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Thread: Force Sensitive Smugglers making a killing... Fo Real
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Ipseck
Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:53 pm
#1
I was having a discussion with a few of the Jedi in my guild and they mentioned that the persuasion line has the same perk as our underworld branch as far as faction discounts go (up to an additional 25% off)... Is this accurate? and if so, what is your take on it?
Granted noone will be able to purchase faction without underworld, but the potential for ultra cheap faction perks from a fs smuggler seems doable. With this added discount, those of us who run a faction perk racket potentially stand to make considerably more if we keep the prices the same. That does mean picking up fs skills however. Can you imagine how cheap a FS Rebel Bothan Master Smuggler could get perks?
Granted noone will be able to purchase faction without underworld, but the potential for ultra cheap faction perks from a fs smuggler seems doable. With this added discount, those of us who run a faction perk racket potentially stand to make considerably more if we keep the prices the same. That does mean picking up fs skills however. Can you imagine how cheap a FS Rebel Bothan Master Smuggler could get perks?
JTGAlpha
Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:13 pm
#2
Say WHAT? That's ridiculous! I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea. See, the problem is, that a lot of FS smugglers WON'T keep the price the same. Here is the inherrent difficulty with ALL of the FS ideas. This game can get quite competitive on every level. So if one person has an advantage it becomes de rigeour (sp?) for EVERYONE to have that advantange to even compete. For instance, yes, they can keep the same price and make a TON more profit. OR they can corner the market by charging 10,20,30,40,50% cheaper than the rest of us, and do more VOLUME and make as much as they were making and more. Meanwhile all the other faction sellers who want to continue selling faction are scrambling to get their FS so they can compete at all. This gets ugly.
Ipseck
Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:22 pm
#3
I understand where you're going with that jtg, but realistically, how many colonel master smugglers are there of your respective faction on your server? I am about the only semi-reliably online imperial colonel master smuggler on my server. Not to mention almost all others work together and assist eachother. Its a small niche community and has the potential to regulate it self pretty well.
JTGAlpha
Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:42 pm
#4
Ho' boy, I can think of three right off the top of my head. Geevo, Ecad, and Lorenzo. And my guild leader's thinking about doing the same, so that's four that I know of off the top of my head. But then, Intrepid, according to an impromptu board poll had quite a high amount of Master Smugglers.
Ke_la
Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:01 pm
#5
I know a guy in my guild that keeps switching wich of his 2 toons is a master Smug and I beleave we have another Working on it. Though I don't think ether sell FS but just slice for the guild while waiting for the revamp if it ever comes
Smuggler_Caylin
Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:05 pm
#7
scall01 wrote:
A smuggler jedi makes no sence. At all.
hmm?
"This is not the spice you are looking for. We can go about our business. Move along." <-- This smuggler would kill to be able to do that 
One of the Four Horsemen of the Smuggler Apocalypse! 
scall01
Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:08 pm
#8
Still, Han Solo said it was a hokey religion, and I doubt Dash believed in it. I just don't want to be forced out of the market because of FS smugglers getting like insane slices, and really good fp discounts. I'm a smuggler, not a jedi.
JTGAlpha
Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:29 pm
#9
Not all smugglers belive the same thing...AND who says they know they're using force?
Ke_la
Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:45 pm
#10
Still, Han Solo said it was a hokey religion, and I doubt Dash believed in it. I just don't want to be forced out of the market because of FS smugglers getting like insane slices, and really good fp discounts. I'm a smuggler, not a jedi.
Just because you are FS a) does not make you a Jedi and b) Just cause your FS does not mean you Know your FS. Han was EXTREEMLY lucky and beleaved in his luck. Sounds like he could be slightly FS and not know it to me, Plus its not importain whether or not you beleve in the Force but wheather the Force Beleaves in you.
scall01
Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:46 pm
#11
I don't plan on doing the fs quest in any way, nor do I plan on makin a jedi on any server.
Ke_la
Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:00 pm
#12
fine that is your choice I personally only plan on doing the 22 that will get me my 2nd (accually 3rd) Toon
KaiRan
Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:28 pm
#13
Ipseck wrote:
I was having a discussion with a few of the Jedi in my guild and they mentioned that the persuasion line has the same perk as our underworld branch as far as faction discounts go (up to an additional 25% off)... Is this accurate? and if so, what is your take on it?
Granted noone will be able to purchase faction without underworld, but the potential for ultra cheap faction perks from a fs smuggler seems doable. With this added discount, those of us who run a faction perk racket potentially stand to make considerably more if we keep the prices the same. That does mean picking up fs skills however. Can you imagine how cheap a FS Rebel Bothan Master Smuggler could get perks?
I've been trying for weeks to get somebody, anybody, to test and confirm what each level of Persuasion grants the FS character. So far, all the responces and threads I can find on the subject focus on its lack of uses for Jedi and cost reduction for training. The description for each suggests it can do much, much more as far as factional relations go, GCW or otherwise. If you or anyone else here can offer us smugglers any insight at all into how this line functions, it would be enormously helpfull!
FS Persuasion, Luck, and Vehicle Controll are all straight out of our old wish lists, it seems. I just want to see how usefull theymight prove for us Smuggs.
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