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i know that Lucas have a tendancy of shutting projects down, and quite frankly the most they can actually do is tell us to stop development because of using star wars stuff.
if that happens then everything star wars will be stripped and remade to be something else (just like Bid for Power did when Funimation shut them down)

the only people who really loose out when something like that happens are the fans who want to see star wars...

This isn't quite your run of the mill Star Wars game though - i don't want any weaponry in the game other than the lightsabers, probably make customised types of lightsaber and see all strange and wonderful designs ... but the first order of business is NO GUN or EXPLOSIVES.
For people who want experiences like that then really there is already enough games like that.
It's also not about making some online RPG like Lineage2 with fantastically huge worlds to explore and chat with your buddies...

i have one sole aim here, turn the saber combat into something far closer to Oni ... far more technical moves, far more control over your movements of the limbs, setting up combinations moves, localised damage which would affect your gameplay.
Just make it intro really a jedi saber battle similar to the cinematic ones allows...

and formost importantly, CUSTOM characters and moves.
something that drives me insane in JO and JA is that you can customise everything except your moves. And there is no room to create new moves.
add to this the physics engine in JA is pretty weak, you kick a group of people and only one character falls - in HL2 you do the same thing and all of them fall like skittles.

another thing i would want to add that HL2 would enable is the jedi abilities to grab things from the level, like say a brick. It could be easily scripted similar to Black&Whites style of pickup and drop and you could throw things...

the emphasis is to be totally on the jedi saber battling - nothing to do with really any storyline, any dominance over another team or getting up as many kills as possible never worring about your own deaths. The ranking and rpg element would be more of a way of determining what level of jedi you are, rather than trying just to become some extremely powerful jedi with the most kills you would do it through making sure you were killed as little as possible ... use the ranking & rpg element more as an incentive to try to become more skilled rather than hack'n'hope for the best tactics rather than any serious RPG stuff.
All the time the goal is purely to make the jedi battling just EPIC in its proportions - something you can't really do in the JA engine is stuff like if someone is on a platform using force push to hit a button - you can in single player but not multiplayer.
Another thing is the physics, in JA you can pull and push people into things and such - however in HL2 the physics would allow you to throw a bookcase against someone and crush them.

something else that really i'd want to do is actually do away with health ... this is about skill, and with HL2's physics enigne is it very possible to simulate injuries to the player by using subtle animations then using the engines Kinetics to blend the animation realistically with another skeletal animation.
somthing in JA even if i had access to the skeletal format would have to be precalculated first for each contingency.

that way if someone slices you right through in a fatal collision box/cylinder then you'll die - otherwise you can have a mate patch you up ... of course they wouldn't be able to replace sliced off limbs but still broken limbs from falls would add to the touch - make people think about thier environment more.

as you can tell i'm not interested in making some carbon copy weak mod just to do exactly what the original game does but in SW style.
this is something that is going to require alot of skilled people to accomplish effectively - and refineing the ideas that have already been expressed and adding something that the communities that its going to be around is essential.

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simply put you can either make a suggestion, or its best to just not post - because this is going to be done one way or another.

i'd prefer it with the star wars theme because everyone knows it, and i won't have to spend sleepless nights trying to think up all of the little details there is a HUGE library of details already out there - that people know off by heart.
not to mention mods are popular before their released because they're attached to something, without it - its hard getting up some sort of a fanbase to work from who have set ideas on the direction they'd like to see in the game until its actually finished by which time quite frankly i wouldn't want to change anything.

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