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I see several advantages to that change.

First, it solved a situation where we were the only proffession (I think) who was able to give to others a service we were unable to provide to ourselves: buying faction points. The ability to buy factions points for ourselves without having to deal with another MS make sence.

Second, it simplify a LOT the faction points selling. Just removing the 500 cap make that process way less tedius.

Third, the part about us having a larger bridery option mean the "buying the faction" part will also be quicker, and that's also a good news.

I guess that will mean that we will see way more Master Smugglers who are Colonel now that we really can buy faction for ourselves. But that also mean thoses who are already Master Smuggler and Colonel might see more competition on the fps market. But by the same token, and specially after the CURB, we might see a way more active fps market too.

Now I wonder if we will see some rich Smugglers really play both sides of the fence, knowing they can always buy back their ranks. Hmmm.....

Anyway, I might be stating the obvious with thoses points, but you asked feedback, soooo....

So far I can see no real downside. I'm a very happy Bothan tonight. lol

Message Edited by LaughingWolf on 01-28-2005 11:11 PM

holy balls this is friggin awesome. On so many levels that I won't mention since I enjoy making money.

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DrevenStrobe wrote:

I would love to be able to test this while it's on TC, but there's no way I can grind to UW4 before it goes live...

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I can test it, I shouldstill have a Triple Master on Test Center.

Message Edited by Nicolas_Frost on 01-29-2005 01:26 AM

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LaughingWolf wrote:
Third, the part about us having a larger bridery option mean the "buying the faction" part will also be quicker, and that's also a good news.

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Yep I'm an Imperial Colonel Master Smuggler on TC, and I now have the option to purchase 100,000 credits worth of faction (1250fp) or 20,000 credits worth of faction (250fp) (I purchased both to make sure they were working properly). I've also got ~31k of faction on me now, so the removed faction buying cap is working great.

If any of y'all want me to check something else out for you (as long as it's not buying millions of credits worth of faction points ) just let me know

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:19 AM

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:21 AM

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OsirixJedi wrote:

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LaughingWolf wrote:
Third, the part about us having a larger bridery option mean the "buying the faction" part will also be quicker, and that's also a good news.

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Yep I'm an Imperial Colonel Master Smuggler on TC, and I now have the option to purchase 100,000 credits worth of faction (1250fp) or 20,000 credits worth of faction (250fp) (I purchased both to make sure they were working properly). I've also got ~31k of faction on me now, so the removed faction buying cap is working great.

If any of y'all want me to check something else out for you (as long as it's not buying millions of credits worth of faction points ) just let me know

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:19 AM

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:21 AM

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Geevo wrote:

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OsirixJedi wrote:

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LaughingWolf wrote:
Third, the part about us having a larger bridery option mean the "buying the faction" part will also be quicker, and that's also a good news.

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Yep I'm an Imperial Colonel Master Smuggler on TC, and I now have the option to purchase 100,000 credits worth of faction (1250fp) or 20,000 credits worth of faction (250fp) (I purchased both to make sure they were working properly). I've also got ~31k of faction on me now, so the removed faction buying cap is working great.

If any of y'all want me to check something else out for you (as long as it's not buying millions of credits worth of faction points ) just let me know

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:19 AM

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:21 AM

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what happens if you are a colonel, have 59,500 in FP and try to buy 100k in faction? Does it go over your hard cap? tell you that you cant? or take your money and put you at your cap?

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I forsee much grinding in my future tomorrow (or later today, I suppose it would be...)

I'll have an answer for you "Soon" (I was kinda wondering this myself -- It used to be that if you bought faction and went over the cap, you'd still get the faction over the cap. Then you couldn't buy any more faction, but this is supposed to be a hard cap).

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:53 AM

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Geevo wrote:

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OsirixJedi wrote:

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LaughingWolf wrote:
Third, the part about us having a larger bridery option mean the "buying the faction" part will also be quicker, and that's also a good news.

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Yep I'm an Imperial Colonel Master Smuggler on TC, and I now have the option to purchase 100,000 credits worth of faction (1250fp) or 20,000 credits worth of faction (250fp) (I purchased both to make sure they were working properly). I've also got ~31k of faction on me now, so the removed faction buying cap is working great.

If any of y'all want me to check something else out for you (as long as it's not buying millions of credits worth of faction points ) just let me know

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:19 AM

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:21 AM

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what happens if you are a colonel, have 59,500 in FP and try to buy 100k in faction? Does it go over your hard cap? tell you that you cant? or take your money and put you at your cap?

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I'm wondering now: is this change perhaps a prelude to the factional armor being introduced in the CURB? There've been comments before that faction sales might start increasing with the new armor. Is this change made in anticipation of more demand based on the sudden change in the CURB?

Just my random thought. I know the sandbox people can't say anything. Just pondering our sudden good luck out loud

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OsirixJedi wrote:

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LaughingWolf wrote:
Third, the part about us having a larger bridery option mean the "buying the faction" part will also be quicker, and that's also a good news.

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Yep I'm an Imperial Colonel Master Smuggler on TC, and I now have the option to purchase 100,000 credits worth of faction (1250fp) or 20,000 credits worth of faction (250fp) (I purchased both to make sure they were working properly). I've also got ~31k of faction on me now, so the removed faction buying cap is working great.

If any of y'all want me to check something else out for you (as long as it's not buying millions of credits worth of faction points ) just let me know

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:19 AM

Message Edited by OsirixJedi on 01-29-2005 04:21 AM

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That's still 80 per point. It would've been nice if they would've given a large discount for larger blocks of FP...*shrug*...but I don't guess I'll complain too much.

Can you find out if Rebels are still getting the CoA bonus on faction purchases?

Oh, one advantage I forgot to mention, since it is linked to another change in that patch that Wes didn't quoted....

The ability to show faction rank. I'm sure being able to wander around with both "Master Smuggler" and "Colonel" up will be good for business..... (well, when I become Colonel that is lol! Still WO II here)

Oh and a big thanks for thoses who are trying to get more informations on TC. My character over there is still a no badge no title newbie.

Message Edited by LaughingWolf on 01-29-2005 12:56 PM