Customization

Alright. I was thinking about how diverse species can be and being able to over come generally ‘negative’ aspects of there cultures. For instance, you come along someone from a species that you automatically assume they’ll act a certain way and be a certain profession. A Duros would be a great pilot. A Corellian is a cunning smuggler. A Bothan is a slick operative. But not everyone follows the ‘norm’. Once in a while you come across someone from a species that goes against the grain so to speak. A Duros becoming a brilliant General on the field of battle. A Corellian becoming a bright, and outstanding engineer. A Bothan becoming a feared bounty hunter. So why not on LOTJ?

Here is what I propose. Perhaps, make it worth so many points, I don’t know maybe 10,000. That can be though up later. But here’s the game plan, you pick a race, and you get to customize it a bit. Maybe allowed to choose which class you get 150 and everything else will fall into place. So for instance, to create the great Duros General you would place it into combat. To get the Corellian engineer, you’d put it into engineering. The Bothan bounty hunter, into bounty hunting.

I don’t know how feesible this would be and what it would take to achieve it, but I just though maybe being able to make a species out of the general norm would be pretty cool once in a while. And having a high point threshold of 10,000 (the old level you needed to buy a forcer) you could have some really unique individuals and characters make there way into LOTJ.

YES

If only the mud had some sort of application system where, rather than spending points, people could simply present their idea for a ‘break the mold’ character to the staff, and somehow have it approved!

I had this sort of idea in mind a while ago, where racial maxes still play but if someone felt like being unique they could dump their points in a terrible class and break the mold, but I can’t help but feel that it would be horrendously raped by minmaxers.

Sadly that is true Avanga. But that’s why it has a high point threshold. You can do, but it won’t happen often. So of course you may get a stat minmaxer once in a while, I’m sure there will be some really unique players out there.

Or instead of giving the Imms heaps and heaps of applications to read through and either give the nod or the shake, do what Falcon suggested and make it code-based, thereby removing Imm involvement at all. We need more things that don’t require Imm-approval. They are ridiculously busy. If someone makes a bogus race which violates rules they can always be removed and punished for it later.

It’s easier to hit the big red ‘deny’ button than it is to deal with some dickbag stat min-maxer who farms points to roll up twinked out chars by the dozen.

It’s also much more difficult to fill out an application than to select something to spend points on.