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Ive personally always thought that the Radar was a Bounty Hunters biggest obstacle. When I think of Hunting a mark, the first thing that comes to mind is the word Stalking. Its a little hard to "Stalk" a target when the can expand thier radar to over 1000 meters, and see every living thing within thier Radar's limits.

Even if the Bounty Hunter waits untill his mark has entered a Non-Player city, and decides to go to that city in the hopes of "Blending In", the Bounty hunter can still be noticed. Since NPC's are of a different color dot than Players, the Bounty Hunter can still stand out on radar. Especially if that particular NPC city doesnt have many PlayersCharactersin it, the BH will stand out like a sore thumb. And with the /duel thing going on, the BH's chance for Stalking is shot out the window.

cool idea, but i just drive up on swoop, /store bike, /set_target_on_fire. /chase. damn another one runs away.

i like this ability. I have had jedi /tell me "Go home n00b i can see you on radar". and theres absolutley nothing i could have done cause i was still way out of range. Takeing us off radar but keeping us fully visible would be very cool.

The ranger 'cloak' would probably take too many skillpoints to get for the majority of us. I love cover, i have like +11 crawl tapes and a +17 bando, add some delicious travel biscuits andI scoot. It's hard on some planets with their huge animal spawns that seem to always run right to me, but oh well, happens that way. Sometimes the lions scare a warthog and alert the zebras. Some of my best times came when that one random person manages to drive right over me while im 25 meters from a group with my mark in it; nothing like seeing a bunch of duel invites and cloaks to make me at least feel satisfied about the time i had to spend on my belly lol. I still say remove radar, just makes no sense. That radar has ruined many a bh's mission im sure. I havent tried anything but rifle/bh with the cm4, but i cant see how anyone other than a mcm can run up to a mark and start blasting, that radar just gives too much advanced warning to get them ready. Anyways, sorry to ramble, a way to get rid of that annoying radar even for a few minutes would be great, but what would we have to give up in order to get it is my problem.

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bmill wrote:

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AzzirithNicia wrote:

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Camelz wrote:

BH can have an effective "cloak" now, it's just that you cant be MCM/MBH FOTM as well, you will need MRM skill to use it so that means dropping MCM.

Jedi can get cloak but then they cant be the FOTM MLS/MDef template - they have to give something to get cloak - we have to give something to get cover, same thing.

It's the old rock, paper, scissors thing again. With the flexibility we have in making templates it is actually possible to be Master Rock and Master Paper, if we could just buy an item to make us scissors as well that would be game breaking.

Message Edited by Camelz on 09-28-2005 05:59 AM

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sorry, but /cover just doesn't seem to add up to cloak, IMO, unless you have a lot of rifle crawl speed tapes, if that's even a stat that's still around. You crawl sssssssoooooooooo slowly that you'd never be able to track them with it efficiently

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I had +25 rifle crawl speed shirt, that was still in condidtion. After a patch, it just stopped working. Not sure which one, or when it happened. I went through a stint where I wasn't hunting Jedi all that much, so I wasn't crawling around. But I noticed it when I went to use it... let me tell you that!

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Terrain Negotiation boosts crawl speed. We all got it in our template, I use a TN modded shirt and bandolier, have TN tapes in gloves and boots and eat Travel Biscuits. I dont however go chasing my marks halfway across Dant, I prefer to let them come to me And /cover is perfect to give you the alpha strike

i'm lucky, on dant on shadowfire swoop gangs pass all the times on the way tomissions and jedi dont even notice wen 8 people ride right overhead and there are so many missions out all the time that i can hide under the bols hehe

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bmill wrote:

So more like the "Stealth Field Generator" in KOTOR then. I think it's got merit. Could be useful for avoiding those pesky battle droids in the vette and in the DWB also.

Hello, loot whoring?!

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Is it possible the stealth generators, or the schematic and partsfor one, might actually be quest rewards and/or lootable items, ala the jet pack from the DWB? If so, that would be very cool indeed, because then it opens the possiblity for stealth to everyone, from the Bounty Hunter stalking their prey to the crafter out checking harvesters on some dangerous planet.

This, in addition to the forthcoming Ranger stealth, might be why the devs are putting Jedi cloak in the same set of "stealth rules" (so-to-speak) as other such skills.

Can you imagine what a stealth generator might go for on the auction forum?

I just want to mention how much cover sucks.

They can see you

You're prone .....

To move you have to crawl. Crawl much? Its not fun

Can't see target.

Can't cover cause something sees you but there's nothing within 512km

Can't see target

Can't see target

Can't see target

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xakia wrote:

I just want to mention how much cover sucks.

They can see you

You're prone .....

To move you have to crawl. Crawl much? Its not fun

Can't see target.

Can't cover cause something sees you but there's nothing within 512km

Can't see target

Can't see target

Can't see target

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Common. The range is 20m on /cover. However if you have a droid out, or a bike out, you can't cover. The droid must be in your group work. The crawling bit is horrible, I'll admit, but I'd rather crawl for a few min and get the suprise than not. Rifle crawl speed and TN tapes don't seem to be helping anymore. They stopped working a few patches ago with no explanation that I saw.

To the one above this about the Stealth Shield Gens.... that would be a good time to introduce them into the game, if they had plans to. Apparently HK-1 is going to be part of the game and "he" is from the KOTOR era, as with Stealth Shield Gens. If they were to add them, I'm guessing the would be a radar/map only feature and not a cloak since in KOTOR they didn't cloak the player from other sentients, only from droids and screening devices.

Great idea though, would LOVE to have one of those.

Become a rifleman if you want to be invisible on radar.