Open Bounty Hunting Statistics

If you do this, players will cheat to pad their numbers. It will be meaningless.

savacc said:

If you do this, players will cheat to pad their numbers. It will be meaningless.

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Aren't there already protections in place where you can't hunt on the same account, or guild?

I think having more in-game stats that give purpose and promote competition in general is a great idea. To me - what would be meaningless is for someone to consciously go and try and 'pad' their BH stats. The only time you'd really have to be careful is if any of these leaderboards offer some sort of item/badge/etc.. in-game that would drive people to consider trying to work the system - and I think it would be pretty evident when something like that occurs and can be handled accordingly.

Aconite has mentioned leaderboard implementation in the PvP Discord Channel already. I don't see why that couldn't extend to BH stats as well.

I'm all for it - If someone wants to strive to be the best BH in the galaxy - show some numbers and give people something to work towards.

Aconite said:

idk that this is good reasoning because by the same logic why have PvP kill stats or GCW stats

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Correct, why have them? As soon as you make a leaderboard, players will invalidate it by cheating.

savacc said:

Correct, why have them? As soon as you make a leaderboard, players will invalidate it by cheating.

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If you're so concerned, just explain in detail the cheating elements you think should be considered prior to incorporating something like this - instead of making a generic statement.

There are ways to handle people from taking advantage of systems. Let's identify them up front and have a constructive thread, instead of providing zero legitimate input and being annoying.

The time to decide if a road is worth going down is before you start down it. If you decide not to go down it, what more input do you need?

I like this idea. It gives BH's another way to show off their prowess and skills. I recently started playing BH more often, but I usually take just the NPC terminal missions.

Continuing in this suggestion, could a similar stat be implemented for BH NPC missions from the BH terminals? Not a leaderboard, but a "BH Datapad" item that shows stats like: time to kill (from mission pick up to target eliminated), success rate (how many times were you incapp'd or died on a bounty mission), etc.

As far as the leaderboard, if there isn't anything to it beyond notoriety, I don't see an issue. Players can cheat if they want, and dev's can deal with it (if they want). Put some guardrails or criteria in place to make it more "legitimate", but saying no to say no I don't think advances the conversation.

If it has no reward tied to it should be fine. Could just have it as a Optional status to display under the GCW stats.... Bounty Name: ---------- Success or Fail-------Time and Amount rewarded

no thanks, it'll just add toxicity to an already toxic community.