-23-2005 03:22 PM
Kalandra wrote:
In my time as a BH, I've come across a few jedi who have been LD. I've also hunted many jedi who have been hiding on Kashyyyk, or in houses, or cloaked AFK. Despite my frustration at an incompletable mission, I still hold myself to such a high standard that I will not hunt somebody that I know I can easily defeat. It just isn't fun for me. If I know I can defeat them, its no different than running up to a lair PreCU, and turning on the spin macro. Yes, its xp, and yes its a few thousand credits, butfor my piece of mind, I cannot bring myself to kill an LD jedi. For my honour, I do not get people sending me hate tells, merely a pleasant congratulations for winning a good clean fight... and I enjoy it so much more.
Am I the only person that thinks like this? Are you an honourable Bounty Hunter, or will you do anything for a quick buck? Both types are perfectly fair, and both types are legally supported within the game. I'd simply like to start a discussion on this topic.
Well here comes the catch: I am also a jedi. This morning, I logged in (after a successful /logout, I might add) to find myself in the clone center. Much to my chagrin, I find that I have lost roughly 280k xp (not bad for my first appearance on the terminals) I have of course, submitted a CSR report, because I blame a bugged /logout more than the BH who found me an easy target.
its HONOR NOT HONOUR