The quote from the devs about the dabbler having a harder time is a direct quote from the OLD, pre-launch boards.  They came right out and said that dabblers will have a harder time.

That doesn't necessarily mean that power-gamers will have an easy time since dabblers and masters are different from power-gamers.

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Cecil Tellyn... A Space Patrol Original...

You know, I swear I bought "Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided", not "Pokemon: Now with Star Wars Characters"

Hey,

Now i dont mean to flame or troll or anything but I just cant understand 1 thing. 

Some people have said this theory would be good if it didnt exclude so many playstyles.  Isn't excluding playstyles exactly what they meant to do when the Devs said (something like) "you will have to adapt/change  to a certain playstyle to unlock your FSCS"

I also recall them saying that they were counting on people NOT being able to do this hence helping control the population.

So with this said, wouldn't theories that call for a certain style of play be more on the right track than ones that allow for more common styles of play? 

I think so.

Peace

I like your creativity Corrupt. I don't think that it will be like this though. The devs said that a casual gamer can unlock the slot which means that visiting every planet and every city will not be on the list. Power gamers have a better chance since they are on more and play in more areas hence are more likely to do whatever it is that unlocks the slot.

I have a theory, I will post a quick version here, but will post it in more depths in a new post. The devs said the path is different for everyone. You said that this is unlikely and as in AC, there are always a base. But what if the devs created the slot, and the first person to find the key unlocks that slot. There is only one key for that slot and only one set of actions can find that key. A completly different slot has a completly different key. If they do that, every person will have a different path, and the devs have control over how many slots are made available. From your theory, it is possible for every player to become a jedi if they figure out the checklist.

The only flaws I see in it have pretty much been said already:

1. It excludes too many playstyles.
2. It shows too much inevitability.

I disagree.  If the points are faction-like rather than xp, it is possible to never get it.  Second, what's wrong with excluding playstyles?  The promise of FS is that everyone has the potential.  Your character can always earn the points.  If, however, you play wrong you will not earn the points.  The requirements from Lucas may in fact require a particular playstyle.  I've seen this argument before, but I don't understand the logic of it.  Selecting playstyle as a limiting factor, for both FS and Jedi, makes a lot of sense.  Personally, I distrust theories that ignore the type of player.  It makes me think those people want FS without doing anything different, i.e., without any effort.

I don't know if anyone noticed, but this theory has been around in a number of forms for more than two weeks.  Only the FastGun method, which takes so [bleep]-ing long to finish, can claim a longer life.  In fact, this is the FastGun method with many xp bars instead of one.  It's also difficult, time consuming, and fails to answer the most important questions, What are the categories and which actions add to them?

I consider this a strength of the theory.  It is the skeleton of the answer.  We won't have the meat until we can look at some genuine FS players.