Week of Celebration: Prestige Announced!

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Week of Celebration: Prestige Announced!

Greetings again, Brothers and Sisters in Darkness,

I am pleased to announce on Day 3 of our Week of Celebration that the Independence Games are doing wonderful. Kaiann has informed me that in 2 short days we have recieved more submissions than in two weeks last year. This is a great statement for Kaiann and his work as well as the leaders and their competitions.

For the third day of this Celebration, I announce to you a great portion of what we are doing in Project Rebirth. We have been working on this system in conjunction with the RPG system since Project Rebirth was introduced back in June.

Now, almost all Dark Jedi are selfish at heart, and motivated little by loyalty or honor. Instead, Dark Jedi seek power, influence, and control over others. It is for that reason, that a system of Prestige is to be implemented into the Dark Brotherhood. This system is designed to represent an individual (and, indeed, a Clan's) influence over others.

  • What is Prestige? -

The need for power and influence is what drives a Dark Jedi. For the purposes of the Brotherhood, the representation of the influence of a particular Dark Jedi (or Clan) is represented by their Prestige. The amount of influence (Prestige) a character has is based off of his rank, his position, and any medals he has earned. Prestige would accumulate in a number of ways, through systems already existent in the Dark Brotherhood. Whenever a member is awarded a medal, they receive prestige appropriate to the medal (or add-on). Whenever a member is appointed to a position, they gain the prestige of that position. Whenever a member is promoted, they gain the prestige of that rank. Members can also lose prestige by transferring clans, leaving positions or through CoJ convictions.

  • What can Prestige be used for? -

Prestige is never "used." Prestige directly relates to the purchasing access a member has within the DB. For instance, a member with a certain level of prestige can have access to buy, and possibly customize, a personal fighter, transport or weapon for use in role-playing and other areas of the DB. A person with a lower prestige would not have this item available to him. This represents the need to have connections and power in order to obtain certain things. This offers exciting options for the customization of games by Dark Brotherhood members. As the system develops, we will be able to easily add new items to the list of what can be obtained.

  • Prestige and Clans -

Clans, as well as individuals, will have a Prestige rating. A clan's prestige rating will be roughly based upon the prestige numbers of its members, how many members it has and the like. The Prestige clans have work in much the same way that it does for individuals, in that having a certain prestige will allow a Clan to purchase certain items. Clans, however, have a different list of items to choose from. These include larger star-ships, advanced armor and weaponry that will (generally) be out of reach of the average member due to the amount of influence needed.

  • Credits -

Most of the recent, well known Dark Jedi were notoriously wealthy. Often engaging in pleasures of the senses, as well as those of the mind, Dark Jedi would gorge themselves on material possessions. Furthermore, a Dark Jedi would always be seeking ways to improve their power, through buying advanced weapony, ships, and even transports. This system provides a unique way for individuals to customize their progression through the Dark Brotherhood (through their economic choices), and it also provides yet another way for the Dark Brotherhood to reward its active membership.

  • What are credits? -

Credits are a term for currency used in Star Wars. In our case, the Dark Brotherhood would adopt a system of currency. At the start, the amount each Clan receives would be a set standard. Each member is also given an amount of credits that is determined by their rank and position within their Clan. Clans receive credits that allow them to purchase armor, weapons and equipment for their members and those members can buy items for themselves. The access that Clans and individuals have to what they can spend their credits on is dependant upon the Prestige that each has. Note that Clans and individuals do not use the same list of what they can purchase for what prestige they have. An individuals credits would be shown in their dossier, and they would be able to access a database on the website in order to purchase official possessions, which would be added to their dossier. Members will be able to purchase from a long list of items, with the higher quality items being "unlocked" for purchase as members advance through the structure of the Dark Brotherhood.

  • How are credits earned? -

Credits are earned primarily through participation in competitions run within the Battleteam, House, Clan, and even the Dark Brotherhood as a whole. Both Clans and individuals will primarily be rewarded for activity in competitions through the awarding of credits, while medals (and the Prestige that comes with them) will still be awarded to the victors in these competitions. Additionally, a salary is given once a month to individuals. Clans will each receive one tenth of what each member would earn from this salary. This amount is not subtracted from the members earned credits. As with Prestige, it is possible for a member to lose credits, as well, through disciplinary action.

  • Armory -

All members of the Dark Brotherhood will have access to a section of the Dark Brotherhood website that will allow them to spend credits on various items. These items include ships, weapons and the like. Dependant upon their Prestige more varied and complex items become available to the member.

This system is in the works and will be available upon launch of the Rebirth Website. It will mark a revolution in the Brotherhood. I personally can not wait.

Till Tomorrow,
Jac Cotelin

Higher Prestige = more women for Jac

Sweet, Can we make it retroactive for till Nov. 11 1997 eh Jac? :)

hehehe

Holy Crap, this is awesome! I cant wait til it comes out. Questions though? Will we get pretige for promos and medals we already have? Also, same thing for credits?

it better be retroactive or the people who have achieved positions and rank will be screwed over and the new guys will have all the prestige :P

Prestige is a number that is calculated on the fly based on what is in your dossier. Whatever you have right now, your PRST will be calculated off of that.

As far as credits, there will be some retroactive awarding of credits (salaries ect.)

I concur with Quarmador. I personally can't wait. Why does it have to come out with Rebirth? I think that so many new things are going to be released then that we may be overwelmed. We should 'ease' into it...

And as the darkness consumed the whole of Antei, the Brotherhood of Jedi laughed in the face of all that came before it.

The moment was now and the future looked absolute.

Any and all before or after the Brotherhood would forever feel the ripples through the Dark Side that this news had borne.

Embrace the Darkness and accept your fate...cause it's gonna be a slobber knocker!!!

Apoc -- the reason it will come out with the Rebirth Website is that the entire website is being rebuilt to support all of these systems. The current site has no capability for this, and to do it by hand would be insane.

Thus, we wait for the website.

So any positions we once held won't be added into this? Doesn't seem fair since most of us won't have another go at certain positions :P

I'll probably be smacked if I say too much, so I'll try and keep it simple but still answer your question, Shadow.

Prestige is based on what you are, part of what you are is what you have been, so to a certain degree past positions will be counted. It isn't based on your entire history though, so even if we did start it up from everything since day one in 96 or 97, as far as your Prestige goes, it wouldn't make any difference, as the system takes account of what you are, with rank, medals, highest position you've ever held, etc.

I suppose, in that sense, it is kind of retroactive, yes, so there's nothing to worry about, anyone thats retired from a high up leadership spot will be compensated :)

Isn't forcing people to lose prestige because of transfers or changes in position kind of punishing people for things that could be totally innocent?

Mage and others: Please ask your questions at the Q&A on Saturday. If you can't be there, ask someone who will be there to ask for you.

I'd like to ask all question-askers to save your questions until Saturday. I don't plan on answering questions here until after Saturday. :)

Any answers you receive here may or may not be entirely correct(if its from the DC, chances are its right... but just to be safe), so I'd really reccomend you guys wait until Saturday to ask your questions. A lot of the Q&A will be posted, as well.

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