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Nicolas_Frost

Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:57 pm

Here goes:

Retain Rank: An ability that allows you to leave one faction(say Rebellion), and join another(Imperial), while keeping the rank you had as a Rebel. You would have to earn Imperial ranks, but if you want to swap back and forth, this will keep you from having to get faction to attain ranks all over again. The draw back, would be the faction cost for rejoining the faction is raised to the ammount it cost you to get your rank.

Example:

Rebel First Lieutenant Joe, who's a Master Smuggler quits the Rebellion, in order to go Imperial for a while. He has never been Imperial, and thusly, has the starting rank, after getting out of Negative Imperial faction. He works his way up to Master Sergeant, and decides to help some Rebel friends. Quits the Empire, and rejoins the Rebellion, at a cost of 5000 Rebelfaction points. He helps his friends out, and once again quits the Rebellion, to rejoin the Empire, at a cost of 2500 Imperialfaction.

Eventually, Joe works up to Imperial Colonel, and quits to work on his Rebel ranks, and becomes Rebel Colonel as well. It now costs him 6000 faction to switch back and forth, but,this doesfit in with Smugglers.

Note: The Smuggler could still go into faction point debt through killing NPCs of the opposing faction, but the cap for buying faction is a +500, not -500.

Also, the reason for this being a Master Level skill, is that you can't sell faction(to NPCs) untill Underworld 3, and you can't buy faction untill Underworld 4, so the progression to this skill is logical.

Thoughts? Questions? Ideas? Snide remarks?

Jaecob Maragi
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KaernLegorah

Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:49 pm

#2

I love it; fantastic idea!

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Akiram_Glockem

Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:38 am

#3

Good idea, in fact ithought ofthe exact same thing the other day(i want the freaking imp badges without losing my rank).

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MadnessLives

Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:09 am

#4

Only issue I can see arising from this, how can you be a Colonel in 2 different/opposing armies!

It almost sounds like a Spy skill, not really a smuggler,

I understand and like your idea, Im in the process of switching sides right now, and do not want to resign and lose my Col Rank.

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AidenStark

Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:17 pm

#5

MadnessLives wrote:

Only issue I can see arising from this, how can you be a Colonel in 2 different/opposing armies!

It almost sounds like a Spy skill, not really a smuggler,

I understand and like your idea, Im in the process of switching sides right now, and do not want to resign and lose my Col Rank.

Because when we come back, we Lie, we tell them we 'were' spying, we sweet talk our way back into our old position, Possibly make us pay some credits so we can 'buy' our way back in,or any other thing that smugglers are notorious for. It sounds like a reasonable ability. But i'm afraid that they've stated (somewhere) that when/if the smuggler revamp does happen, they're changing the underworld tree altogether so it will have little to do with the CGW since not all of us participate in it. But you have good ideas none the less.

Nicolas_Frost

Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:33 pm

#6

MadnessLives wrote:

Only issue I can see arising from this, how can you be a Colonel in 2 different/opposing armies!

It almost sounds like a Spy skill, not really a smuggler,

I understand and like your idea, Im in the process of switching sides right now, and do not want to resign and lose my Col Rank.

The idea behind it, is that you won't be a Colonel in both sides at one time, but when you go back and forth, you'll go back to your old rank, the downside would be that the ammount of faction it costs to rejoin would be the same as how much it costs to buy the rank. Thusly, you're a Colonel Master Smuggler, and you leave the Rebellion, and then come back, it'll cost 6000 faction to rejoin. Same for Imperials.

Jaecob Maragi
Babelonian Militia Captain
Master Smuggler and Alliance Pilot
Captain of the LongShot(2)
THE Official Smuggler Forum Smartass!
The prices of my services are based on "tolerance". The more I have to tolerate you, the more you have to pay me.

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