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Thread: Hypocritical Jedi
KILLLLLLLL the Padawhiners.
no! Go away I will scare you with my green light saber!
HeadRoll wrote:
ekimocyc006 wrote:
why i don't even bother with jedi hunting. i just stick with the pve npc marks and horde the loot.
hah, I was like that oh soo long ago. But once you do it one time..or your first successful kill, you will become addicted. Have you ever successfully stalked a npc mark and literally felt yourhands shaking and your blood flowing a little faster due to anticipation? No dumb NPC AI markcan ever do that. But it happenswhen up against otherplayers, particularly your first few stalks...soon after you calm down but there is nothing comparable to the feeling of a successful stalk and kill on a pc jedi in this game.
it's the thrill of the hunt..
Message Edited by HeadRoll on 09-01-2005 01:42 PM
Got my first kill yesterday, and talk about an adrenelline rush... no way hunting NPCs even compares with real people. I'm hooked.
- Traal
Kettemoor
groundcrew wrote:
theEwokDude wrote:
I really don't understand some Jedi, or I should say the people that play them. Yesterday I jumped a Jedi that was riding by on his swoop. I managed to cut him off perfectly. Destroyed his swoop and laid him on his back. I started racking up damage when he got up with a sliver of health. Then he Cloak'd and was gone. I immediately dropped the mission and left. I am not playing Cloak games with Jedi.
Anyway, he sends me tells about how I need to respect swoops and this and that. Respect a swoop?? Still don't get that one. I informed him that it is a valid tactic to disable any means a jedi has to escape. He then told me to get some friends (not sure what that meant either), to which I replied he is the one traveling in a pack, I am the solo BH. After that I asked him why a 15K swoop upset him so much when he obviously had enough cash to outfit his Jedi to which he laughed at me and said he gets swoops for free from a friend. He then laughed at me for having to pay for swoops. All this while I was on my BARC.
I just stopped responding after that. I have no idea what that kid was thinking or his reasoning. Sometimes you just don't ask questions.
You could have some fun with this. when ever you get his mission just blast his swoop and leave. I would do that every time. HeckI just might go overt and blast his swoops cause im having a bad day.
lol yea, trust me. After I started getting /tells from this guy I was wishing I had kept his mission.
HeadRoll wrote:
ekimocyc006 wrote:
why i don't even bother with jedi hunting. i just stick with the pve npc marks and horde the loot.
hah, I was like that oh soo long ago. But once you do it one time..or your first successful kill, you will become addicted. Have you ever successfully stalked a npc mark and literally felt yourhands shaking and your blood flowing a little faster due to anticipation? No dumb NPC AI markcan ever do that. But it happenswhen up against otherplayers, particularly your first few stalks...soon after you calm down but there is nothing comparable to the feeling of a successful stalk and kill on a pc jedi in this game.
it's the thrill of the hunt..
Message Edited by HeadRoll on 09-01-2005 01:42 PM
You hit the nail on the head right there buddy. I've never had so much fun in this game as I did when I got my first kill. Nothing has even come close to that. I've gotten plenty of badges, done plenty of quests, met some great people, explored the planets, flied in space...NOTHING has come close to stalking my prey. I love coming up with new tactics that catch my mark off guard. I love standing above a fallen Jedi and seeing that 200K reward popup on my screen. There is nothing like that rush ingame for me.
It's not that jedi are hypocrites, it's that people in general are hypocrites.
My roommate and I have had running battles with people lately who are saying things like "After what he said about assassinating the president of Venezuela, maybe Pat Robertson should be executed."
Hypocrites are everywhere.
The Computer is your friend....
Fugitron wrote:
This tactic is ridiculous. If your not going to actively shoot the jedi when he is grinding or whenever following him around to annoy him is a violation of the TOS.
Violation of the TOS? I don't think so pal, this "annoyance" is called stalking and for a BH, it IS part of our job.
You don't get to choose when a BH attacks you.
Compton wrote:
So last night I'm out hunting Jeds. I fly out to Lok, and track my mark. I get within about 150m and lay on cover and start to move in. Unfortunatley a swarm of Gurks spawn 15m away and break my cover. Well, the Jedi and his group spot me and rush over. A couple Jedi use the /duel exploit as does my mark. He says, "I know you've got my mission. I tried to duel you."
No kidding?
So I tell them that I'm not going to attack and that I'll come back later. I've lost my first strike. I hop on my Barc and say, "Good hunting," trying to be a polite BH. But then the entire group starts labeling me a pu$$y because I won't attack head on. Even low level toons were saying, "Just attack you wuss." I told them that if they wanted to sit here and tell me to attack, all the while the jedi's vis is going up, then it was fine with me. I was going to leave.
Then they say they will report ME!!! Wth, what have I done? I offered to leave!
So after a few more minutes of calling me various names, I say, "Listen, if a BH whines about not being able to kill Jedi, he is countered by Jedi saying 'Don't attack guns-a-blazin or when the Jedi is ready, use tactics.'"
All of a sudden the group got silent until one guy said, "Good point." More silence followed by, "Ok, well, we'll see ya later."
After that, no hate tells. Do jedi even realize how hypocritical they can be?
Did you ever think about the fact that they were using a tactic? It's called "make your enemy rush you in anger." Sounds like when they realized that you wouldn't do so, they stopped trying to make you angry.
Ekwalizer wrote:
Fugitron wrote:
This tactic is ridiculous. If your not going to actively shoot the jedi when he is grinding or whenever following him around to annoy him is a violation of the TOS.
Violation of the TOS? I don't think so pal, this "annoyance" is called stalking and for a BH, it IS part of our job.
You don't get to choose when a BH attacks you.
Stalking is the part where you get to find where he is, if he KNOWS you are there that is no longer stalking. That is hovering and is indeed a violation of the TOS. I never said I get to choose, but if you blow your cover or come up gunz a blazin its your own fault and you shouldn't punish the jedi because YOU lost your surprise. (in the case of the NPC spawn thats no ones fault and I would suggest leaving and coming back in 10 min)
Your job is to HUNT and KILL your mark. BH are not always killing jedi (NPC Marks). So no, unless your an Imperial Jedi Assassin, a BH's job is to kill his mark and NOTHING MORE. If your not trying to kill the jedi all your doing is harassing him and making the situation more volitile - which is against the TOS.
Message Edited by Fugitron on 09-02-2005 07:47 AM
Nowhere in the description of BH can I see something stating that you MUST attack when surprise is lost. In military circles, attacking at a disadvantage when you can disengage and reengage at your whim is called 'stupidity'.
I've fought Grymace, and I'm NOT one of the 20 jedi he's killed. Trust me, if he doesn't get surprise, he's toast.
When did I say you had to attack? If your not going to attack leave and come back when they least expect you. Standing there just to annoy them is what I was refering to.
Taliesyn42 wrote:
Nowhere in the description of BH can I see something stating that you MUST attack when surprise is lost. In military circles, attacking at a disadvantage when you can disengage and reengage at your whim is called 'stupidity'.
I've fought Grymace, and I'm NOT one of the 20 jedi he's killed. Trust me, if he doesn't get surprise, he's toast.
Compton wrote:
Do jedi even realize how hypocritical they can be?