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Thread: Bounty Hunter News from FanFest
Tucheck wrote:
Sprees wrote:
Did any one ever stop to think that you might not be able to kill some of these high level jedi because they are just better at PVP then you are?
Yeah....I guess their passive macro abilities are just too uber for us to deal with. 3 BHs hitting an AFK Jedi for 15 minutes and no incapped....TONS of PvP skills required there.
OK hit delete on those cdef pistols your useing then................
welcome to swg. And jedi hunting with other jedi means instant visibility, as if my brother would rat me out in under 5 seconds. Nothing in this game makes much sense, its all for the sake of entertainment.
Savanah wrote:
Tanks wrote:
Several things were mentioned as possibilities by devs in various forums:
- Successive failed missions getting BHs on terminals.
This I also like a lot. Gives BH's a reason to successfully complete their mission. Sort of like a 'reputation' that the BH builds up. The more missions you fail, the lower your reputation goes. And Im also sure that your 'employers' wouldn't be too thrilled with your repeated failures.
I can't get on board with this one at all. A bounty isn't a contract like a smugg mission would be. The BH terminals are like the SW version of checking the wanted posters at the post office. You take down the mark and deliver proof of the kill to the grieved party and collect your reward. Until you actually contact the offerer he wouldn't even know that you were on the job so how would a failure place you on the terminals? Doesn't make sense to me....
Iwawmi wrote:
how is this possible when jedi are supposidly 1.5x as strong as anyone
i think wish list is a seriously bad word, none of the above mentioned ideas are an improvement
Because this game is all about Jedi. That is why they will NERF Roof and Snare and the things Tanks talked about.
The game has come down to Content you do with your Jedi and Content you do when you don't want to play your Jedi.
Time everyone just deal with it. PvP is a Jedi's game now.
rYsyn wrote:
Iwawmi wrote:
how is this possible when jedi are supposidly 1.5x as strong as anyone
i think wish list is a seriously bad word, none of the above mentioned ideas are an improvement
Because this game is all about Jedi. That is why they will NERF Roof and Snare and the things Tanks talked about.
The game has come down to Content you do with your Jedi and Content you do when you don't want to play your Jedi.
Time everyone just deal with it. PvP is a Jedi's game now.
SWG is a Jedi's game now
Tanks wrote:
Several things were mentioned as possibilities by devs in various forums:
- Possibility of combat rating getting one on BH Terminals if the combat rating is so high.
- Successive failed missions getting BHs on terminals.
- Eliminating Jedi names and bounty amounts from terminals while listing faction and online status.
- Making BH vs Jedi missions one on one somehow.
- Adding Smuggler missions.
However, all of the above are more of a wish list at this time and are not on any schedule that has been revealed by devs.
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Message Edited by Kaukiji on 06-04-2005 09:47 PM
Kaukiji wrote:
the reason im not grinding towards jedi is because in the next expansion you will get a free unlocked paddy as a "veteran's reward"....i wouldnt be suprised.
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Message Edited by Kaukiji on 06-04-2005 09:47 PM
ha...actually that would...i mean should be a 2 year vet reward for all accounts that have been active since launch as we have shown more patience then luke did when he was training with yoda!
Tucheck wrote:
CrashNgoBoom wrote:
LMAO, this is too funny. Everyone thinks it's all great to go hunting unsuspecing players, but as soon as their on the recieving end of the blaster fire they get all whinny. I think this is a great idea. Big deal, you get your salad tossed by a Master Defender. It's part of the risk of hunting, not just taking missions you know you can win. Master Defenders are by no means impossible to kill, I know because I've done it. It just takes some stratagy and the fight lasts longer. Not just run in and kill em before they know what hit them. As for being "forced" to hunt a knight solo as someone said earlier in the thread, nobody is forcing you to hunt anyone. Jedi's take a risk on what used to be a possibilty and is now a certianty of getting on the terms. But most of you cry when you get a chance to get hunted for sucking. So what? If you die, you die. You don't lose days worth of xp, you just clone, and get back to business. Quit bishing and welcome the new content and twist to the game if we get it.
I'm sorry...I must have missed the BH title in one of the 5 titles you have listed in your sig. Of course you can have an opinion...it just doesn't mean much.
Although...gee, I can't figure out "why in the world" YOU would support it? These "changes" are just pathetic and you know it.
I will say one thing....I alwyas wondered if Tanks knew how helpless and insignificant the BH community felt most of the time. I guess this proves he does know how it feels.
Tanks wrote:
Several things were mentioned as possibilities by devs in various forums:
- Possibility of combat rating getting one on BH Terminals if the combat rating is so high.
- I would be okay with this
- Successive failed missions getting BHs on terminals.
- Not a good idea because of the next point. If you don't know what level Jedi your hunting, could hurt the dabblers with CL below 80.
- Eliminating Jedi names and bounty amounts from terminals while listing faction and online status.
- Totally disagree, add the last 2 and don't take away the first 2.
- Making BH vs Jedi missions one on one somehow.
- Totally impossible for some Bounty Hunters, aspecially newer ons that are still developing their templates.
- Adding Smuggler missions.
- I like this, but guess what - Alot of the BH are going to go after smugglers instead of Jedi. Why go after someone that is 1.5 times stronger than you, when you can go after someone your level.
However, all of the above are more of a wish list at this time and are not on any schedule that has been revealed by devs.
Bad ideas for the most part, really favors Jedi. I would support the 1vs1 battles if Jedi were on the same level as BH.
Tanks wrote:
Several things were mentioned as possibilities by devs in various forums:
- Possibility of combat rating getting one on BH Terminals if the combat rating is so high.
- Successive failed missions getting BHs on terminals.
- Eliminating Jedi names and bounty amounts from terminals while listing faction and online status.
- Making BH vs Jedi missions one on one somehow.
- Adding Smuggler missions.
However, all of the above are more of a wish list at this time and are not on any schedule that has been revealed by devs.
I'm a full template Jedi Knight, and would like to add my own personal observations to the above.
Ihave been on the terminalsfor a very long time. My first BH visitin the last six weeks came yesterday, and the guyeven "apologized" for picking me,saying I was the only Jedi online and he had no other choice!! Yet, guildmates who made Padawan after CU have been grinding in groups because solo experience is too slow. Most of them were attacked by BH on the same day or the day after they went on terminals.
The rampant bottom feeding that is going on at the expense of Padawans is disturbing other game balances, like the net experience gain rate that the average Padawan can expect. The aboveideas by the devscan fix that. The addition of non-Jedi PC marksshould reduce the total number of Jedi missions actually being undertaken per hour, and the Jedi missions undertaken will be more evenly spread among full template Jedi and Padawans because of the anonymity: it's no longer going to be "the easier you are to kill, the more your mission gets picked", it will be "the more vis you have, the higher the chance of your mission getting picked". This would fix the bottom feeding and relieve a lot of the pressure Padawans are feeling, allowing them to gain exp at a reasonable rate in groups and on the terms.
In my sig I have links to two posts I made long ago, titled "A Silver Bullet: Jedi Anonymity on BH Terminals" and "NO VISIBILITY FOR GROUPED JEDI". If devs actually go ahead at some point in the not too distant future and implement the anonymity ideas, it might fix the grinding experience for Padawans. In that case,therewould be no need to change the visibility rules for grouping.