Bounty Hunter Archive

Message Edited by ekimocyc006 on 10-11-2005 08:13 PM

Despite being a good idea, it'll NEVER happen.

AHHH here comes the fatalist attitude! I was surprised when we BHs first got Jedi missions, but I don't think anything like this will ever happen considering the population of SWG ATM.

And they wont add player-issued bounties on other players because of thr amount of grief that will come out of it.

Actually, Fugley, I think that most people who have been laying this game for awhile would love to have this added to the game. It would be a very interesting element. People would not, of course, have to contend with being captured if they didn't want to. They could simply not involve themselves with whomever might place such a price on their living head. I think that any smuggler would love to show off their scummy side and undertake ways to try and outsmart even the most formidable crime lords and the greatest masterminds in the galaxy.

If someone was unsuccessful in completing these bounties (this should apply to all bounties, ASAP), the price would go up and the original Bounty Hunter would not only lose the mission but be unable to get the mission again at the terminals. You'd be surprised just how many people would love to have player bounties. It would be great just to have the paddys stop complaining.

I need to mention that I saw something pre-CU that originally turned me on to the idea of Bounty Hunterdom. I saw a character in a player city, roleplaying, and two Bounty Hunters came up on their bikes, and targeted the player. The player did not put up a fight, but instead took out his bike and mounted it, at which point the Bounty Hunters proceeded to TAKE CONTROL OF HIS BIKE. I swear to God I saw this. His bike was moving along, following theirs at a perfectly even pace, and it was BACKWARDS. They apparently used some control device. I was pretty noobish back then, so perhaps there is someone here who is going to flame me for not knowing that this is the way it used to be, but I see nothing of the sort now. Anyone familiar with this?

The reason it will never happen: The devs are never gonna add something that allows BHs to force another player to do something.

Just like the house issue.

It'll never happen, and I'd rather have a disentegration bounty on players then a capture one. It also wont happen because there arent enough smuggs to begin with,

Now I'm not saying that I'm AGAINST additions to make bounty hunting more fun, hell any ways to kill the grind of BH XP would rock. But I dont think this will happen.

No this isnt an issue of a BH forcing an opponent to do anything. The idea behind capture would be alot like dying in a instances on Kash, upon being incapped teh Bh could radial menu "Capture" once that was activated the mark would be sent to Jabba/whoever through the load screen.

To make this even more interesting, have it not so much a punishment but more of a chance of reward, the smuggler/whoever could take a mission for X amount of money. Upon completing that mission they would recieve the payout but upon failing that mission they would be sent back to Jabba's palace with no reward.

The bounty hunter would come in right when the player accepts the mission from Jabba to try and kill the mark before he completes his mission.

Its not to far fetched and I dont think either side would get to pissed, if there is reward for both side, of course there would also have to be a down side for both... maybe a timer so that no one would abuse the system.

Well when we kill a Jedi, we force them to die, we force their stuff to deteriorate, we force them to go to the cloner, and we force them to spend a long time frantically trying to get back all the xp we made them lose. Now, right there, we are forcing them to do something. Actually, if a smuggler gets a nice gun and some nice armour and maybe master combat medic, they have a pretty powerful temp, especially if they cross their temp with pistoleer or something. For the smuggler/weaponsmiths, etc. out there, there would be no reason to force them into doing the kind of stuff that would get them on terms. Only smugglers and players who cross people with bad tempers and big wallets would have to worry about me. Force shmorce. I do a lot of stuff that I don't want to do in this game. It's worth the rewards. If a smuggler puts up with me taking him to the Pit of Carkoon, it might make him a whole lot richer. Sounds good to me.

It's be cool if the bounty was greater w/o disintegrations.

Now im not even saying forcing them into PvP, I'm saying forcing them into a MINIGAME.

So don't try and twist my words =] Ed

And are smuggler missions even going to come out in the smuggler revamp. Is there even a smugg revamp in the works?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

If they didn't get on Jabb's bad side, Jabba wouldn't even know they existed. They could just do space stuff to smuggle, especially since most of the smuggling in the movies occurs in space. If they didn't want to smuggle for Jabba, they could continue charging players a million clams for a KD slice. If they didn't want to do the same old slicing thing, they could smuggle, perhaps making even more money, at the expense of taking a risk w/ Jabba, Nym, etc.