I'll first present what happened this evening as well as many other evenings during the 2 years I've played the game and the over 1.5 years I've been a MBH. -okay two years on June 26 of this year, but close enough. Then I'll post my suggestion to resolve the issue itself. I'll also state up front this issue is in no way the fault of the Jedi but the devs and SOE alone.
This evening me and 2 guildmates decided we were going to hunt some Jedi. This should normally be a fun proposition to a group of BH players, right? The first mark went well except that he ran into a cantina like a coward and hid with his watchdog outside harrassing us. This isn't all that uncommon if you hunt a lot, but it is a shame considering most Jedi that know their tempolate are still in god mode (don't kid yourselves Jedi, you are still in god mode if you know how to use our toon right). After that is where it went downhill. We spent the better part of 2 hours attempting to first find a Jedi that was online and then find one that we could all pick up! In the end we found none at all, over 2 hours!! One of us would find a guy at 88K and no one else could pick that same mark up. We stepped it up tp the marks around 190K and still the same result. Abviously we weren't targeting Padis this evening. I've had this particular event happen so many times now as a MBH I've lost count.
The simple resolution is this. Why does SOE not break down the BH terminals and allow us to select categories on them. It would be so easy. Have each terminal hold various categories (much like the bazzar terminals break things up by product category). It's the same concept applied differently. What I mean is that a BH could select price ranges, say 40-50K, 50-60K or even 40-60, 60-80, etc. Then the terminal would pull up all the missions it has for that range at once. This instead of the good old, "I got Niles at 100K Rogue." Then Rogue replies 20 minutes later, "I can't find him. I find XYZ at 90K." Then 20 more minutes later Niles says,' Dang man I can't find XYZ now. I think I'm calling it a night pal." Let me tell you, I love paying my hard earned money to refresh a terminal all night -NOT REALLY!! Wake up SOE. The simple fact here is that since day one of the Jedi whining about BH control over states, you've nerfed BH and MBH to high heaven so much that you have shown we are really a forgotten profession. This is just one more example of that. And no, there is no way a Jedi can complain about us wanting the terminals to be "user friendly." That is unless Jedi really are so threatened by us that they want to ruin our game and fun.
I'd just like to see some more effort put in by the devs for BH and actually for a lot of professions really. I mean the CU is great in most "normal" PvPing but really think about what it fixed, really. Entertainer is destroyed now, really. Medic is useless for someone who just wants to dable in that or have minimal healing powers. Since no one wants to be a doctor only, it's way to hard to find doctors online with regularity and you are relegated to sitting in a medical center for hours. Oh wait I forgot, Jedi can heal themselves. Interesting that it is easy to find Jedi healers, but as a MBH it's tough to get healed isn't it? Good one to show us yet again how you have forgotten the BH prof SOE...good slap in the face there. Melee still can wn a ranged prof when used right, and stop kidding yourself, there were no ninja or samurai in SW. And Jedi Knights are still in god mode. If the game is going to center around Jedi then advance the timeline accordingly. Don't tell us SWG is right after Ep4 and then have 1,000's of Jedi on each server running around with sabers out everywhere in a time period where the 10 or so living Jedi were in such reclusion that they put their sabers in safes (refer to Ep4 in Obi-Wan's home). I think Jedi should be very powerful and a MBH should have no more than 45% success rates but that's just not a reality, even now. A knight who understands his temp can murder a MBH who understands theirs, don't tell yourself otherwise, because you're only lyeing to yourself.
But again the real issue here are the terminals. It would be such a simple fix and by not doing this simple fix, SOE is again showing us, the BH community of the game (who pay the same amount as everyone else to play this game) that they have either forgot us totally or don't care about us at all. If it's the second, as much as I doubt I personally will ever leave the game, I'd suggest ever BH who feels they are not looked at by the devs with the same respec given to other profs in the game, to simply cancel the accounts and go back to JK2 since that's essentially what we have here right now.
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Hey SOE, here's a novel idea. Instead of trying to get new customers to replace the lost ones. Try fixing the bugs so you get new customers and KEEP the old ones too! Next time you delete a post that puts SOE in a bad light, think about giving us reasons to put you in a good light instead. ...you see when someone buys the game it means they want to like it. When they cancel an account it means you made someone who liked the game dislike it. How's that good business again?
Where does a 90% drop is customer base equal good business? SOE
