Why not just have force powers be something you get after playing with a single character on a single account for a number of months - say 36 months?  In order to get force powers you have to pay 36 consecutive monthly payments and keep the same character active for that period.

Alternatively, why not just reward the very top-scoring combat player/characters with Jedi powers.  Every month, that month's highest-scoring character gets to become a Jedi.

Both of these will result in rare Jedi, and both reward excellence in terms of ability or in terms of player loyalty.

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Originally posted by keltic1701
Without Jedi there is NO Star Wars.

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Originally posted by Celestian

I don't see why the number of jedi bothers anyone. What someone else does has absolutely no effect on you.

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That's the smoking lobby argument.  Unfortunately what someone else does in a MMORPG often DOES affect others.  Jedi hologrinding killed professions.  Do you seriously think the hologrind had no effect on the entertainer professions?  Did you somehow miss all the AFK macroers and buffbots who were clogging up the cantinas and making entertainers look like assholes?

I was a musician who suffered greatly due to the hologrind.  I honed my profession, I had a great show that I took on tour, but I often found that the cantinas were full of hologrinding Jedi wannabes who didn't care about entertaining, and unfortunately the general consensus was that all entertainers were grinding towards Jedi.  Sad.

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Originally posted by britoca
Took me 9 months of continuous daily play to unlock my jedi.  That's how it should be.

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I don't think so.  You're talking about the hologrind, and that's where all of today's SWG problems really began.  The hologrind killed the entertainer professions and made the game a joke overall.  The last thing we need is to return to those days.  I say get rid of Jedi altogether - they simply don't belong in a Star Wars game set during the late Empire period.

On the other hand, what could be done is make Jedi a player reward that takes effect after three years of continuous play.  That way it's a reward for true SWG veterans, Jedi are rare, and no hologrinding is necessary.

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Originally posted by Skylighter9

I agree that making Jedi easily available was a BAD idea.  It should be something that takes LOTS of work and struggling to do.

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Originally posted by alktrioguy

the devs wanted to make the game more star warsy...

what movie were the majority of the characters in the movie jedi's? NOT ONE

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Originally posted by Malickiebloo
Most MMO gamers stick to one game at a time , And usually become quite devoted to their current gaming endeavor . You really think all the people who have moved on to EVE , WOW , L2 , EQ , EQ2 and so on . Are going jump back into a game they quit almost a year ago ? Because I don't .

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Originally posted by greezy
like many of you, I have tried every single dam MMORPG since SWG and my hunger for fun and joy SWG gave me is being unfulfilled on all of the other games.  So my anger just gets worse and worse as my need to play online with others still goes unfulfilled.

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I loved the potential of SWG but SOE completely screwed it up.  As an entertainer I found that my profession, which was great fun at first and showed lots of promise, was gradually whittled down until there really was no reason to play anymore.  I liked that SWG gave us a game where non-combat professions were more than just healers, so I was all the more disappointed when SOE turned my character into a mere healer, and then removed the need for healing altogether, leaving me with no reason to play whatsoever.

It's a year since I finally gave up, and I'm still bitter about it because, unlike my other games, I can no longer play the Star Wars game I loved.