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Thread: Could it get any worse?
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Ulrek_Oden
Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:04 am
#14
As a rule.... I stop reading 'Facts' when they start out with..... 'A friend's unlce....'
Try it.
It will save you time.
Darth_Spike
Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:54 pm
#15
Kailoron wrote:
Click on the link below and tell me what you think. Many believe it to be rumor, but with the past history of the devs, one has to wonder.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=jedi&message.id=1309910&page=1
I am going to take the odd approach of taking this as fact, and seeing if it holds up.
If this became true, and Jedi became a regular profession that could be selected from the get go, what else would have to change? Well, the BH/Jedi system would have to, naturally. Since the "new" Jedi would not have needed to do anything special to get Jedi, then why would there need to be any cost like XP loss? If there was no XP loss, there would be nothing a Jedi would need to hide from, solving the House Sitting issue. If the Jedi are nerfed in power enough, then what makes them any different than Smugglers in terms of being huntable - the means of becoming huntable.
Right now Jedi are much more powerful than Smugglers (technically) and BH have to be fairly strong to be able to fight Jedi, meaning that Smugglers would not have much of a chance. Nerfing Jedi like the OP suggests would most likely lead to a nerf of some other professions, us BH in particular, so that we were not overpowering to Smugglers.
This would mean that quest-based progression would have to be professoin specific and therefore to Jedi-specific content and Smuggler-specifc content, with a mechanism either in the Quests themselves, or in seperate Quests/missions that enable Player Hunting (more likely). This means that most of the game is PvP, and a specific action of selecting a Player Huntablecontent type is what lets us BH do our thang, which makes the PvE crowd happy...and we know the Devs love that crowd.
So that leaves all these Jedi that worked very hard (well some of them) with extra toons that no-one else gets, but the Devs could easily let everyone have 2 toons. What would be more likely is suspending the non-Jedi character and forcing the player to transfer the character to another account ot server (which they charge for). Anyone that into the second toon will probably fork out the cash. The folks that worked their butt off to become Jedi will probably quit, but like the OP said, SOE is probably banking on the new influx of players. It also makes it easier to fix the GCW with Jedi no longer being Alpha.
The other part of the OP was the destruction of Meele professions - but I can see them becoming Jedi. Commando and Smuggler would have to get a change in prereqs, but I dont see that being a big deal to the Devs, especially if they are handing out a respec (which they already have coded).
So while this is most likely a worthless rumor, it is not entirely far-fetched based on the Devs history. I doubt it would happen, but it also wouldn't suprise me if it did come to fruition.
Elshis
Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:03 pm
#16
My friends uncles girlfriends grandpa who works for the BS Patrol confirms it's total BS.
BurnerMan
Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:39 pm
#17
Well, a chain of stores named EB (or is it EA?) has stopped selling the game because it is marked as a risk for cancellation. Or however you would phrase it in english.
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