Scout Archive

k it's bouty hunter related, cause master scout is one of the requirements for novice BH
I posted this on the BH boards as well (didn't get a single answer tho)
here's the link

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=bounty_hunter&message.id=164042#M164042

Yamada,

The problem with those requests are that they're things that fit in better with the Rangers. I don't think that Scouting needs a full revamp, but I do think that it's not a bad idea for us to start thinking along the lines of what kinds of skills we can get that will make us a better prerequisite for Bounty Hunter. Right now, we really don't have any, and I understand that the BHs often get annoyed with this.

Overall, I think it may be worth the Devs time to reevaluate if Scout and not something like Brawler is more conducive for BHs.

B

Scout is fine. It's a decent starter profession that actually can stand on it's own and make you some cash.

What's broke is BH is connected to it. Fix BH. What possible use does scout have for BHs? Let's see if we can name any -

Hunting critters - nope, BHs hunt people, totally different. (Yo, Mr. Rancor, you seen dis dood here in da photo?)

Harvesting - nope, can't harvest a person.

Camping - nope,BHs seldom if ever leave cities, as they get lost too easy. Also, will no longer be needed for pets or vehicles, useless for BHs.

Trapping - doesn't work on people, no use.

OK, we went 0-4. What if instead of mastering scout, BHs had to get a tree or two in Brawler, and a tree in one advanced weapon, their choice, or master Brawler, which with Marksman makes em better fighters. Or anything really, get em out of Scouting period, they plain don't belong here.

Flame if you want. I contend that most BHs ride the short bus to school anyhow. 4th Grade, toughest three years of most BHs life.

JB

*cheer*

yeap....i hate "survival XP sux" threads too....

I've long held the view that making Scout a pre-requisite of Bounty Hunter was a mistake.

Logically for JB's reasons, and the fact that many of the worst abusers of the Creature Handler system were striving for BH and used pets as tanks. I won't deny CH had some problems, but these guys abused them and got my profession nerfed to Tatooine and back. As we got "fixed", they were the ones to drop it first, leaving the real handlers with what we have today. I try really hard not to hold a bias for it, but it is one of the types of people BH attracts.

Perhaps a bigger problem is the inflexibility of the pre-requisite system. It cannot do a simple thing such as learning one line OR another to qualify. The devs acted like it would be impossible to code when it was suggested. Were that changed, and the scout requirement modified, we could some reasonable path progression to reach BH. Both sides would benefit.

They make bounty hunters take all of scout because they need some of it but the rest is just point eaters. I think it is a way of preventing BHs from getting melee mitigation.
Just my thought

4th Grade, toughest three years of most BHs life.

JB, I had to give you "5" for that one.....

Besides the fact we share almost the same views on Bounty Hunters. (except I believe they'reshort bus riders who can't even date the ugly girl in school so they take their frustrations out on trying to "master Survival the quickest", just to get irritated that they can't do it in an hour so then they go play KOTR....with the cheat book of course with big pictures since they can't read)

I think maybe the Survival and Exploration trees are good for BH. They train BH's how to survive and how to navigate through harsh conditions to find their prey. The whole Hunting line has no use at all to the BH and encourages them to take Ranger just to abuse the Tracking tree.

I think maybe having them take Survival, Exploration, and some Brawling would be better. Be like the Smuggler and take trees from various professions.