Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: ***PETITION*** A Bounty Hunter Call to Arms!
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Nylah
Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:55 am
#1
Friends, Mandalorians, lend me your ears (or whatever appendage you use to listen with)...
The time has come for a complete Revamp of BH, along with the addition of a new elite profession....the Mandalorian!
Let me explain...
We have formed a BH-oriented guild on Tarquinas, called H.I.V.E., in the city of Wretched Hive, with the express purpose of helping to bring change to our beloved profession, and have a little fun along the way. Within 24 hours of forming we have 14 Guildees (12 BHs, a DE and a Smuggler), and 4 BH citizens from other Guilds, whom all support the following ideas I've laid before them. Not a bad start for a revolution...
The changes we (and we hope any other BHs reading this) would like SOE and LucasArts to implement are as follows:
A) Smugglers: PvP Hunting would no longer be limited to merely Jedi. As smuggling is an illegal profession, and with their revamp coming shortly, we would like Smugglers to be added as a mission type.
B) Factional BHing: As with pilots, so too should there be Factional-contracted BHs, both Rebel and Imperial, and independant Factions (CorSec, RSF, Hutt).
As far as legal targets, openly declared SpecForce members would be the primary targets, but I personally would like to see any Combatant or SpecForce member as potential targets. Call it the price of being Rebel or Imperial. Now for those of you screaming FOUL! at the thought of this, and Smuggler hits, let me direct you to our next interesting implementation...
C) Capture/Kill Missions: This would not so-much be a mission type, as a mission choice. Once your target is incapped, you would have the option of Capturing your target rather than killing them outright. In much the same way Probe Droids are summoned, and using a similar system as the Player Event Perk "Shuttle Control Device", you would be able to summon a capture craft from space to deliver your target to. Once delivery is complete, the aforementioned target would reappear somewhere, say, the nearest Shuttleport or Cloning facility, none worse for the encounter other than the slight inconvenience of having to trek back to their previous location. The main objective behind this choice would be simple: Griefing, and the avoidance therein of. How many of you have had Jedis, and whole Guilds for that matter incessently harassing you for a mission well done? I know I have. As there would be no DB, there would be no loss of XP to said Jedi, just the shame he would endure being bested by a more skillful BH. For this to work, Trapping would probably need to become part of a BH's requirements.
D) BH vs BH Missions: As the movies of the Star Wars saga have shown us, Bounty Hunters are sneaky, tactile and resourceful people, whose biggest enemy is not their mark, but their own kind. Bounty Hunters hunting fellow Bounty Hunters would be an interesting, and challenging, twist on BHing altogether. The Hunter becoming the Hunted. This would work best in the Factional BH setting, Imperial BHs hunting Rebel BHs, and vice versa.
E) Thermal Detonators: As the title simply suggests, Thermal Detonators (and possibly other grenade types) should be added to the BH tree.
Every little bit helps...
And finally,
F) Mandalorian: As everyone on every server knows, the Jedi population is becoming, well, overpopulated. And fast. Not only is it completely destroying the mythos of Star Wars, its quite annoying to see so many smug Jedi running around, being openly arrogant, thinking they're better than everyone else. The solution is simple: Institute a NEW Elite profession alongside Jedi, the Mandalorian! This would be an extension of the Master Bountu Hunter profession, and would be almost as challenging to obtain as Jedi itself. As any of you that have been all the way into Jabba's throne room knows, Boba Fett tells you of a secret Endorian enclave (Which we all know as the Death Watch Bunker), which is where the coveted Jetpack and Mandalorian armor is constructed. And as most of you that have been there knows, the place is a deathtrap. Boba himself tells you the Mandalorians are dead and gone. Period.....or are they? Upon successful completion of a certain as yet to be determined set of quests within DWB, you would unlock the new Mandalorian skill tree, possibly by bringing back to Boba some remnant of his fathers (say, a journal or his old gun which Obi-Wan kicked away from him atop the cloning facility in Ep 2). Upon learning that the Mandalorians are not truly dead, Boba would give you quests to be completed to open other skill boxes (similar to The Village). The quests would be equally as, if not moreso, challenging as the Jedi Village quests, and would take roughly the same timeframe to obtain. Not only would Mandalorians EASILY be able to go toe-to-toe with most Jedi, they would also have entirely new armor, weapons and tactics. The nice thing about this approach is that it would give people something else to strive for, as players cannot become both Jedi and Mandalorians. One or the other. Hopefully this would reduce the amount of Jedi on each server, as both existing and would-be Jedi would have something else to strive for.
As recent events have shown us (Pub 22 anyone?), there is power in numbers, and SOE DOES listen to players who have a voice en masse. So consider this post a petition if you will. If you like what you've read, please sign below. If not, send me an ingame tell to tarquinas.nylah and tell me what changes you'd like to see.
Let our voices be heard!
Message Edited by Nylah on 09-08-2005 05:59 AM
OdanTDO
Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:15 am
#5
/sign
ColonelO'Din KillorDie
Master Bounty Hunter/Pistoleer
D M G
Colonel O'Din-Obasi
Padawan
D M G
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Deathscythe
Master Bounty Hunter / Squad Leader
O'Din-Obasee
D M G
Master Artisan / Master Shipwright / Master Droid Engineer
Huples_Cat
Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:15 am
#6
Nice ideas
/sign
Weird to see redlion signing anything that is actually constructive.
bmill
Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:19 am
#7
Nylah wrote:
Friends, Mandalorians, lend me your ears (or whatever appendage you use to listen with)...
A) Smugglers: PvP Hunting would no longer be limited to merely Jedi. As smuggling is an illegal profession...
B) Factional BHing: As with pilots, so too should there be Factional-contracted BHs, both Rebel and Imperial...
C) Capture/Kill Missions: This would not so-much be a mission type, as a mission choice...
D) BH vs BH Missions: As the movies of the Star Wars saga have shown us, Bounty Hunters are sneaky...
E) Thermal Detonators: As the title simply suggests, Thermal Detonators (and possibly other grenade types)...
F) Mandalorian: As everyone on every server knows, the Jedi population is becoming, well, overpopulated...
It's a shame that the Mandolorians were pretty much wiped out after the Mandolorian War. So because the Jedi have become overpopulated, your solution would be to take ANOTHER rare race and overpopulate them? Boba Fett isn't even a Mandolorian. The Death Watch Bunker guys are the last of the Mandolorians in our Galaxy. So you are saying that we could join THAT faction and learn their profession? I think this would create a new game called Jedi Vs BH and that's out of the question. All otherprofessions would be inferior.
While I think your ideas are interesting, there is no way that I could agree to sign for this.
I do like A, B, C, and D though. I've been pushing for similiar things for a long time.
Damian-j
Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:19 am
#8
Huples_Cat wrote:
Nice ideas
/sign
Weird to see redlion signing anything that is actually constructive.
thats because his other useless Advanced duelist stance thread just got deleted........LOL
Dinchamion
Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:22 am
#10
Nylah wrote:As recent events have shown us (Pub 22 anyone?), there is power in numbers, and SOE DOES listen to players who have a voice en masse. So consider this post a petition if you will.
Well, before this thing goes too far...
You are a customer. Nothing more, nothing less. If you like the product, you pay for it, if don't, you don't pay for it. But you are a customer, and not an employer of SOE.
Therefore, don't think that the outrage around Pub22 grants you anything. It shows that the devs listen to the players. But definetely doesn't mean that the playerbase can tell the devs what to do.
You CAN make suggestions, which is nice. They MAY implement it into the game, which is more nice. But not granted.
Don't get me wrong, I like your ideas, and fully support them, but I don't want to see threads based on the "success" (in a way) outrage about Pub22. You are a customer. You can give feedback, but if you want to control how the game goes, make your own one.
Oh, and btw, a sidenote: there will be no more profession revamp, neither for Smugglers, nor any other professions, including BH. This was stated a long ago.
Message Edited by Dinchamion on 09-08-2005 03:24 PM
KammaRocca
Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:36 am
#12
I'd be for it if a smuggler got a warning that he had a bounty out on him and who was tracking him down and who held the mission to make it even. The BH gets the first shot at a Jedi to balance things, but there would be no balance if the BH could just stalk a smuggler like a Jedi.
Huples_Cat
Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:44 am
#13
Oh damn damian, i was just making a reply to that when "the post you are trying to find has been deleted" came up 
Was definately going to live up to my jedi troll name. Or is it jedaii? Or jebay? I can never remember, since we all so obviously bought our accounts 
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