Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: A little fuel for BH and Jedi Flamers alike
I look through the forums a lot to find pointers to help me. I am Stubborn to give up smuggler and I probably should if I want to be more successful. However, I see so much whining and moaning on both the BH and the Jedi sides about each other and it is really tiring... lemme make some points here
1.it's a game. The DEVs work very hard at trying to make the game the way it should be and I am thankful that they listen as much as they do. It will never be perfect because: it's a game on a computer. NOT an RPG.
2. BH temps vary a lot. I have read about success from many different ones, but rarely mine. 
. But I do have success. BH's are not made to be the kill all prof and they never will be. Jedi are tough and I think masters should be tougher. There are those BH's that have fairly constant success because they found ways that work for them.Full template Jedi are not unkillable, because BH's kill them on a daily basis. But I will guarantee that the BHs that did so did not stand toe to toe with them with shotty armour and a CDEF pistol. It takes more than MBH to make you able to hunt Jedi successfully. In a nut shell: If you didn't kill your mark then you did it wrong. Find the right way. Stop whining about how tough Jedi are.
3. It is not cheap Tactics for a BH to use pets, droids and other toys to kill Jedi. The whole reason Jango died vs. Windu is because of a malfuntion of one of his toys. That is what bounty hunters are about... kinda like Batman. I think BHs should have more toys available.
Jedis are tough... I need a bigger red button. 
So, jedi don't expect us to go toe to toe with you. If I can snipe you in a crowd from outside the city, I will. If I can use a pet to tank you I will.If I can hit you with a bomb droid, I will. 
If I can get all three things going I definaltely will! If just I run up guns a-blazin, I am a dead idiot.
4. it is not cowardly for a Jedi to run. I don't run. Why, you ask? Cuz I am not the one losing 250k xp. They are.I insured and cloned. I have little to lose other than my PVP rating. I frankly don't care... i want my 200k. I may lose money, however... but not any more than I would ifI ran. If a jedi doesn't run while he is losing... well he deserves to die and give away all that xp to me in the form of credits. Every Jedi I have killed, save those blessed by Last Ditch, have tried to run so i have to catch them. If I don't, that is my fault. So run Jedi, RUN LIKE THE WIND! I honestly think there should be xp loss for all DB pvp.Not just for Jedi...Adds some spice.
5. DEVs: You want to make the BH profession more fun. Don't limit it to hunting Jedi. Who was hunted in the movies, the Jedi? Nope, Han Solo was hunted. Why? Cuz someone put a hit out on him. I say, make everyone suffer from xp loss and have the players post the marks and the bounties for other players. The empire can still put up bounties for jedi as usual, but so can players for say... a BH that just killed my Jedi friend. Still only accessable to MBH for PC bounties.
6. I do think they should make bounty hunters a little tougher, but I also think they should go back to the old requirements for BH, so that those who really wanted to be BH's could work the couple of months or so it takes to be one. Grinding BH in a day or so is crap and put too many whiners in the BH/Jedi mix. The Jedi have the same problem. Too many new Jedi. I miss the old grinds. It seems to me that the Jedi and BHs that complain the most are probably the same people that complained that those Grinds were too hard. To tell you the truth, once the grind for jedi changed in publish 9(?) I didn't work so hard at trying to be one. I have no Jedi Toons.
That's all I have for now. BTW one my BH toon on Eclipse is a MBH/MSmug/0400 commando Lot's of fun but lacking in Invincibility. 