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The comment box. -DJ Sith - Sep 04 10:28pm |
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We've been alive and kicking for almost 1.25 years now and have grown a wonderful community from scratch. We are, however, still a school. I don't get much feedback anymore in that respect. Has everyone learned everything there is to know in Jedi Outcast? How are your classes going? Teachers, how are the students doing? What do you like and dislike about the school? Please comment on this post. If you want you can email me if you don't want to say in public. Don't worry. I have a thick skin and can take whatever criticisms you may have. We're preparing for the new game release (13 days!) and I want to make sure we've got all our ducks in a row (and swimming in the water fal de-dal de-del doh)! |
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Daidalus[JAP] Fisto - Student ![Daidalus[JAP] Fisto](/image_thumbnail.php?f_type=users&f_width=49&f_height=70&f_image=3482.jpg){kind=small}
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if i kearned something? of course! I'm still not very a good fighter but im much much better than i ever could get without the academy! A great part takes Kueller of that, he's my mentor :-). But there is still much to learn left for me. Not only fighting skill, but also being part of such a good comunity. :-) i like this place becouse of its good and freandly atmosphere. everybody respect the rouls and the duals are very nice. Not like the wildernes outside. great job everybody! Greetz, Daidalus _______________ Founder of the Fisto Family -|- Member of the mighty FiZZsters!! -|- Owner of the second Bail prize for "BAIL RULES!!" -|- I'll never forget you Jaina! -|- Owner of the one and only autograph of Smily -|- SMILY RULES  -|- Owner of the 1000th Comment of the great Kueller -|- Big brother to NarCosT Fisto, and ShadowFax . -|- Proud Padawan of Kueller -|-Sir Daidalus Fisto. Official Historian of Nippledom and server to Menaxia, Queen of Nippledom Quote: fiZZe: "gdamubububugmgmgububugrrrrrdsa?"
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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Oh yeah, I also wanted to mention something about the school part: First of all, before I joined the JA, I could barely beat the bots on Padawan level. I'd just go into blue stance and randomly hit the attack button, hoping I'd win. In just a couple of weeks, I was slicing and dicing the bots on Jedi Master level! That is a VAST improvment! So I guess basically what I'm saying is, the school aspect is working well! Now about ranks. Personally, I'd like to see them back, maybe just implemented in a different way. Instead of doing the point system, maybe make it so the only way to get a trial for the next rank is to be nominated by a JAT or JAK. However, make a rule where if a student asks about a nomination, they don't get one. JATs and JAKs would have to be honest and not nominate someone just bcuz they're friends with them. The student would have to REALLY earn it. ...my 2¢ _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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OcarinaLink - Student 
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Well, in the aspect of the JA being a school, i think it's kinda lost a little of that meaning. When the Council abolished students having to take classes along with the ranks of the JA, I think that allowed a lot of people to just hang out and not take classes. I mean, it took the pressure of having to take classes to stay in the JA. that's what i've thought anyway... _______________ memento mori |
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Icco - Student 
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the JA is great though alot of the people i looked up to hvave now left and i have played oter games alot more recently, i cant wait till the next game comes out and home it will shape this place _______________ "this is Icco. Icco is old. Icco is lost. Icco is cool, but Icco doesn't know what the meaning of 'macrophageal sex'." - Vaughn /Icco |
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JK13 /// jaws. - Student 
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Quote: "- better contact possibilities. mailing JACs is like mailing a black hole. if you dont want to do it, get somebody else, e.g. a staff member for student concerns. " - Aeth Thats what I was talking about, as a counciler not only would I (or whoever) do the RL problem thing but I also would handle the student's problems, ans then take them directly to the JACs. Since the JACs dont have all the time they wish they did, I'd be willing to do this sort of thing for them. I love Jake's idea of variety in maps/ gamemodes on servers. EX: Home= FFA on jediacademy v4 classes= same as home nl= ffa on the advent2 map wireplay= CTF or another game mode on a corresponding map. Rock On!  _______________ It's a false hologram, it IS artificial... |
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DoriaN - Ex-Student 
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I agree with shadow on his point and one thing from myself is that the selecting of students for higher positions should be refined and concentrate more on the teaching ability and skill of the student ahead of the the personel characteristiques. _______________ JiM |
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Sared - Retired 
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The Academy rocks, period. My only complaint is that, dangit, I wanna become a JAK! Maybe after I buy JA then that can be remedeyd since my JO CD's have all crashed and burned.  _______________ I'm crazy, not stupid. |
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SS/ph00d - Student 
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I just want to say that Students need to listen and sit still more during classes... It's very rude to be talking and making tons of noises while I'm up trying to help you guys out our any other Trainer or Knight, show some respect during classes. _______________ -ShadowSith: CTF/gunner specialist. |
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Thomasooo - Student 
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I've acclomplished many things here at the Academy. Two of them are: 1) I've improved my skills The other one is even more important (for me): 2) I've made a lot of new friends! I think the JA rocks! Maybe we are running out of "life-sparks" in these days, because most of JK:JO is figured out. But when JK:JA is released, I bet there will be some kick butt classes!! Skywalker out..........  _______________ In the navy and LOVING it! 
Recipient of comment no. 1000 and heart-warming words from Ataris!
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Battlin' Billy - Student
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OK, 1st the butt-kissing part: The JA completely rocks! (or R0xors, or whatever  ).I've mentioned it b4, but I had a lot of crap happen to me in the last couple of years, and in the process I lost my girlfriend, best friend and most of my other RL™ friends(long story ). And bcuz of the awesome people here, it's kinda helped me through it. I love ALL you guys a lot!!! If I could, I'd fly all of you out to Long Island and throw a huge JA party!!! Maybe we can even try to look for Natalie Portman! And Doobie and DJ, I think you guys (as well as the rest of the Council, staff, instructors and Knights) have done an AMAZING job in keeping this place up and running. Keep it up!!! *wipes tear from eye* OK, enough of that mushy stuff for now. -The Big Brother/Sister idea is GREAT!!! I'd volunteer if I had the time, but I will do what I can, when I can. -I like Jake's idea of havening( ) one/some of the servers for different gametypes. Either that, or make a certain time(s) every week when one of the servers is gonna be CTF, JM, etc.-I also agree that we should cut down on some of the skins in the Server Pack. Do we really need all those different colored Stormtroopers? Also, some of the skins aren't quite right. For example, the Goran Skaar(sp?) skin is messed up(unless it's been fixed) where the arms and sabre position is WAY OFF! (Apologies if you made the skins I'm talking about) -I don't know if it's a big pain or not, but I'd like to see a more detailed stats page for the forums. Maybe like "Top 100 Comments Made" or "Top 100 Comments Recieved" or some other stats. I was gonna mention the Holocron, but apparently, getting it on the site is already in the works. Hmmm....that's all I can think of right now. I'll end by saying again, that this place kicks butt and everyone is doing an Über job. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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My base folder is 1 GB right now..... and I can't seem to put in new skins.... |
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Lithaerien - Student 
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Man this school rocks ALL is good i learn a lot of moves dueling advice!!! but i need to learn more. i am gonna buy JK3 (of course DUH!!!) and gonna continue on my goal in the academy (becomeing A Teacher JAK/T) Peace out! _______________ "The Dark Side? I've been there... Do your worst!" ~Kyle Katarn "Don't force it" ~GeForce |
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KypNadon(AFK) - Ex-Student 
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Hmm i think i know everything, except the things i dont know so i cant say the things that i dont know, so if ther is someone who can say it to me please, BUT this is a COOL SCHOOL, i like everything and about 13 days i can learn more _______________ CHICKEN |
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Flamori Athena - Student 
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The academy has never been better! Go on, little ducks, swim, swim, swim! _______________ «±» 21st on the Midbie Council, Profile ID: 2027 «±» True wisdom is the knowledge that you know nothing. This comment was edited by Flamori Athena on Sep 05 2003 02:30pm. |
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Rampage - Student 
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ulic, i like ketchup..... quote from kueller: "most ppl are a bit tired of JO I think and are laying back till JK:JA" well, AYE!!! i'm gonna sleep outside the puter game shop! mabye steal a plane full of jk3 copys...hmm...well...hmm...i haven't been on servers or in classes in a LOOOONG time...been doing school stuff, watching anime, playing battlefield 1942, wolfenstein: ET, and some RL crap...i only had 20 GB of space on my puter (  ...know it's shit..) but i just got 120 more...just in time for jk3...w00t...well..the JA rocks, but the worst thing bout it is that ketchup thing oe whatever....ugh.. |
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SITHDUKE={FeTT}=JC= - Ex-Student 
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We Want High Pay! We Want Higher Pay! Were on strike! Were on strike! Nah i think it's running beautfully But for JA we need Racing Classes for how to handles speeders! _______________ "And when he gets to heven...To sir Peter he will tell...Another solder reporting sir...I've served my time in hell..." |
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Plo Koon - Student 
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yeah i love that song! lol HahaHAhaHAHA i needed that _______________ Free Tibet! Click this link,and learn Here too This comment was edited by Plo Koon on Sep 05 2003 11:48am. |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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first of all i applaud fizz for bringing in that link and reminding me where i heard that duck thing. thank you fizz and second of all i love the big brother/sister idea too and i volunteer for it as well. and just in general, i think that we need more stuff on our side-menu. all the usefull stuff that is posted on the forums such as the holocron, ja suggestion/improvement threads, the jase, and now the big brother thing, (and more), should all be linked to from the side menu. we always see people who come in to one of these threads about a month after they started and say "wtf is this?" when it's been going on for ages. important threads on the forums get mixed with the less important and less useful ones and many people miss out on it, especially if they don't spend all of their time browsing the ja forums (like some do ). so what i'm proposing is that the JACs maybe, or someone else, browse the forums every few days for "Important" stuff and add a link to it on the menu. i really think it would increase student participation in these activities by a whole lot. i know it would help me. so.. that's it EDIT: i just thought of an extension of the above. perhaps we need some "departments". we could have the "new students" department and it would take care of new comers and their needs. right now i kinda lost my concentration and can't remember what other departments i thought of... but i think you get my point. maybe dividing the JA operations could make it more efficient. because right now we have everyone taking care of everything. maybe we need more specific roles and more specialized jobs. i dono, just a thought.... so in conclusion: all the ducks are swimming in the water.. alderalderalda... alderalderalda!! *floats away* _______________ make install -not war This comment was edited by Bubu on Sep 05 2003 11:23am. |
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Kueller - Student 
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I'm a huge fan of that brother/sister stuff. It will help a lot of members, you don't have to be ranked to be a brother/sister, just willing and a bit of experience. I think it's great idea, and something like a forum thread should be started to do it as Ruuk said it. I think a bit active members can help about 4/5 n00bs at a time so we won't need a lot. Hereby I'm volunteering to be one of the big brothers, it seems very cool. The idea of a counciler is great, but it's already happening, threads are started on problems in RL and ppl answer them, some of them use humor, others put their whole heart in it. Maybe a big counciler for the more private matters would be nice, but a lot of ppl feel comfortable telling their probs to the ppl who want to read them. Well, just what I think of these idea's. Nice news post. _______________ Personal sleepness-nights-supporter of Virtue. Owner of the 1000th comment of Daidalus and 1943th comment of Gradius! Owner of the 300th comment of Carda! -Taught Gradius all his laming skills
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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a very good point, Aeth. same for me, and I only got 20G HD poor FiZZ... :'( plus Im curious wether i should trash my JK2 and keep with JK3 only, or to keep both... ? hmhmhm edit: ah i just now read that brother/sister stuff.... yeah, I volunteer too.... someone get that stuff started ASAP btw: ducks... dadada http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=2416 and http://www.airside.co.uk/business/movingimage/ljducksvidmov.html _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" This comment was edited by Fizz of Belouve on Sep 05 2003 10:53am. |
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Nero - Student 
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i think it would be nice to train a litle bit more gamestyles, like CTF, TFF and ffa. it would be cool if we have one CTF/TFF server and one FFA server. And for every gametype another map. _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? |
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Aeth S'kray - Retired 
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Oh, another thing. Get less custom skins on the JK3 servers. Seriously, I dont want to waste 1 GB just on maps, models and skins. I have 700 MB of pk3s right now, and I still see everybody as kyle. Sucks. Yeah yeah, I have 240 GBs harddisk ( ) but still, its getting very annoying to have that many skins. You cant even dislplay them all in game setup, you have to know the command to choose some of them. How silly is this? _______________ Aeth S'kray *June 2002 +September 2003 This comment was edited by Aeth S'kray on Sep 05 2003 09:44am. |
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Jake Kainite - Student 
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Theres alot of good ideas in here already, so I don't know if you're even gonna read this when you finally get to this post so it lay it out simply: More integration with the rest of the community. Its all well and good having a large community, our own servers etc, but can you beleive that some of the students here have NEVER played on a public server ? No disrespect to the JA but there isn't really much to do on the JA servers except duel (yes another dueling rant) To make the servers more interesting sometimes, perhaps rotate the default maps every now and then ? or something like that. Most people think the servers are fine and its just me, but then tell me why the servers are always pretty empty ? Other gamemodes. Ok fair enough, alot of people aren't interested, and the main focus is dueling. BUT, the main focus should at least be FFA as well, since FFA is meant to be the base gametype (thats how I see it) but we don't really have many ffa classes. This will be my aim for JK:JA and I'll do my best to get classes for FFA going, as well as the other gamemodes for those who want to be an all rounded player on have a bit of fun .Bugs/glitches/exploits. I'm also gonna take it upon myself to make sure everyone (who wants to know) is well educated on the commonly used exploits and such in the game(s). This is so at least if you can't do it, you'll understand why you're getting beaten by it and not call people 'lamers' Thats all I can think of right now, if I think of anything I'll be sure to moan about it. Props going out to asking for feedback, its weird how its like a special event. I know you said e-mail but how about a sort of comments box on the site or something...... _______________ Apprenctice of Jedi Master Ascari (deceased) Descended from a line of great Jedi Will argue any point of view from any side
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Fizz of Belouve - Student
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*nods at Aeth's comments* lol, Jacen, even letting your hair grow would have increased ur skill j/k of course... lool _______________ 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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Aeth S'kray - Retired 
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I agree with Ruuk in all points. Scary. Maybe a small reminder: - more motivation in the upper ranks ( )- better behaviour in the upper ranks (care more for students, no admin abuse, no bossy behaviour, fairness etc) - better behaviour from student side (LISTEN to us goddamit )- more special events! bring some action into this place, JACs. I dont know, be creative... turneys, newyear party, wallpaper contests etc - better contact possibilities. mailing JACs is like mailing a black hole. if you dont want to do it, get somebody else, e.g. a staff member for student concerns. Aye, this is it. This place rocks. Make sure it'll even more rock in future times P.S. This post is class. That's exactly what I want to see *thumbs up* _______________ Aeth S'kray *June 2002 +September 2003 |
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