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Thread: smuggler/bh ranking: an extention of the proposed visability system
This is a proposal on how to make the ‘end game’ more interesting to non jedi characters.
I had an idea while reading greenmarines suggestion on adapting the visibility system from jedi to smugglers.Why not adapt the ‘ranking’ system as well?
This could take many forms, the ones I’ve come up with include:
Most feared bounty hunters.
Easily tracked, simply the bounty hunters that have collected the most player bounties.While ranked the bounty hunter will receive a skill box like ranked jedi which gives the bh additional mods ect.. and increases bounty missions payments (you want the best you have to pay for it)
Galaxies most wanted.
The reverse of the most feared bounty hunters, these are the crooks (smugglers or non-smugglers caught with illegal goods) that have taken out or avoided the most number of bounty hunters sent after them.Again, each rank will give special mods (will have to be general concidering the fact that these characters could have almost any skill set) and also will be worth more to bounty hunters if the manage to bring then in. (they are the galaxies most wanted after all)
You could add charcterful things in here, like automatic -5000 faction for all ‘law enforcement’ type factions (corsec, RSF ect..) and +5000 faction for all ‘criminal’ factions (word spreads in the underworld that it’s best not to mess with you).
Commands like /bountyhunter or /mostwanted should list these ranked individuals (what bounty hunter or crook doesn’t want fame/notoriety?)
Other ranking ideas:
Drug lords
These are the smugglers whose spice is detected most often (given the player carrying it visibility)The authorities can trace the spice and it come back to you.(in game terms a record is kept of the illegal goods creator)
Benefits could be bonus to spice creation.
Troublesome slicers
Like drug lords but with sliced weapons/armour.Bonuses to slicing skills.
GCW.
The other obvious ranking system would be the top imperial and rebel pvp’ers.(Hopefully coming with the GCW revamp.)
The majority of the code for these systems should already be in the game thanks to the jedi revamp, applying this to other game systems would give us all something to do if we don’t want to fight in the GCW, and give smugglers incentive to participate in the player bounty system rather than the npc bounty system that has been proposed.