The Job Corps Thread (Page 2 of 2)

Just dropping a line here to let everybody know that I'm at least following the thread...but haven't decided what to do yet. It's obvious the current form of the Job Corps is not adequate, but I'll have to ponder what to do about it.

Are you playing?

Even if it's a job 10 levels below your current level?

Are you playing?

I haven't played KoL in a while...can you give me a more thorough description of what the Hunter does? Is it basically killing x of some creature and coming back?

Are you playing?

Here's the link to the KoLWiki page for the Bounty Hunter Hunter.  http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/ind … ter_hunter

It really does boil down to "Go kill X number of Creature Y which lives in Zone Z.

That being said here's a more in depth, but still basic explanation.  Every day The BHH has 3 different things that he wants.  A number of  items received from a monster that inhabits a low level zone, one from a medium zone, and one from a high level one.  And the amount of the things that he wants is based off of the frequency that the specific monster appears in each zone (because each item is a BHH item only, so they all have a drop rate of 100%).  And Jick and Co. decided that the average amount of turns that they wanted a bounty to take was 40, sometimes more, sometimes less.  A few examples:

1)     The BHH wants "Billy Idols" for the medium zone bounty, which you get by killing goats in The Goatlet.  In The Goatlet, the only monsters you fight are different types of goats.  So the BHH wants 40 "Billy Idols", which, when you turn them in, nets you a reward.  As a aside, the rewards for all the BHH quests are the same, 1 Filthy Lucre.  Jick just decided that he wanted people to be able to participate in the BHH at all parts of a run.

2)    For the low level quest that day, the BHH wants you to get "Triffid Barks" from the Triffids that inhabit The Spooky Forest.  Now, The Spooky Forest is filled with all sorts of monsters who aren't Triffids and also various noncombat adventures.  So because the frequency with which you will meet Triffids in The Spooky Forest is low, the number of Triffid Barks he wants is also low, 3 in this case.  And believe me, it can easily take more that 40 turns to run into 3 Triffids in there.

It just seems to me that the Job Corps could work kind of the same way, only using MFoN's mechanics.  You go to the Job Corps.  They say,

"Howdy!  Would you like a job of
1) Easy difficulty                            25 bits
2) Medium difficulty                    50 bits
3)  Hard difficulty                        100 bits
4)Job?  I don't want a job.  I'm lazy.

Then they offer you one of the jobs in that group that you picked.  If you want it, it's yours.  If you don't, you don't have to take it, and you're out bits you paid for the service.

Yeah...I play a wee bit of KoL.