Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Bounty Hunters... what can Dev do Right Now??
Witnezz
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:07 pm
#79
JustG wrote:... There are many many things that we can do to help out your profession, given time.Some of the things will be addressed by the ol' "Combat Balance" mantra ... but not soon enough for you I am sure.Other things are proving VERY difficult for us to track down. The 0 0 0 waypoint issue is quite a bear and we are putting in still more logging tomorrow, but again, not soon enough for you I am sure.The Jedi XP issue is requiring programming time which we don't have. We are trying to work it in, but again not soon enough for you.We want to help out your profession as soon as possible. So that being said, as soon as we can get it through test ...We are going to remove the Trapping, Hunting, and Survival Scout lines from the Bounty Hunter prerequisites.This should give you and additional 48 skill points to add to the 33 you had left over for a total of 81 additional point to spend as you please.This is something that we have been considering for a long time, and wanted to do as part of the CB, but we need you to be as effective as possible against Jedi as soon as possible. This is a start.Your other issues are known, and in varying stages of development, but we want you to know that things are going to get better. Hopefully rapidly.This change will be hitting Test Center tomorrow afternoon, and should be Live by Friday./salute- g
So your solution to repeadetly screwi .... sorry NERFing us
is to lower the requirements and make us the new dabbler FOTM ....
YAY, WOOT, WE'RE THE NEW FOTM
DABBLING IS NOW A PRE-REQ TO BE AN EFFECTIVE BH
Get out !!
Come back with a solution NOT a bandaid and hollow promises ...
Get out
PhoenixOrion
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:07 pm
#80
JustG: next step should be to move ranger tracking down to Scout or get rid of Ranger altogether. It's a useless profession, and the only useful tree in it IS Tracking. Then if any BH's wanted to, they could still get Tracking to help track bounties. 
Qui-Gonzalez
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:08 pm
#81
Wow, once again, you guys do what you want. A vast majority of BH wanted the Req's to remain the same, yet here you go applying band-aids, yet again. JustG, you never cease to amaze me. Some of you people here are so easily distracted by things like this, it boggles the mind. "Watch my right hand, but pay no attention to the left". You failed miserably, via nerfing to oblivion, in making BH a stand alone profession. You see no fix for this on the horizon, so you decide to let us all be MBH/TKM.
Yay for us, and yay for you in another classic example of distraction. You guys at SOE are like Master Magicians, forcing a card. Wow...I am actually stunned speechless. Not in a good way. You got alot of BH, some who are new to the profession, to completely ignore the droid problem, the TEF problem, the mission payout problem, et al.
Well, this is another thing set in stone, so I will adapt accordingly as I always have.
Gonz
Kerxxt
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:08 pm
#82
Ko-aIri wrote: "You do of course realize that this change allows virtually any master combat profession to simply avoid the weapon trees of bounty hunter, pick up Investigation III, and hunt Jedi to their heart's content.
What this change will do isn't help bounty hunters, it will eliminate actual "Bounty Hunters" as the primary Jedi hunters and replace them with Investigation/TKA or Fencer hybrids that will be most effective at hunting Jedi, since melee is far stronger against Jedi than ranged.
Move player Jedi bounties to Master Bounty Hunter or this change is going to kill both Jedi and Bounty Hunters as viable professions. "
What this change will do isn't help bounty hunters, it will eliminate actual "Bounty Hunters" as the primary Jedi hunters and replace them with Investigation/TKA or Fencer hybrids that will be most effective at hunting Jedi, since melee is far stronger against Jedi than ranged.
Move player Jedi bounties to Master Bounty Hunter or this change is going to kill both Jedi and Bounty Hunters as viable professions. "
GREAT POINT HERE Ko-aIri................Id like a response from JUSTG to this.
HitWoman
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:09 pm
#83
I have to agree with a few of the posts from above. I like the change as a temporary solution but move Jedi bounties to Master, please. I would also consider making LLC a rifle instead of a heavy weap. Bump the bounties up as far as payout is concerned too, make em worth our while.
Seth_Ruedo
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:09 pm
#84
Wow! I'm not even remotely intreseted in playingBH, but I think these are some wonderful changes and suggestions - really like the Idea of BH trials andconnectingit to a BH faction system!
Just nice to post something really positive for a change!
MagusZDark
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:10 pm
#85
Seriously people- This isn't a fix to the Bounty Hunter profession at all. I would've much rather seen something done with our skill points to make us stand on our own rather than dabble into other professions. Too much black and white thinking here...
Valn
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:10 pm
#86
Sounds good. I think it will also increase dabbling in BH (for those who are inclined).
Lets move Jedi Bounties to Master BH to keep the dabblers away.
Lets turn the TEF on saber use back on as well.
Lets move Jedi Bounties to Master BH to keep the dabblers away.
Lets turn the TEF on saber use back on as well.
Ariven
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:11 pm
#88
Ko-aIri wrote:
You do of course realize that this change allows virtually any master combat profession to simply avoid the weapon trees of bounty hunter, pick up Investigation III, and hunt Jedi to their heart's content.
What this change will do isn't help bounty hunters, it will eliminate actual "Bounty Hunters" as the primary Jedi hunters and replace them with Investigation/TKA or Fencer hybrids that will be most effective at hunting Jedi, since melee is far stronger against Jedi than ranged.
Move player Jedi bounties to Master Bounty Hunter or this change is going to kill both Jedi and Bounty Hunters as viable professions.
Which is exactly as it SHOULD be.. A bounty hunter doesn't have to be a carbon copy template.. Jango Fett, Aurra Sing, Bossk, Boba Fett all had different -means- to accomplish the -end- of collecting a bounty.. a bounty hunter profession should be about the -extras- you get on top of some other combat class, not replacing a combat class... if I want to be a master pistoleer who is a bounty hunter great, if I want carbines great, if I want TK, great..
WILDMAN_SOLO
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:11 pm
#89
This is not the way to fix BH. We got nerfed from the onset due to people dabbling i.e Pistoleers for the eye shot etc etc. Why in gods name cant they just fix us properly. making BH another punk dabbler profession is not the way foward.
This is a complete cop out by the devs.
You can call me a troll and every other online insult you can think of but deep down you know I am right. BH profession should be powerfull enough to stand on its own with out the need for the devs to "band aid" fix us by turing us into dablers like everyone else.
Today is the day the BH profession ceased being a trueelite Star wars orientated character and became another also ran dabbler/stacker/exploiter profession.
Carry on kidding yourselves THIS MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT STAR WARS
DarkShade9
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:12 pm
#91
sorry to be cynical but, i find it hardly coincidental that we finally get some attention (although in the form of a band aid) in the wake of both the publish 9 fiasco and the resulting cancellation of many bounty hunter accounts