Revanites, the 3rd Faction in the Old Republic

Conceptually, sounds like a great idea.

It's a cute idea, but I don't think it'll happen. Too much class story is built into each faction.

That said, Revan did leave an influence on all my characters. While not a Revanite, I consider Revan's teaching to have been a big reason my Warrior took a hard look at the Empire and starting being more lightside.

I kind of like the idea. It would be more like a 2.5th faction with no own/unique classes and only available for level 55/60, but still, it could solve several requests: 3rd faction, defection, imperial/republic co-op...

If you are right I will buy you $20 worth of cartel coins.

was just thinking the exact same thing. Although if this were going to work when characters defected from their faction to follow revan they would either have to be permanently unable to que for the regular cross faction stuff and complete their respective faction's missions/quests/ etc. OR there would have to be some sort of faction 'toggle', like perhaps they are a SECRET revenite....and when they want to run revanite content or 3rd faction pvp they 'put on a mask' so to speak and are temporarily placed into the 3rd faction. Perhaps then reps, imps or revanites can grind respective rep, imp, or revanite xp/comms for the items/ pets/ titles they want. That could effectively create 3rd faction content out of two factions....Booyah!

....That would actually be pretty sweet....hopefully BW reads this.....

Just make everything post 55 3 faction. BW wouldn't have to redo anything just from 55 on, new material is three faction.

Sure, just like when the ROTHC expansion came out and everyone was fighting the Hutts, they made the Hutts a playable 3rd faction.........or not, lol. They aren't going to make a 3rd faction for the same reason they aren't allowing faction changes....it's just way too much development work and cost for what they are willing to do going forward. Adding a 3rd faction would require massing changes to the infrastructure of this game as basically everything has some association with the Republic or Imperial faction. They'd have to overhaul the whole game. Not gonna happen.

And what fleet do these players go to? Who do they queue with for flashpoints? What chat channel do they use? Who are they allowed to team up with? Who are their companions? Which quests can they access? Can they wear LS or DS gear? Some gear has a different appearance for LS or DS gear....which look do they get? Which player ship do they use? There are hundreds and hundreds of things about this game that are affected by faction. You're extremely naive if you think they could add a 3rd faction for post-55 with minimal work. They'd have to overhaul the entire infrastructure of the game.

Not minimal work, just no reworking. Anything they do with pre 55 content, they are with their old faction, post 55 new faction. Companions, ships, gear, LS or DS, same as they had before. The third faction would get their own chat, own fleet, que with themselves.

After I thought about this though, I don't see any reason for a third faction to be added this way, I don't Rp or PVP and if you don't do those, I am not sure what it would effect.

Im with you. Im seriously sick of how revan is being milked. In all honesty I feel that he shouldnt have been in the game at all. Having the revanite questline in the beginning on dromund kaas was a good way to show that his legacy lives on. In all honesty I feel that Malgus should have returned more so than Revan since Malgus was marketed as the bad guy of the game and he ended up being the bad guy in the end.

On the basis of a third faction being added. The chances of it happening are more likely than half life 3. If anything its on the wall of crazy