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Thread: 210k Jedi yesterday is 140k Jedi today?

Bree-Chay
Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:30 am
#14

It was a rough example, chances are he had a few trees he planned on keeping already. That example was just to illustrate a point. My bounty bounced back and forth all the time while I was grinding checking out all the skills before I had to commit to anything.



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Tufel_Hunden
Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:32 am
#15



Caelrie wrote:
Everything you people don't like is an exploit. It's probably an exploit every time I throw my saber at some BH.





Like the people bragging about grinding out a full template jedi in a month using this? That's not exactly how the jedi grinding system was designed to work. It was designed to be a slow , painful process that most of us jedi had to endure. The respec exploiting is why I sold my jedi last month. Last straw for me. Jedi are worthless now as far as I'm concerned.
Handb00k
Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:07 am
#16

You can respec from all level 1 + 2 level 2boxesinto defender 4442. this will use up nearly all the respec points. Assuming you then had just 80k xp banked, to add another 32 SP.


Not quite the totals, but you get the idea.


CrashNgoBoom
Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:00 pm
#17






Spookibus wrote:

He's using a feature of the respec. He traded two lower-level boxes for one high level box.


I haven't seen the numbers for Jedi, but here's how it worked for me.


I filled two tier-1 boxes for carbineer at 175k apiece, that's 350k xp.


I respec'd them for the master rifle box, that's a MILLION xp.


I saved 650k and wound up with skill points to spare. Because I majored in math in college, it took me about 10 seconds to figure that one out, and use the system to get my master box in less than half the time. Exploit? No. I utilized a feature of the system the Devs put in place.


Your Jedi target obviously did something similar.


That's the way the system is designed.







Novice = 20,000xp~ 1 Respec Point ~ 8 Skill Points

Tier 1 = 200,000xp~ 2 Respec Points ~ 8 Skill Points


Tier 2 = 400,000xp~ 3 Respec Points ~ 6 Skill Points


Tier 3 = 800,000xp ~ 4 Respec Points ~ 4 Skill Points


Tier 4 = 1,600,000xp ~ 5 Respec Points ~ 2 Skill Points


Master = 3,200,000xp ~ 6 Respec Points ~ 1 Skill Point



As you can see, you can knock off 2,400,000xp by respecing Tier 1 boxes to a Master box, However you can't do this too much because of the super high skill point requirements for lower level skills.




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rabblerowser
Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:21 pm
#18

Spookibus wrote:



He's using a feature of the respec. He traded two lower-level boxes for one high level box.


I haven't seen the numbers for Jedi, but here's how it worked for me.


I filled two tier-1 boxes for carbineer at 175k apiece, that's 350k xp.


I respec'd them for the master rifle box, that's a MILLION xp.


I saved 650k and wound up with skill points to spare. Because I majored in math in college, it took me about 10 seconds to figure that one out, and use the system to get my master box in less than half the time. Exploit? No. I utilized a feature of the system the Devs put in place.


Your Jedi target obviously did something similar.


That's the way the system is designed.


Well, the flaw in all therespec assumptions is that a 210k bounty has all his skill points except for 16 tied up in Jedi. The only way to bring the bounty down to 140k is to respec70 jedi sp to non-jedi skills. My guess would be that he decided to be a MBH..




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Bree-Chay
Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:29 pm
#19



rabblerowser wrote:

Spookibus wrote:

He's using a feature of the respec. He traded two lower-level boxes for one high level box.

I haven't seen the numbers for Jedi, but here's how it worked for me.

I filled two tier-1 boxes for carbineer at 175k apiece, that's 350k xp.

I respec'd them for the master rifle box, that's a MILLION xp.

I saved 650k and wound up with skill points to spare. Because I majored in math in college, it took me about 10 seconds to figure that one out, and use the system to get my master box in less than half the time. Exploit? No. I utilized a feature of the system the Devs put in place.

Your Jedi target obviously did something similar.

That's the way the system is designed.

Well, the flaw in all the respec assumptions is that a 210k bounty has all his skill points except for 16 tied up in Jedi. The only way to bring the bounty down to 140k is to respec 70 jedi sp to non-jedi skills. My guess would be that he decided to be a MBH..



No, the flaw is your inability to do math. The lower tier boxes have the highest SP cost. 8 for novice, and 8 for tier one. With 5 novice boxes that's 40k, then look at the fact that there is 4 tier 1 boxes in 5 professions, so that's 32k per profession, so that's 160k. Add that 160k to the 40k and you have 200k padawn who has nothing but all tier 1 boxes. He respec's up the trees, 6 skill points for tier 2, 4 SP for tier 3, 2 SP for tier 4 and 1 SP for master. The jedi's bounty is 1k per skill point they have in Jedi skills. 4 tier 1 boxes cost 12 more skill points than a single tree up to tier 4.



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nerfelpa
Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:34 pm
#20


Bree-Chay wrote:


rabblerowser wrote:

Spookibus wrote:

He's using a feature of the respec. He traded two lower-level boxes for one high level box.

I haven't seen the numbers for Jedi, but here's how it worked for me.

I filled two tier-1 boxes for carbineer at 175k apiece, that's 350k xp.

I respec'd them for the master rifle box, that's a MILLION xp.

I saved 650k and wound up with skill points to spare. Because I majored in math in college, it took me about 10 seconds to figure that one out, and use the system to get my master box in less than half the time. Exploit? No. I utilized a feature of the system the Devs put in place.

Your Jedi target obviously did something similar.

That's the way the system is designed.

Well, the flaw in all the respec assumptions is that a 210k bounty has all his skill points except for 16 tied up in Jedi. The only way to bring the bounty down to 140k is to respec 70 jedi sp to non-jedi skills. My guess would be that he decided to be a MBH..



No, the flaw is your inability to do math. The lower tier boxes have the highest SP cost. 8 for novice, and 8 for tier one. With 5 novice boxes that's 40k, then look at the fact that there is 4 tier 1 boxes in 5 professions, so that's 32k per profession, so that's 160k. Add that 160k to the 40k and you have 200k padawn who has nothing but all tier 1 boxes. He respec's up the trees, 6 skill points for tier 2, 4 SP for tier 3, 2 SP for tier 4 and 1 SP for master. The jedi's bounty is 1k per skill point they have in Jedi skills. 4 tier 1 boxes cost 12 more skill points than a single tree up to tier 4.




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Leatherneck_of_Alderaan
Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:36 pm
#21

It's only an exploit if Jedi do it. Ask any BH, they'll be happy to tell you.



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zukem
Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:43 pm
#22

sounds like something is fishy. Respec points or not. Dropping 70k in bounty is very big. Novice and tier one jedi boxed cost 8 skill points, or 8k. So what this jedi did, if he did respec was drop around 8-9 tier 1/novice boxes. Granted, this can be done. But when you are a 210k mark. It's not as likely. Unless all he was doing for a while is grind only tier 1/novice boxes, then when he died he respeced.



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SBgHz
Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:26 pm
#23






Leatherneck_of_Alderaan wrote:
It's only an exploit if Jedi do it. Ask any BH, they'll be happy to tell you.





It is an exploit no matter who does it - diferance is that I don't care if some rifleman or AS does it cuase they cannot get 3x the power doing it that Jedi can and because every time another person reaches Mast Rifles or Mast Pistols or whatever the game doesn't take one more step backwards like it does everytime a new JK arrives.




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Diversion
Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:55 pm
#24






Tufel_Hunden wrote:





Caelrie wrote:
Everything you people don't like is an exploit. It's probably an exploit every time I throw my saber at some BH.







Like the people bragging about grinding out a full template jedi in a month using this? That's not exactly how the jedi grinding system was designed to work. It was designed to be a slow , painful process that most of us jedi had to endure. The respec exploiting is why I sold my jedi last month. Last straw for me. Jedi are worthless now as far as I'm concerned.




I agree. What determines if it is an exploit in this case is imho wether or not the devs intended the respec ability to be used this way. If it's a mistake by them that they can't be bothered to correct or they simply don't have the time because they have other things in the game that have higher priority, then yes it is an exploit.



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Bootzislee
Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:10 pm
#25

Hehe sounds like this guy was using soemthing I used to master CH.


"Hmm what should I do with all this pistols xp? I could get and of the second skills or...*respecs all pistols boxes to CH then gets teaching in novice and whatever other boxes.*


Next Day


*respecs all pistols boxes again* Yay I'm a master CH! And I worked so hard. Thx devs."


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Leatherneck_of_Alderaan
Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:40 pm
#26






SBgHz wrote:





Leatherneck_of_Alderaan wrote:
It's only an exploit if Jedi do it. Ask any BH, they'll be happy to tell you.





It is an exploit no matter who does it - diferance is that I don't care if some rifleman or AS does it cuase they cannot get 3x the power doing it that Jedi can and because every time another person reaches Mast Rifles or Mast Pistols or whatever the game doesn't take one more step backwards like it does everytime a new JK arrives.






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