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Vasper Ba'xian - Student  |
I was thinkin, I know it can be a dangerous thing. What are your thoughts on additional ranks within the JA? We have: Student Padawan Knight Trainer Master Council What about sub-ranks? Say someone doesn't qualify to become a Knight or higher but that person is DEADLY with staff. or Single RED. You get the Idea. Might also help new players see who has what skills on the server if no knights or trainersare available. Could make it easier to pick out spicific people to help him/her on a certain skill. They could be broken into classes Stances Multi-aiming Sinlge-aiming movement Just thought I would throw that Idea out there. It's been on my mind. _______________ Brother to: Tamal, Kavar, J.D.,Jermia, Devlin, Ulic, Xiabara, Seij,Tarron Mib,>>>ROCK ON  .My Spacescapes art page.My Everything Else art page. MY FAV. Jedi Are: Qui-Gon Jinn, Corran Horn, and Anakin Solo. Unofficial Master to Tamal. and Kavar. Founder of the Wuji Hundun Jian saber style. Proud owner of Tamal's 200th comment!//Proud owner of Refl3x's 300th comment!>>>Proud owner of Tyrant's 800th comment>>>Proud owner of Lucky's 170th comment>>>Proud owner of BDKawika's 444th comment>>>To except Existance is to except Reality. |
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Sared - Retired 
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J-Man forevah baby.  _______________ I'm crazy, not stupid. |
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Quote: Yeah, but you knew that already. - Virtue.  Yeah, but it doesn't make obnoxious reminders any less fun! WAAAANKEEEEER!! |
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Urded - Student 
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i think there should be mapping skinning and moddeling sub ranks also. Go Jam's! _______________ Mapper a la strange. Proud owner of SilkMonkey Award for Wishing He Had Menaxia's Best IRC Smile Award. A Penguin Jedi is Me! |
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Virtue - Jedi Council 
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Yeah, but you knew that already. - Virtue. _______________ Academy Architect |
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Quote: Nevertheless, no thanks. - Virtue. Yeah! See?! WANKER! WAAAANKEEER!  |
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Virtue - Jedi Council
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Nevertheless, no thanks. - Virtue. _______________ Academy Architect |
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Well, that's what it looks like to me, anyway. If it looks like it to me, and Flash, then it might look like it to Vasper too, which is basically my point. |
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Flash - Student 
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I thought he was saying "no thanks" to the idea... |
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Tido - Student 
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Quote: initiate/learner/journeyman Virtue was saying 'no thanks' to this. |
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Quote: No thanks. - Virtue. What he said. - HW Man, the guy was just thinking about how to improve the JA. There's no need to be like that. But yeah, like Solitude said, the points system was actually tied in with the ranks. Man... that was HELL for the JAK+ who had to do those trials. Thank god things are so simple here. |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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there was also a point system ,where you got points for going to classes etc. people just started doing things to get points ,which is not the purpose of the academy. the system was abandoned pretty quickly. _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Hardwired - Retired 
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Quote: No thanks. - Virtue. What he said. - HW _______________ ::Nothing wrong with a little shooting.....as long as the right people get shot:: This comment was edited by Hardwired on Feb 12 2005 07:44pm. |
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Katan - Student 
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Yeah, like all the other older people around here said, we tried it once, didn't work out. _______________ This comment was edited by Katan on Feb 12 2005 03:08pm. |
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Setementor - Jedi Master 
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The same would go for that rank too, Sazabi. |
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SaZ - Student 
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the only rank with consideration would be... JEDI well i mean its not very cool for some people to be student all the time... _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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Quote: initiate/learner/journeyman Just to elaborate on this quote, we DID have a multiple rank structure for students, back when the Academy wasn't even a year old. The system was dissolved eventually, due to people sacrificing the "education" that was available in the Academy, instead concentrating on climbing the ranks. The Academy tends to discourage competitive play, and leans more towards learning for fun, and self-improvement. If you want ranks, join a clan. If you want fun, stick around. |
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Virtue - Jedi Council 
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No thanks. - Virtue. _______________ Academy Architect |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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initiate/learner/journeyman _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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Tido - Student
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Quote: dont need a tag at the end of your name to do good things around the place and help people out where you can. Bingo. This is the mindset we're really trying to achieve here. I understand where your coming from Vasper and I see the good intentions of your idea, but it's been tried before in the JA and it failed. The last thing we really want the JA to be about is ranks. The JA is a place to duel some great fighters who aren't afraid to share what they know about the game, have a place to play free of abusive admin/lamers/bad attitudes, and a place to make some great friends. |
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Rinzler - Student 
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dont need a tag at the end of your name to do good things around the place and help people out where you can. _______________ I fite for teh usars!1 |
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Vasper Ba'xian - Student 
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Yeah I see ur point _______________ Brother to: Tamal, Kavar, J.D.,Jermia, Devlin, Ulic, Xiabara, Seij,Tarron Mib,>>>ROCK ON .My Spacescapes art page.My Everything Else art page. MY FAV. Jedi Are: Qui-Gon Jinn, Corran Horn, and Anakin Solo. Unofficial Master to Tamal. and Kavar. Founder of the Wuji Hundun Jian saber style. Proud owner of Tamal's 200th comment!//Proud owner of Refl3x's 300th comment!>>>Proud owner of Tyrant's 800th comment>>>Proud owner of Lucky's 170th comment>>>Proud owner of BDKawika's 444th comment>>>To except Existance is to except Reality.
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Well, just for clarification, Padawan is not a rank. It's merely a tag that students wear to let other students know they are official padawans. I like to think of it as a "I'm not a JAK+, but this is the closest thing I can have to it" tag. That's how I always thought of mine when I wore it. Now, as far as subranks go, it does seem like a good idea to start out with. The problem is, people will be trying to so hard to attain them an may not get them, they will be upset. Alot of players consider themselves to be the best. There are tons of students here who are better with a certain saber type than a JAK+ who uses the same one. So, if somebody were to see a student with one of these subranks letting them know that they are a better player, and if that somebody thought otherwise, they would get upset and debate it. See, the current ranks aren't there to tell people that we are the best saberists. People don't become JAK+ because of their skill ingame. It plays a part in it, but that's not the reason. If it were, there would be alot more than we have now. If we singled out those who we thought were the best saberists and gave them subranks because of it, it would ruin the system, in my opinion. Now, I'm sure that there could be a system of subranks that puts more faith in student teaching abilities. But that's not what the JA is about. It's about having respect and trust for your fellow students. A subranking system would only lower the faith in students who don't have these ranks. Students can learn lots from eachother, more than a JAK+ could ever teach. But if you don't have faith in what another student is trying to show/teach you, it lowers the amount of respect floating around. Another thing is, authority. Students will come to believe that these subranks will give them authority over other students. This is far too complicated to work with, and will turn the JA into more of a clan than a community. Anyways, didn't mean to rant. It does sound like a good idea, but it just won't work here at the JA. _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider This comment was edited by Gradius on Feb 12 2005 06:04am. |
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