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Message Edited by lexington23 on 01-06-2005 07:16 AM
lexington23 wrote:If they impliment BH tracking jedi players into space, then they better impliment jedi flight bonuses as well. Personally, I would rather they leave that whole can of worms closed.Message Edited by lexington23 on 01-06-2005 07:16 AM
I've come to the conclusion that the entire Jedi vs Bounty Hunter is just a bad idea. Because of it, Jedi is crap not worth bothering with. The Village is fun content but I'll never bother to do the exit quest.
Message Edited by ArdenStarmariner on 01-06-2005 10:22 AM
lexington23 wrote:
If they impliment BH tracking jedi players into space, then they better impliment jedi flight bonuses as well. Personally, I would rather they leave that whole can of worms closed.
Message Edited by lexington23 on 01-06-2005 07:16 AM
Why should jedi get a flight bonus if they can be tracked while in space? No one else gets a bonus in space and if jedi get another addition to their skills everyone else would want a similar addition to their jtl template based on their ground profession.
As it is with the way space works it will be even easier for a jedi to avoid a bh in space than on the ground as with the ability to hyperspace anywhere by time the bh loads into space to search at the last known location the jedi can be in any system before the bh can get near them. They then can land at any planet and the bh using some space search device will lose them and have to relook using planetary search again from the ground. As by time any search in space could be finished the jedi has landed, reached the local cantina and is having a few drinks with the boys.
If the jedi want a fighter of their own ala the jedi fighter from Episode 2 then by all means they could get that but no additional skill bonuses as jtl is twitched based.
One newly unlocked jediin the beta jtl forums asked for force shields and force blasts to be added for jtl as he was jedi and wanted the skills for space. These will never happen as the moment they do a lot of people will make similar claims for their chosen ground profession or they will say enoughs enough and leave over the SOE pandering yet again to jedis.
I said in the beta forums at the time to this new jedi that enough is enough and its time for other professions and the combat revamp to be done first before they even think about touching jedi again. As jedi have had more than enough fixes, publishes to date and they need to live with what they have until everyone else has been sorted.
Why should jedi get a flight bonus if they can be tracked while in space? No one else gets a bonus in space and if jedi get another addition to their skills everyone else would want a similar addition to their jtl template based on their ground profession.
Here we go with the Jedi take ALL risks and BHs get ALL rewards. The answer is simple if you intend to hut and penalise the Jedi then you must give the Jedi his abilities to be fair.
1. out marks (NPC) can, when they run to a starport launch into space where we can follow them and let their skill as a pilot be related directly to their level for BH. (invest 1 mark = tier 1 pilot, invest 2 mark = tier 2 pilot, etc).
2. let us hunt jedi in space but have it cost them say 1/10th the xp from a normal "kill" as you don't really die when you get blown up in space. or maybe have it cost no xp for the jedi since they can't gain any jedi xp in space.
3. if a bh gets blown up from a mark have the repair cause no decay and the same would go for a jedi if they got killed by a bh.
4. i don't think jedi should get any "real" powers in space as it is a twitch game, but for jedi who have that vehicle control tree let them get small bonuses to pyr rates (no less then 10% increase), a slightly shorter time for target lock with ordinance, slightly better range with weapons, shorter time between special commands. subtle things like that wouldn't be too bad and wouldn't really be too overpowered as some of them can be countered by having better equipment and the rest can be handled by learning to fly better and to use better tactics.
The ease of jumping to hyperspace would make bounty hunting in space a pretty pointless exercise. The BH might be able to land some damage on the jedis ship before he hyperspaces, but I doubt he'll ever actually destroy their ship. Also, how do you DB in space?