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Thread: Visibility
Jakra wrote:
I WOULD LIKE TO CLERIFY
Equiping your robe infront of the public will NOT get you on the terminals
Tuning a crystal in the public will NOT give you visibility
Equiping or unequiping your lightsaber infront of the public WILL give you visibility
Inigtion of you lightsaber infront of the public WILL give you visibility
The use of your powers (any kind) WILL give you visibility
Many people have tested and confirmed that unequipping lightsaber does not contribute to visibility.
1) Not doing the act of EQUIPPING my saber in front of any Players or NPCs.
2) Not using ANY force powers, saber attacks, or tuning crystals in front of any Players or NPCs.
3) Whenever I have my saber equipped I make sure I hit peace so I don't aggro something by mistake.
I ALWAYS wear my robe and have my saber equipped around players in big cities like Theed and Coronet yet I've never been on the terms.
he was mad, i kept saying sry 
Message Edited by dwhead on 04-05-2005 10:22 PM
I think you hit it right on the head kazrx...
kazrx wrote:
Whenever a Jedi uses a force power/saber in front of someone their visibility meter goes up, and I am guessing the more people that are around the faster it goes.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Visibility:
You gain visibility by equipping a lightsaber, initiating combat with a lightsaber, and using any Jedi-related skills that consume Force power within range of other players or NPC's. You will gain a little at a time for using it in front of a few people. Do it in front of a lot of people (like in a starport) and you will almost immediately appear on the BH Terminals.
The range for visibility is 32 meters. Performing any of the above acts in front of PC/NPC’s within that range will increase your visibility.
It is unknown if you gain visibility for just having a lightsaber or robe equipped.
It is also unknown if you gain visibility only upon using a force power or if having a latent Force power active in front of others (such as Force Run or Force Armor) will gain you visibility as well.
It is rumoured that only NPC's that you can loot credits off of will count towards gaining visibility (but they all seem to drop credits now after publish 10.2).
The increase to a Jedi's Visibility Value (JVV) is determined as follows:
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An opposing faction member who views this action will add the full value of the action to the Jedi Visibility Value.
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ACivilian PC or non-animal NPC will increase the JVV by 50 percent of the action's Jedi Visibility Modifier.
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A same-faction PC or non-animal NPC will increase the JVV by 25 percent of the action's Jedi Visibility Modifier.
Being grouped with a PC or non-animal NPC who is viewing this action has no influence on how Jedi Visibility is obtained. In other words, group members will still increase your visibility regardless.
Note that forCivilian Jedi everyone else is consideredCivilian when calculating the increase to visibility. No one is considered to be of an allied or opposing faction and will always increase the JVV by 50 percent of the action’s Jedi Visibility Modifier.
Visibility decays over time, taking three weeks to decay fully.
Jedi Bounty Missions:
Once you have gained enough visibility you will appear on the Bounty Hunter Terminals, where up to five BH's can pick up the mission and try to hunt you down to kill you.
Bounty Hunters with a mission will gain a BH TEF that allows them to freely attack the Jedi that they have a mission for.
Once the BH attacks the Jedi the BH TEF will be shared, allowing the Jedi to attack the BH back.
At this point both players will be put in a healing “lock down” situation, where outside parties (including group members) cannot perform healing or beneficial actions on either player. You can still be attacked though if you are PvP Enabled - Special Forces.
The healing “lock down” is supposed to be removed once the battle ends.
If the BH kills you he will complete the mission and receive the reward. Your Visibility should be reset after this and all other BH’s with your mission should fail it.
If you kill the BH, then only that BH will fail the mission and lose the BH TEF on you. All other BH’s with your mission will maintain it and your Visibility will still remain the same.
Jedi must deathblow BH’s in order to make them fail their mission.
FRS Jedi will gain Force Ranking experience from killing Master Bounty Hunters.
There are currently many problems with BH Jedi Missions, such as triple incapping a Jedi to avoid losing the BH TEF, the BH TEF not clearing after killing the Jedi, healing being allowed through the “lock down”, entering private structures during combat, and so on...
Death Penalty:
Upon death Jedi now suffer Jedi XP loss.
If you clone you will lose an amount of Jedi XP based on your skill level:
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-4,500 XP if you are only a Jedi Initiate or below(haven’t completed Padawan Trials yet).
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-5,000 XP if you have no novice boxes in any of the Jedi Disciplines (new Padawan).
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-15,000 XP if you have any novice boxes in any Jedi Discipline.
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-30,000 XP if you have any level 1 boxes in any Jedi Discipline.
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-50,000 XP if you have any level 2 boxes in any Jedi Discipline.
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-100,000 XP if you have any level 3 boxes in any Jedi Discipline.
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-200,000 XP if you have any level 4 boxes (a full branch) in any Jedi Discipline.
If you use Regain Consciousness you will lose -50,000 Jedi XP (but not the -200K).
If you get rez'd by a doc you do not lose any Jedi XP (unless DB'd by a BH of course).
The cap for negative XP is -10 million and it will not 'decay', so be careful!
The death penalty from Bounty Hunter missions changed in Publish 10.3, it is now calculated as follows:
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Payout for Jedi Missions is now 1000 times the number of skill points the Jedi has devoted to Jedi and Force Sensitive skills. The minimum payout is 25,000 and the maximum (for a Padawan) is 250,000.
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If a Jedi is defeated by a BH their payout will default to the minimum (25K) for a few days (3?).
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Jedi experience loss for dying from a BH with a mission is twice the payout of the mission, or rather 2000 times the number of skill points the Jedi has spent on Jedi and FS skills (unless they've been killed by a BH recently, then it's the minimum loss). The minimum XP loss is -50,000 and the maximum is -500,000.
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This penalty is incurred at the moment the BH deathblows the Jedi, so Cloning and Regain Consciousness penalties still apply as well. (I feel this is a little harsh...)
Jedi do not suffer a death penalty from dying in space (except in the case of Multiplayer Ships as passengers).
You can check your visiblity if you have a friend BH, that can check the terminals for you. There's no other way to check it and to see if you got it or not. Try to stay off them! Hope it helps!