Before the update it basically let you fully customize everything on how your character played. You could learn languages, become a politician, a weaponsmith, a drink mongle.
Skills would be learned induvidually so you could, say, learn rifling and 1-handed weapons or whatever. You could become a bounty hunter or combat medic. There were so many variations on everything you could do through its leveling system you basically got to create your own class. Myself, I was working on becoming a master swordsman, samuri style, and weapon smithing so I could create my own super sword. My step-dad was a combat medic and later became a bounty hunter and ran his own city of way over 100 users. He actually became a jedi later, but back then, being a jedi was something special. It took people months to become one and once you were, you were on the top of the... err... galaxy (aside from the bounty hunters that would chase after you) and it seemed everything in the game had some sort of purpose.
It was so awesome...
