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What's the point of spending all this time and money to change the system from a mysterious one to another mysterious one? The whole concept of holding a character back from the general population makes no sense anyway. Jedi should be just another class that can be played from the beginning with your first set of boxes being force sensitive boxes.

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LordSano wrote:

It should be proffesion orientated. The harder some one must push them selves as a Master of an Elite Proffession the more they need to tap into the force, So the combat classes need to go thru the planets saving people killing enemies, hard enemies, like the knight trials. But please no graul spawns please.

Crafters canmust simply go to a location and help somoneby creating a random item from schematics npc's will give you.\

Doc/CM can go to different location finding cures to rare diseasesandsaving lives.

Message Edited by LordSano on 07-10-2004 02:13 PM

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I think the start to open your Force Sensetive Quest should be known. I like the Idea of player having to go to Dantoonie, Dathomir, Endor & Yavin4 meeting a Jedi NPC (Someone like Luke, Yoda, Ben or another Master Jedi who escape detections from the empire). Just like the Hermit Quest have them prove there worth by doing quest for him to measure his Force Sensetivity (SP?)

This NPC will start you on the player long and hard path (Not as Hard as the Jedi Trials)to opening your FS slot. I agree with many it should be story based and it should also take into account of the Players Professions.

A crafter Medic or Dancer will not be able to compete with a combat profession in a search and kill mission.

I really like the Hermit quest the way it worked. (All except the Mark of Intellect hasn't work since Open weekend of Patch 9.)

The quest should actually be mysterious the place where you recieve your quest should not.

Do not make it require 20 people to become force sensitive. Please I am begging you . This has to be able to be soloed for once. Please make jedi force sensitivity a solo mission for the love of god

let it be a known path. but dont go overboard with it and make it ridiculously hard requiring 3 groups of 20 to complete it. thats not much of a spiritual path to the force. i agree it should be somewhat solo'able. make it a memorable experience. not one thats like "yea i remember when i unlocked my char when my entire guild with infinite wealth helped me slaughter 500 enraged rancors riding ancient krayts in a lava pit." thats not cool when some people try to be the lone wolf type. or even people who arent in a large pa or know a lot of people.

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FormlessOne wrote:

(Just found out about this vote...)

Are you serious? Let me understand this one:

• Before Christmas, no one knew exactly how to open their FSCS. Speculation was rife throughout the community. Everything from the broken Hero of Tatooine quests to profession grinding was considered as a theory. Folks focused on developing characters, participating in the GCW, and so on.
• After Christmas, the game was severely harmed through an obviously ill-considered decision to circulate Holocrons. Whether it was to "improve" game morale or to keep customer numbers up, the effects were obvious - hologrinding. You had to grind anywhere from 5-10 professions to open it. This at least gave folks some hope, but ensured that those who signed up for roleplaying hadn't a chance in heck. You had to be a power gamer to open the slot. This destroyed the GCW (everyone's too busy grinding to fight a war), commerce (everyone's too busy grinding to make stuff), and roleplaying (this week, I'm a tailor/BE, but next week, I'm a bounty hunter.)
• Sometime after February, after (I guess) too many power gamers had opened their slots, the number of professions required went through the roof - some folks had to grind all 32 professions to open theirs. Still, quite a few folks went through with it because that was the only way to get an FSCS.Left a lot of users out in the cold, though. By this time, battlefields are a distant memory, single combat is determined by who has the best armor and food, and group combat by who has the best riflemen, combat medics, and pets. Jedi are in hiding, using whatever means possible to grind experience and get up through Jedi ranks as quickly as humanly possible. Roleplaying has all but disappeared, despite the best efforts of some.
• Before Publish 9, you announced that Publish 10 would provide a quest-based system for opening a FSCS slot. Many folks stopped hologrinding, as it was no longer necessary to destroy your character weekly or daily in order to get a FSCS slot. Anyone still hologrinding can open their slot, but can't roll up a Jedi before Publish 10. The hope is that folks will once again return to real roleplaying and more social activities, like single & group combat. Instead, Jedi are now running around ganking anyone who even dares to go overt. Neutral Jedi exist. Ethics for those who attained Jedi are optional.

And now, you're saying you'd like to consider obfuscating the path? With all due respect, does the phrase "closing the barn doors after the cows have left" hold any meaning for you?

The path to opening an FSCS slot should remain known. You've rewarded power gamers with enough - how about throwing a bone to the rest of us? You know, the "casual gamers" for whom it was told that a year or so would be enough to open an FSCS? The ones who were told that "anyone" can open a slot?

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Ditto.

As a casual gamer who has no hopes of ever unlocking because I don't have the time to be a Jedi, throw me a bone, so if I get a free night (HAH! Free!) I can choose to take a step in this quest. I would add a word of caution, just from what I've seen in the past (I've been playing since September) please do not make it unreasonably difficult nor a joke. (fun example: the original Nova Troopers, and the nerfed ones)...

I think this guy had a pretty realistic synopsis put together. I would take a look through it and give serious thought to his barn analogy...which, BTW had me laughing for a few minutes