Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Kashyyk Bounty Officer and /checkIdle (Player)
Message Edited by OhBuggah on 07-15-2005 03:55 PM
OhBuggah wrote:
How come the bounty officer NPC hanging out at Kachiro Starport on Kashyyk just can't tell us what zone and instance a Jedi is in? Every player has tracking that says where they are. They just need to write a script where the bounty officer reads back the zone and instance variables. No need to tinker with droids and waypoints.
How come they don't just introduce a commandline command like: /checkIdle Maura, that will return text like: "Maura has been idle for 1800 seconds." ... or even /checkIdleBounty that keeps the Jedi name secret, but tells you how long the Jedi in your datapad has been idle. Every player has an idle variable that says how long they've been idle. They just need to write a simple script that returns THAT variable. This way we have the choice of aborting missions on cantina-sitters who are AFK inside private structures.
Stuff like this would be easy to do and would alleviate the serious problems that come up in Publish 20 by removing Jedi names from terminals.
Message Edited by OhBuggah on 07-15-2005 03:55 PM
I like this idea.
One that also appeals to me is the idea of your SpyOps guy calling you when you land on the planet with your mark and ROLEPLAYS it a bit with you.
"Hey, boss. The guy you're looking for is Sabre McBraggart, somewhere over by Mos Eisley. Now the neighbors say he hasn't been out of the house for a few days" in the case of a Jedi who's afk-idling. If the Jedi has been in the house for a while, but notidlerustling around, "Now the neighbors say there's been lights on and off alot recently, so they're sure he's home".
That kinda thing could go a long way toward immersion, and really wouldn't be too tough to do.
that is the coolest thing i ever heard. I give it a 0.0000000000334% chance of ever happening.
SOE has made bounty hunting completely assassinating, which is not what bh'ing is. I never once saw dog the bounty hunter kill anybody on TV.
wow those are some of the most creative ideas ive EVER heard about making our game/our profession more immersed.
it would be awesome if our spynet guy was more invovled in our missions, giving us clues, actually making us work for our bounty... even giving us the name. and the whole jail break thing would be cool, if we had some kinda BH NPC's that guarded it, or just reg police officers in that city, like in kadaara, and they were pretty tough NPCs, and the jedi had to grp together and kill the spawning NPCs to bust out their jedi pals, or the jedi had to sit in jail for a short period of time... maybe an hour or so. anymore would be shot down in a heart beat.
wait what am i saying, THERE IS NO WAY DEVS WOULD EVER READ THIS POST!!!!
lol... unfortunately all the dev's and managers of SOE, etc, they all have jedi toons.... and their alts are prob jedi too, its the whole novelty of being able to say you have a jedi character. I really dont see the appeal, i could care less to ever have a jedi character. the only thing i care about is saving our profession and making the game more immersed, so RP'ers can RP and those of us who just play can just play. how great would it be if BH and jedi werent the only professions people ever got excited about being?
rishton wrote:
that is the coolest thing i ever heard. I give it a 0.0000000000334% chance of ever happening.
SOE has made bounty hunting completely assassinating, which is not what bh'ing is. I never once saw dog the bounty hunter kill anybody on TV.
Wait a few months. I hear that's being saved for the Special Edition DVD.
