Coming Changes to BH/Jedi

[Tyrenio]

Another question… if this is enabled, can anyone chime in on what the criteria is for whether to keep it or not? I hope it’s not just “whatever gets us fewer CSR tickets”…

[Tyrenio]

Here’s an idea: if we’re worried about Jedi being griefed by people following them around and intentionally landing on the terms for BHs lying in wait, why not utilize the same “kill list” that was used by fight clubbers: if a Jedi is on your kill list, they do not appear on the terminals. You have already outlawed fight clubbing for Jedi, the same would apply to BHs. This way you can’t repeatedly farm the same Jedi without going after others (for some time period), and it’s against TOS to intentionally cycle your kill list to get them to pop up again.

[shilo]

Here’s an idea: if we’re worried about Jedi being griefed by people following them around and intentionally landing on the terms for BHs lying in wait, why not utilize the same “kill list” that was used by fight clubbers: if a Jedi is on your kill list, they do not appear on the terminals. You have already outlawed fight clubbing for Jedi, the same would apply to BHs. This way you can’t repeatedly farm the same Jedi without going after others (for some time period), and it’s against TOS to intentionally cycle your kill list to get them to pop up again.

This is a good idea

[Grija]

This is a good idea

This is actually one of the best ideas I've heard yet. And I thought I had some decent ideas.a

[rhtlvp]

Removing the possibility to team up to hunt a jedi while making bounties anonymous AND with a static value on terminals is a huge nerf, in particular for new bounty hunters and for those who are brave (or fool) enough to go Master BH, since Master BH is at a severe disadvantage against a full template jedi compared to melee hybrids.
And frankly, Master BH is already bad enough that, if anything, it would be probably better to add incentives to be a Master, rather than making it an even less viable option with changes such as these.
Master BH in particular is really not supposed to fight full template FRS jedi unless they have excellent gear and are very experienced.. how are they supposed to get there? At the same time, when you're a good Bounty Hunter and you're geared up, you usually don't want to waste time hunting padawans.

It would be easier to find a solution if we knew what the goal is:
-Prevent BH buddies and alts from keeping their jedi pal safe? This change would do more harm then good, because they will simply have a BH terminal in their player city, get bounties and spam tab until they find their buddy (this is how they exploited it on live with anon bounties).

-Prevent toxic behaviour, people pestering the same target over and over? If people want to be *******s and grief, there are a million other ways to do it, both PvE and PvP, even more if it's a perma overt target like FRS Jedi and they should be dealt with disciplinary actions and by improving the community as much as possible.
And about hunting the same target.. being on the bounty terminals is your own choice, just like being overt.

-Make it more fair for the jedi? May I ask why? Being hunted is supposed to be a punishment for showing off your powers and/or using the advantage jedi is supposed to have (and should have). Raph Koster's plan was for Jedi to be so cool that eventually you wouldn't be able to resist and you'd just show it off with your friends and when you did that, npc bounty hunters would start showing up, each more difficult then the rest, until you'd get Boba Fett (almost impossible to kill, but a very skilled and well prepared jedi could stand a chance) and if you defeated him you'd get Darth Vader in person, you would die and you'd get to roll a new jedi character while your old jedi would stay as non-playable blue glowie you could collect and summon for bragging rights and coolnes.

[Hakry]

To any new comers to this thread please be sure to see: https://www.swgemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244932


Where we are discussing ideas for the potential changes further.

[Lolindir]

To keep things in one place, I'll closing this one.