Konstantin
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Posted - 2003.07.07 23:37:00 -
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Thank you Chagidiel, for your insight on Bounty Hunters. I just wanted to add another way to look at it:
Think Star Wars. Was Boba Fett ever considerd a "good guy"? Were ANY of the other bounty hunters considered "good guys"? No, they were all working for the Empire. The same applies here.
Don't get it into your mind that bounties are only placed onto criminals heads by good guys. Think of it more like hit-men. They are hired by one group of mobsters to hit a rival mobster. The same applies here. These bounties do not represent anything even resembling civilized behavior or justice. They are merely pre-packaged vendettas. Nothing noble in the least.
However, there is one point about the bounty system which I think could be contributing to the misconceptions surrounding it. It could be the fact that anyone can access bounty info from any reputable station. If this had been handled more like the "Hit" system, bounty information would only be available from Black Market stations. But, seeing as they were never implemented (until recently, or so I have heard but never seen), the bounty info had to be posted somewhere. Hence the current system. Pulling into a Federal Intelligence Logistical Support station and handling a bounty transaction with no penalties from the cops can give many the misconception that this whole "bounty" thingy is all quite legal. Makes bounty hunters look like defenders of justice. When, in reality, they are really just hired guns, the controllers of whom could even be m0o themselves. You never know who you are really working for in this line of work.
As to point #24, Bajastor got it, but damned if it didn't take 3 pages of posts for someone to finally catch it.
The drone control window works somewhat similar to an explorer window in Windows. CTRL+Click works the same way. This also applies to the drone bay when choosing drones to launch (e.g. right-click, Select All, CTRL+Click undesired drones, right-click a drone, Launch).
So, if all drones currently in action are combat drones, then right-click on any one of them in the control window, then click Select All. Now when you right-click on any of them and click Command->Attack, they will ALL attack the same target until dead.
Of course, if this had all been in either the manual, online help or in the in-game tutorial, it wouldn't be necessary for any of us in here to point it out.
One thing I'd like to add, if our friend who started this thread had spent even 5 minutes in the Help Channel asking about some of these issues, he would have caught the ones that were not actually issues at all (like #24). Yes folks, the Help Channel actually does help!
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