Jedi Archive
Thread: Is player bounties out the door?
has anyone considered the ”love” BHers got with the phat loot marks is because they are going to remove the player bounty missions? Some will reply it was Blixdev doing it on his spare time but come on… I don’t buy that.SOE know the “forced” PvP concept was a bad idea that has for most part generated a lot of hate in this game. The BH/jedi issue has taken way to much focus away from the rest of the game and as a whole been nothing but bad will towards SOE and SWG.
Whatever the older jedi say about hard mode and so on is no longer valid as the power of a jedi toon has been taken away (or lets say it’s marginally better). Who can say that the path to get to a full temp jedi equal the reward, even with the now easier grind and less penalties? I myself do not.
To me it seems the “reward” is you get the choice to play a jedi IF you subscribe the 18 weeks of FS phases but hey… I might be wrong.
Well the point of this post was to ask if you think this might be the way the ship is turning?
cant see player bounties being removed.
some people always want to hunt other people. less predictable/more exciting than hunting a coded/bugged npc.
and of course some people just get enjoyment out of killing knowing the xp loss.
Atzo wrote:cant see player bounties being removed.
some people always want to hunt other people. less predictable/more exciting than hunting a coded/bugged npc.
and of course some people just get enjoyment out of killing knowing the xp loss.
Thing is, that's about as close to griefing as you can get.
Depriving someone else of XP earnt is quite different than anything else that exists in the game. It really isn't any different than having the ability to loot someones corpse in PvP after you kill them - and this has NEVER been in the game. If I stole an item from someone by offering to slice something for them, then running away - I'd quite rightly get reprimanded. If I trained some mobs onto a group who were fighting and one or more of them got killed - again, I would get called on it.
I don't really see how depriving someone of XP is any different, plus - it's a broken system anyway really as it only delays a Jedi reaching full temp - it doesn't "kill" them as the whole permadeath system originally intended.
VickeVire wrote:has anyone considered the ”love” BHers got with the phat loot marks is because they are going to remove the player bounty missions?
Nope. As a matter of fact, they are working on introducing player bounties on other players/professions as well. (BTW before I get the 'where did you see that, I don't believe it blabbering, Veela (a former smuggler who also worked for a gaming magazine spoke to 2 developers at E3.)
So don't get your hopes up.
Message Edited by Turd_Ferguson523 on 09-07-2005 06:32 AM
lol, I don't care if I get hunted or not. In 6 months as jedi I've been hunted twice. I just play the game. I admit I do not PvP much (so I don't gain alot of vis)and I guessthe fine tunedBH/MCM will probably win.
As i stated above this question just came to mind...
Turd_Ferguson523 wrote:
So don't get your hopes up.
A BH that hunts a Jedi in not pvp. Pvp is when I decide to go SF and will go around looking other players that made the same decision.
BH vs Jedi is a failed attempt to keep jedi rare. Should be removed
Turd_Ferguson523 wrote:
VickeVire wrote:
has anyone considered the ”love” BHers got with the phat loot marks is because they are going to remove the player bounty missions?
Nope. As a matter of fact, they are working on introducing player bounties on other players/professions as well. (BTW before I get the 'where did you see that, I don't believe it blabbering, Veela (a former smuggler who also worked for a gaming magazine spoke to 2 developers at E3.)
So don't get your hopes up.
Message Edited by Turd_Ferguson523 on 09-07-2005 06:32 AM
Message Edited by cloudwalker1 on 09-07-2005 01:12 PM
cloudwalker1 wrote:
SO until SOE give me a reason to fight back......
Careful what you wish for.......A reason to fight back does not always equal a "reward"...it can also be fighting back to avoid a negative effect on your toon.
If xp loss is not enough....maybe SOE will realize that and reimplement skill loss.....probably never reimplement permadeath but I'm sure they could come up with something else.
Turd_Ferguson523 wrote:
VickeVire wrote:
has anyone considered the ”love” BHers got with the phat loot marks is because they are going to remove the player bounty missions?
Nope. As a matter of fact, they are working on introducing player bounties on other players/professions as well. (BTW before I get the 'where did you see that, I don't believe it blabbering, Veela (a former smuggler who also worked for a gaming magazine spoke to 2 developers at E3.)
So don't get your hopes up.
Message Edited by Turd_Ferguson523 on 09-07-2005 06:32 AM
The developers have been saying that for 2 years now. It'll never happen, they just keep dangling the carrot to keep people interested.
The simple fact is if they haven't been able to come up with a system for player bounties that won't be exploited by now, they never will. When they said they were "working on it" at E3, all that REALLY meant is that it still comes up from time to time in meetings, and gets dropped again for the same old reasons.
Message Edited by Grunzer on 09-07-2005 05:35 AM
Thats not to say that i dont believe like others that its simply become a way of greifing lower level jedis, but whose fault is that... soe's.
which is exactly why there should never have been player bounties in the first place,its sounds good in theory but then the griefers ruined it
Atzo wrote:
cant see player bounties being removed.
some people always want to hunt other people. less predictable/more exciting than hunting a coded/bugged npc.
and of course some people just get enjoyment out of killing knowing the xp loss.