Bounty Hunter Archive

Let’s face it; there are more and more Jedi everyday in a time when Jedi are in hiding and being hunted.

Solution: Emperor realizes there are more and more jedi; to solve this (being the devious one he is) he turns jedi against jedi and gives BH more opportunities to get paid, in order to rid the jedi menace in a two part plan.

First off, bounty hunter terminals now have 3 sections: missions, confirm identity, and jedi. Jedi become huntable by these new steps: 1. during anytime in which a jedi exposes (uses force, equips light saber, wearing robes etc.)him/herself and during a 10 second window following, a jedi may be clicked on by any player and then a new option of “report possible jedi” will show up.(only real life players get jedi posted to BH terminals) 2 Once a jedi has been reported by 5 different players the jedi gets put on the confirm identity board. 3. A bounty hunter will pick up a mission from a confirm identity post and the track the jedi the usual way. Once jedi is found a new “test for force” device is used (has a range of 30 meters and requires 5 seconds to store data). 4. BH returns the force data to the terminal. The BH receives 50k and the 5 reporters each receive 30k after this conformation step. After being confirmed, jedi become huntable.

Part 1 of plan ~ jedi:

Once again the emperor turns jedi against jedi. Path to dark jedi consists of killing jedi (what a surprise). Jedi can be killed by Jedi at anytime if overt (also full temp. jedi do not need to be overt to be hunted by other jedi) Jedi get no missions or tracking, but do get a “sense force ability” at padawan rank ~ and then get a “sense disturbance in the force” when an overt or full temp jedi is within 1024 meters of themselves after using it {drains mind}, other than that just overt status symbol and luck of running into one-another).

The attacking Jedi would get dark side kill, where defending Jedi would not get dark side kill but a force exp bonus - depending on level of attacking jedi (jedi never act in attack, only in defense). Also attacking (dark) Jedi gets first attack bonus because path to dark side is easier, just not better.

Once a jedi kills 6 other jedi the path to the dark side begins, and cannot be reversed. (All new skills and trees). Dark Jedi do not grind exp, they grind jedi deaths (6 dead jedi - novice dark, 2 dead jedi - block one, 3 dead jedi - block two, 4 dead jedi - block three, 5 dead jedi - block four, and to get master dark you must kill 6 jedi at rank knight or higher, and have filled in all bottom blocks: just like skills). [It does not matter if you kill a jedi or dark jedi: dead jedi count for dead jedi]. A Jedi (attacking or defending) must give death blow to receive any exp for the battle.

Yes this means your Jedi buddy can kill you at any time (emperor betting greed and temptation will outweigh trust and lead to the “new jedi revolution” collapse, and maybe have a new apprentice emerge; after all he is sith lord).

Jedi deaths would be the same: loss of stored exp; of course, dark jedi lose stored jedi kills, and jedi in transition lose both. However, to fix the risk free full temp jedi, a full temp (both dark and light) will lose their highest earned skill box once killed. (If two boxes are tied for highest the jedi chooses which to surrender).

Jedi may say being hunted by jedi is unfair; the truth is that not all jedi have to hunt jedi, and a trust guild or grind group is possible. All the emperor’s new plan does is create temptation. How the jedi and the rest of the population deal with that temptation is their own choice.

Part 2 of plan ~ bounty hunters:

B.H.’s no longer have a single mission. Their data pad downloads overt jedi by going to a terminal and choosing jedi list: which is updated weekly (like going into a bounty office and looking at a top 100 list). Each Jedi you download to your pad costs 200 credits (non-refundable) and you may download as many or as little jedi as you like. This makes it so that if a BH is lucky enough to run into an overt jedi and has paid the 200 credits for the jedi profile the BH can kill a jedi without blood signature stage. [Note: once killed, a jedi is removed from all logs and must become overt again.] B.H.’s may still need/choose to track jedi, this is done the same way as before: go to the informant, send droids, etc., BH do not have to track to kill jedi, but may need to in order to find them.

There will also be a 2 or3 B.H. cap, meaning only the 1st two or three B.H.’s to engage jedi can fight (yes a partner team could get interrupted by an outside BH jumping in first). If jedi wins any battle against a BH he/she gets a max 20 min. invisibility to heal or get away (jedi cannot attack during this period, but may turn it off at anytime). Jedi reward is split by all attacking BH. Also new quest for B.H where reward is new BH armor – Assault armor that has 2.5x resist energy and 1x resist kinetic (like 10,000 energy, and 4,000 kinetic on max gear), assault armor specifically for jedi hunting- why assault for BH is not this way I don’t know.

However, to end the open season mentality for all BH, if a BH is killed after attacking a jedi, they receive “jedi-phobia” and cannot attack jedi for 10 days. On top of the 10 day penalty, BH’s must speak to a psychologist level doctor to receive healing for “jedi-phobia” before they can hunt jedi again. Also a “Jedi-phobia” state will be displayed on character window until cured by psychologist for added insult to injury.

This is not a jedi hate post. It is simply the “wisdom” of the emperor put into action. It can work both ways smart jedi who have trust may find ways to group and grind, or they can be reported by anybody with no way of knowing who did it. Yes it is easier for jedi to be attacked, but they really have more choice in whether they hit the boards, jedi who stay in hiding or with trusted friends remain of radar, jedi who expose themselves without taking precautions get hunted. This is a time frame of careful jedi, not fearless egos, so let’s make it that way.

I posted this on both jedi and BH boards, what do you all think?