The Jedi Academy

It has Begun! -AvALON D`Kana- Jan 15 05:52pm -12 comments-

The CTF tournament started today between the first two teams, which will be labelled "A"=RED "B"=Blue. Blue team won 5-3 in what was an exciting battle. "B" will face the winning team from tommorows game "C"vs"D" on Friday at 6PM EST on the [ks] classes-only server. The Losing team will play on Sat. at 6PM for the wildcard spot against the other losing team. Once again congrats and I will see you again soon.

Reminder: The teams MUST Stay the Same throughout the tournament. Unless one person cant make it for connection or time reasons, you cannot add anymore players.

	Jedi Academy Script Update... -cHoSeN oNe- Jan 15 11:05am -10 comments-
	Due to popular demand and mass confusion on install problems, I have repackaged the scripts all in pk3 format to ease the pain. So cease all script activity and save only these 2 files, ja_defaults.cfg and ja_info.cfg. The rest of the files you may delete and ask me for the new version of the script. I also did some tweaks so it is imperitive you get the updated version... That is all!!

A note on play style.. -DJ Sith- Jan 15 01:01am -17 comments-

I was browsing the forums and came across this very cool link. It's not JK2 related, but translates well to JK2 playing style. Ulic Belouve and I were discussing this along with the recent "attacking while your opponent is knocked down" controvercy. We feel that if its a legal move (and wasn't scripted or cheated) then it's fair game in a duel. Just like how you can call "no kicks" before your duel you can set other rules as well. Honor comes from abiding by yours and your opponents rules. What are your thoughts on this?

	Your comments on a new map are needed -DJ Sith- Jan 15 01:01am -39 comments-
	One of the points at our last meeting was that our map may need the council room and basement chopped off since they're unused & to save framerates. This was decided at the meeting, but is it really what the Academy wants? Post your thoughts on this please.

	LAST MINUTE EMERGENCY!! -AvALON D`Kana- Jan 14 12:24am -4 comments-
	Due to some Heavy problems which Im experiencing on the Ks server, the tournament will be held on the [ks]classes-only server.Be there on Wed. 5PM EST.

	Jedi Academy Script -cHoSeN oNe- Jan 17 08:49am -16 comments-
	Finally, the Official Jedi Academy Script is available for download here. *This version is for Students Only!!* I'd like to thank Yun, Huxley, and CoRRUPTioN for helping me on this project. Other versions for Knights, Trainers, and Council members are available for download through the forums.

Class points system is up. -DJ Sith- Jan 13 02:56am -15 comments-

Ok folks its in place. Just to make sure we're all on the same page all students recieved points for their current rank (eg all learners have 5 points, jmen 12, etc). All people with current pending trials got the number of points needed for that trial (to be fair

). Here's answers to a few questions I got:

Points will be awarded for personal instruction by an instructor or knight. Our goal here is to keep you learning.

Class points are viewable on your profile pages only if you're trying to view your own profile. Instructors and above can see anyones class point value.

Instructors have 1 hour after their class is over to award attendance points before their roster clears.

Points are cumulative. So if you have 5 points you only need to attend 7 classes to get to your Jamn trial, not 12.

If you can't make it to class for whatever reason then you should remove yourself from the roster before class starts.

If you recieved only 5 points because you're a Learner, yet attend every class under the sun talk to a JAC or a JAT or 5. We can be persuaded to alter your attendance points.

Those are the main points that were brought to me. I want to reiterate that this is a minor minor thing. We're not here to trial. We're here to learn from each other and churn out skilled, respectful JK2 players. Rank is the icing on the cake.

Have fun out there and keep up with the learning!

Probably common sense but........ -JediSith999- Jan 12 05:54pm -11 comments-

Well I came onto DJ Siths server today, to see who was on, and noone was there. So I go around the map, just doing my thing, and all of a sudden I explode because I hit a bunch of mines. Now I did not place those mines, but someone who left the server had placed them and left them there. I am assuming this was on purpose, and I would like to say, Please do not wreck the map. This is common sense but do not leave any dangerous items on the map, it gets annoying to run into them.
Since I plan to be around more........ I want to the the academy in top shape! :-D

This is what happens when the staff has a meeting... -DJ Sith- Jan 12 10:38am -31 comments-

Howdy all. We had another long and... exciting... meeting today! Here's what we discussed:

We are quite aware of how we've become more the 'Trials Academy' as of late. Students arent attending enough class and the JATs are hounded with trial requests whenever they join the servers. This was not the intention of the creation of the ranking/trialing system, so we're placing some restrictions on trials...

a) JAT's are encouraged to only hold trials during trial classes, but if they feel like giving trials whenever they can do so. If a JAT is not wearing his JAT tag he should be considered off duty and not giving trials.

b) To counteract the whole "enrolling in class and not attending" and "rushing to trial" phenomenons we're adding a point system to the users database. A user will get one point for every class attended. A student will lose a point if they enroll in a class but can't make it. If they have a good excuse (not "I fergot" or "your class sux0rz") then no point will be deducted. Classes like roleplay and tour classes won't have points added to them. We're going to require 5 points before you can submit a Learner trial, 12 for Journeyman, and 20 for Jedi Knight. All the folks with trials in progress will automatically get the necessary points to take all these. Those without trials in progress will get the points they would get if they just passed their trial (with a little leeway added by the JACs in special cases).

We hate adding extra hierarchy into the Academy, but we need to stay focus on what we set out to do, and that wasn't to spend all our time on trials.

I should have this written into the website by tomorrow night.

We discussed evidence handling. If you're going to submit a screenshot of someone doing bad get an open console with a log of what theyre saying in your screenshot. The validity of a shot taken of a guy sabering another guy is highly dubious.

Avalon is now our lead trainer and cHoSeN-oNe is a permanent Council member. Hurrah!

My DSL company is going out of business next month. Once I get regular residential DSL I won't be able to host a server. Tell your friends the Jedi Academy needs servers! The problem is residential DSL and cable won't meet our bnadwidth needs. Any help with leads to cheap (and preferably free) game servers, bandwidth, colo hosting, anything would be greatly appreciated.

We've heard your complaints about v2 of the map and are working our mapboy to get them fixed. Expect another smaller version of the map sometime. I can't give an ETA on it though. Viva le FPS!

The portion of the Knight trial where you have the option to fight an empowered JAT is bieng replaced with a "protection" test. 1 JAT trialing the knight is going to try and kill another of the JAT's, and it is the Knight hopeful's task to defend that JAT. Sounds cool, eh? Many thanks to our Jedi Lore scholar Ulic Belouve for that one! Oh yeah it was his idea for the point system too. He rules.

That's the long and the short of it. A few students observed the meeting to see what goes on behind the curtains. A log of the meeting is here. Read it if you have a few hours to kill and like reading VERY dry and boring stuff.

Anyhow, I'm turning in for the evening. Good night all and keep training!

Two quick notes from massadoobie...

If you can't take classes, and therefore can't get "promoted", IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. Seriously, the points were added to encourage people to take classes, which is the point of this entire site. If you're not able to get promoted, does that mean you still can't have fun? NO. I apologize to those of you who really can't take classes because of time differences, we're working on that issue... but if you're going to complain about the points because it means you can't get promoted, you should find other things to worry about, promotions don't matter in the long run, they're just "goals", not "requirements"

On another note, Silent Whisper has moved on to bigger and better things (aka she got a scholarship to college and doesn't have time or access for the JA). We wish her the best of luck and have a funny feeling she'll drop in every once in a while. She didn't want a post dedicated to her departure, but I feel that she did so much for us, it deserves to be mentioned (plus this post talks about a lot of other stuff

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Master, Destroyers...! -DJ Sith- Jan 11 12:28pm -11 comments-

Loaf (who's working on the ep1 TC) has some news for ya'll:

Tiletron of The Phantom Menace Total Conversion has released 4 renders of the fantastic looking Droideka model which is currently untextured. This can be viewed over at Loaf's Forums.

If you are a very skilled texturer (i mean top notch), then could you add loaf@usa.com to your MSN messenger contacts and mention that you wish to help texture the Droideka.

They are no match for Droidekas...

If you havent seen the Droideka model they made you should really check it out. It's simply amazing. If you are good with textures go help him out.

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