| My idea before joining the Academy (even before I knew it existed...) | |
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Shao - Student  |
Wow, this is exactly like a small idea I've been trying to form. A friend and I have always had a dream, since we started playing JK2 months ago (we are duel fans), that if... well, hmm.
Take duel_training for example. You notice how there's a small set of corridors near the top of the map with breakable glass? We always thought it would be good if the spectators could wait there to view the fight, and as one opponent loses, the other goes out and onto the arena to face the winner. This came more or less true when my friend and I downloaded the The Jedi Academy map. Together we started a sort of school with a so far small ranking system. He's always called me master, and together with Jedi Mod 1.2, we made our dream come true... somewhat. Since in mods, names changed there won't affect the regular game, I named myself Jedi Master Shao, and his rank was Jedi Knight. Although still my apprentice in a way, he wasn't an all out Initiate, and he participated in the lessons I tried to provide. I have a current total of 11 students, and I've been trying to work very hard to keep my little academy alive. I called it The Jedi Academy. Alas, I realized later on of the plagerism of my actions; another The Jedi Academy exists. So I was basically a or the trainer. Eventually, another pre-member I fought and found quite good joined up, and I thought he had the potential to be an instructor. His rank was Jedi Adept, or I'd have called him Instructor. I wanted a seperate name from the other trainers because I kind of felt like I wanted one... I founded it (I don't want to sound immodest, so I'm sorry if I'm sounding like it). The idea seemed somewhat original to me until I realized I wasn't the only one; I felt pretty stupid. I just wanted to say that I'm trying to start an Academy. But now that you've all talked about one, I'd love to help out. Am I going to join you all? Or are you all going to help me further develop mine? Either way, you all have my support. I don't know how good I am. Sometimes I play really well, other times I get owned. I'm a duel person (My computer can't even really support FFA, too many people make it choppy), but either way I'd love to help new comers or adepts alike. Something else I thought would be sort of creative and neat to pass down was the creation of Forms. For those of you that are more... familiar with martial arts, types such as Kung-Fu or Karate have forms, or sequences of moves, strung together, purposely for the sake of stance over power, although a strong stance centres strong power. However, I have been using Jedi Mod 1.2, so some of the forums have some of the new stances involved. I just wanted to pass the idea of forms, kind of like how the very first person to bow started a legacy that travelled through to all Jedi Knight 2 players. I'm sure I'm probably forgetting something, but there's my overall input of what I've tried to do as a Jedi Trainer/Academy starter. I'd greatly appreciate all feedback. Perhaps we could have my idea as kind of like a sub/private school IN the Academy or something? lol Just like how most of the servers run on normal JK2, we could have this one with Jedi Mod 1.2 Just a suggestion for those who care.  _______________ Follow the virtues of your heart |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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I read your post on the "Jedi School" post over at lucasforums...
If you want to start your own Jedi Academy feel free to go right ahead. Our name isn't copyrighted, and so long as it's good for the community it's cool with me. My advice: get a staff together and plan everything to the last detail of how classes will structure, how you'll manage game servers, the website, everything. It's a BITCH to get started, but the rewards are awesome. That being said if you and your friend want to join us feel free. Teach all the informal classes you like. Once we get to know you and make sure you're not an ass or anything (  ) then we'll see about official positions.
Heh. Waaaay back when the academy started me and Doobie and JS999 got emails from some guy saying that the name "Jedi Academy" was his copyright and we had to rename. We told him to show proof of copyright and told him to stick it because this is a fan site. He never emailed back.
The idea of forms sounds like a whoopass way to get combos memorized and down pat. Would you mind if I shared that idea with our instructors? If you like design a few of em. I'd love to see a row of jedi doing forms in unison
edit: We had a JediMod server for a few months a long time ago. It was never really popular, so it went bye bye, but if someone wants to donate us a server running a mod of some sort and theres enough demand for it let me know. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. This comment was edited by DJ Sith on Jan 11 2003 01:03am. |
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