I'm also supplementing my research by randomly surveying the fleets for both factions on a few random servers. The 50 thing is definitely a problem, but it is ultimately unavoidable. While class and level may play some role, for the sake of discussion I've decided to mainly ignore those, instead focusing on what impact faction may have. I'm hoping that level at the very least will be more of a non-factor as long as I get a good number of responses from players of various levels. I don't think I'm going to be doing average light or dark/player so it should have less of an impact. This data will mainly play a supporting role in my study and is far from the main piece of evidence I'm using so I'll admit to being slightly lax. Thanks for the input though, I always appreciate getting advice on methodology!

Hi all, I'm currently beginning a research project looking into recent advent of morality systems in video games (Fallout 3, Fable, Infamous, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc etc) and am currently investigating SWTOR's light side vs. dark side system. (It helps that I'm loving this game so far...) So what do I need from you guys? Well it would be an absolutely tremendous help to me if you could just post your faction (Empire or Republic) and your total number of Light Side and Dark Side points. You can post the numbers for as many characters as you would like (the more the merrier!) Just a quick example to make everything clear (I'll use my Sith Assassin): Empire 5450 Light 250 Dark And that's all! Nice and simple right? So please please help me out and post your alignments! All levels welcome, every bit helps Thanks in advance!

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Thanks for that! I know about the 10,000 points thing, but there's no way around it. This is still rather preliminary, I just thought it was fascinating that a MMO had an alignment system. there are a few directions I was planning on going with this (at least with SWTOR): The neutrality penalty: No rewards for going neutral so nobody does it Factions and Stereotype Threat: IE, empire is perceived as evil so more people go dark side Faction Imbalance: To see if people tend to go for the evil or good one in the first place This is just what I'm looking for SWTOR, I'm still working out what I'm going to take from the other games. But thanks for the input, it's really appreciated! Also thanks to everyone whose responded so far!

Hi all, I'm currently beginning a research project looking into recent advent of morality systems in video games (Fallout 3, Fable, Infamous, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc etc) and am currently investigating SWTOR's light side vs. dark side system. (It helps that I'm loving this game so far...) So what do I need from you guys? Well it would be an absolutely tremendous help to me if you could just post your faction (Empire or Republic) and your total number of Light Side and Dark Side points. You can post the numbers for as many characters as you would like (the more the merrier!) Just a quick example to make everything clear (I'll use my Sith Assassin): Empire 5450 Light 250 Dark And that's all! Nice and simple right? So please please help me out and post your alignments! Thanks in advance