What we should be able to purchase with points

From the way that imms can change RPC members to be absolutely any race (like a Bulbasaur, for instance) I imagine this would be doable.

I love the idea, though. There are quite a few races that aren’t in game that I really want to play, but I’m generally pessimistic about apps so I don’t send one in.

[b:quw70ji6]Side note:[/b:quw70ji6] Obviously anything more elaborate than that would still have to be applied for. You couldn’t play a Selkath properly without aqua_breath.

Here is what I propose. Perhaps, make it worth so many points, I don’t know maybe 10,000 (that can be thought 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.[/quote:1bn4tqrx]

From my post I found a long while back. Of course looking back, 10K is a bit much for this kind of character, maybe 3K or so.

Also, here is the link to the whole thing for those interested:
[url:1bn4tqrx]http://www.legendsofthejedi.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=884&p=9132#p9132[/url:1bn4tqrx]

And, to be brutally honest, I like your idea far, far less than simple custom races. Because it could let, for example, a Jawa Bounty Hunter work. Sure, they would suck at everything else, but they’ve got the massive non-combat level bonuses to support it. And there is no way I’m in favor of a Jawa Bounty Hunter being able to do anything other than die in style (or maybe RP as a BHer but get kills via blackjack + ninja PK ability), so there’s no way I could be in favor of a system that would let that work. Hence, app-only for the "extreme" differences, and have a built-in system for the less extreme ones–like a Mandalorian engineer that can actually 150 engineering.

Every species able to be picked in this game, is the ‘norm’ for that species. This option allows the ‘extremes’ to be chosen. For a price of course. The player using their points to purchase this shows that they have had experience playing the MUD as well. So it’s not just a random newbie rolling a Sluissi BH.

Also, this is an RP MUD, if you let a Whiphid become the Emperor of the galaxy, then he must be doing a damned good job, or the galaxy (players) has a lot of issues.

Some people enjoy playing the extremes. Some want to do it just for the RP.[/quote:2sgrm89p]

First of all, pretty much everyone enjoys playing the extremes and the "special" characters. That’s why we can’t just let anybody who wants to do it do it — there’d be no "typical" characters anymore, and the entire balance of the mud would go to hell.

I came up with a trade-off system a little while ago, but in order to not throw off the balance of being like Star Wars it would have to have a certain degree of complexity, which is sort of what I was getting at in my post a few pages ago. However, I’m sufficiently desperate to procrastinate my homework that I’m going to attempt to explain my idea.

You begin by picking a character and a main. Your levels get selected the same way they are now and nothing changes. You can go ahead and enter the IC world as you are and play as a normal character or you have the option to trade levels of one class for levels of another — for a price, if you wanted to do it that way. I’d say you should probably have to give up two levels for every one that you get, to really reflect that your character has spent so much time specializing in this one thing that they suck at everything else.

However, this still creates the problem of allowing for a Jawa hunter. So, my thought is to only allow levels to be transferred between "related" classes, BHT and combat, for example. A Jawa hunter would probably get about 50 BH levels, and 30-ish combat. Tranferring all of their combat into BHT would give them 65 Bounty Hunting. That’s still pretty shitty.. hardly game breaking. It would allow for unique character builds without permitting the creation of ridiculous race/level combos that shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

I actually thought up this idea to try and allow for "rare" skills to be actually rare. I was thinking that by transferring levels you could actually bump a class over 150 by taking huge hits to related classes. Skills that are supposed to be really rare would be up above 150, thus only attainable through "specialization". …But that’s a topic for another day. And not even an idea I’m entirely sure I support.

Anyway, I’m not expecting people to think this is an awesome idea and want to implement it, nor am I expecting the coders to want to spend enough time on it to actually get it working. But it’s more food for thought. Bon appetit.

"Typical" gets boring. Oh no! Here comes the Gand/Trandoshan/T’Surr/Whiphid Combat/BH. But, I do see your point in game balance account point wise. As I stated before the Duros has a +50 net of modifiers in it’s skills. Adding the modifiers up, I compared the 4k account point races. Gand has a net of -20. Kel Dor +115 (with +10 force skill), Defel -75 (-20 force stat), and a Wookiee with -5. I’m sure other things like HP and stats are taken into account, but higher stats just mean you reach your max of 25 faster. It would make sense if they went above the humans norm of 25. I mean, a Wookiee is stronger right? Rip the ears off a gundark and all is an easy thing for a Wookiee to do. Almost every human (and probably some Jawas) could do it in this game. I’m going to make a forum on that.

Back to what I was getting at. It would be extremely unbalanced for somebody to purchase a Duros 1k points (to rearrange his skills) and best a Gand who costs 4k points (without rearranging his points).

Your suggestion isn’t bad, but it would be really really hard for somebody to play a competent BH Jawa, though it would be fun to watch one trying to tell you to "Give up!" in Jawa Trade Language.