Well, referring to sites like these are like when a great mathmatician refers to a book of math.
It's easier to use something were the rules had already been laid out, but left to his own devices, given enough time, he would be able to reproduce the entire mathmatical system.
CharOp is like that, sometimes there's a lot of help, sometimes you've got to make it on your own.
That being said, I didn't optimize much back when I played the first star wars game, so all I know is SWSE, which is fairly easy to optimise. Since it is fairly simple.
EDIT: Yeah now I remember SWSE, the Use the force abilities are completely ridicolous, Move Object lets you hurl enemies into eachtoher, lightning basically kills at the low levels. If you are a Force Alter, you get to use Move Object twice at the cost of one move.