I might have missed something but why can't it be even more simple than an XP calculation.
Why not this?
When you make your character a specific path is generated through profession masterys and then a specific trigger.
I.E. I create a character and at creation the FS program writes the random code of the FS path. It says I have to master 5 specific professions in a specific order. Brawler then Doctor, then DE, then BH then Artisan and it chooses either a Kill or any skill gained trigger. That way every person would have a random path of 5 specific professions that have to be learned in a specific order. The FS program would ignore any profession mastered between the correct ones and it would ignore a correct profession gained out of sequence. Which would explain why some of the FSers ended up mastering the same profession more than once. The first time they did it wasnt in the correct sequence.
Bah! i would think it comes down to number of elite professions masters looks like a 4 elite(hybrid) min,
I only mastered 3 Elites before my slot opened.
Pistoleer, Smuggler and Pikeman. All 3 were holocron professions.
Fetch
Did you holocron say "The Holocron is quiet. The ancients knowledge of the force will no longer assist you on your journey. You must continue seeking on your own"
or did your holocron keep silent and did not say anything when you used it?
One thing that I found interesting is that Redllin had stated that the holocron was silent, but after he tried using it again the Holocron (?) Stated that he had opened the slot. So, for him, was the trigger trying to use the holo again?
If this is the case, Is it possible that at least for some, holocrons might be necessary? If not to tell you which slot, but just to trigger the FS opening?
I am currently sitting with a silent holocron, and am not really sure where to go from here...
Mastered all 6 Basics, Mastered Rifleman, Mastered Droid Engineer, Mastered Smuggler, Mastered Combat Medic... My first two holos told me to master 1)Brawler and then 2) Droid Engineer... Since I have completed it, I have picked up several new skills and killed many MOBs, so I am basically just kinda twiddling my thumbs at what to do to "continue my path...."
I might have missed something but why can't it be even more simple than an XP calculation.
Why not this?
When you make your character a specific path is generated through profession masterys and then a specific trigger.
I.E. I create a character and at creation the FS program writes the random code of the FS path. It says I have to master 5 specific professions in a specific order. Brawler then Doctor, then DE, then BH then Artisan and it chooses either a Kill or any skill gained trigger. That way every person would have a random path of 5 specific professions that have to be learned in a specific order. The FS program would ignore any profession mastered between the correct ones and it would ignore a correct profession gained out of sequence. Which would explain why some of the FSers ended up mastering the same profession more than once. The first time they did it wasnt in the correct sequence.
I don't believe that you have to master say 5 random professions in a specific order as this would make the odds of opening the slot astronomical, without the holocrons giving hints. The devs though said it could be done in 3 months.
"Don't we need to know species, starting city, and starting profession of unlocking characters to figure out the code?"
IMO this is irrelevant. Meyree has yet to get FSCS for all the emphasis that she puts on this. That is why you don’t see someone who is actually interested and does their research post on this. It is rather absurd IMO … I personally never go back to my starting planet. The only reason I started there was because I had a friend whose favorite D&D character was named Talus.
Your starting profession and species modifies your character's abilties. This has a direct effect on how good your character will be at certain tasks. I would be surprised if this had no relvelevance.
Redllin, can you offer some proof that you opened your FS slot, please.
It would indeed be very nice if only 4 basic and 1 elite could be enough to open slot.
It is the first time that I hear a holocron tell someone that his FS slot opened. There are only 4 confirmed responses of the Holocron as can be read in "The Unofficial Holocron FAQ (update Nov. 6)" and none of them tells something about an open FS slot. As far as I have seen people got the message when doing everything but asking a holocron.
With all the posts out there that begin with "I think that ..." and "I believe that ..." I appreciate the approach in this thread to compile information so that everybody can draw his own conclusions. But the more unlikely an information is you offer the more effort you should put in to proof what you are saying.
If I would tell you that i opened my FS slot with 20 professions and 5 holocrons you would not feel the need of posting screenshots, because you would probably believe me without proof, but if I would tell I found a holocron while fishing, I would definitely post one or several screenshots.
JiWanRivers wrote: How come no one has thought of the scariest concept yet? Your all looking at it from a point of view that there is ONE random system at work, either skillboxes, or apprentice points, or mastered proffs....
what if FS is randomly one of these three or more. Meaning for some people it's appren xp, for some its skillboxes, and for some its mastered proffs?
The devs say it isnt the same for each person and we so far have thought this to mean the same way for each person of 1 system. What if its different way for different people and they each have a randomly chosen system themselves?
If thats true, hell... this place is gonna be a tinder box of unrest hehe
The devs said it was different for each person, but they also said it would be based on a formula that if discovered could be used to open anyone's FSCS.
It can't be anything truly random. I'm trying work on it the other way around now, given what the Jedi did, how do they *all* fit into a pattern? There's an overarching pattern here of some sort.
It should be pretty clear that if we did *exactly* what the Jedi did, then we'd all be FS by now because we would have satisfied the formula. We all insist on being different species and starting professions and such, and *that* is what makes us different from them.
Give me a shadowed forest into which I might disappear. Give me a terrible foe and stack the odds against me. Give me friends and creatures with whom I can share my adventures, my losses and my gains. Let the gales blow and the world be torn asunder but don't make me stand alone against the tempest.
