Bounty Hunter Archive

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Desperado65 wrote:

Actually, the idea of gadgets just brought an interesting thought to me.

What about BH missions that require us to bring our marks back alive? So we don't just have to go and kill, we need to capture, maybe use a rope gadget,etc. That would be some interesting content, although gamewise not sure how good it would work.

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Biggest problem with that is the exploit potential.

Stick with me here.

You're a BH. You've just netted (literally) a BH and are draggin him to Jabba. He thinks, "to hell with this" and logs out.

Ok, fine. Make it so Jedi can't log out when they're "caught". Then a malicious BH could just decide not to take the Jedi to Jabba, or whomever. So they catch the Jedi and go AFK for a fewhours (or until the server resets).

Ok, fine. Make it so the Jedi CAN log out, but the BH still gets paid and the Jedi still loses exp.

Then a malicious BH could drag the "body" of a Jedi to...say....the intersection of nowhere and noplace (and when ToOW comes out in the middle of a lava pit) or in a private house, or any other inconvenient place, instead of dragging them to Jabba, in anticipation of the Jedi logging in to a bad, bad situation.

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Leatherneck_of_Alderaan wrote:

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Desperado65 wrote:

Actually, the idea of gadgets just brought an interesting thought to me.

What about BH missions that require us to bring our marks back alive? So we don't just have to go and kill, we need to capture, maybe use a rope gadget,etc. That would be some interesting content, although gamewise not sure how good it would work.

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Biggest problem with that is the exploit potential.

Stick with me here.

You're a BH. You've just netted (literally) a BH and are draggin him to Jabba. He thinks, "to hell with this" and logs out.

Ok, fine. Make it so Jedi can't log out when they're "caught". Then a malicious BH could just decide not to take the Jedi to Jabba, or whomever. So they catch the Jedi and go AFK for a fewhours (or until the server resets).

Ok, fine. Make it so the Jedi CAN log out, but the BH still gets paid and the Jedi still loses exp.

Then a malicious BH could drag the "body" of a Jedi to...say....the intersection of nowhere and noplace (and when ToOW comes out in the middle of a lava pit) or in a private house, or any other inconvenient place, instead of dragging them to Jabba, in anticipation of the Jedi logging in to a bad, bad situation.

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that would easaly be fixed with a timer, say you have to get to jabba in a set amount of time.... or maybe just get to a representative of jabba.

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Desperado65 wrote:

Yeah...but I did say that it wouldn't really work gamewise because of all the problems. They could mix it in for the NPC marks. Now, I know a lot of people probably don't want to spend time doing it for an NPC, but they could find some bonus to it. Probably raise the reward for a live capture, maybe make some bh quests (so you can get these mission types from places other than a terminal).

*Shrugs*

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Yep!

And the idea of doing that with NPCs could be very cool for Ranger missions too if they were animal oriented.

Produce a clone that will confuse your mark!

My own personal Mercenary army

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BobaFettish wrote:

What about BH missions that require us to bring our marks back alive......

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This WOLD BE JUST THE COOLEST THING, since the invention of Toast!!!

I would like to add to this Idea a little...

1. Missions for Both Jedi & NPC's that will give you a Dead, Alive or Dead or Alive Breifing. In the case of Bringing back a mark alive "but not always in the best of health".....hehehe, Once Incapped, Shackles & mandatori Dissarm can be applied & not removed by anyone but the mission giver. Only the BH can Converse with the mission giver (so that a mark cannot just walk away & go to the mission giver himself & get free). Perhaps even going as far as having the NPC Mission giver make a random decision as to the Player / NPC marks fate "in the case of Jabba, we all know what that would be"....hehehehehe

2. Holding Cells. Make Holding Cells attainable for MBH & placable in POB Ships for transporting Captured Marks to the Mission Giver.

3. Space Hunting. New tracking droids for locating & hunting Jedi & NPC marks whom have escaped to space, with the ability to either disablle & board a marks ship to capture them "in the case of a POB Ship boarding, you need to PvP the Player / NPC & overpower them", or destroy their ship & tractor them in after they eject.

4. Rewards for Killing Jedi Players. Trophies, with a named item belonging to the Jedi you have killed for display in your home. Currently, I have a trophy wall in my home that has Skulls & Ancient Light Sabers displayed for each acctual kill i have made. And although the wall looks cool, It would be nice if I had some Skulls & Light Saberswith the acctual marks names on em.....

5. Player Marks, other than jedi. Smugglers, Peeps whom get caugt with Contraband, anyone whom fails to pay an Imperial fine for a certain ammount of time, Failing a mission & pissing Jabba off, Being caught in public as an Overt in enemy territory, etc.... there could be any number things that could put a player on the Terminals. This could apply to anyone "even fellow BH", reguardless of CL, it would make SWG mor interesting, making players more aware of their surroundings. Perhaps in the intrest of fairness to low level & Low CL Players with warrents on them couldalso have the ability to seek out the mission giver "before they are killed or captured by a BH" & pay a fine or bribe to remove their warrent".

There's a great deal of things that could be done in this game, that would add a little exitement & drama to it... But the Bounty System dose need another overhaul in any case, as it is now, it's just too mundane & un-interesting. Adding some of the above would make things more interesting, not just for BH but for everyone.

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Very nice my friend... This would acually make me get out of retirement!

Ok to end timer and capture exploits, there could be something where you drag them to nearest city and call in a Bounty Hunters Guild extract. The BH gets reward and the jedi come to a load screen and they are deposited at the closest major city (one with a starport) to the location where they were captured. also instead of a net, there could be a tie up command that was useable whrn they were knocked down, and the bh is within say 10 meters. The evac idea comes from Mercenarieslayground of Destuction for Xbox. Also you could have a rob command to take whatever creds a jedi has on them making a limit at 20k (if they haveall their creds on them or something, taking all of them would be unfair) For these live capture missions rewards could behigher, but the jedi would only get 20-30% of normal xp loss because they didn;t really die. Oh also to stop bh newbs from using one KD shot and then getting really goo rewards, a jedi has to have 1/4 or less of their normal health.

well, i know its not as fun as actually draging the jedi off yourself but... if we could capture our marks it would be good enough for me to see a shuttle from the appropriate faction land and have these npc cart off our mark. everyone around would be able to see this meanwhile the mark is loading up at the corresponding faction stronghold.

for instance, say jabba puts a bounty on a jedi or smuggler (btw we should ge smuggler bounties) and we capture our mark. we see a bunch of jabba's goones land and take him/her away, meanwhile the marks is loading up inside the rancor pit or in an arena in jabba's palace of some kind. like wise if its the imps you load into the imp prisonon dath, etc.

as for other stuff i think we should get: car/house bombs (don't have it destroy stuff in the house, just kill the occupants), collect bounties in space, our own droideka (or similar combat droid... HK-47's anyone?), vehicle mounted weapons (speeder with a side car that has a T21 attached), as a MBH cert weapon get the Tenloss Disruptor Rifle from Jedi Knight 2 (it totally bipasses saber block and could disintegrate with one hit).

Two things:

wrist flame thrower
rocket launcher

what I would like to see is the DEVs take any one of these suggestions and run with it. That would at least let me know that they read the things that we post on here.