Let's not forget....

[Nyase]

When scheduling/coordinating RP events, let's not forget our European counterparts on the server.

I happend to shuttle into bestine last night, (moring for you guys) and happend across a large group of players dressed in storm trooper armor. I instantly fell into charcter and asked the troopers for a status report on what the situation was there. Another person who was dressed identical to several others informed me that they were after a Twi'lek who'd stolen some imperial data. When I asked them if they needed assistance in tracking them down, they graciously allowed me to tag along.

Granted, they were all speaking german and I had no idea what they were saying, it was still a good time. I pretty much just acted as back up gaurd and warning all the english spekaing players that this was an imperial matter and to move along.

Other than they were looking for a Twi'lek, I don't know the whole details of the plot. We stoped and the captain of the group harrassed two female twi'leks. We then moved farther out and stoped a human male, who was then brought into the capital building for questioning.


The only down side to the entire event was Player Jedi, particuarly one light side one. During the first questioning, there were two dark jedi following the group, one spaming 'jedi' over and over again. Shortly after, we were attacked by 2 light side. Fortuantly the dark jedi Chased them off, and that was the last we saw of 3 of them thankfully.

We changed locations in town, and again, one of the light side jedi came and attacked us, interupted the RP yet again. We managed to drive him off, and we changed locations again to the capital building for the questioning bit.

This same jedi came back to town, ran into the capital building and killed everyone who was questioning the 'prisoner' as well as the 'gaurds', disrupting the entire RP. We cloned, went back to overt status for our part and after a lengthy OOC discussion(which was all in german unfortunatly for me :P), went back to the rp.

For the last time, the same accursed jedi came back, and tried to kill us all again. Finally, we managed to kill the accursed player. However, the cost was high and the RP event pretty much ended with that.

I honestly belvie that the event would've gone on longer had this one jedi not repeatidly shown up. This is yet another reason why I think player jedi shouldn't be in game. All player jedi should be taken out, shot amd their jedi accounts whiped. (Yes, I hate jedi, and I've disliked them before SWG too. :P)

[Keer]

Can't help but agree with you there, buddy! I've seen player Jedi muck up RP myself. From my experience, I've never seen a player Jedi RP the part.

Has anyone experienced a Player Jedi who didn't ruin your RP fun? Or just your fun in general for that matter?

If so, give him/her a pat on the back for being a credit to their profession.

[Snewpy]

Has anyone experienced a Player Jedi who didn't ruin your RP fun?

Has anybody else noticed that there are WAY too many jedi

[Nyase]

Yep. That's why the should just wipe em out....nothing like leathal punishment for having jedi to discourage others from getting it. Maybe they'll let me hold the gun......

[TramelRaggs]

Has anyone experienced a Player Jedi who didn't ruin your RP fun? Or just your fun in general for that matter?

If so, give him/her a pat on the back for being a credit to their profession.

I've had ONE good experience with someone who turned out to be a jedi. This guy actually RP'd his part (and not the normal stuff that would come from a jedi, but he seemed concerned about my internal conflict), didn't wear the robe, etc.

I only found out he was a jedi later when Cappen Pancho came up and blew his cover, screaming "So and So is a jedi!!"

[Coiyonite Adaks]

I only found out he was a jedi later when Cappen Pancho came up and blew his cover, screaming "So and So is a jedi!!"

A good majority of this board is not a fan of the Cappen..

Coiy

[E-bo Obi]

I know a few player Jedi that are into RP. but I don't know that they RP as much as they are trying to quickly level. /shrug

I know I for one have played this game considerably less since pub 9. I do not and never have supported jedi in this game.

And add me to the list of people who have cappin on ignore.

[TramelRaggs]

Well, I heard Cappin was a dick, but he always plays his jedi Cappen now. The way he knew the guy was a jedi was he did some sort of force special that he can only do to other jedi. He started screaming the guy was a jedi, then walked up and asked why people didn't want to know he was a jedi, then ran away screaming it.

I guess he doesn't realize that everyone doesn't want to play a jedi the way most jedi are played (and yes, I've played less since Pub 9, originally only wanted devs to be jedis, think that their should be a TEF instituted for equipping a saber, and tailors should be able to craft clothing that look like robes, so jedi don't stand out).

[Ekade]

As far as the europeans go, maybe we should invite them here. I do roleplay with many europeans in the Sisterhood. Although, it sounds like they have some cool RP of their own going on already.

I love hearing about stormtroopers marching around. It makes me wish Gorath had a dedicated stormtrooper group like some servers have.

The Jedi issue is most troublesome. The only solution I can think of is to use the cities that no one goes to, or player cities where you can lock the offenders out of the buildings. This stinks because you want RP to be visible to suck people in.

And no, I have never seen a Jedi roleplay as a Jedi. The problem lies within how they allowed people to become jedi... grinding. Grinding is pretty much the polar opposite of RP. As a result, the majority of Jedi are the furthest thing from roleplayers that you can imagine.

This is why you see them strolling around, flagrantly murdering as many people as possible.

I always thought a better system would be to hand pick certain players to be Jedi. People who could maintain the proper feel of the SW universe. I know there are many issues with this idea, and of course I would love to be one of the hand picked few. But it is not going to happen.

Jedi should have their own overt system. Overt "mundanes" should not be attackable by jedi. This would cut down on the griefing.

[TramelRaggs]

I love hearing about stormtroopers marching around. It makes me wish Gorath had a dedicated stormtrooper group like some servers have.

I love hearing about this too. I remember the first Mos Eisley event when out of nowhere, around 10 Stormtroopers showed up and started firing. I thought "Oh yeah, I remember buying a Star Wars game."

And no, I have never seen a Jedi roleplay as a Jedi. The problem lies within how they allowed people to become jedi... grinding. Grinding is pretty much the polar opposite of RP. As a result, the majority of Jedi are the furthest thing from roleplayers that you can imagine.

You've probably seen a jedi roleplaying before, but like in my example in the Cappen situation, you probably just didn't know they were a jedi. Not all jedi are going to do the "Calm your feelings, Let the Force guide you" Obi Wan thing. I would like to imagine not all FS were like that.

[quote ="Ekade"]I always thought a better system would be to hand pick certain players to be Jedi. People who could maintain the proper feel of the SW universe. I know there are many issues with this idea[/quote]

I would like a system where roleplayers got jedis. In your system, would the Devs hand pick the jedi? Would they go with people who they know stand out from the pack with their roleplaying abilities and have already awarded that roleplaying in other ways?

/sticks out chest as far as possible without breaking back

[Ekade]

I would like a system where roleplayers got jedis. In your system, would the Devs hand pick the jedi? Would they go with people who they know stand out from the pack with their roleplaying abilities and have already awarded that roleplaying in other ways?

/sticks out chest as far as possible without breaking back

Yes, I would imagine the devs would pick out a handful of dedicated SW roleplayers. Perhaps this small group would then take accountability for maintaining the proper Jedi feel in the galaxy. They could vote in new members from time to time, and oust members who are just playing poorly.

Perhaps the "ousting" could result in flagging the offending jedi for permadeath, and a permanent spot on the BH terminals.

[Zannon]

Cappen Pancho

I'll have you note, Trayuse has sat at the BH terminal on 3 separate occasions refreshing for over a half hour until that name came up.

[Seret Sajet]

[quote ="Ekade"]I always thought a better system would be to hand pick certain players to be Jedi. People who could maintain the proper feel of the SW universe. I know there are many issues with this idea

I would like a system where roleplayers got jedis. In your system, would the Devs hand pick the jedi? Would they go with people who they know stand out from the pack with their roleplaying abilities and have already awarded that roleplaying in other ways?

/sticks out chest as far as possible without breaking back

Yes, I would imagine the devs would pick out a handful of dedicated SW roleplayers. Perhaps this small group would then take accountability for maintaining the proper Jedi feel in the galaxy. They could vote in new members from time to time, and oust members who are just playing poorly.

Perhaps the "ousting" could result in flagging the offending jedi for permadeath, and a permanent spot on the BH terminals.[/quote]

In a perfect world this is what I would want to but lets face facts. A good majority of people who bitch and moan if they didn't get picked. They'd ask "Why not me!!??" till the devs were blue in the face. They crybabies will always ruin it for us.

Now look at just about ever set of screens and such that Lucasarts/SOE release for this game. Notice how many Jedi's are in the pics? The possibility of becoming a jedi (and new folks don't know you can't just pick one) is a major selling point for them. They'll push it till the cows come home.

But I love the idea of Devs picking the Jedi. With that Jedi are more likely to exist as they actually do in this time period. At least a RPer would respect that role and play it out well.

[Ekade]

In a perfect world this is what I would want to but lets face facts. A good majority of people who bitch and moan if they didn't get picked. They'd ask "Why not me!!??" till the devs were blue in the face. They crybabies will always ruin it for us.

I know.. my dream will never happen. The sad truth is that this game is not made for roleplayers. Sure it allows for roleplayer, but we are a niche.

But I love the idea of Devs picking the Jedi. With that Jedi are more likely to exist as they actually do in this time period. At least a RPer would respect that role and play it out well.

Exactly. Even if I was not picked. I would be happy just knowing some good people were maintaining the continuity.

[X'an Shin]

Cappen Pancho

I'll have you note, Trayuse has sat at the BH terminal on 3 separate occasions refreshing for over a half hour until that name came up.

ROTFLMA ALL THE WAY OFF.

Did Trayuse find and kill him all three times?

PLEASE SAY YES EVEN IF THE ANSWER IS NO.