What we should be able to purchase with points

Where would you like to be able to spend your hard earned points?

Force will be reduced to 10,000 points next timeline.

Stats were suggested.
Extra levels beyond your natural max has been thrown out there.

Please discuss.

I like being able to buy levels beyond your natural maxes. I had a post a while back that said something about deeper customization that allows you to mold races into unique roles. For instance, a skilled Bothan BHer. A workable Zabrak engineer. etc (going off of levels on the wiki). This could also work with stat increases and what have you. The Bothan could be pretty big with 25 strength, Zabrak with 25 int, etc.

I don’t really like the idea of being able to just buy more levels on your maxes, unless it’s via force, obviously.

However, what I have been rolling around my head is the idea of paying points to swap racial bonuses around, within a certain range, and you’d only be able to increase classes that start off negative.

For instance, with a Duros:

[quote:xxe3v59l] combat Modifier: -15
piloting Modifier: +50
engineering Modifier: +30
bounty hunting Modifier: -35
smuggling Modifier: +20
diplomacy Modifier: +5
leadership Modifier: -10
force Modifier: +0
espionage Modifier: -20
slicer Modifier: +20
medical Modifier: -15
science Modifier: +20[/quote:xxe3v59l]

You pay a certain amount of points, and you get to swap two bonuses. You decide to sacrifice 30 levels of engineering. You select engineering, type in 30, and it gives you the choices of bounty hunting, combat, leadership, espionage, or medical to increase.

You pick combat, which starts off at -15. It brings you up to a +15 combat bonus, but at a loss of +30 engineering, so now your engineering bonus is 0.

I’m really tired, hopefully that made sense, and it’s probably similar to something someone else has suggested here.

I like the ability ti buy above cap or change stat delegations….

Mainly becuase there are race-class combos that just dont work and the RP would be amazing.

IE Leader/Smuggler

I think lowering the Force price that much is overdoing it – 20k is a ton but 10k is too little. Considering how unbalanced Forcers are right now (not that they shouldn’t be unbalanced), and how many there are right now (way more than I expected), I could see era 3 being packed with Forcers. Saying that people won’t awaken them is poorly reasoned – it’s always an arms race, and more for your side (light/dark) is always better and it’s always zero-sum: If you don’t awaken the kid, someone else will. 15k might be a better call, and see what kind of effect that has on the Forcer pop. I think swinging down to 10k is overkill.

Buying levels above your race/class max would imply knowing what those maxes are, which isn’t a bad thing. If someone wants to roll a Bao-Dur or a Cad Bane or even a Leia (Naboo diplo/smug) let them spend some points to live the dream. I think it’d be awesome.

At first, I really liked the idea of gaining levels over what you would normally have, due to the fact that i was looking at it, said "hmm, this could be nice is i bought an awesome race and did it up", but to change the modifiers themselves, That makes me cringe at what will be done by non combat classes in the game. say for instance, you take Arkanian.

This is there normal bonuses:

[quote:3ot46oki] combat Modifier: +10
piloting Modifier: +10
engineering Modifier: +30
bounty hunting Modifier: -40
smuggling Modifier: -50
diplomacy Modifier: +0
leadership Modifier: +15
force Modifier: +0
espionage Modifier: +10
slicer Modifier: +10
medical Modifier: +50
science Modifier: +50[/quote:3ot46oki]

I could potentially do this, when the expense of x amount of points:

[quote:3ot46oki] combat Modifier: +30
piloting Modifier: +20
engineering Modifier: +10
bounty hunting Modifier: -40
smuggling Modifier: -50
diplomacy Modifier: +0
leadership Modifier: +15
force Modifier: +0
espionage Modifier: +20
slicer Modifier: +20
medical Modifier: +40
science Modifier: +20[quote:3ot46oki]

the assumed levels for if i was doing this would be:

[quote:3ot46oki]Combat:90+
Piloting:100
engineering:150
bounty hunting:1
smuggling: dependent on luck
diplomacy:80+
leadership:100+
espionage:90+
Slicer:108+
Medical: 150
Science:150[/quote:3ot46oki][/quote:3ot46oki][/quote:3ot46oki]

This would be massively over powered in my opinion.

If it was a max of 50% of one bonus turning into another bonus, maybe, but it would be best restricted to like, 20-30 level bonus changes if it were implemented imo

What if, when your character is totally maxed out. Everything is leveled, then you get a bonus buy. There would be a pre-set list of things that you could buy for your character: For 1,000 points (or whatever amount) you could get a predetermined boost in an category that your character is a little weak on. Sometimes, that’s all you need to get those few skills that you want. For 2,000 points, you could get an extra 10 force levels, if your character happens to be a forcer. ALL character would be able to choose one option, and only one option, and this process would replace applications for extra levels.