Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: WE WANT PLAYER BOUNTIES!!!!!
Message Edited by ilykawarr on 07-26-2005 01:59 PM
I had this same idea, I even wrote out a detailed discription of how it could work, It was awesome (at least in my mind) but then I realized that there is really no way to keep it from being exploited and abused. Most players are not responsible and honorable enough to have something this great...for example:
1. BH/Jedi griefers (both sides do it)
2. BH bottom feeding
3. Jedi/BH ganksquads (rather GCW or missions its just wrong)
4. Jedi grinding on the trails.
5. Respecs
It just goes to show that where someing can be taken advantage of, players will do it.
KRAKEN666 wrote:
If you get player bounties, most bh will never hunt jedi again just because most of your targets will be easier to kill than a padawan who just got his gen 1 saber. It is most bh's nature to get the easy kill, not the hard kill. And what would u base it on? If a dancer dances to provacative? A chef has mulitple failures when experimenting? A smuggler slices too many items for the wrong faction? If you think the battle and attitudes between jedi and bh are bad, wait till a few of every other proffesion get killed by a bh. You wont get anything from any vendor without a big price tag added to it. Even though I think it would be interesting to see other proffesions on the bh terms, its a bad idea player wise because jedi will look like heros and bh look like gankers. And, what if bh are added to the bh terminals...how does that make u feel?
The day I kill a smuggler/commando/sl for a bounty is the day I turn in my MBH tag
ilykawarr wrote:
Ok, seriously, PLAYER BOUNTIES PLEASE. I can't believe this still hasn't been put in game, bounty hunters can only hunt jedis? What a joke. It's no suprise a bounty hunter versus a fully templated jedi is not fair. And it shouldn't be, jedis are powa rangas! But...they need something that IS fair, to keep us bounty hunters entertained while still participating in PvP. Bounty hunters go through a pain in the ass grind(or used to, i respeced my MBH, like a real pimp :-p)to be able to hunt jedis...."w00t! now i can get my ass whooped by fully templated jedis! /dance"
Yes, against jedis who arent templated, we stand a better chance, but I don't know about your servers, but on Valcyn, the few jedis who aren't fully temped, are on Kasshyyk.
well know this ...if they give us bounties for players other than jedi, you can bet mission failure will result in BH getting hunted ...
now in a perfect game, a bounty hunter can not argue the fairness of a system like that. We've been hunting players for so long without reprisal, or any concrete loss to fear except PVP rating, for so long, even i would have to agree its time we face the same fate. ...
but here is where i have a problem with it ....as we all can see, changes implemented in the game are never perfect, they can often be exploitable, some dont even work as intended, and often lead to other problems ...
if we are given player bounties like we want, you can bet those who arent jedi will run twice as hard, twice as fast, log twice as much, exploit twice as bad, and grief us three times as much. they will do whatever nessecary to get us to fail our missions ... complain NON stop .. and get the bounty hunter profession nerfed HORRIBLY....
we will end up with professions weaker than we are now, terminals in worse shape then they are in now, and being hunted ourselves 24/7
player bounties is a can of worms waiting to open ....mark my words
Message Edited by Thassk on 07-22-2005 01:32 AM
Just an idea for this...
How about you can get yourself on the BH terminals with specific actions, such as slapping Palpatine, Vader, Jabba, Valarian?
You slap them, they incap you, you get a fine AND you get put on the BH terminals. Then, to stop the inevitable exploiting of people getting their friends to take the mission for a split of the reward, use the system that's been introduced for hunting jedi - no name until the droid returns it.
Not a huge addition to BH content, but I'd definitely try slapping jabba once just for the experience of having someone come after me.
I also like the idea of having specific missions where you are told in advance that if you fail then you will become a BH target. It's hard to complain that you've been killed by a BH when you were warned in advance before you took the mission.
Player bounties on anything other then from failing a special missions perhaps from a special mission terminal will never work. You can not force people into PVP for playing there normal chars. Jedi is one thing they knew going in that they could be hunted. If you try and change it where people get on a terminal for doing normal content you will see an uprising 10X what ever you have seen from the Jedi. Then you have to work out some penalty for the when they do get killed. Jedi loose XP which is very important to them as it takes a long time to get ( don't give me the kask arguement. not everyone does it). What kind of penalty can you put on a non jedi that will make it worth his while to not jsut stand there and let you kill them so they can go on about there day? Money? loss of ability of skills for a set period of time? Force them to wear a silly hat? What can you do that will really hurt a non jedi player?
Although I would like the idea of player bounties as a concept I can not think of a way to put it in that can would actually add content. But there has to be a penalty after a death. There was not order 67 that said kill all smugglers.