I understand what you're talking about, Zathris. The thing is, and I don't know if you played SWG or were there during development, your idea (as you stated it completely) was what SOE wanted to do with Jedi. Acquiring Jedi-dom was supposed to be mysterious and very hard to accomplish. You'd pretty much exile yourself from the rest of the population because you were always a target by anyone of your opposing faction. Considering this was an MMORPG that SOE was developing it should have seemed dumb to try for this, but people wanted to be Jedi.
When they (SOE) had the force sensitivity (FS) system activated for some time they realized that people weren't getting to Jedi fast enough or was it the players said they weren't able to get there fast enough. Eventually the developers put in holocrons that would direct players to their next class that "might" unlock force sensitivity for them. I should add that it became known that professions dicated whether or not you unlocked the slot for a force sensitive character.
Again, your complete idea concept is what was going to happen for Jedi in SWG. Unfortunately or fortunately (depending on your view) your idea has two strikes against it. For one, it's an alpha class. Instant unstoppable power or not, the goal is to be more powerful than anyone else in the game. This should never happen. Point two is that it's been done already by a company that everyone or almost everyone has blacklisted because the company left an extremely bitter taste in their mouths with what they did. Look at any IP that is going to be associated with SOE and you'll have people saying it's going to be horrible despite it not being developed by SOE.
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