Update 15 – Star Wars Galaxies™ Galactic Civil War: Forces Under Siege

Since GU15 went live last week, the team has continued to work on the update and incorporate your feedback. We added a “GCW Personal Contribution” radial menu option to the war terminal to help players see how they are contributing to the GCW. We polished and tweaked the city invasions to make them more enjoyable and challenging. We put in a tutorial interface that can be used at any time to get a waypoint or as a help reference (“/gcwSkirmishCityHelp”). And for the next hot fix, we’ve made all the GCW Battle Worn Armor destructible. I actually had to pull the team off the GCW enhancements and get them going on GU16 and EFOL. They are all really excited about this update and want to make sure it’s in the best shape possible for you to enjoy. Don’t worry though; they will be back on GCW later this year. For GCW part 2, we are planning to refine and expand the systems introduced in this first update and turn our focus to space and player cities.

It’s really fun to watch players compete for region and planet control. Congratulations to the Rebels for just edging out the Imperials in the Galaxy Wide GCW score (Rebel 52% vs. Imperial 48%). Imperials need to step it up some to grab hold of the galaxy again. Good luck to you all.





Want to know how the Galaxy Wide score is calculated? Log into DevH and find out.

Also on the war front, MMORPG posted an interview with me covering this update. Be sure and check it out.



Ewok Festival of Love 2010

Next week the ever popular Ewok Festival of Love will be back. We’re adding some new rewards including colorable flowers and some other surprises. Thanks to all your hard work last year, the Sage Blaire is doing much better but there’s a new Sage this year that will need your help. There will also be some new badges and new titles with this year’s event. Happy Love Day to all of you!



The 78th month veteran reward will also go live with this event. We thought we’d make life a little easier on our vets, so you’ll enjoy the convenience this reward will offer.





Update 16

Alas the long awaited reveal of the next game update. There’s a lot going on in this update. A few things will be announced later. Here is a teaser of some of the things that you can look forward to.

Content: Nym’s Theme Park

The old theme park will be receiving a long deserved revamp to make the content more challenging. This theme park will also pick up where the content path left off in an effort to deliver a more complete experience for new players. Quests will be added to the player’s journal. Players will get a chance to earn new rewards. We’re also planning to include additional side quest, collections, and solo and group content. New and veteran players alike will enjoy the new theme park and get a chance to play one of our most exciting quest series.



Space: Yes Space!

We’re removing the Kessel Switch. Destroying the Star Destroyer or the Freedom Station will no longer have any effect on Kessel. In addition the special spawns that would normally only appear after one of the two had been destroyed will now always be active. We’re also removing (almost) all of the collection spawns from all the space zones (the spawns remain in the Nova-Orion zone). Instead these spawns will now be available via space Duty Missions from the space stations. Finally, Destroy Duty Missions will give the player special tokens as a reward in addition to the credit payout. The tokens can be used to purchase randomly generated space parts. Players will be able to select the type of item (for example: Armor, Weapon, or Engine) and the certification level. The stats will be generated in the same way looted items are generated. Oh and one more thing on the list is to change Nym’s Starmap and the Lord Cyssc missions and make them repeatable (you’ll be able to do them daily). It really feels great to discuss space changes in a producer note (I can’t wait until GCW part 2).

Can you fix … We can try!

After too long of a wait we are dedicating a large portion of GU16 to address top senate and community issues. We hear you and we are very excited to get a chance to start focusing on addressing these issues. The goal of this update is to address issues across all the professions plus fixes for player associations, groups, role players, battlefields, and even some GCW (can’t …. stop …). So far the team is making great progress.

And there is more. Stay tuned for more details on this very exciting update.



Facebook

Thanks to everyone who has become our fan on our new SWG Facebook page. We have over 4,000 fans and it’s growing strong. Congratulations on hitting that first milestone and earning everyone in the game the Storm Trooper Squad Leader bobble head. We’re looking forward to achieving the next milestone for more in-game rewards.



- Teesquared

Anyone still playing this?

yep still playing, allthough HON is close to falling apart and i see less and less ppl online these days

I still love the way this game is and new content that are good is still getting added every other month, and finally with next update space will get its long over due overhaul.

But as it stands today with still loads of bugs, medic still a broken profession imo unless they do something about this the game will be as close as dead within a month after TOR goes live :/

Well I'm thinking of taking a peek again, for a month of so for start... if only to kill time before TOR. Agree with you there mate, the game isn't going to survive TOR. I only wish devs showed such commitment couple of years ago... or even before NGE or CU. The game would have been much more alive that way.

true true, think the biggest mistake they have done lately was the server merging, what they should have done is strapped it down to 2-3 servers right away and spent the freed maintanence money on bug fixing and upgrading hardware to top gear, that way ppl would stay, more woud return and swg would indeed be the best MMO out there again. I doubt they do another server merge and they are to damn proud and stubborn to admit they did wrong.

Yeah, that's been the case with them from start I guess. Damn shame too, as SWG was really revolutionary and i could easily have become most popular and best MMO in the market. Instead, we have a living proof of how a great idea makes a great product go to waste when it's poorly handled.

Anyway... installing it now, I reckon it's going to take until tomorrow for all the updates, then i'll join you, at least for some time. Would love to experience a bit more of SWG before it finaly dies away, even though it's not the same game any more

Only took 3 hours to update, so not too bad... tried it a bit yesterday, still working around the controls and keymaps (did a fresh reinstall, and I reinstalled OS last month so I lost all my previous settings), but slowly getting there.

My houses and stuff are still there, but as usually I lost a fortune with vendors being gone. Oh well... I suppose I'll have a busy month setting everything back up

hi til glad to see your ok i miss the old hon guild but i had to leave as it was a mess of a game for me but missing the old gang was the worse thing but nowdays i play single player games until some thing comes along i like .
ps playing sup commander 2 saddly a bit easy but fun and fallout 3 now with added 67 gig of updates and mods lol i have over 30 vaults added 300 npcs 30 new creatures and bases well lets say i have a lot lol oh and about 20 whores and pimp homes

Good to see you doing ok as well aschie

Sorry to see you go, but I understand your reasons... I'm truly amazed what they're trying to do with this game (i just love the player created missions, it's a brilliant idea!), but we all know it's too little, too late... if this was done 3, 4 years ago... this would without a question be the best MMO around.

Guess I'll see you in SW:TOR then?

nope fallout 3 still holds me bad lol cant find any game that even comes close to it now got working fans coffee machines tvs cini picture houses whores space ship best armour i have ever seen in any game for looks and now got a talking teddy bear lol honest:P


you just cant beat a game where to can twat some fucker over the head with a shovel:)

Can't have a lightsaber though now can you?

yep theres now a starwars mod

inc sabers main toon as qui gon so yep even the force is in this game _

What do my bleedy eyes read there...space overhaul?! Any more info on that? Might be worth to sub for a month to give some space action a shot...was always great fun!

Aschie, I've packed your things from my diner building in couple of backpacks and I'll store them in one of my houses till you return

Game Update 16 goes live today with major changes to space
Read through the GU16 notes ive posted and you'll see what i mean