Maybe it's assumed that anyone loyal enough to be sent after a traitor would also be bloodthirsty and vengeful enough to kill him on the spot, to the point that it's an amazing surprise when someone doesn't do that? Or, from a metagaming standpoint, perhaps the devs didn't want to give players the chance to commit open treason that early in the game. Aside from those crappy excuses, I got nothin'.
I'm assuming that all instances where sexual bribery earns you light side points have violent extortion or murder as their dark side alternatives based on my experience with Bioware moral choice systems. But this is one of those instances where the Mass Effect-style dialogue system gets irritating; if you got to see the actual lines your character would deliver rather than vague summaries, you probably would have seen some threats available.
When I get around to buying SWTOR, I think as a personal challenge I'm going to see how many Dark Side points a Jedi can rack up without doing anything I'd consider evil.
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Date: 2012-03-09 09:05 am (UTC)*tilts head to the right*
Ermmmm...
Maybe it's assumed that anyone loyal enough to be sent after a traitor would also be bloodthirsty and vengeful enough to kill him on the spot, to the point that it's an amazing surprise when someone doesn't do that? Or, from a metagaming standpoint, perhaps the devs didn't want to give players the chance to commit open treason that early in the game. Aside from those crappy excuses, I got nothin'.
I'm assuming that all instances where sexual bribery earns you light side points have violent extortion or murder as their dark side alternatives based on my experience with Bioware moral choice systems. But this is one of those instances where the Mass Effect-style dialogue system gets irritating; if you got to see the actual lines your character would deliver rather than vague summaries, you probably would have seen some threats available.
When I get around to buying SWTOR, I think as a personal challenge I'm going to see how many Dark Side points a Jedi can rack up without doing anything I'd consider evil.