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Playable Hirogen and Hunting Other Players

joker8mejoker8me Member Posts: 55 Arc User
edited March 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
How about making the Hirogen a playable class/faction where they get the opportunity to hunt down and kill players of all factions?

I'm sure a system can be worked where certain actions or accomplishments (not just PvP) by a Fed/KDF/Romulan player gets them marked as worthy prey, etc, etc.
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  • nelson2014nelson2014 Member Posts: 88 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Interesting idea............. But it probably won't happen.
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  • westx211westx211 Member Posts: 42,331 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I'm almost 125% positive that this will never happen.
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  • daroskadaroska Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    It's unlikely that a 'bounty hunting' system will be up, especially as a species specific option.
    The last time I even saw such a feature was in SWG and it had to be gimmicky at best.
    Nope, the best we'll get is playable hirogen for the Romulan Republic who wish for, well..

    'The continuation of hunting rights in exchange for allegiance against their former hosts.'
    Also, if you wish discuss anything more on the matter of playable species, look at this.
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  • emacsheadroomemacsheadroom Member Posts: 994 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    joker8me wrote: »
    How about making the Hirogen a playable class/faction where they get the opportunity to hunt down and kill players of all factions?

    And here we have another non-consensual pvp lover who should go back to Eve Online where he belongs. Everybody laugh!
  • mavgeekrsamavgeekrsa Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Will never happen.

    Cryptic has been pretty much anti-pvp since beta days (look at complete lack of pvp content in 3+ years) and the one time they try an extremely limited open pvp idea on Tribble, it lasted all of what a week and was swiftly removed, due to a few balance reasons and a quick realization this was never translate well to Holodeck (people would QQ like mad if they got killed while trying to do Doff missions or any other small task).
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  • daroskadaroska Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    emacsheadroom wrote: »
    And here we have another non-consensual pvp lover who should go back to Eve Online where he belongs. Everybody laugh!

    How uncalled for! The man was merely expressing an idea about a lore embodied gameplay feature.
    Even if it was improbable in the current structure of the game, there's no need for half-guessing.

    You probably have no idea who the original poster is, was or will become. It's all hashed out speculation.
    So don't make a supposition, an accusation without evidence to prove your case differs to a youth's opinion.

    And honestly, if that was an attempt at a joke- the youtube link's title would say otherwise.
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  • nabuborianabuboria Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    daroska wrote: »
    lore embodied gameplay feature.

    Where in STO does this occur? :P
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  • daroskadaroska Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    nabuboria wrote: »
    Where in STO does this occur? :P

    You're asking me off the bat for one example? Hmm. I suppose the very existence of
    star ships and their related game play features is one such occurrence of a 'lore embodied'
    game play feature. The same deal with ground weapons (special or otherwise), no?
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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    We'll need some flesh melting gas from mass effect... then we can get some nice skulls for our bulkheads.
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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    A wimp race ??
    (Remembering that one of these "elite hunters" was DECKED by Janeway)

    They would be hunted to extinction by stealthed nausicans
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  • valenn1valenn1 Member Posts: 842 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Yo R0XX0r! G4nk1n N00bs on ESD?

    ... no, THANKS!
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Griefing: The Faction?... I'll pass.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Personally, I'm opposed the Hirogen being a faction such as this.

    I want my Hirogen as part of the Romulan thing...blah, blah, blah - I've mentioned that a few times.

    On the other hand, a non-aligned faction - presents some interesting gameplay potential. A mercenary type of play... where you fight for or against the various factions - whether in PvE or PvP. You could select Faction A for a particular arc, but maybe Faction B for another...etc.

    One could even imagine actual "Reputation" - where your doing things for Faction A means that Faction B may not offer you things to do - may even reach the point Faction B will not speak to you outright and you'll have to find a way to get back on their good side if you want to do something for them.

    Etc, etc, etc... yes, it's not core Star Trek in the least - but the Universe is vast and we saw plenty of mercenary type characters.
  • mightionnymightionny Member Posts: 128 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    The *only* people that would enjoy forced, non-consensual PvP are gankers.

    That's my story; and I'm sticking to it.

    And no, seperate "hardcore" and "carebear" servers aren't going to happen, either.
  • sparhawksparhawk Member Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    As others have stated this will never happen. Cryptic doesn't support non-consensual PVP.
  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    sparhawk wrote: »
    Cryptic doesn't support non-consensual PVP.

    And thank the Applicable Deities for that.
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