To be honest, from what I noticed when I mained Jedi for a month or so, people only really licked their way up to who was Yoda, who at this stage is Stormzy. I'd go into my branch channel and realise no one would be really talking unless it was like Rocksteady and some really low level knights, and everyone else would be sat waiting for someone who could promote them to get on. I think Elder Knights are given way too much credit and should be wiped like the rest of this bullshit legacy, it's ridiculous that returning players are given priority over ranks because they are more well known over others who work their asses off to prove themselves only to be shut down.
I think the Merit system is really vague and leaves little to no exploration outside of "master can decide this and that". I think Jedi should be a little more open and the merit system expanded upon. You can really only gain merits from helping trials and stealing new padawans from trials to train. Oh and as well as gaining them from being branch manager of the week (which by the way is completely biased from what I've seen). I've literally seen people get branch manager of the week who have done less than 3 trials a week get branch manager just because they talk to the leads more than others.
Elder Knight is a pretty pointless rank and should really just be forgotten and pushed with the rest of the ranking structure much like regular battalions. I mean you don't see legacy troopers calling themselves "Veteran Soldier" and getting free ranks because they have a good chat or two. Literally Jedi right now is the number that comes after the "Knight" written in your name and the battalion you work with. That's why some battalions have more Jedi than others, because some are literally more fun to play with than the majority. The way the Jedi run literally might as well be just promoted by their BCMDs just because of how little interaction there is with the Masters past the rank of Knight.
I feel like you can promote and wipe as many Masters as you want, but at the end of the day, the Jedi order in its current state will always be just a group of friends running something that has little to no interaction past a couple of rules and a few trials here and there. People who genuinely love Jedi would get more of a kick out of whitelisting for Jedi and staying a Padawan forever and just RPing with their battalion over actually working their way up to becoming a Master and doing Jedi RP. There is no Jedi RP and it is not encouraged. I don't see why, when you have no basis for Roleplay in your own section should you control the members actions or their progression within it, it makes no sense. I feel like Jedi way back when had such a higher purpose and right now it doesn't feel the same.
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