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Thread: Smugglers on BH terms a good thing?
DaPrez wrote:
I wouldnt mind it if say we got a heads up from say an underground contact that " Bounty Hunters name has taken a bounty on you".
sounds quite a cool idea. Wot if you only got warned if said BH had already made X number of kills, ie was a BH of some repute, whereas if a green BH with few or no PvP kills takes your mission you don't find out?
Or, you can hack the BH terms to find out if u r on em, and have a chance to remove urself?
just thinking out loud. whatta u think?
How about hacking the terminals to place the BH that is after you on it? That would be a nice twist.
Kaldran wrote:
DaPrez wrote:
I wouldnt mind it if say we got a heads up from say an underground contact that " Bounty Hunters name has taken a bounty on you".
sounds quite a cool idea. Wot if you only got warned if said BH had already made X number of kills, ie was a BH of some repute, whereas if a green BH with few or no PvP kills takes your mission you don't find out?
Or, you can hack the BH terms to find out if u r on em, and have a chance to remove urself?
just thinking out loud. whatta u think?
riiiight so then the griefing BHs can come bother some poor smuggler .. uh huh.. oh and my answer?
hell no
even though I am no longer a smuggler
Use concussion on the BH and run away !!!!hehe, that would be a very nice twist! I think even us BHers would enjoy that
LittleChuck wrote:
How about hacking the terminals to place the BH that is after you on it? That would be a nice twist.
Kaldran wrote:
DaPrez wrote:
I wouldnt mind it if say we got a heads up from say an underground contact that " Bounty Hunters name has taken a bounty on you".
sounds quite a cool idea. Wot if you only got warned if said BH had already made X number of kills, ie was a BH of some repute, whereas if a green BH with few or no PvP kills takes your mission you don't find out?
Or, you can hack the BH terms to find out if u r on em, and have a chance to remove urself?
just thinking out loud. whatta u think?
AngusMacGregor wrote:
Yes
Wow Angus, short and sweet answer.
In all honesty, I've given the idea of player-BH missions as part of the revamp a lot of thought, and while I think it should go in as long as there is an NPC BH option available for players that don't want to engage in PvP I also think that Smuggler's are going to suffer a rude awakening if it does.
In case you hadn't noticed, players hunting players in non-consensual PvP already exists in the game. Ask the Jedi how much they enjoy it. A BH that has your mission isn't going to show up as a red dot until they open fire on you. So if a BH hits you with a quick combo there's a chance you're going to be dead before you can get a heal off or run away, seeing as how BH's tend to work in groups.
Granted, there hasn't been any discussion about Smuggler's losing anything of real value like XP or anything. Then again, there wasn't any discussion of needing loot items to slice things before they foisted this current abortion on us and called ita 'revamp'.
canova wrote:
- Yes but only if PVP is not forced and there is a choice (as planned) between NPC smuggle missions (where you only risk to have NPC BHs hunt you) or PVP ones (giving better rewards).
- I sincerely dunno how Smugglers can do against BHs. We can add good skills to our smuggler template and those who aim at doing the PVP smuggle missions should have good templates (MS/MBH or MS/pistol/rifle skills...).
And we still have feign death and concussion shot
Totally agree with the choice thing, that is the PvP or PvE missions with rewards to suit the risk. Personally I think it would be cool if EVERY prof had the opportunity to 'risk' going on the Bh terms. So long as it was never a necessity, I think it could work.
On a different tack, what should the penalty for getting killed by a BH be for a smuggler? Simply the PvP death, or should there be an xp or cred loss? My feeling is that if Jedi (alegedly 'special' prof) only get xp loss, then smugglers should just suffer the inconvenience and humiliation of a PvP death (if u lose of course). What do you guys think?