I only read the title and nothing else and shall just make lame assumptions and add my input

JKA FFA is boring as hell, faa is other games is much more fun, and thus the only thing keeping me playing it is the whole 'sit around and talk thing'.

emo?

anyway, ffa is cool. a lot of things were already said but i want to add something. thank kouen for his posts... he is right. the mods destroy the community. the game itself offers a lot of cool admin commands and you can control your server very well with them. you could, for example, deactivate the sabers (yeah the sabers!) and make a gun ffa. its fast and funny. you know jka is a first person shooter.. not a "i have a saber and run around" game. of course sabers are what makes this game different but most kids on the servers just do what you said - 'sit around and talk'. those who dont play should be kicked.
if they say "its soo boring", "bah this server doenst even have jka+" or "fu** you laming bitch!" - kill/ban them.
you know in the end its up to the admins. they have the control to keep their servers clean so the game gets actually played.

also duel is cool if you set up a time limit.
i wont say anything about rpg players...

every server i've ran has been FFA

Do these servers still exist Omegasigma?

There's one thing I can say about this: Amen.

hey FFA is far from dead.the clan im in has an entire dimension devoted to laming not being applied, we have the no laming rule because we dont like to sit there and FFA all the time,it gets boring.and ja+ did mess some things up but it added many more moves to do so you got more of a variety to counter other moves with.the blocking can get annoying but it goes both ways and if ya dont like gripkick then just dont go to servers with force,i mean if ya cant take the heat get out of hell :lol:.if ya wanna complain about those who have the no laming rule then just dont play jedi academy if ya depise anyone who uses it basically and thats alot of us.we like fair fights because that way your not being cheep and killing us when we were not expecting a stab in the back, many of us pay for our servers,sotfk for one donates to the leaders(far from what you say most clans are run by they have families and want to see at least one place where friends can go and not have a cussing war with).so when ya come on our servers,disrespect us of course you are gonna end up kicked/banned.and anytime you come to our servers expect an admin to be around 24/7,im one of the low level admins in society of the force knights,many of us make sure there is at the very least 1 admin around all the time not the same person we alternate i guess you could say.so if ya plan on going to our server and breaking rules you wont be there for long we want a good clean server for guests and members.

As much as I despise the concept of "play, but not really 'play'", I have to concede that Demo & Godless are right: if you don't like it find another server or start your own.

The reality is that a 20-person server costs anywhere from (US)$20-$40 per month. At that price, people have the right to use (or abuse) their server however they want. I, too, hate the chat servers, but it's their server, and thus....their rules.

Is FFA boring? Depends on your rules. Saber-only FFA is a little boring because it's all close quarter combat. It turns into a hack-n-slash cluster f*** after a while. Throw in the other weapons and the game gets a lot more fun (watch out for the snipers!).

IMHO, the best FFA is FFA with a purpose: CTF & Jedi Master. OJP Enhanced offers Jedi Master mode. If you never played it, Jedi Master is like king of the hill...only the hill is a light saber that gives you full force powers. If you don't have the light saber, you get weapons (whatever you pick up) and force jump. The rules are simple: 1) you only score points if you have the light saber, and 2) kill whoever has the light saber.

I like CTF for the same reason: you get all the carnage of FFA with a little bit of strategy/purpose built-in.

TB

PS--I'll be firing up FFA-friendly OJP Enhanced and JA+ servers in the next day or so. Watch for posts or check 66.128.56.123 (OJP) and 66.128.56.16 (JA+) in a couple of days.

Stop complaining about JA FFA's and play JO.

I tried that. Didn't work out all too well. It was almost the same thing. I may not have looked hard enough though.

I laugh at you JA+ haters.

Slider didn't make anything bad. He made stuff better. You say simply because dueling is made 100% better in an FFA that he ruined. He specifically made a thing called "alternate dimension" for all you read-me haters. It's where all the bloodthirsty mercs go to FFA 'till they die. Usually, however, all servers are set on the main dimension, which is where FFA'ers are intended to be with grapple hook and such. Just because hardly any servers actually USE the alternate dimension doesn't mean you should flame slider.

Though I agree people need to start FFA only servers. It does get tiring, and I wish people would realize that. Maybe somebody from FileFront should start a "True FFA" server.

And Kouen's pretty much spot on.

But can we simply say that some of us agree to disagree? That's what a debate is in the end, really. State your opinions, your facts, and your argument, defend it, then leave. Don't keep rehashing the same argument 20 times.