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Thread: Another thing.....why no faction gained/lost in JTL?
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MadDog36
Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:18 am
#1
Ok, should we just GIVE UP on faction points? Seriously. I thought there was "supposedly" going to be a reason for being a Colonel or whatever in the Alliance or Empire, butyou don't even get faction points for killing starships of the other faction. This is just ridiculous.
RPMayhem
Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:22 am
#2
Yeah I'm not sure about the whole "need rank to use ships" thing...that always sounded like something they were going to do.../shrug
As for FP for killing opposing faction...if you fly to a friendly factional spacestation, communicate with it, and delcare your faction, you will then get FP for killing factional enemies. This includes NPCs, I've never tested it on PCs. Also, when you die or return to the ground, you go back to covert.
As for FP for killing opposing faction...if you fly to a friendly factional spacestation, communicate with it, and delcare your faction, you will then get FP for killing factional enemies. This includes NPCs, I've never tested it on PCs. Also, when you die or return to the ground, you go back to covert.
Orryhazard
Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:23 am
#3
I've been getting Rebel Faction for completing missions. It's not much faction points, but I'm still getting it. Usually around 80 or so.
Zade_Taerin
Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:25 am
#4
It actually indicates in the official SOE JtLS Faq that faction points are "likely"supposed to accout for something...
http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/expansions_faq.jsp
11 ) Are there things I can do in-game now to prepare for the release of Jump to Lightspeed? Yes! Some Rebel and Imperial starships will likely be limited to players with specific ranks or a large number of faction points, so you can start earning faction points now. In addition, we're working on a new system that gives special space-specific perks to veteran players; more details about this will be coming soon.
I haven't seen anything yet in JtLS that indicates that faction points does anything. Perhaps at the time of the GCW revamp there may be something added... but we are in for a bit of a wait before this happens.
Message Edited by Zade_Taerin on 11-04-2004 11:27 AM
BleuDestiny
Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:52 am
#6
That quote obviously changed. Faction or rank is not required to accomplish anything in JTL at this time.
Faction points are earned by "completing" missions, but that's it. No faction from individual ship kills. No faction points are lost in JTL at this time.
Jedi_Badkitty
Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:31 am
#7
you actually thought the devs would think of EVERYTHING before releasing game?? hahahaha silly human.
Wizvac
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:47 am
#11
Actually no, you can enter deepspace with 30,000 Prestige, which is what an Ace pilot gains for killing something. Once you make Ace you no longer get xp, you get the same points in the form of prestige. Also, as stated above, if you declare at a space station of your faction, you can then begin to gain/loose faction like on the ground game while fighting your enemy faction in space. PvP kills do not adjust combat raiting, nor do they give/loose faction.
MadDog36
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:48 am
#12
That would be a total SOE thing to do. Not like you can solo in deep space or much in JTL.....so they make 30k fp the only way to get there. Not many people have 30k xp, and you don't get xp killing while covert in JTL like you do in the ground game....
Iceman-KG-
Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:39 pm
#13
/sigh
I was asking the same thing. Oh well, seems like their chance to actually make rank mean SOMETHING has gone again.
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