<p>Yeah, you both are right. The game has gone through 2 major design revisions. The original game had 32 professions. Every player had 250 skill points that they could invest in different professions. Thus, there tons of different templates to play with. I bought the game with the intent of being a bounty hunter. With my skill points I was a Master Bounty Hunter, with skill points for Pistoleer, Carbineer, and Rifleman. It was a great a template. </p><p>Jedi was always a hot issue for the game. Originally the developers (Sony) didnt want to inlcude Jedi but the word was that Lucas Arts wanted them in there. Originally Jedi were n alpha class, they were designed to be better than any other template. The Jedi class itself had various skillsets from which to build a template. It was pretty cool. The catch with Jedi was threefold. First, to become one was a mystery. When the game launched noone knew who to become one, six months later the developers basically let everyone know that each character had to master some random amount of professions. Usually anyhere from 24 to all the professions. Doing that work took months even for the hard core gamers. The second catch was that Jedi could suffer permadeath. If killed 3 times, then the character would permantly die. This was extrmemly controversial and was eventually repealed. The third catch was that when Jedi used Jedi powers or a light saber in view of player characters or non-player characters (npcs), the Jedi would get a level of visibility. Once the visibilty exceeded a certain amount, the Jedi would show up on the bounty hunter terminals (terminals where Bounty Hunters take missions). Thus Player Bounty Hunters could hunt player Jedi. THe bounty hunters had tracking droids to find the Jedi, it was a cool system.</p><p>The latest change to the game which happened to November changed the game completely. The 32 professions are now 9 and Jedi are 1 you can choose to start with. There are no more templates so everyone is basically the same. Since Jedi were available from the start they were "nerfed" so that they were no powerful than any other class. Thus the Bounty Hunting was ended. Bounty Hunters could no longer hunt Jedi..This was the main reason I played the game and why I am quitting. I tried to get involved in the civil war (rebel vs imperials) but its just not compelling gameplay. There is really nothing to do anymore. </p><p>One of my sigpics here is a pic of Bounty Hunter, Aanu. I actually got very good at killing Jedi and was voted the best BH of my server. Jedi fled on site. Man did I pwn teh noob. <img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/king.gif" /><br /></p>
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