Development Cycle Archive

With Secrets of the Jedi, Jedi Knights can advance into a high end PvP

FRS Jedi gain experience by killing players from the opposing faction. The amount of experience gained is based on the power level of the target (non-Jedi aren’t worth as much as Jedi). FRS Jedi loose experience by being killed by players from the other faction. The more powerful the Jedi is in relation to the player that made the kill, the more experience is lost.

• How easy/difficult is it to gain and loseFR experience?


• Can you maintain the experience that you earn, or is it lost too quickly in PvP?


• Are you able to make enough to qualify a new rank?


• Gaining and Loosing FRS Ranks


• Earning and holding Ranks


• Do the daily experience costs and costs for missing a vote seem reasonable? (Keep in mind that TC is running the maintenance cycle at an accelerated rate. The true value is once per day.)


• If you lose too much experience, you lose a rank. Do the thresholds feel okay?


• Is the demotion setting up everything properly (your skills are correct, the enclave shows you at the proper rank)? Does the demotion work even if you aren’t on-line?

Testing Tip: Test this out by doing battle on a server different from the where the Enclave exists. It is possible that certain problems could arise only if the player is not on the same server as the Enclave.

FRS Advancement Mechanics

• What are your experiences with thepromotion/demotion systems?


• Are you getting the skills that you should get?


• Is the data on your character staying in sync with theEnclave data (the rank you have as shown by your FR skill tree should equate to your position as displayed with /showCouncilRank).


• Is thepetition/voting/acceptance logic is working as intended? (Have fun andtry to do wacky things to break it...)


• Check out the Dark Jedi challenge system. Are you getting the correct TEFs? Can you find any way to “cheat” in order to give yourself an unfair advantage or to avoid the battle.


• Do the challenge acceptance requirements seem reasonable?

Posted some of this elsewhere but may as well add it here:

Master healer/enhancer is not viable for the FRS. I simply cannot earn Force Rank Experience due to the inability to PvP against master defender/saber/misc templates. This particular build is weak for PvP and will never be chosen by anyone wanting to join the FRS system.

As to the 'bonuses' of being ranked, I see only a marginal improvement to force powers as the bonus. As a master healer/enhancer, it means little that I can heal myself slightly more efficiently, or that my force pool is slightly larger, if I still can't damage opponents.

In terms of the process of going up and down the ranks, the only area I have concerns with is the notion of higher level jedi having the ability to 'demote' others in the light jedi voting system. While it's an interesting idea, the potential for using it to grief others is very high.

Also, the process of when to vote and what levels you can vote for is still unclear. On TC2 I still get notices saying I failed to vote when I voted in the only rank level I appear to be able to vote on. Vote times need to be clear (I still haven't figured out how you can determine how long to the next vote), and what you are able to vote for needs to be obvious (right now it's just an asterisk next a rank in the list... not sure that's entirely clear, since I get an asterisk next to levels below my own but get emails saying I failed to vote for my level).

Voting in the light Jedi council...it's gonna be like high-school. If I ever decide to partake in the miserable excuse for a Jedi Knight Trial that's being put in I'll probably go Dark Jedi, even though I never wanted to, because I'm not going to bother trying to get membership into the good ole boys club that will be the Council.

So far it appears promotion doesnt work on TC2... Along with challenges.. This could be a HUGE issue. But hoping for a fix tomorrow =)

One problem I can forsee is the fact that if rank 1 becomes filled but there are several slots open ahead of it, even if the people behind those in rank 1 have enough xp, they can advance. An example:

Rank 1 beomces full and every person in that rank is just able to keep up with the xp costs so it takes them a long time to get up to the next rank. Meanwhile, a person behind them already has enough for, say, rank 4. He would have to sit there at rank 0 while those at rank 1 hold things up.

I propose that Rank 0 and Sentinels can be promoted anywhere within the Sentinel Tree. So a Rank 0 can bypass rank 1 if he has enough xp and go directly to rank 2, 3 or 4 if there is room. However you cannot jump from rank 2 to rank 5 (consular). You would need to acheive rank 4 first. And then do the same for the Consular and Arbiter trees.

Stupid spelling errors...I meant "cannot" advance in the first line.

i want suggest add a timer to know when is the next votation also im rank 0 and im trying get in rank 1 but i cant always there are all seats occupied why i cant try duel to a rank1?