Development Cycle Archive

1. He could appear as a "glowie". Not necessarily a blue glowie but he could show up as maybe a gold or whatever one the Devs and GL think is appropriate. I believe this is possiblebecause with his mastery of the force and the intense concentration he would be able to achieve in his seclusion he could focus to the point that he project his image across the stars. It would also justify a short conversation with the player, "Quick I must me, much does it take in order to speak with you."


2. He could speak by means of a holo-communicator or on a recorded message in a holocron.


3. Make a cut scene of a dream in which he speaks to the character.

These are a few of the ideas that could be employed to get one of Star Wars' favorite characters in the game.

Morality Quest: Get a non-FS member of one faction (Imp/Rebel) to switch sides. As a Jedi/Dark Jedi, you are declared for one side. The other PC must come to you initially and be declared of the other side. That PC must earn enough faction points (feel free to assist) to become declared in your faction, and you are the one that will change the faction of that person. If you die, the mission is over (so the non-FS PC has a stake in keeping you alive). REWARD: You are given Jedi XP,faction XP, etc (the higher the initial rank of the PC in the opposing faction, the more XP you will obtain when this mission is complete -- obtaining the same rank in the new faction is not required, simply converting to the other side is). The other PC is told another path to gain the FS.

I will post more ideas when they come to me.

MrTitoBob

I Don't Remember Owning Any Droids Mission

You must infiltrate a base of your opposing faction and obtain information from a high ranking general. You know you will be searched going in for any weapons, so you must obtain a droid with a storage module and place your weapons inside (or leave your weapons at home and go in cold). The droid will be shipped to the base ahead of you (in a shipment of other droids), and you must trust your lightsaber to it. Unfortunately, the information is lost as to which droid is holding your saber, and so you must search for it in the base. (Cancelling this mission will result in losing your saber, so be sure you are willing to do this).

Just some thoughts. I understand that the Jedi are moving from permadeath to skill loss as a death penalty. I think thats great, So why not let players choose if they want to make a new character or not for the FS slot? I mean if your going to make the unlocking of an FS slot depend on what quests a first character completes why not let that character reap the rewards? Its not like a player has to worry about there character permadieing anymore. However a player would have to recover all skill points to start Jedi training, so the option to start a new FS character in place of there first character ( allowing an origianl character to retain all their nice professions skills) would be good. I also think paths ( in other words quests)to FS status should be solitary. I mean letsface it, at this time in the Star Wars universe to openly seek the force could easily be a death sentence if the wrong people hear about it, and who can you truly trust nowadays? But once you reach FS status I think the quest system should shift to more multicharacter quests ( like dispatching a smallcoven of nightsistersthat have been terrorizing local farmers)with a few solitary quests mixed in for good measure, I mean why would a PC jedineed the help of another PC jedito gather crystals for his lightsaber?

Joebno, you're new, so maybe you don't realize that currently you DO have to grind at least 5 professions to open the FS slot. (As of now, ) 4 of them can be revealed to you by opening a holocron, and the 5th is unidentifiable (if you try to open a holo at that point, it remains silent). The current process is dynamic in that it is apparently unique (read: random) to each character you create.

SOE is currently trying to come up with a different method, after overwhelming disappointment with the grinding process, which has affected gameplay (very few people stick with mastering a profession, so it is difficult for people to find a reliable Weaponsmith/Armorsmith/Architect/Doctor/etc. -- those of you who do stick it out, I mean no offense).

My last note of advice to you, Joebno, is to stop reading the boards. Read the knowledge base in-game (Ctrl-H) instead -- full of sarcasm, discontent, anger, and frustration these boards are -- pure dark side sentiment for the game. Only bitterness will you find here, yes.

Every jedi should start out the same, padawan is basic lightsaber and force use training. Once you've graduated beyond padawan you should have choices to make your jedi unique. My suggestion break jedi into 2 skill trees: lightsaber combat, and force use. On these 2 basic trees you have 4 skill sets, each could lead to its own elite/hybrid professions each with great strength and weakness. Maybe even special quests to gain access to the more powerful forms.

For info on various forms seen in the movies click here

Yeah,But finding the NPC at all would be pretty hard. After your first quest from him and you need to find him again, a message should pop up on the screen like "You feel a tremor in the force resinating from (planet) (coordinates) then you go there and get your next quest. Everytime he/she appears and you have finished your quest you get one of those messages on your screen.