Force Sensitive Archive

Games that are easy get boring fast and offer no sense of accomplishment. Dev's clearly states from the beginning that Jedi could be obtained by any player. Current system allows that. What you have issue with is the timeframe. The rate of obtaining your unlock is a reflection of how much you play.

This only support the notion, novel as it may seem, that people who work harder are rewarded sooner than those who do not. It's like entering the Boston marathon. Some people finish in 2 hours, others in 20 hours. Both finish, the only difference is the amount of work being put in.

Frankly if I was a one or two day a week player who finially unlocked after say a year of gameplay and suddenly the devs made it so everyone could be a Jedi. I would be pissed off. Why? Because my effort would suddenly be invalidated.

Stop trying to get a free pass. Put any spin on it you like, but the central core of every one of these arguments is "I don't want to work as hard or as long as I will have to for Jedi, make it easier".

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Shamora wrote:

I am half way home to Jedi when it hits me. Is this LONG GRIND really necessary. Who out there have dreams of a better system to reach Jedi. I am all for the Village, I thought it was a nice addition. But once again something that starts out real good, turns real bad. Why does the current system have to be such a long and boring grind. Why can't it be a quest based system like there are in other SOE based games. Is it the the WILL of SOE to push people away from SWG. If there idea of a good game is a boring, non-interaction grind then its sad to say that they will slowly start loosing people. Something needs to be done to keep and possibly bring back vetrans that have left due to lack of content and being bored to death.

I would like to hear your ideas on how to improve the current system. How would you adjust what you have seen and experienced. Does the current system meet oreven come close tothe kind of system you thought it would be. Your voices should be heard, no matter how wild and crazy they are. What are your thoughts?

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I agree that it was a long and boring grind. Jedi is no different, especially when you work during the week and realize it takes2 weeks to get just one box. However, how you feel is exactly the intent of this system. I am sure there are better ways in which they could make getting jedi, but completelyquest based COULD = easier, and in order to ebb the waves of jedi that would cover the servers, they made it long. It is long, but not necessarily boring. There is no law anywhere that says you have to have jedi within the 3 week phase change limit. Unlock all six branches, and just play the game. You will get there eventually. In this form, jedi is obtainable by casual gamers and power gamers alike, only difference is that power gamers will get it quicker, as always. I had friends that go to force sensitive, saw what was ahead, and quit. They thought it was going to be easy and quick. Just remember patience. Patience is the most of anything that you will need for the fs/jedi grind.

If they were to make it quest based, lots of little, detailed missions, not only would it take ages to release, but it could represent tonnes more bugs etc. They'd need to think of enough quests to last 18 weeks, design it, test it and then implement it.

This way we're doing the hard work, not them. They give us a few missions, then a ton of xp needed to complete them.

I'm not sure how big the SWG DEV team is, but it's got to be pretty stretched at times, meaning they need to focus on many issues (existing and future), and create and implement new content. Poor guys probably spend half their day in meetings anyway.