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any responses?? positive, negative? The more opinions we have on ALL options, the better we will be able to understand it.

"It is my feeling that the devs would not want someone who has never explored, or hunted to become FS."

Spoken like a true brute.

I don't think your theory holds water. First of all, many fights with faction enemies are unavoidable. I've had enemies from factions I've never seen before attack me for no reason. I'm forced to defend myself and end up gaining or losing points justbecause I chose not to die.With this in mind, it is difficult to engineer a specific faction standing withthe so-called mini-factions.

Second, I disagreewith yourview of the non-combat classes. If the devs shared your opinion, entertainers, artisans, medics would not be such an important part of the game. Fighters would be able to make their own weapons or heal their own wounds wherever they pleased. Instead, they rely on artisans for weapons and medics and enertainers for healing. If anything, the non-combat classes are the backbone of the game. It is senseless to deprive them of the chance to become force sensitive.

Third, the class of your character is not important because that character does not become force sensitive. The FS slot allows you to create an entirely new character. Therefore, your idea of entertainers not being fit to become Jedi is useless. The entertainer character would not become a Jedi anyway; the force sensitive character would.

Fourth, once the FS slot is open, the devs have said that you can follow any of the normal profession trees if you wish to. So, by this reasoning, there could be entertainer Jedis anyway (which makes my third point extraneous).

I know this isn't the type of response that you were looking for, but so be it.

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So even if someone is an entertainer, medic, or artisan they still have points to spend elsewhere. We are being encouraged to explore ALL of the professions. If we were not, they would have set up this game like Everquest (Pick your class at character creation and live with it for the rest of your days. )

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Must say that I completly agree with your saying the artisans, entertainers, and medics are the backbone of the game. And if you read above you will see that I think we should all explore every starting class. Myself, I have completed Enginneering 4 and in the Novice Droid Eng tree now. I have Survey 4, Dom Arts 1. I make and sell on a regular basis personal mineral, chemical, and wind extracters. I craft and set off fireworks almost every night in my player city on Tatooine. I Sample, run harvestors, and craft whatever I can, when I can.

I am also a Novice Medic. I am up to First Aid 3... mainly I use it for self healing, but it always comes in handy when I am healthy and others are not.

I will say that as of yet I have not experemented with the Entertainer field... simply because as a musician in real life I have had enough of performing.

I am a pistol specialist, now working though the pistoller tree. Rifle Spec, Ranged support Spec.

Master Scout

That is4 of the 6 starting professions. So in no way am I saying that only combat types can become jedi. What I am saying is why do we see each other as only 1 thing? We have more than enough skill points to do anything we want.

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many fights with faction enemies are unavoidable. I've had enemies from factions I've never seen before attack me for no reason. I'm forced to defend myself and end up gaining or losing points justbecause I chose not to die.With this in mind, it is difficult to engineer a specific faction standing withthe so-called mini-factions.

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If a faction is KOS to you from the start, then there is no reason to build it. This would be a flagged faction that I would think would have to be on the negative side.

As for the second char slot. I am well aware of how the FS slot works... I have read the FAQ. The point is that we show our actions, and our conduct though the main character. Our reward is the FS character.

What would Jedi Do?

Ask yourself that, play ALL of the game... I think the answer will be clear soon enough.

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Spoken like a true brute.

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LoL.

You seem to think that I am saying "you need to run around and kill everything that walks on 2 legs. "

On the contrary, I am saying the exact opposite. Artisans must survey. Surveying requires traveling out into areas between cities. This is often dangerous. At times they are required to kill because it is either kill or be killed. At the same time they are enocouraged to explore to find better resources to make a better product.

Any character can do, or be anything. If we limit ourselves to just 1 things, then we get a very narrow view of this galaxy. I guarantee that at some point down the line, that person who is mastering droid engineer now, will want to go out and pick up a pistol to hunt. It might be a year from now, it might be a week from now. But I seriously doubt that with the freedom we r given as far as profession, anyone would only choose 1 master profession and never experiment with anything else the entire time this game is around. Even if they don't master any other profession ever, the person who after 3 years playing this gamethat has never fired a weapon, has really missed alot. Just as the person who after that amount of time has never crafted a single item has missied out on alot. The reason there were so many "Alts" in Everquest was just because of that... we were only allowed 1 profession for our entire time as that character.

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I know this isn't the type of response that you were looking for, but so be it.

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On the contrary... it is exactly what I was looking for. You just made it alot easier for me to explain myself.

i guess my mind does'nt work like a cheat, I forget that integrity is non existant on SWG.

I missed that one

Thats the problem with any good idea, someone will always find away to cheat it or exploit something about it

I say burn them.

i dont like that idea.. life and games are filled with compeetes anyways.. I dont craft much and ifI got ino a system like thatI would drop that business.

I dont do houses, factories or other structures..I do some furnitures. thenI do the decoratings. that is what is gamefun for me. But if i get a D rank or somethingI wont get a chance to decorate AND if i do.. my prices would get dumped since im nota A ranked archi..

bad idea.. i hate it. i dont like competitions like this.

Don't worry about ir too much. I'm sure it wasn't meant for you personaly. I thought too that peeps would find a way to cheat the idea. There will always be cheaters and exploiters.

</hug Okitaa.

G i l ' P a x   D a x

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