Star Wars Galaxies
Publish Archive 2005

January 13, 2005
Publish 12

Avatar

•  Improved avatar sitting in chair and after 5 minutes sliding forward and being left floating in the air

Bazaar/Vendor

•  Fixed problem with item getting deleted after retrieving item from vendor

Client Stability

•  Chat saving protocols have been optimized on the client. (For those that are curious, we throttled excessive disk io in the UI saving code and limited the amount of back scroll text that is saved to the uis. This should help out with client lag and make larger uis files considerably smaller.)

•  Fixed a Crash To Desktop when using the /ttell command without having an active target.

•  Fixed a Crash-to-Desktop when using the "Disconnect" button in-game.

Crafting

•  Berserker Rifle Stabilization components now drop with serial numbers.

•  Existing Berserker Rifle Stabilization components should now have serial numbers as well.

•  Hide and Organic symbols have been changed.

Events

•  Wookiee Life Day has been disabled for US and European servers

GCW

•  Faction backpacks are no longer auto-unequipped

Inventory

•  Added checkboxes to force sorting the player's datapad and inventory contents. When run the first time, these values should default to "on". The toggles are located under the options/interface UI. Turning them off will give the behavior that occurred before the auto-sorting feature was introduced.

•  Fixed problem with items looted from a corpse disappearing after crossing server boundary

•  Fixed a problem with items disappearing after picking items up from a house and crossing server boundary

•  Faction backpacks should no longer disappear when traveling or logging out. Faction backpacks will no longer be auto-unequipped. Note: other faction items may auto-unequip and can sometimes overload your inventory. If this happens, you will not be able to move. You will need to move items out of your inventory into an equipped backpack, bank, house, get help from a friend, etc., or delete items as needed until the inventory count is within limits.

Loot

•  "Recyclers" have been added to the game. There are 5 types of recyclers: Flora, Creature, Metal, Chemical and Ore.

Space Missions

•  Star Destroyer now drops 10-20k credits in deep space

•  Rebel space station now drops 10-20k credits in deep space

•  The prison ship in the rebel tier 4 recovery duty "Rescue prisoners from the Empire" will no longer exit the Dathomir region early.

Space UI

•  Added light gray directional indicators that display a gunner's target to the pilot of a ship with turrets. In a multi-passenger ship when a player mans a turret, when the gunner cycles through targets, the pilot should see a light gray arrow that indicates the direction of the gunner's target. Please note that this should only appear when the target is off screen (similar to the standard target arrow) and that if the gunner and the pilot have the same thing targeted, then the target will only be indicated by the player's blue arrow.

Tutorial / New User Experience

•  The tutorial voice over will play once again.

January 25th, 2005
Publish 12.1

On behalf of the entire Dev team we would like to extend a big thank you to everyone that helped out on Test Center this weekend and to our Test Center community for being patient with the frogs and visiting guests.

Along with the following features and bug fixes players that have not updated to DirectX 9.0c are required to please do so with this publish.

Artisan

•  Crafting an All Purpose Ship Repair Kit will now use artisan experimentation instead of shipwright experimentation.

Combat

•  Fixed a problem where warcry would stack multiple times.

Crafting

•  Allowed survey/sampling while on mounts

Dancers / Musicians

•  We now allow a dancer/musician buff simultaneously

Entertainer

•  Entertainer mission payouts have been substantially increased.

GCW

•  Imperial crackdown presence has had their firepower DRAMATICALLY increased

•  Fixed faction base vulnerability bug

Jedi

•  Force Meditate now clears on all server transitions and login

Loot

•  Exceptional quality weapons will no longer drop with unlimited DOT charges.

Missions

•  The prison ship in the rebel tier 4 recovery duty "Rescue prisoners from the Empire" will no longer exit the Dathomir region early.

•  Fixed a bug that prevented space missions from failing if you left the mission zone prematurely.

New Players

•  Newly created players who start in Kaadara, Naboo will no longer float 200m above the ground for 20 seconds

Player Structures

•  All maintenance fees will automatically attempt to deduct from Bank accounts after the maintenance pool has been depleted. Once a structure reaches 0 hitpoints, it will flag itself as condemned instead of deleting itself. Condemned houses are not enterable, and all other structures are not usable. To uncondemn a house, simply enter it with enough money in the bank to pay the repair cost. To uncondemn all other structures, use them with enough money in the bank to pay the costs.

Politician

•  Politician skill boxes will no longer require skill points to train.

Quests

•  Players will only be allowed 350 quests in their quests list.

Saitek Gaming Keyboard / Joystick

•  Fixed an issue with Saitek gaming keyboard

•  Fix for Saitek X52 flight control system

Server Stability

•  Fixed some issues that were causing server crashes

•  Fixed a major crash to desktop that involved lightsaber use

•  Improved client stability

Ships

•  Complete revamp of interior ship alarms. They should turn off now. You must redeed existing ships to completely correct the issue

•  The target status window updates properly for gunners.

•  Weapon capacitor overcharge should charge the space ship weapons beyond 100% and increase charge rate

•  Fixed engine slow-down in first-person camera mode.

Space

•  Star Destroyer now grants experience equivalent to Rebel Spacestation in Deep Space

Space UI

•  In the ship component view ('v') the following corrections where changed

•  Capacitors where not reflecting the correct state data in the components UI.

•  The shield recharge rate has now been corrected

•  Max capacitor value now changes to reflect the new max value.

•  Grey targeting arrow for POB ships will now fade in and out instead of disappearing.

Spawns / POI

•  Krayt Dragon Population boom!

•  Decreased spawn times for some POI's

•  Decreased spawn times for Dathomir Spider Cave

•  Spawn System Refinements

Species

•  Mon Calamari now able to spend faction points to buy items from Imperial recruiter.

Travel

•  Added X31 (not a typo) landspeeder to all newbie starting equipment. This new speeder looks identical to the X34 but goes 10% slower.

•  Decreased starport wait time to 60 seconds

•  Fixed an issue where spawns were not being generated when in a speeder

UI

•  Reticle optimization

•  Tweaked space controls backend

•  Fixed display of faction rank for character with no rank affiliation

Vendors

•  Fixed an issue with vendors where you had less then the maximum amount but you couldn't place a vendor

•  Player and vendor must be in the same building for the player to be allowed to initialize the vendor.

January 27, 2005
Live Publish
Version 0.110667

Draft Schematics

•  Fixed draft schematic icons & information.

•  You should see the ingredients required to create objects instead of the information about the object, schematics should no longer appear with red/degraded backgrounds, and icons will appear in detailed view.

Japanese Client

•  Fixed a crash when the chat box was clicked on using the Japanese Version of the game

Rubberbanding

•  We are aware of the issue with rubberbanding and are devoting serious development resources to it.

January 28th, 2005
Live Publish
Version 110788
This publish is a server side publish which means you will not see the version number change on your client. Please do not be concerned about this.

Dancer

•  Fixed an issue with the Dancer Mind buff not working properly

Live Publish
Version 0.111099

Server Stability

•  Improved server stability

February 1, 2005
Version 0.111212

Server Stability

•  Fixed a problem players were experiencing with a rubberbanding affect.

February 10, 2005
Publish 13.0

Inventory

•  Inventory has been increased to now hold 80 items

Structures

•  All Housing item limits have been changed. This will mean that small houses can now store 100 items for a Naboo small house, and 200 for the the other small and medium houses. Large houses and Guild Halls can now store 400 items each instead of being limited to 250 items each

•  Large houses should now take up 5 lots instead of 6. In order to get the lot limits redeemed please put maintenance into the house and it will credit you the remaining lots.

•  Guild halls should now take up 5 lots instead of 7. In order to get the lot limits redeemed please put maintenance into the house and it will credit you the remaining lots.

•  Fix problem where a factory will stop producing items for no apparent reason, even though the factory has sufficient maintenance, power, ingredients, and the output hopper is not full.

•  Fixed a problem that can cause items dropped into a structure to disappear after you leave the structure and re-enter the structure later.

•  Fixed when you are too far from a structure to /name, /paymaint you get a message "You are too far from the terminal to purchase a ticket."

•  Factory owners are now notified with an appropriate message via system message and mail when the factory stops making items because the output hopper is full.

Profession Smuggler

•  Smugglers no longer have an artificial faction point cap when buying faction points. The cap is their actual point cap. Signing up with the faction will make a larger bribery option available, and rising in ranks will increase the cap as per normal factional progression.

Profession Combat Medic, Doctors and Medics

•  The total amount of time delay between Medic wound healing has been reduced to a third of the original delay.

Profession Entertainer / Dancer / Musician

•  The minimum time required to watch an Entertainer before having a mind buff applied has been reduced from 2 minutes to 1 minute.

•  Increased Entertainer/Dancer/Musician wound healing

•  It now takes half as long to apply an Entertainer mind buff.

•  It now takes a quarter of the time it used to take to heal Mind/Focus/Willpower wounds.

All Professions

•  Removed all apprentice XP requirements from all professions

•  Decreased Incapacitation Time by 50%

UI

•  The radial menu options to invite someone to your group has been increased from 32m to a max distance of 90 meters.

•  An option to display faction rank has been added to the Community - Character UI page. When enabled, the faction rank will be displayed above your character (just below the character name).

•  An option was added to turn off game object arrows on the radar

•  An option was added to turn off friendly NPCs from the radar to make the radar cleaner and allow you to more easily see your Avatar.

•  All skills with three line names now appear correctly in skills window

•  Radial Menus on installations (factories and harvesters) will be accessible up to approximately 20m from the outer edge of the installation.

•  Sneak Peak: We have developed two new interfaces that we think are easier to use. New Star Wars Galaxies TEST and New MMORPG (EQ2 syle) TEST operate without using the Alt key. We have a sneak peak of these interfaces that are still under construction in this release. Remember these are marked TEST because they are still being refined and subject to change.

Spawn

•  Increased spawn for krayt dragons again

•  We have added some new static spawns to Tatooine, Talus and Rori. Static means the spawn is not spawned by players or missions and the spawn area will respawn on it's own. Get that hunting gear on and head out to find the new groups of NPCs that roam the galaxies.

Profession Artisan

•  Fixed the over brightening of the surveying effect

Space

•  The yacht, the yt1300, the Decimator, and the Nova Courier should no longer take up a lot space. Added 20 new space missions in the Dathomir and Rori space zones.

•  Dathomir Station

•  New destroy and escort missions for Imperial pilots

•  New destroy and escort missions for Privateer pilots

•  New story-driven missions for Imperial pilots

•  New story-driven missions for Privateer pilots

•  Rori Station

•  New destroy and escort missions for Imperial pilots

•  New destroy and escort missions for RSF pilots

•  New story-driven missions for Rebel pilots

Combat

•  Wounded players can no longer migrate stats that would result in a sum total of 0 or less due to wounds causing permanent incapacitation

Server Stability

•  Improved client stability

•  Fixed a problem players were experiencing with a rubberbanding effect.

•  Streamlined the terrain system to improve client performance

Chat

•  Added a "CNTRL + R" command for replying to "/tells". Reply currently has the issue of replying to the last person that sent you a message. So, if you /reply to someone and you receive a message in the middle of the response, your private message is sent to another player. This is now fixed by changing CNTRL+R to send a "tell" the player who sent you the last message at the time you hit CNTRL+R.

Japanese Localizations

•  /log will now save Japanese chat correctly

•  Chat messages can be in Japanese in macros!

•  IME candidate window now appears relative to the text being typed

Veteran Rewards

Veteran Rewards allow us to offer players rewards in recognition of their investment in Star Wars Galaxies. The intent of the Veteran Rewards program is to show our appreciation to players who have been a part of the Star Wars Galaxies community over time by offering them a selection of exclusive rewards. Click here to read all about the Vet Rewards Program!

To get the 360 day reward, you need to collect the 90 and 180 rewards first.

We are proud to announce our Veteran Rewards program!

• The Anti Decay Kit will now properly allow you to place a lightsaber inside in order to apply anti decay to that lightsaber. Putting a lightsaber inside the Anti Decay Kit will cause the Anti Decay Kit to temporarily become a notrade/nodrop until the lightsaber is taken out. The lightsaber and all crystals inside will no longer decay once an Anti Decay Kit is used on the lightsaber.

Japanese Localization

• Updated text for the Japanese language

February 15, 2005
Version 0.113060 (Hotfix Publish)

Force Sensitive

• The Phase 4 version of Captain Sarguillo in the Village of Aurilia will now grant his second quest to players who had already worked for him in a previous instance of Phase 4.

Server Fixes

• Improved Server Stability
• Fixes for Crashing to desktop

Publish 13.1
February 24, 2005

In this publish we bring you major changes to Star Wars Galaxies.  These changes are listed below:

Galactic Civil War (GCW) and Temporary Enemy Flags (TEF)

The Galactic Civil War (GCW) will be heating up as players fight for control of the planets. The system is broken into two major components. The introduction of an improved flagging system for factionally aligned players (redesign of "Temporary Enemy Flags" - TEFs: they no longer make players vulnerable to PVP without declaring faction) and the introduction of a GCW tracking system that allows players to battle over planets and win control of cities for their faction.

Group Friendly Looting

Group Looting in Star Wars is a variety of methods for how players in Star Wars Galaxies can distribute loot.   These systems will allow the group leader to determine what type of looting system his group will use.

Player Event Perks

Every week there are a many player-run events held across the galaxy. These events can be anything from PvP tourneys and role-playing events to murder mysteries or dance parties. To help players more easily run these events, the Event Team has been working on some special tools and perks. 

Force Sensitive

• The Phase 4 version of Captain Sarguillo in the Village of Aurilia will now grant his second quest to players who had already worked for him in a previous instance of Phase 4

Server Fixes

• Improved Server Stability
• Fixes for crashing to desktop
• Optimizations to water code to improve client performance.  Water detail control currently does nothing.

Veteran Rewards

• If you have triggered more than one veteran reward at the same time, the announcement will remind you that you need to claim the first reward before the second will be offered. 
• The command /claimVeteranReward will now bring up the choices for the new veteran rewards, in addition to the Sorosuub. This will also fix an issue where players choose the option to be reminded in a week for rewards and they change their mind but have to wait out the week, now players can type /claimVeteranReward to reinitiate the process.
• Anti Decay Kits will now reset the item it is being used on to maximum hitpoints.  Items that have already had Anti Decay applied will also be reset to maximum hitpoints.

Combat

• Fixed a bug where a dead or incapacitated person could shutdown a factional base before it blew up.
• Removed insta-deathblows
• Made incapacitation work if you are feigning death

Space

• Changed escort ship on Rori rebel story mission so that it highlights as an ally
• Fixed plasma conduit repair bug

UI

• New mouse button behavior in modeless test interfaces:
  • Single left-click selects object when the button is released
  • Double left-click now selects object and causes default action
  • Single right-click selects object and brings up the context menu when the button is released
  • Pressing a mouse button down in the scene to move the camera no longer deselects the object; however, by default, clicking quickly in the scene will deselect the current target.
• Using commands targeted by name now works for targets on vehicles and mounts. 
• The UI hud effectors will no longer override opacity. UI elements will appear at 100% opacity instead of 80%.
• Fixed a issue players were experiencing when they didn't have a target and typed an action
• Ground radar optimizations/fixes
• "turn strafes" switch now works properly on "New MMORPG (EQ2 style)" keymap
• Hovering over a blip on the radar will display tooltip info about the blip.
• Removed extra popup windows when clicking on friendly players

Musician / Entertainer / Dancer

• Fixed /stopwatch/stoplisten canceling buffs out
• Entertainer mind wound healing has been toned down.  There is still a twice as much gain in experience for healing mind wounds than there was prior to Publish 13.0.

Harvesting / Resources

• There will no longer be a penalty to harvesting while in a group.  Instead, there will now be a 20% harvesting bonus if you are in a group and at least one group member is within 64m of you when you harvest.  If there is a Ranger present in your group and is within 64m of you, the group harvesting bonus will be 30% for you when you harvest.  If there is a Master Ranger present in your group and is within 64m of you, the group harvesting bonus will be 40%.
• Creatures will now yield more milk after being successfully milked.
• Its been a bountiful season.  The success chances of getting mollusks and crustaceans while shellfish harvesting has been increased. Expect to see higher yields from your shellfish harvesting!
• Searching a creature lair will have a higher chance of finding eggs as well as a lower chance of finding nothing or finding a jar of bugs.  You might also want to try searching the lair again; there might be a chance you missed something!
• Increased the amount of resources spawned, so that rare resources will be slightly more common.

Structures

• Fixed the lack of an "hour" suffix in the residency renewal statement
• Fixed housing maintenance so it now works properly
• Fixed an issue where if you drop a bag in a house, leave the house, and come back later, and open the bag, you don't see the contents of the bag until you pick it up. 

New Players

• A single-waypoint mode is active for new players. 
  • This mode is selectable via the waypoint tab in the datapad.
• Single waypoint mode keeps only one player waypoint active.

Spawn

• Fixed problem with mission lairs disappearing

Chat

• Numpad keys turned off for non-modal chat, except for NumLock and Enter
  • If a non-numpad key is mapped to a function it will still go to chat for non-modal
  • Modal chat will turn off functionality while chatting
• CTRL+R reply functionality works across game servers.

Inventory

• Fixed inventory flicker when you add or remove objects from the inventory.

Misc

• Fixed problem that can cause the stomach not to empty.
• Reduce the stomach empty time for a full stomach to 30 minutes.

Hotfix Publish
Version 0.114556

Profession Ranger

• The Master Ranger skill box will now grant a significantly higher skill mod to creature harvesting

GCW

• Upon cloning all players will be set to on-leave status

Hotfix Publish
Version 0.114729

GCW

• Recruiters will be placed in all the stronghold cities
• The planetary map should display cities with "show all cities" default box checked.
• Removed /declare command

Combat

• When a player is marked AFK they are now unable to initiate an attack.

Droids/ Pets

• Fixed an issue where droids and pets could not be called from the hotbar.

Hotfix Publish
Version 0.114815

Crafting

• There are no longer critical fails on crafting (which would previously destroy componets involved)

GCW

• Fixed an issue where players could /peace to get out of combat mode with a turret and stop taking  damage

Krayt Spawn

• Giant Canyon and Krayt Ancient Dragons will be the only Krayt's that drop pearls. We are monitoring the drop rate from these two types of Krayt and we will be tuning it as we see fit

Server Stability Fixes

Hotfix Publish
Version 0.115085

Structures

• You can no longer use /transferStructure to transfer a factional base
• Fixed an issue where players were receiving extra lot refunds from faction bases

Pets

• Fixed an issue where pets could be added to a group continuously to form up a full group

Publish 14.0
March 9, 2005

In this publish we bring to you tweaks and fixes for the GCW, some more UI loving and a new story Arc! Read on for more details.

Quests

Today begins the first part of a new epic quest series called "Secrets of the Syren"! Who is the pilot that everyone is searching for? What was the dangerous cargo he was carrying that both Imperials and Rebels want so desperately? Rebels should report immediately to the Tyrena Cantina, Imperials to the Bestine Cantina and Neutrals to the Theed Cantina!

GCW

•  Increased the difficulty of higher level faction base spawns. (Now that the rebel and imperial faction bases spawned entity difficulty and numbers have recently been brought into balance with each other, the difficulty of the spawns at bases higher than the forward operating bases are being increased)

•  PvE (non SF) faction bases can no longer have control terminal menu options for resetting their vulnerability timer (which shouldn't have been there anyhow, since PvE bases are always supposed to be vulnerable), nor can you shut them down to abort a self-destruct countdown, once started (which better fits the non-PvP nature of these bases).

•  Added hacked terminal and base destruction alarms to factional bases

•  Added exterior reinforcement spawner to hacked factional bases

•  Decreased point cost of faction turrets

•  Decreased point cost of the factional forward operating bases

•  Factional base deeds should now indicate what faction they are for by their name.

•  Increased GCW point value of factional bases for all bases higher than Forward Operating Base

•  Slightly increased cost of Tactical Center to bring it in line with the increased toughness of its spawns

•  Fixed an issue where Imperial guards were spawning and entering Moenian cantinas

•  Fixed rank display in recruiter conversations

•  News terminals will now always open the news headlines when you double click on them

•  Fixed several bad faction base objective-terminal spawn locations and orientations

•  Fixed terminals only working if you were special forces

•  Added roving security personnel to hacked factional bases

•  Fixed a bug where objects could block players from entering factional bases

•  Changed how GCW faction perk costs are changed based on GCW status. There was a bug that caused items to get cheaper as you started to lose. This was incorrect and backwards. If you are losing, items get more expensive on that planet.

AI

•  Fixed a bug where AI would warp when moving towards a destination (such as fleeing, etc.)

UI

•  There are 4 new key bindings that are not mapped to any key-binding at this time.  When bound, they should filter out friends and enemies in a previous next manner 

•  Player movement should now feel "snappier" (run, walk and turn rates have been accelerated)

•  Hovering over a blip on the radar will display tooltip information about the blip.

•  Fixed an issue where the buff window would reset when a player logged out or relogged.

•  Planetmap should honor the show all cities flag.

•  Fixed an issue where players could not run through streetlamps

•  If the quest journal is open when a task or quest completes, it will now update correctly.

•  Duplicate journal entries will only be displayed once. (e.g. Darn Droid listed a speak task 3 times before).

•  Destroy, loot, and timer tasks will have a progress counter in the journal. (e.g.. "Killed: 2/10" will show in the journal description for a kill 10 worrts task).

•  Tooltips on the radar will now display instantly
The waypoint window in the datapad window will no longer overlap the checkboxes in the detail view

•  Radar opacity should ignore UI opacity setting

•  Improved double click options:

•  Double-clicking on NPCs will display the appropriate messages and perform the proper actions.

•  Double-clicking an incapacitated player will death-blow them. 

•  Double-clicking on your mount will mount or dismount you.

•  Double-clicking on a crafting station will start a crafting session with a compatible crafting tool in your inventory

Loot

•  Giant Canyon and Krayt Ancient Dragons should drop pearls at their normal drop rate

•  Nightsisters should drop crystals at their normal drop rate

•  Fixed a problem with all high-end loot drop rates

•  Fixed an issue that no longer allows dead players to loot factional pets and dead players

Player Cities

•  Fixed a problem where some Mayors cannot send ingame emails to citizens

Player Event Perks

•  Changed faction perk gating to fix coverts not being able to wear armor

Vet Rewards

•  Anti Decay Kits that were placed inside house containers such as a bookcase or armoire will now have a "Pickup" radial menu option.

Misc.

•  Fixed an issue where players would experience a crash to desktop in /alarmsnooze if no alarms were previously set

•  Japanese Localization Fixes

•  Fixed some issues that would cause players to crash to desktop

If you are experiencing a bug in game please use the /bug reporting feature and provide as much details as possible to help us fix this problem.

Live - March 10, 2005
Publish 0.116070

GCW

•  Player placed gardens should no longer register themselves on the planetary map

Loot

•  Giant Canyon and Krayt Ancient Dragons should drop pearls at their normal drop rate

•  Nightsisters should drop crystals at their normal drop rate

Live - March 15, 2005
Publish 0.116546

UI

•  Based upon community feedback we have tuned down the "snappy" movement. Please provide all feedback on the snappy movement in the focus thread that will be started after the publish is live.

•  Changed default user interface keymap to "Star Wars Galaxies"

•  Fixed a bug where a player could loot a corpse when dead when using the radial menu

March 16, 2005
Publish 0.116655

Server Stability Enhancements

Publish 14.1
March 24, 2005

Galaxy-wide Vendor Search is here!

Have you ever wanted to search for an item to buy without having to travel across the entire planet randomly checking vendors? Well now you can!  We have enhanced the functionality of our bazaar terminals to include the ability to search all player vendors for items you may be looking for. This new feature will greatly improve how vendors are handled in the game. Read on for more information.

Overview
The purpose of vendor search function is to allow vendor owned items to be searched from anywhere in the galaxy.  This will include the following functions:

•  Each vendor owner can decide whether to allow his or her vendors to be searchable in the market.  There is an option for vendor owners to turn on/off the search option on his or her vendor.  The vendor owner will be able to find current search option settings for each of his or her vendor(s)

•  When a vendor owner turns on the search option, a player should be able to go to any bazaar and list all items owned by this vendor

•  When a vendor owner turns off the search option, the vendor is no longer listed in the galaxy-wide network search. With this search option turned off, vendor owners have the ability to conduct private auctions. Players will need to physically go to the vendor and click "Use Vendor" to list items from this vendor.

Vendor Status
For all the existing vendors, the default option is set to no.  Players have to go to their vendors and enable this search option.  For all future vendors, this option is set to yes by default. For vendor owners to check if the search option is on or off do the following:

•  Select the Vendor you wish to turn search on/off for

•  From the radial menu choose "Vendor Control"
Once you have selected "Vendor Control" then choose "Status"

•  A pop-up window will show if the search option is on or off

PA Hall Leadership Succession

Overview
In the current live environment, a PA does not automatically handle the case where a PA leader has retired from the game. This condition results in leaderless PAs, often with active members who wish to continue to run the guild. In order to resolve this system, we will implement an automated PA succession system.
 
Allegiance
The existing "Allegiance" system interface will be removed. Instead, guild leaders will be able to turn on voting at any time. Every two weeks, the votes will be tallied and a new guild leader selected. This is to allow guilds the option of a democratic process. Not all guilds will want to enable this option. Guild leader voting will default to off.

PA Hall Leadership Succession
There are now two methods for PA Hall Leadership Succession: direct leadership transfer and leader elections as explained below.

Direct Transfer
Direct leadership transfer is executed by the current PA leader at the PA management terminal. The leader would select the "Transfer PA Leadership" option at the terminal. They are then prompted to enter the name of the person who will receive leadership. This person must be online and be standing near the terminal. The person who will receive leadership must also have enough lots free to take ownership of the PA hall. If they satisfy the requirements, the PA leadership and the PA hall ownership will be transferred to them. If they do not satisfy the requirements, the existing leader will receive a message as to why the change could not be made. Trial accounts are not eligible for leadership or PA hall ownership.

Elections
During the regular weekly PA maintenance, the system will examine the last login time of the PA leader. If they have not logged in for one month, the system will send an email warning to the PA members. The warning will explain that the leader has not been active and that a voting process for a new leader has been opened.

The voting process will use the same interface as player city voting. Three options will become available on the guild management terminal during voting:

•  Register / Unregister - Any full PA member may run for election. They would select this option to add themselves to the ballot. Only members on the ballot are eligible for election. Any guild member in normal standing can register to run. Sponsored applicants will not be eligible to run. 

•  Cast Vote - This option allows a member to select who they wish to vote for. They may also choose to abstain. A member may change their vote at any time 

•  View Standings - allows the player to look at who is currently registered and how many votes they have received.

Exactly two weeks after the election is started, the votes will be tallied. The individual with the most votes will become leader of the PA.

In many cases, the owner of a PA hall and the PA leader will be different characters. In order to prevent a PA from losing a PA hall due to the absence of the hall owner, PA leaders now have a limited ability to claim PA halls they do not own. A new guild terminal option "Accept PA Hall" will appear (for guild leader) if the hall owner has not logged in for 28 days. Once the guild leader owns the hall, the structure may be transferred to another player using the /transferStructure command.

Profession Dancer

•  Added new dance (Tumble) to Dancing Knowledge I

•  Added new dance (Tumble2) to Dancing Knowledge II

•  Added new dance (Breakdance) to Dancing Knowledge III

•  Added new dance (Breakdance2) to Dancing Knowledge IV

•  Removed the 15sec delay between stopping one song or dance and starting a new song or dance.

•  Removed chance of making a mistake while dancing.

Profession Musician

•  Added new song (Starwars4) to Novice Musician skill box.

•  Added new song (Funk) to Music Knowledge II

•  Removed the 15sec delay between stopping one song or dance and starting a new song or dance.

Profession - Image Designer

•  Reduced Image Designer skill point costs by 16 by reducing each skill box between Novice Image Designer and Master Image Designer by one point.

•  Removed Image Designer action timers for Body and Cosmetic changes

Quests

•  Quests with timers now display the timer in the quest journal. 

•  Quest News, our quest reporters have been digging around and were able to bring you the following quest news stories:

•  Story Arc: Secrets of the Syren, Chapter two; More Than You Bargained For  

•  Breaking News: Information has been received regarding the missing freighter pilot from Naboo. While this information has not been made public, a Rebel Officer in Tyrena as well as an Imperial Officer in Bestine and a private citizen in Theed have all been seen in talks with the various parties involved in the search. This raises the question of the seriousness of this situation. Parties involved in the initial search for this pilot are encouraged to talk to their initial contact.

•  Quest: Enough!

•  From the journal of a holonews reporter: Looks like the fighting was rather rough in Corellia space today.  I had the opportunity to actually see some of the fighting.  I could kick myself for not bringing my holo-recorder! It appeared to end in a draw, but of course I can't actually report that!  Interestingly, two ships crashed: one on Talus and the other on Corellia.  Sources tell me that an Imperial officer named Ceth Laike at the Imperial Outpost in Talus is looking for the pilot of one of these ships. A Rebel named Acun Solari in Tyrena is looking for the other.  I hope they didn't land in bad spots.  Sometimes the local gangs salvage parts off of downed ships

•  Quest: Imperial Defector

•  ### $!   Encrypted transmission from Jom Irimore, Rebel Alliance cell member in Tyrena to Teslo Ten'doora at the base.  Sir, I have a new contact.  Another member of the Imperial Military (a high-ranking one, I might add) is going to supply us with information.  I'll send someone to bring him to you as soon as possible.  I trust in this officer's defection.  Apparently, his entire family was on Alderaan. End transmission ^#)%)()(@!#^###

•  Quest: Rebel Informant
Memo
To: Lt. Allard Lissara
From:  Jaek Vercet, Imperial Representative to Moenia

You were correct, sir.  Those rebels are starting to cave.  One of them came to me, telling me about a rift in the Alliance's leadership.  He's willing to give us information if we offer him immunity for his treason.  I leave that decision to you.  I'm laying low in one of the buildings in town and will need to send someone to bring the Rebel to you.

Jedi

•  Fixed an issue where Jedi are able to heal other Jedi in incorrect cases

Player Event Perks

•  A number of new venues and decorations have been added to the player event promoter NPC

•  Player event decorations can now be rotated. You can now use a radial menu on Rental Deeds for Player Event Perks to check how much time they have before they expire. Many Player Event Perks can now be redeeded. By using the radial menu, the owner of a Player Event Perk may check how long the perk has before it expires.

UI

•  Text changes made to the Popup help

•  Fixed a problem with the camera rotation spin

•  Changed UI options text from "Default (Modeless)" to "MMORPG Modeless"

•  Changed default user interface keymap to "Star Wars Galaxies

•  It is no longer possible to configure the UI to use modal chat while in one of the new modeless user interfaces.

•  You can now turn with the keyboard while holding down left mouse button while using the default keymap

•  Several optimizations to client terrain and flora rendering which should show increased frame-rate, especially during movement. Some players may find they can increase terrain detail and/or flora distances and still get good frame rate

•  Optimizations to water code to improve client performance.  Water detail control currently does nothing.

•  Fixed an issues where water fountains were not showing the "water"

GCW

•  Removed donate resource option from faction HQ terminals

Group Loot Options

•  The group leadership and master looter will no longer transfer to another member when crossing a server boundary, traveling, etc.

•  Droids and pets can no longer be made leaders or master looters

Space

•  Fixed a bug where the s-foils on the b-wing were not opening and closing upon command

Structures

•  We have expanded the viewing range on all player structures. This means they will now be visible sooner upon approaching them.

•  Owners of houses with access fees will no longer receive a message when someone tries to enter the house but can't pay the fee. This message will go to the person attempting to enter the house instead.

•  Fixed a loot bug where no player feedback would be given if the corpse was empty when using /loot

Quests:

•  Fixed an issue that was causing timers to not always show up in the quest journal

Publish 0.117734
March 29, 2005

Crafting

•  Fixed a bug where a crafting tool can hang while loading schematic.

•  Fixed recyclers, the tumble blender, and the agitator motor.

Guilds

•  Fixed bug where guilds could no longer be placed on the Entry or Ban lists using "guild:abbreviation"

Publish 0.118054
March 31, 2005

Player Event Perks

•  Fixed an issue preventing the jukebox from playing.

GCW

•  Eased the faction base placement restrictions

Misc.

•  Improve server stability

•  Fixed issue where objects could not be moved up or down in one of the rooms of the Corellian small style 2 house

Live - April 1, 2005
Version 0.11825
 
Group Loot

•  Jedi can no longer tune force crystals or krayt pearls in the lottery loot window.

Vendor Search

•  Added min and max price filter UI to the vendor search

Player Associations

•  PA election information will no longer be forgotten by guild terminals. Any elections in progress will be recovered and accessible from the guild terminal once more.

Version 0.119880
April 18th, 2005

Vendor Search

•  Fix text clipping in the commodities min/max price filter window

•  Improved commodities category search to include individual item type. 

•  Improved commodities category search for factory crates to include the actual item inside the crate.

GCW

•  Faction bases now can be placed in clusters of 3. There can be no more than 3 bases within 600 meters of one another.

Misc

•  Modify containment system to prevent CS from accidentally putting players in their inventory (stop laughing =P )

Combat Upgrade April 27th, 2005

Things to know about the Character Respec Process

Jedi and The Force Ranking System (FRS)

•  In order for Jedi players to be able to respec along with the other Combat Professions, we are going to have to turn off the Force Ranking System. Without going into too much detail, the FRS is a system that "sits on top" of the Jedi skill boxes. Unless we wipe the FRS entirely and turn it off during the respec period, Jedi will not be able to alter their player templates.

•  All FRS ranking, skills and titles will go away (Knight/Master titles will stay). The Knight Trials will be turned off. We intend to bring FRS back as soon as possible, and will be making improvements to the system while it is offline.

The Character Respec Process

When you log in to the game you will receive a pop-up box. This box will give you a brief explanation of the respec process as well as the slash command to re-access it at a later time if you choose. You will then see an option to be taken to the respec screen. The selections on this screen are:

•  Never

•  Later

•  Yes

If you choose never, you will still have access to the initial screen by typing in /respec

•  If you choose later, you will receive the pop up box on your next play session.

•  If you choose yes, you will be taken to the respec screen.

The next screen contains a lot of information so be sure that you read it ALL before progressing. There are automated help bubbles to assist you with this process.

The respec screen looks similar to the skill tree. You will manipulate your skill points on this screen. The only skills that will be able to be respec'd are the combat skills.

Players may respec their skills once every 12 hours for two weeks from the initial login for Combat Upgrade - however there may come a time where we may need to withdraw this down the road.

Professions that can respec:

•  Brawler

•  Marksman

•  Scout

•  Fencer

•  Pike

•  Swordsman

•  Teras Kasi

•  Carbineer

•  Rifleman

•  Pistoleer

•  Commando

•  Squad Leader

•  Bounty Hunter

•  Bio-Engineer

•  Doctor

•  Combat Medic

•  Ranger

•  Jedi

•  Creature Handler

•  Smuggler

•  Medic

The Level Each Color Represents in the Creature / NPC "Con" Color Chart

•  Grey - Too low - Minimal experience, not worth fighting.

•  Green - A small amount of experience, should be an easy fight, could be trouble if there are more than 1 or 2 opponents.

•  Blue - Ideal target, decent experience 1 on 1, but could be tough if there are 2 or more opponents.

•  White - Even Target 1 on 1; good fight

•  Yellow - Dangerous fight; stronger than you, but you might win. Good luck!

•  Red - Very dangerous fight. Unlikely you will beat this opponent

•  Purple - Certain Death

Vendors / Vendor Search

•  Items that are on vendors need to be removed from the vendor and relisted in order to show the proper stats

Known issues - We will be publishing a hotfix once they pass internal testing

•  Some low-level creatures and NPCs have old weapons with added elemental damage, so they can do twice the expected amount of damage.

•  Pets sometimes run away from their masters. They usually return quickly, and tend to do it right after combat ends. Make sure you confirm your pet is where you expect it to be before you start that next battle!

•  Weapon certifications have a bug where some low level weapons require high level certifications, making them not very useful.

•  Targets in space have a big red health bar over them, like targets on the ground. Just makes space a bit ugly.

•  Krayts and other mobs are not entering the world at the correct level

Hints and Tips from the Community

•  Remember that everything has changed.

•  Treat it just like you are playing a new game and having to learn about it.

•  Many of the special abilities are on different timers. Pay attention how long your special abilities take to complete and which "cool-down" groups they are in. Then, you can time your attacks so that while one attack is "cooling down", you can use your other attack to stay in the fight!

•  Don't SPAM! Combat is different and you need to pay attention to what is going on

•  Know your recoveries!

•  Keep an eye on that Action Bar!

•  Don't "assume" that specials will do what they did before the upgrade.

•  Use the Line of Sight, use the -ROOT- Attacks, and make sure before going in understand that your first move my not be the right move all of the time.

•  Always consider adding your state recovery abilities on your toolbar for fast access - - especially Knock Down Recovery.

•  After traveling, make sure to store your vehicle before entering combat. It can save extra wear and tear on it by preventing NPC's and creatures from attacking it if you leave it out in the world.

•  If you are incapacitated, be sure to turn your auto-attack off while laying on the ground otherwise when you get up your attack will go off and you could be incapacitated again by getting the attention of an angry creature or NPC!

•  If you turn combat spam to brief mode (options->misc), you can drag the combat tab to its own window and make it small, you can have a nice view of combat taken/delivered without sacrificing the chat window. To enhance this, set up sentence colorization to your name and you can differentiate yourself from other people in combat.

•  See your local chef for Dustcrepe and Jaar; they can provide an instant cure for Disease and Poison, respectively. These will be useful to have around for combatants without a Doctor present. Your local chef can also provide Cavaellin Cremes and Starshine Surprise! Both of these will decrease incapacitation time. While you respec your character, you can save yourself some time in the respec window by double-clicking on the skill boxes you want to take, instead of clicking on it and selecting 'add'.

•  Listening to an entertainer for a few minutes will give you a percentage bonus to most forms of experience gain for several hours. New players/characters: be sure to listen to an entertainer or pick up entertainer yourself - - it works in camps out in the field too!

•  If you're getting lower than expected damage with your typical weapon, swap over to a weapon with the other damage type (kinetic/energy) if you have one. It often makes a big difference.

•  Watch your action/mind bars! If they drop too far, your auto-attack will shut down and you'll need to re-attack! The fastest way to die is to just be standing there because you didn't realize that you weren't attacking.

•  If you have medic skills, using them in a fight can buy you time to get your action bar recharged. If action gets low, slap down heals for a few cycles to give it a chance to recharge; they drain little enough action that your regen will outpace the amount they use, and the heals will mostly counter or even outpace the damage you're taking.

•  If your target BAFs, run and gun. The friends will eventually drop away and you can finish your target.

•  You can no longer solo a Krayt, so don't try!

•  When you see a RED con, it REALLY means you will not win!

•  Weapons have Max ranges, use your "roots" and "snares" to your advantage

•  Deathblow - Creatures and NPCs who perform deathblow will currently do them every time, and from range. You need to be careful out there!

Live April 29th
Version 0.121430

AI

·  Some AI have learned the art of the death blow.

Buffs

·  Increasing values of accuracy and defense buffs and debuffs for a more noticable effect

Crafting

·  Loot drops that consist of stacks of items, such as a stack of Krayt Dragon Tissue, cannot be directly used as a crafting ingredient. An item must be removed from the stack and used instead.

Combat

·  All DoT messages should now be displayed as combat spam instead of system messages

Structures

·  Entering a structure that an AI does not have permission to enter, causes the AI to exit combat.

Professions

·  You should no longer be able to attempt to use a medical enhancer if you do not have the appropriate command

·  The squad leader /boostMorale command should now work a little better when the group has a very small number of wounds

Pets

·  Pets now follow their master after exiting combat

·  Pets now understand the guard command again

·  Fixed role icon issues with pets joining the group

·  Pets will no longer have Action or Mind wounds

Vehicles / Mounts

·  Fixed problem where avatar would stand up if a weapon was equipped while driving a vehicle

·  Performing medical actions while mounted should no longer attempt to execute the command

·  Fixed a problem where holding a weapon while driving a vehicle or sitting in a chair in space could cause the avatar's back to go through chair

UI

·  Color palettes are properly formatted

·  Fixed a bug where the experience bars in the skill screen would sometimes be in the wrong place

·  Heads should no longer twitch when targeting another player, NPC, or creature.

·  Icons now show up for advanced and improved actions in the skills granted section of the skills window

·  Added "Queued" message to tooltip of queued command in the toolbar

·  Inventory windows now default to having the examine window open, for new characters

·  Loading Screen Fixes

May 1, 2005 Version 0.121608

Jedi

·  LightSaber attacks should no longer drain force when out of range

·  Anti-Decay Kits will now work on LightSabers

Respec

·  You can now use /respec instead of /ui action skillsRespec

·  Respec points that are leftover after a respec are now preserved until your next respec

·  Changed respec confirmation message to better reflect the process

·  Players will not earn master badges as long as they are eligible to respec. Badges will be granted for master skills that the player has once he is no longer eligible to respec.

Creatures / NPCs

·  Krayt Dragons have had their difficulty increased.

·  Elite mobs now have an indicator icon

UI

·  You should now be able to use the /consent and /unconsent commands on your target without having to type the player name

·  On your next login, all "old-style" icons for commands that are now invalid will be cleaned out of your toolbar

·  Visual effect appears again for personal shield generators.

·  Fixed the characters not scaling

·  Player animations have been fixed and should appear smooth and lifelike.

·  Escape key now correctly causes all toolbar actions (that haven't already started) to stop

·  Changed Height of Target Window to match Personal HAM window

·  Centered Target Level in the CON shield in Target Window.

·  Made the Group UI background invisible.

·  Removed a erroneous graphical element from the group UI

·  When in combat, the name of the currently targeted object will flash if it is attackable or is an enemy

Cybernetics

·  Disabled death-penalty cybernetics.

·  CharacterSheet: the cybernetics button should only appear if the player is actually wearing a cybernetic piece

Weapons

·  Prevented weapon bolts from passing through their targets

Professions

·  The Teras Kasi power boost ability should now give you a buff icon

·  Droid stimpack dispensor modules should now function properly

·  The Jedi "forceMeditate" and Teras Kasi "meditate" commands must be done while the player is sitting on the ground. They will no longer automatically put the player in a sitting posture.

·  Fixed a CTD when using the /cover ability.

·  Healing an opponent while dueling should heal yourself.

·  Ranger

·  /conceal should again function

·  Mask Scent and Conceal should no longer be broken by combat

·  Added buff icons for conceal and mask scent

Chat

·  Players can now invite a group to a chat room by doing a "group invite" on the leader of the group. This can be accomplished in two different ways.

·  By using the new "invite group" button has been added to the chat room invite dialog.T

·  Through a chat command - /chatroom invitegroup [room name]

Vehicles

·  Particle effects should no longer go off when you enter/exit vehicle.

Misc

·  Drinks purchased from bartender should now be able to be consumed

Live - Version 0.122039 May 5th, 2005

AI

·  Fixed a bug causing some AI to not use all of their special attacks.

Avatar

·  Fixed a problem where the avatars right arm would go through the acid launcher or heavy beam cannon

Misc

·  Balance Pass for Dathomir, Yavin IV, Lok and GCW

Pets

·  Fixed the examine information for Pet Instant Stimpacks. These were showing 0 power.

·  Fixed ability to call multiple pets simultaneously from the same PCD

Chat

·  Fixed some issues with the chat bubbles "bouncing.

·  Removed posture change chat messages from showing in the chat window

·  Combat spam has been reduced to its proper amount.

UI

·  Character creation and armor hueing now show valid palettes.

·  Changed "OK" to "Yes" in /respec dialog box message to match the button

·  Bleed particles should now play in the correct location

Icons

·  Updated the icon for taunt.

·  Updated the Icon textures with revised icons.

·  Hooked up chatter commands to use a new style icon.

·  Abilities that inflict a combat state on a target should now display the proper icon

·  On your next login, all "old-style" icons for commands that are now invalid will be cleaned out of your toolbar

Conversion

·  Fixed crates of converted Personal Shield Generators. PSGs that were pulled from converted crates were not getting assigned the correct protection values and recharge rate. The PSGs already pulled from crates have also been fixed.

·  Added conversion rules for Vibro Blade Components.

·  Converted the quest version of the E11 Carbine to the E11 Mark II Carbine.

·  Sitting regen rates have been more than doubled

Combat

·  Medical actions can no longer be performed while paralyzed

·  Damage taken from an attack or DoT will now remove paralyze effects

·  Sitting regen rates have been more than doubled

·  Berserk particles now wear off when the berserk buff wears off, not two minutes later

·  Bacta Spray particles have been reduced for players receiving the heal

·  Adjusted the value and duration for the /infect ability

Professions

·  Inspirations should give proper experience bonuses now.

·  Fixed typo in inspiration text

·  Deathblow text will be sent to players around the combatants as well as the combatants.

·  Added a Level 30 Carbine to the Weaponsmith Schematics

·  Added the Alliance Disruptor to the WeaponSmith Schematics

·  Reduced lightsaber Force costs by 50%

·  Added in BactaShot 2 to Doctor Master

·  ImageDesigner: removed the obsolete stat migration button

·  Slightly reduced Force Powers costs

·  Medical abilities that are not intended to work on incapacitated or dead targets will no longer work on incapacitated or dead targets

·  Next professsion field in skills window enlarged to show 7 entries, to support Marksman->Squad Leader

·  Changed chance-to-tame formula for creature handlers to ensure that you have a chance to tame and can call any pet that you should be able to tame according to your "tame level" skill. You still need at least some Tame Vicious Creatures skill in order to tame or call aggressive creatures. In general, if your tame level is 70, then you should have a chance of taming and be able to call any creature up to level 70, without additional skill bonuses from species or skilltapes. Tame bonus, tame wild animals and tame vicious creatures bonuses will still be useful in taming creatures in fewer attempts, but will no longer make the difference between being able to make the attempt

Ranger

·  Fixed conceal icon not being removed if you traveled to a different planet or on login.

·  Fixed conceal being removed if you traveled within the same planet

·  Fixed conceal not working on some planets

·  Fixed conceal not being removed if you had yourself targeted

May 6th, 2005
Version 0.122156

Combat

·  Adjusted Hitpoint & Damage balance for Elite & Boss NPCs.

·  Adjusted loot randomization for Elite & Boss NPCs such that they are more likely to drop loot with better stats.

·  Added Snare & Root resistances to certain high level NPCs.

Kashyyyk

·  Extended the timer for the Blackscale Processing Camp instance to 90 minutes.

·  Hssissk Bloodscale has been moved out from under the wooden platform.

Space

·  Fixed an issue where the cockpit of a player spaceship would disappear after dying.

May 10th, 2005
Update Notes 0.122312

Please Note: "Double XP" week has ended and on all Galaxies, except for Chimaera, and on those galaxies play experience will return to normal experience point rates.

Chimaera's 4X XP will continue through May 12th as previously announced.

Buffs

·  Re-applying a buff will now extend the duration of that buff, as if you had just applied it from scratch (instead of ignoring it).

Character Respec

·  Made non-combat professions eligible for character respec. (Crafters, Entertainers)

·  Clicking "yes" on respec dialog box no longer closes respec window if it was open.

Combat

·  Fixed an issue where zoning caused auto-attack to turn off.

·  Combat spam now reports the correct weapon name when using Force powers or grenades.

·  Critical Shot will now correctly do more damage when a critical hit is scored.

·  Area Taunt now correctly generates hate to targets in range.

·  Non damage attacks like taunt will no longer show an invalid flytext amount.

·  Nightsister and Peko Albatross should now have proper bonus attributes.

·  Commands that fail due to a bad state or posture will give feedback about why the command failed.

·  Nightsister, Peko Albatross and RIS layers should now have proper bonus attributes.

Crafting

·  Crafting weapons will now grant the appropriate General or Weapon Crafting XP.

·  Fixed the way resources are evaluated when used in crafting. Under the old system, a resource's final value for an attribute was the position its rating had between the minimum and maximum possible attribute value for any resource that could go into that slot. Now, it is only relative to the maximum. This will generally improve the value of all resources, especially high-end resources which have high minimum values, especially when used in slots that have very strict requirements. So, for example, assume Frobozium steel has a toughness range from 750-850, and also assume that this steel is being used in a slot which specifically requires Frobozium steel. Under the old system, a particular frobozium steel with a toughness of 800 was considered 50% tough. Under the new system, it will be 94% tough (800 / 850). This change is now also reflected in the visual toolbar.

·  Food and drink components should now show up under the 'Component' sub-menu of the crafting tool and you should no longer be given the option to consume food or drink components.

Cybernetics

·  Moved cyborgRevive and cyborgBurstRun from the COMBAT tab to the OTHER tab in the command browser (CTRL-A).

·  Wookiee armor can now be worn with cybernetic arms.

GCW

·  Fixed defuse minefield functionality for faction bases.

Inventory

·  Players can now equip an item without having to remove any item(s) that are equipped in the same slot. The item currently equipped will be put in the player's inventory. If the item the player is trying to equip is not usable by the player, the currently equipped item will not be moved.

Kashyyyk

·  Fixed some collision issues with impassable terrain in Kashyyyk.

·  Tree cantina in Kachirho is now a usable cantina.

·  Kkowir Forest: The Arena Challenge should now reset properly.

·  The launch terminal on the Avatar Space Platform will now only have the options to launch or eject from the station. Double clicking on the terminal will default to the launch option.

·  Made launch to be the default option on the Avatar space terminal.

·  Traveling to Avatar Platform now invites all group members in the space zone, rather than within a 1km radius.

Mounts and Vehicles

·  Varactyl PCD's can now be traded.

Music

·  Players will now hear music when they learn the Wookiee language from Omwaan on Kashyyyk.

Player Associations

·  Fixed an issue where the Guild Management Terminal stopped working after a PA Leader removed themselves from a guild before transferring leadership.

Profession: Armorsmith

·  RIS layers should now have proper bonus attributes.

Profession: Jedi

·  Removed Jedi PvE experience penalty on death. Experience penalty for Bounty deaths still exists.

·  Lightsaber elemental damage amounts will now correctly update any time a crystal/pearl is added or removed from the saber.

·  Fixed issues with Jedi healing that caused incorrect amounts of Force power to be used.

Profession: Shipwright

·  Made across the board stat increases for Max Energy and Recharge Rate on crafted capacitors.

·  Made across the board stat increases for Max Speed on crafted engines.

Profession: Weaponsmith

·  Grenade crates should now produce grenades with proper execution times.

Quests

·  Kint Szam will give the Kkorrwrot badge to players who speak to him and have already finished the Kkorrwrot hunt.

·  The Clone Relic quest for the Clone Trooper armor will now give out the Hologram X-wing reward correctly when you do the Rebel path.

·  Clone Trooper Armor Quest: You will now receive the full set of the Clone Trooper armor when finishing this quest, even if your inventory is full.

·  "Befriend the Wookiee" quest is now repeatable if failed. If player fails the quest, just talk to Boshaz to restart the quest.

·  Fixed an issue with unpacking ARC-170 deeds.

·  Added bio-linking to some of the weapon quest rewards.

·  Corrected range for Soulstinger, Heartbreaker, and Necrosis weapons.

Space

·  The Vaksai fighter, Advanced Xwing, and Imperial Guard Tie Interceptor now allow droids to be installed.

·  Dying in space will cause wounds again.

UI

·  If you lose a skill that you are currently displaying as your role, your role is changed to the next valid role.

·  The map UI now appears for Hracca Glade.

·  The map UI will correctly disable when in the Arena.

·  User Interface reset defaults now resets default locations.

·  Messages about XP granted will appear in the general chat channel.

·  Fixed an issue where last 5-10% of spinning timer would just disappear suddenly.

·  Fixed an issue with the duration of the Berserk particle effect. The particle should now vanish when the Berserk buffs wears off.

May 11th, 2005
Update Notes 0.122419

Quests

·  Talking to Boshaz will restart the "Befriend the Wookiee" quest if it was failed once before.

·  If you fail the space mission on Boba Fett's Clone Relic quest, you will now be able to go back to the contact on Rori and restart the mission.

·  Queen Kylantha will now let you take her Clone Relic mission if you are Rebel ground faction, no matter what your space faction is.

·  Master Pilot medals and the Trandoshan Scale of Honor will now be bio-linked when given out.

Profession: Shipwright

·  Increased the yaw/pitch/roll experimentation ranges for all levels of crafted engines.

Profession: Teras Kasi

·  Knuckles of the Katarn are now classified as "unarmed".

Space

·  Fixed problem that disallowed players from dropping more than 1 item in a Y-8 Mining Ship.

·  Fixed an issue that disallowed players from re-deeding new ship types.? Affected ship types are:? Advanced X-Wing, ARC-170, Vaksai, Actis Interceptor, Belbullab, Imperial Guard TIE Interceptor and the Y-8.

May 12th, 2005
Update Notes 0.122519

On Thursday, May 12th, 2005 at 3:00AM PDT all servers will be taken down for a publish update.

All Galaxies, Launchpad Chat, the Official Fan Site and the Community Forums will be taken out of service for maintenance until 8:00AM PDT.


Client Stability Enhancements

Improved client stability.

Quests

Clone trooper armor will again be given out correctly when finishing the quest.

May 14th, 2005
Version 0.122622

·  Changed Poison Spike loot drop to have a range of 5 meters

·  Seeker droids will no longer function in Kashyyyk

·  Clone trooper armor will again be given out correctly when finishing the quest.

·  Jedi can now get replacement Padawan Robes from Force Shrines

May 18th, 2005
Version 0.122850

·  The terminal on Avatar will automatically send a player's avatar to Kachirho in the case of a player being unable to launch from the platform.

·  Fixed an issue that was causing players to end up in a void when passing through doorways. 

May 19th, 2005
Version 0.123011

In this hot fix publish to Live servers we have added some Japanese localization files for our friends on the Japan servers and corrected an issue where some players were crashing to desktop. In addition we have added 6 additional days to /respec starting today (May 18th, 2005). Read on for more details:

/respec

·  All existing characters that have not used /respec will have 21 days from the date they login (after CU went to Live servers) to utilize their /respec abilities. After 21 days the above pop-up message below will be shown to alert the player of their final /respec.

·  The Respec timer has been extended for all players who logged in directly after the CU went Live to 6 additional days from today. On the 6th day please read your respec pop-up boxes very closely. Any mistakes made will not be corrected by Customer Service.

Below is the warning message that will pop-up in game for your last character respec:

*WARNING* - Your ability to respec is about to expire.

Your ability to respec your character is about to expire. You may still respec your character during this session, however, once you log out from this session, your ability to respec will be revoked. Please make sure that the way your character is when you leave this session is your final desired configuration.

The following is the standard respec message:

You have been authorized to respec your character; that is, to reassign your skills and player statistics. If you would like, we can begin this process now. We recommend, however, that you play with your existing character long enough to determine what you would like your new skills to be.

Click "Yes" to begin the process now, "Later" to be reminded later, and "Never" to never be reminded again.

You may also begin the respec process at your leisure by using the command "/respec".

Publish 17.0
May 26th, 2005

Major Features

Multi-Passenger Vehicles

Multi-passenger vehicles have been added to Star Wars TM Galaxies!  There are a total of 7 vehicles that now have ground-based, multi-passenger functionality.   

Existing Vehicles

Previous versions of these vehicles will now have multi-passenger capabilities.  For example, if you already own an X34 speeder, your vehicle can now carry another passenger! 

·  X31

·  X34

·  Flash Speeder

·  AV-21 

New Vehicles

·  Master Artisans craft these new multi-passenger vehicles (in addition to existing vehicles).

·  AB-1 (new)

·  XP-38 (new)

·  V-35 SoroSuub Carrier (new) also known as "the Lars family speeder" can carry up to six passengers!

Multi Passenger Commands

·  /offerRide -- asks the target player if they would like to accept a ride.  This command also appears on the radial menu.  The "offer ride" menu will not show up if the target passenger is already mounted onto the vehicle.

·  /acceptRide -- Passenger accepts the ride.

·  /declineRide -- Passenger declines the ride.

Once a passenger accepts the ride, they are placed inside the vehicle and can ride along.  Passengers can click on the vehicle to get the Enter/Exit Vehicle menu, which will drop them out of the vehicle.  Drivers will be unable to kick people from the passenger group until they exit the vehicle.  When the driver of a vehicle exits the vehicle, everyone else in the passenger group will too.

New Player Tutorial

Star Wars Galaxies is getting a new quest-based Tutorial and New Player Experience!  Now, the new player experience starts at the beginning with character creation.  Players will still be able to choose from a selected set of clothing choices for their new character.  Players will no longer choose a profession and start the game with all of the novice boxes trained.  Starting in the space station, new players will learn the basic skills of moving, shooting, and communicating.  Once they have mastered those basic skills they are taken to Mos Eisley where their mentor, Trehla Keelo, will train them in the fundamental systems of the Star Wars TM Galaxies experience. They may then move on to a fully directed story based quest that teaches them  the basics of their chosen profession, while they uncover what is going on in Mos Eisley and earn their first badges!

Character Transfer with Items

·  The character transfer service will now optionally include some items in the player inventory.   

Other Publish Notes:

[DEVL]

·  Players may occasionally start seeing a "[DEVL]" text message in their chat window.   If you see this message in the game during a time when you are having a problem and send in a /bug report, please include the complete name of the string you receive with [DEVL].  If possible, please let us know what you were doing at the time.

Art

·  Fixed an issue with the Kashyyyk Bantha's mouth.

·  Asteroid hit effects no longer extensively clip into other asteroids.

Artificial Intelligence

·  As a player becomes higher in level than an NPC or creature, the aggro radius vs. the AI becomes smaller. A gray con will never aggro. The exception to this is Imperial and Rebel NPC enemies who will still have a full aggro radius.

·  Creatures and NPCs will stop combat with players when they enter any player owned structure. Prior to this, creatures and NPCs only stopped combat when entering a private player structure.

·  Fixed a case where players would stay in combat when traveling from a ground zone to any other zone.

·  Fixed an issue where attacking NPCs would aim and then lower their weapon between attacks

Avatar

·  Updated the personal light functionality to automatically turn the personal light on at night and off during the day unless the player has toggled it - then it is left alone for the remainder of the session (press CTRL-L to turn your personal light on and off

·  Attempting to move forward by using a keyboard control or by using the mouse while also trying to move backwards using the keyboard at the same time will result in the avatar moving backwards. 

·  If you are using the MMORPG(Modeless) keyboard controls, it is now possible to camera orbit around a character that's mounted on a vehicle.

 Client Stability

·  Improved client stability

Combat

·  You can now /con another player

·  Wounds to stats other than HEALTH will automatically be healed upon logging in.

·  Deathblow text will be sent to players around the combatants as well as the combatants.

·  Increased XP grants for killing aggressive, pack and killer NPCs.  NPCs that are aggressive or assist each other will give a 5% bonus XP amount.  NPCs that will perform a deathblow will also give a 5% bonus XP amount

·  Fixed Lair XP grants:  Lairs should now give the correct XP again for destroying them

·  Attacking a lair will put you in combat for a short period of time

·  Commands that fail due to a bad state or posture will give feedback about why the command failed

·  Fixed an issue that caused mission generated NPC's to spawn with higher than intended statistics

·  Fixed an issue that caused combat spam to not display correctly for auto-attacks

·  Fixed an issue with kill-credit assessment.  Now if an NPC or creature does the majority of damage (over 65%) to a target then no one will get kill rights

·  Fixed an issue with combat states. If a creature or NPC is chasing you, you will now be in combat. Previously there were cases where you would not hear combat music, but a creature or NPC would be chasing you

·  A 5 second warm-up, 1 second execution time, and 5 sec cool-down has been added for the deathblow ability

·  Creature damage ranges are now larger but average damage done remains the same.  This was done to help tankers take less damage on average than the other professions so they may better fulfill their role in combat

·  Buff bars will properly display buffs

·  Buffs should now be removed from players upon death

·  You should no longer be able to use a stimpack when you are at full health

·  Fixed an issue in the buff system that affects persisted buffs, potentially greatly increasing their time to be active

·  You should no longer attempt to attack yourself when auto-attack is on and you target yourself

·  Camouflage kits are now usable from the button bar

·  Fixed an issue with duration of Berserk particle effect.  Particle should now vanish when the Berserk buffs wears off

Crafters

·  Ranger created camouflage kits are now usable by everyone.  Any player may now self-apply a camouflage kit to gain a small conceal buff. This buff is less effective than if a Ranger had applied the camouflage, but it should aid crafters in avoiding the unwanted attention of critters near their installations.  Also, camouflage kits are now usable from the button bar

·  Crafting weapons will now grant the appropriate General or Weapon Crafting XP

·  Recyclers will now be craftable again

Creatures

·  Krayt Dragons have had their difficulty increased.

Cybernetics

·  Added a radial menu option for Wookiees to be able to turn their chest plates into 3 pieces so they can wear Cybernetics with Wookiee chest plates.  Old Wookiee chest plates must be converted before they can work with Cybernetics (Armorsmiths have new schematics for these pieces).

Droids

·  "Program Droid" flight commands radial menu option no longer appears a droid control device if the player is not a pilot.

Dungeons

·  The launch terminal on the Avatar Space Platform will now only have the options to launch or eject from the station. Double clicking on the terminal will default to the launch option. 

Galactic Civil War

·  Faction bases now can be placed in clusters of 3. There can be no more than 3 bases within 600 meters of one another.

·  Fixed "attack" and "guard" default command setup for faction perk NPCs and droids.

Pets

·  Pet Armor should function correctly.

·  Pets will no longer have Action or Mind wounds

·  Some rare pets have traded hit points for bonus damage and armor

·  All group members can see pet health bars in a group.

·  Changed pet regen.  Droids will no longer regen naturally, they must be repaired.  Creature pets will now regen at their correctly balanced regeneration rates for their level.

Buffs

·  Fixed a problem where buff stacking rules were not being correctly enforced. Buffs should now stack normally.

Profession: Armorsmith

·  Armorsmiths can now craft Wookiee armor chest plates with 3 pieces so Wookiees can wear Cybernetics with Wookiee chest plates

·  Increased condition on Factional armor

·  Lowered complexity on armor segments and cores.

Profession: Bio-Engineer

·  Using /sampleDNA will no longer set off your auto attack

·  Bio-Engineer Pet Levels should now function properly

·  Bio-Engineer Pet Re-sampling should now function properly.  Crafted pets should be able to be re-sampled and reused to craft new DNA

·  Bio-Engineered creatures should now be usable and have reasonable balance for their level.  Crafted pet levels should be appropriate for the stats the crafted creature receives

·  Bio-Engineered pets from before the Combat Upgrade should convert to a usable state when called. (Old armor values will be replaced by new ones, appropriate to the creature's level)

·  Bio-Engineer Pet Stats fixed to have an effect on function

·  Each of the following DNA traits now affect new attributes:

·  Hardiness: Health

·  Endurance: Health Regen Rate

·  Fortitude: General Protection (Base Armor)

·  Dexterity: Defense Value

·  Cleverness: To Hit Value

·  Power: Min/Max Damage

·  Intellect: Reduces the effectiveness of intimidated, stun, dizzy, and blinded state effects.*

·  Fierceness: Adds a small chance for each attack to be a critical hit.

·  Dependability: Adds a small chance for the creature to absorb half damage on a hit (critical save).

·  Courage: Aggro generation bonus added to normal attacks.

* This doesn't reduce the chance the state effect will be applied, but reduces the amount it impacts the pet's ability to fight. Dizzy, for example, makes the pet less likely to hit and more likely to be hit. A dizzy pet with high state resist will fight better in that condition.

Profession: Creature Handler

·  Using /tame will no longer set off your auto attack

·  Pets will no longer have Action or Mind wounds

·  When taming vicious creatures, if a creature handler is unable to call a high-level vicious creature, the player should receive a message with details why the pet cannot be called

·  Fixed an issue with Creature Handler skill progressions and XP caps

·  Non-CH pet damage will now reduce XP amounts granted and possibly result in no kill rights.  CH pet damage will still count towards CH XP

·  Motley Kaadu and Plodding Falumpaset are now tamable

·  Lowered the Cu-Pa and Dwarf Bantha to level 10.

Profession: Doctor

·  Fixed an issue that caused Bacta Infusion effect to persist forever

Profession: Droid Engineer

·  Droids with Detonation Modules in them will now properly damage their targets again.  Damage output of the Detonation Droid was adjusted to match the new balance of the Combat Upgrade. Detonation Droids now do Kinetic base damage plus a 10% bonus damage of Heat

·  Droid repair modules should repair the proper attributes

·  Crafting Droid Armor Module 5 and 6 should no longer require a Composite Armor Segment.

·  Fixed Droid Auto-Repair module to correctly heal droid Health

Profession: Dancers, Entertainers, Musicians

·  Added the ability to set a /covercharge for performers.

·  Performers can now set themselves to have a cover charge.  Use the command /covercharge <amt>.  You can reset it by /covercharge 0 or null)

·  Audience members who "watch" or "listen" to the performer will get a pop up box asking if they wish to pay the cover charge.

·  Once the performance is complete, the performer will receive the cover charge funds when the audience member stops listening/watching.

·  More than one audience member at a time may pay the cover charge and view the performance.

·  Inspirations should give proper experience bonuses now.

·  Fixed a typo in the inspiration buff text.

·  Extended performer experience rewards to all members of the buffer's band

·  Extended experience types affected by inspiration buff.

Profession: Jedi

·  Fixed an issue with Force Breach:  Force Breach now has a 50% chance to strip each beneficial Force Enhancement from the target.

·  Lightsaber elemental damage amounts will now correctly update any time a crystal/pearl is added or removed from the saber.

·  Fixed some issues with Jedi healing that caused incorrect amounts of Force power to be used.

·  Added a de-buff icon for the Force Choke effect.

·  Fixed incorrect buff icons for Force Resist Bleeding, Force Resist Poison, Force Resist Disease, Force Resist States and Force Cloak.

Professions: Ranger

·  A recipe for traveling Kashyyyk with enhanced stealth has been devised. See Achonnko in the Rryatt Trail for more details. 

Profession: Rifleman

·  The "Cover" command should work correctly now.
A player that moves during a command warm-up will get a message saying the command has been canceled, and the warm-up timer will be removed.

Profession: Squad Leader

·  /formup will no longer remove Dizzy and/or Stun from team members involved in PvP.

·  Squad Leader buffs should show up as buff icons to group members.

·  The on-screen retreat message will display properly.

·  Squad Leader experience requirements should no longer require incorrect skill branches.

·  Squad Leader profession requirements should now be accurately reflected in the skills window (CTRL-S).

Profession: Weaponsmith

·  Added a Level 30 Carbine Weaponsmith Schematic.

·  Added the Alliance Disruptor Weaponsmith Schematic.

·  Newly crafted grenade wiring and explosive power-ups now work on grenades.

Profession: Artisan

·  Legacy power-ups have been converted to work under the new system at near maximum values (30% damage for explosives & 30% speed for wiring).

·  Power-ups now use "Decay Resistance" during crafting which will make it easier to get higher efficiency values.

·  Efficiency values are now tied to the number of uses for power-ups.  Higher efficiency now gives a greater number of charges.

·  Max values for power-up bonuses have been raised slightly.  

Quests

·  New Rage of the Wookiees quest Heralds added.

·  Myyydril Caverns: Players should not be ejected to Kkowir forest on death or transitioning to the Necrosis Encounter.

·  Myyydril Caverns: The Necrosis encounter will no longer report that it is active when the area is empty.

·  Myyydril Caverns: The Myyydril Chief will speak with you again if you have previously told him you would not help.

·  Hssissk should now grant correct reward on quest completion.

·  If you have issues with Stren Colo's Jessk Bounty you can speak with Tien Wallub again to restart the quest.

·  Fixed a waypoint issue in Story Arc 1: Secrets of the Syren, quest 2 

Sounds

·  Fixed an issue where Varactyl animations made no sounds.

·  Increased default Max Sounds setting from 16 to 32.

Space

·  The Rodian warlords Tripp and Sordaan have base commanders on patrol that will give you missions. After you have completed the main Kashyyyk space story-line, you can talk to these pilots for new (Tier 5) duty missions.

·  Did you know you could converse with certain escort targets? When you begin your career as a Civilian Protector, you can chat with the transports you are escorting and rescuing. They will give you more information about the villainous Ghrag, the reborn Gotal cyborg pilots, and a few surprises!

·  A new space mission is available to pilots who complete the Space Kashyyyk storyline. Converse with the "CPG Veteran" pilot that patrols the Kashyyyk space station. This pilot has found a weak link in the Ghrag communication chain and can give coordinates to intercept 'high level' mercenaries that have been brought in to replace the ones you destroyed.

Trading

·  You can no longer trade while incapacitated or dead.

Tutorial

·  Players should face the correct direction when starting or skipping the tutorial (the same direction as when he or she logged out).

·  Personal light should no longer turn on/off in the tutorial.

·  Added New Player Ground Quests.

User Interface

·  Game text chat color names will appear in the language of the client.  Players who have played the same character in multiple locales may lose their color settings for game text chat colors only.  User created filters will not be affected.

·  Messages about XP granted will appear in the general chat channel

·  PlanetMap - Various Kashyyyk zone maps (especially Kachirho) show the player's location more accurately

·  Added a new keymap button at the top level of the options screen (CTRL-O) to make it easier and more intuitive to change the game controls

·  Fixed several issues with displaying palette selections for Image Designer, Character Creation, and Object Customization palettes

·  Added new particle effects for knock down state and buffs

·  Removed unnecessary posture change chat messages; ex. "/sit", "/prone", "/stand", etc

·  All group members can see pet health bars in a group

·  Ham bars (particularly health) should be stable now (not jump around when a creature takes damage)

·  The space toolbar and the ground toolbar now save different sets of icons

·  The following settings on the Graphics tab of SwgClientSetup are now properly saved:

·  "Use Low Detail Textures"

·  "Use Low Detail Normal Maps"

·  " Disable Multi-Pass Rendering"

·  "Disable Vsync (Allow Tearing )

·  Added distance to the tooltip on the radar

·  You can turn on and off your fly-text and your target's fly-text (Options - CTRL-O)

·  Fly-text for damage and states should now be delayed until the bolt hits.

·  Fly-text is clamped to the top of the screen

·  Fly-text is in world space (doesn't travel w/the object - just flys up)

·  The buttons in the dealer UI no longer overlap.

·  Fixed the blinking nameplates when the target was not visible, but selected and changed to a pulse.

·  Added extended weapon and armor tooltip information to inventory and auction items

·  Species restrictions are displayed on armor.

·  Any new auction will have expanded information in the tool-tip for the item

·  The con icon will show up in the target window.

Vehicles

·  Multi-passenger vehicles have been added to Star Wars TM Galaxies!  There are a total of 7 vehicles that now have ground-based, multi-passenger functionality.  

·  Existing Vehicles: Previous versions of these vehicles will now have multi-passenger capabilities.  For example, if you already own an X34 speeder, your vehicle now can carry another passenger!  X31, X34, Flash Speeder, AV-21

·  New Vehicles: Master Artisans craft these new multi-passenger vehicles.  AB-1 (new), XP-38 (new), V-35 SoroSuub Carrier (new) Also known as "the Lars family speeder".

·  Multi Passenger Commands

·  /offerRide -- asks the target player if they would like to accept a ride.  This command also appears on the radial menu.  The "offer ride" menu will not show up if the target passenger is already mounted onto the vehicle.

·  /acceptRide -- Passenger accepts the ride.

·  /declineRide -- Passenger declines the ride.

·  Once a passenger accepts the ride, they are placed inside the vehicle and can ride along.  Passengers can click on the vehicle to get the Enter/Exit Vehicle menu, which will drop them out of the vehicle.  Drivers will be unable to kick people from the passenger group until they exit the vehicle.  When the driver of a vehicle exits the vehicle, everyone else in the passenger group will too.

Japanese

·  Manufactured items can now be named in Japanese

·  Houses can now be named in Japanese

·  Vendors can now be named in Japanese

·  Item description can now be in Japanese

·  Vendor phrase can now be in Japanese

·  Biography can now be in Japanese

·  Waypoint name can now be in Japanese

Publish 0.124057
June 8th, 2005

Following the Combat Upgrade publish we allowed players with combat oriented characters to reallocate the skill sets on their characters enabling a player to switch profession templates.  Some players missed the window provided in which to make these changes and we are going to re-open it one more time to allow players who had active characters before that publish to change their character's profession template.  

On June 8th, 2005 at 4:00 AM PDT all servers will be taken down so we can apply a final respec opportunity to all characters that are eligible. When logging in you will receive the following message:

Important Notice: You Can Not Change Your Character Template After This Play Session!

Your ability to adjust or respec your character template will end when you log out of this play session.  Right now, you can still change your character's profession template ("/respec").  Please be sure that you have your character template configured exactly as you want it before logging out of this play session as you will not be given another chance to change it.  Once you log out of this session, your character template will be set and will not be able to be changed by Customer Service or any other intervention other than regular game play. 

Thank you.

June 15th, 2005 
Publish 18.0

Fan Fest Fixes!

·  Altered Lightsaber special abilities animations (Fan Fest)

·  Altered TKA special ability animations (Fan Fest)

·  Fixed bug where Guild Elections were constantly recycling (Fan Fest)

·  Ore mining units now come 5 to a crate, instead of 1 to a crate. (Fan Fest)

Respec Token

·  What is the Token Respec In order to offer players a final opportunity to adapt their character's profession template, we are offering one final chance to revise your character's template. We are calling this the Token Respec process. As part of this process we are putting an invisible marker on each character which allows the character skills to be reshuffled. After the character template is revised, meaning when you have confirmed your new template via the system, the token or marker is used and the option to revise/respec is no longer available.

·  Once the new Token Respec option to revise the character template is live in the game, you will be offered a text window upon log in that asks if you are ready for your last Respec.

There are several points to be aware of as part of this process:

·  All existing players (including players who have had character and account transfers) will receive a token allowing for one final respec of the character profession template.

·  You may choose to use your Token Respec upon receipt or to use it at a later date this option remains available for you until you use it unless otherwise notified.

·  Although there is no limit on how quickly you use the Token Respec option, once you commit the template by confirming that it is final you will not have another respec opportunity.

·  If you are still able to revise your character's template in-game as part of the original Combat Upgrade respec option, the Token Respec will not activate until you are out of the Combat Upgrade respec period.

·  Bonus points/unused skill points from the initial Combat Upgrade respec will not be transferred in any way to the new Token Respec opportunity.

·  There is a 12-hour respec timer buffering the use of the Combat Upgrade respec option and the use of the Token Respec option meaning that you cannot take advantage of the new Token Respec option until 12 hours after you use the Combat Upgrade version.

·  During the Combat Upgrade Respec process period, you will not be able to earn Master Badges.

·  After you complete the Combat Upgrade respec process and while you are eligible for the Token Respec you will be allowed to earn Master Badges.

Crafting

·  You no longer have to click through the crafting experimentation result dialog. A system message is displayed instead.

Creature Handler:

·  Pets in groups now get their own special "pet" role icon

Droid Engineer:

·  Droids crafted without either a combat module or armor module are level 1.

·  Droids with either combat or armor modules will now increase the level in 5 unit increments up to a maximum of 30.

·  Crafting a droid with combat modules will increase min damage, max damage, to-hit, and give the droid the ability to attack your current target. Combat modules will also add a bit of armor.

·  Crafting a droid with armor modules will increase its general protection armor value at a greater rate than combat modules, and will also increase the droid's defense value. Armor modules will not affect the droid's to-Hit or min and max damage attributes.

·  Players with older droid deeds and pcd's will be fixed retroactively.

Dueling

·  If either player can currently attack the other, a /duel request will be ignored.

GCW

·  Players will no longer be allowed to donate turret deeds to Special Forces facilities.

·  DRX55 and XG mines can once again be purchased from faction recruiters.

·  Removed turrets from PvP bases

·  Fixed LOS bug with cloning terminals

Jedi:

·  Force Run is now a toggle buff and can be turned on/off at will, it has an initial cost as well as a continual use cost

New Elite MOBs:

·  Bane back spider with Trophy drop

·  Murra Blanca with Trophy drop

·  Painted Spat with Trophy Drop

New Player Tutorial

·  Fixed some issues with the New Player Entertainer Profession quest and New Player introduction quest.

Species: Wookiees

·  Wookiees no longer get the clothing selection screen

UI:

·  Elite indicators on mob HAM bars

·  Tweaked the CON colors to make them user friendly for color-blind users

·  Removed level number display for nameplate.

Vehicles / Mounts

·  Fixed bug that was allowing experience to be earned for killing a vehicle

·  Fixed problem where an Avatar would stand up while riding a mount and changing weapons

Hot Fix - June 17th, 2005 - Lights and Candles Fix

We are in the process of pushing out a hotfix to all servers. This fix will address the issue with lights and candles being turned off. Candles and lights which had turned "off" will now be turned "on" again.

Players will see this change on Saturday, June 18th after the server maintenance.

Thanks for your patience. 

Publish 19.0 June 29th, 2005

Happy Empire Day!

Publish 19 is jam packed with new features, profession balancing, and bug fixes that were suggested by our Fan Fest attendees and Correspondents.

Empire Day is here!

To celebrate this glorious Imperial holiday, head to Nashal, Talus and speak to the Imperial P.R. Officer at 4311, 5187. To protest against Empire Day, head to the basement of the Anchorhead, Tatooine cantina at 128, -5350 and speak to the off-duty bartender.

Secrets of the Syren Quest

Part 3 of the Secrets of the Syren quest is now live. If you haven't done the first two chapters, or are picking up where you left off, make sure to visit the quest NPC for your faction. Imperial players should find Jeevan Monsul in the Bestine cantina. Rebel players will need to see Veega Madish in the Tyrena cantina and neutral players will have the pleasure of dealing with Tyla Jinn in the Theed cantina. This part of the story will require you to venture in to space so make sure to have your fighter fueled up and ready.

Smuggler - New Slicing Changes!

A "salvage" option now exists on weapon and armor upgrade kits. Using this option will replace the kit with a random component used in the new slicing system.

The "cut blue/red wire" element has been removed from weapon and armor slicing.

While slices to weapon and armor will always succeed, each slice will add a small amount of customization points to the sliced object. Any piece of weaponry or armor may have up to a total of 100 points worth of slices. The better a slice is, the more points it adds to the item until it reaches 100 points.

Each item (weapons/armor) will have a set of customization categories. Each category will require a number of slices of increasing value in order to get the full value of the category. These slices must be applied in order. For example, a weapon will have a category called "Increase Firing Rate" which has a maximum of 4 slices, each of increasing quality. Each of these slices then has a cost and results in an increase in firing rate.

Here is a list of the new slices:

Weapons

·  Increase Firing Rate

·  Enhanced Damage

·  Increased Critical Hit Chance

Armor

·  Enhanced Resilience

·  Impact Deflections

·  Hardening (Crit save chance)

·  Armor Break Defense

Correspondents and Fan Fest fixes and Balance Changes

Animations

·  Added in missing Fencer animations

·  Added in missing Pikemen animations

·  Added in missing Swordsmen animations

·  Art: sped up two handed sword animations

Weapons and Damage

·  Fixed elemental damage type on the red color crystal

·  Fixed weapon elemental damage. All weapons with an elemental damage amount should now be correctly doing their elemental damage.

·  Changed Lightning Rifles speed movement modifier to emulate Rifles instead of commando weapons

Jedi Defender

·  Avoid Incapacitation - Increased Force cost to activate

Jedi Healing

·  Force Sap - Lowered duration and debuff amount

·  Force Heal - Increased cool down and execute timers

·  Total Heal - Increased cool down and execute timers

·  Added Mind and Action costs to most Healer abilities

Jedi Powers

·  Force Choke - Armor will no longer prevent Force Choke damage, Force Defense, and Force Shield still protect against Choke

·  Mind Blast - Added State effects to ability

·  Improved Mind Blast - Ability is now single target ability

·  Force Throw - Added State effects to ability

·  Force Throw - Is now a cone attack

·  Force Cloak - Increased cool down timer

Jedi Enhancer

·  Force Armor - Now adds to your Jedi Innate Jedi Armor

·  Force Armor - Takes a substantial less amount of Force per incoming damage

·  Force Shield - Takes a substantial less amount of Force per incoming damage

·  Transfer Force - Increased cool down timer

·  Drain Force - Increased cool down timer

·  Stasis - Increased cool down timer

·  Force Speed - Increased duration of Buff

·  Added slight Mind and Action costs to most Enhancer abilities

Jedi Lightsabers

·  Reduced action cost of Light saber moves

·  Reduced Force cost on Saber moves

·  Advanced Saber Throw - Removed Cone effects from ability

·  Improved Saber Throw - Removed Knockdown effect from ability

·  Increased Damage Potential of all Saber Throws

Doctor/Combat Medic

·  Significantly reduced Healing execute timers and cool downs on all healing abilities

·  Reduced aggro generated by Healing by 50% on all healing abilities

·  Reduced Mind costs all healing buffing abilities

·  Significantly reduced Healing execute timers and cool downs on all Combat Medic Offensive abilities

·  Significantly increased amount of Doctor/CM healing

Cybernetics

·  Increased refresh rate on Revive ability from Cybernetic arms

·  "Cybernetic Shock" and "Cyborg Lightning" now deal more damage.

Rifleman

·  Sniper Shot - Added 20 meter minimum range

Bounty Hunter

·  Duelist Stance - Increased amount of defense skill added

General Combat

·  Increased the action cost of KnockdownRecovery

·  Daze effects now prevent all forms of healing and buffing

Other Publish Notes:

Bounty Hunter

·  Added Heavy Lightning Rifle to the Galaxy

Entertainers

·  Entertainers will now heal players from a greater distance.

Pikeman

·  Pikeman - Increased the amount a target is slowed by with Warcry

Smuggler

·  Overwhelming Shot should now fires correctly

·  Panic shot's Daze effect now works (Daze effects break on damage)

·  Concussion shot is now a Root + a Daze (Daze effects break on damage, as this is a dual effect debuff both the Root + Daze will break on damage)

·  Some slices now require components that drop in various locations throughout the galaxy.

Jedi

·  Added a warm-up timer to Jedi Saber Power attack

·  Fixed issue with new Force Armor

·  Force Choke will now break when the Jedi is Force Cloaked

·  Avoid Incapacitation now adds a snare while active as well as an increased force cost.

Force Sensitive Village

·  The Power Crystals in Mellichae's camp from being destroyed.

·  Improved handling of enemies defending the Power Crystals in Mellichae's camp.

·  Force Cloaked Jedi will take damage from turret attacks.

Battlefields

·  Battlefields have been removed from the galaxy

Quests / Content:

·  Escort tasks no longer breaks follow when the player is incapped. The escort target may take a few seconds before following the player again

Geonosian Bunker:

·  The "enhanced kwi' infestation has been reduced to a more manageable state.

Content: Kkowir Forest

·  If you currently have the arena champion quest active Chief Kerritamba will re-grant the quest to enter the arena.

Content: Space Kashyyyk

·  Wookiee Resistance Fighters are now attackable.

Content: Space Kashyyyk

·  Players who answered "Their numbers are thin. They are no threat to us" can now continue with the Eyma quest line

·  The Imperial Station mission for the Imperial Guard Interceptor will now grant the correct badge. If you have already completed the mission, speak with the station again to get your service record corrected.

·  The path taken by the quest target has been lengthened for Kerssoc's "Destroy the Chiss poacher weapons" space mission.

Avatar Platform

·  The lockbox on the Avatar platform is now accessible

·  Added loot to the checkpoint lockbox on the Avatar platform.

Player Structures

·  Naboo medium style houses now require the proper spacing for placement

Loot

·  Loot items should now be assigned the proper levels/attributes

Armor / Cybernetics

·  Can no longer wear biceps from other armor sets over the Mabari jacket

·  Fixed issue with Wookiee Ceremonial Right biceps and bracers

·  Fixed the cybernetic proc effects. Cybernetic limbs with proc effects that trigger on a successful hit will now execute correctly

·  Failing an action with a Cybernetic Limb will no longer cause the cool down timer to execute

Weapons / Damage

·  Art: sped up two handed sword animations

·  Fixed newly created Proton Rifles

·  Elemental damage will now be applied to the target for weapons that have bonus elemental damage.

Shipwright

·  You are now given another chance to name a reverse engineered component after attempting to use a reserved name.

·  Unused engine acceleration and deceleration stats of 0.0 are no longer shown in the reverse engineering results dialog.

UI

·  If you have nothing targeted, and take damage, you automatically target what damaged you.

·  Visual improvements to the /find ribbon

·  The Tool Tip for commands in the command browser now gives better descriptions of abilities.

·  The target display will no longer appear when you have toggled off the HUD

·  Players with pre-CU characters should no longer get a running man for their role icon the first time they log in

·  Junk dealer names now appear properly on the overhead map

·  The group direction arrow will now update when the player is out of range.

·  Flora and buildings no longer make selecting targets difficult.

·  Using WASD keys in MMORPG Modeless will no longer break you out of the radial menu. The radial menu will position itself in 3D once activated.

·  The HAM bar will now show correctly over targets that are being attacked through the assist system

·  BazaarUI: save sort settings for columns

·  Default attack should now work for combat commands when using the assist system

·  Minimized the size of the species requirements.

·  Moved the species requirements to the end of the examine info when looking at wearables

·  Adding a new /waypoint with coordinates will give better error messages when the coordinates are bad

·  Terrain is now displayed in the Radar.

Player Cities

·  City banned players can no longer travel to the banned city by selecting "Use Travel Ticket" from the ticket's radial menu or by using the ticket from the toolbar

·  Garage Fee/tax should be displayed in the City Status window now.

GCW

·  All Crackdown NPC's should now have the correct name, appearance and faction.

New Player Tutorial

·  The Droideka in the new player tutorial now has less hit points and a quicker respawn rate.

Misc

·  Added armor deconstruction script to old style Wookiee chest pieces. This will split the old armor into three new pieces: a head and chest piece and 2 arm pieces

·  Fixed an issue where players could not put bio-link items on the market or drop them in houses they were admins of. Now, only items that have been bio-linked can not be placed on the market.

Japanese

·  Less IME spam when playing in Japanese.

·  Resource category names are now localized. These newly understood names will take time to move across the land.

Hot Fix
July 1, 2005

·  All lairs will now have the proper hit points.

·  Pets now have the appropriate level and hit points.

·  Krayt's loot has been adjusted to drop pearls and tissues.

Publish 20
July 19, 2005

Update Headlines!

·  Galactic Gifts - In Honor of Star Wars Galaxies(TM) 2nd Anniversary!  

·  Veteran Rewards - New Veteran rewards have been added in this publish

·  Profession : Entertainer - Addition of a new song, a new dance, dance props and exciting flourishes

·  Profession : Jedi - Group members no longer add to a Jedi's visibility

·  Player Structures  - When a house is transferred the Admin lists will no longer clear.

·  Kashyyyk - Players can now enter into the Falls Cave in the Dead Forest on Kashyyyk.

Galactic Gifts - In Honor of Star Wars Galaxies(TM) 2nd Anniversary!  

Star Wars Galaxies officially turned two on June 26, 2005 !  Beginning with Publish 20, when you log in to the game with an active character that is at least 30-days old and your account is in good standing, you will be offered the opportunity to claim your very own anniversary gift, a choice of one of two Holograms - the Corellian Corvette or the Lambda Shuttle!  These holograms will brighten up any house and are set on a unique base that has a roman numeral two integrated to highlight this momentous occasion.  Long live the SWG Empire!  Oops... Long live the SWG Alliance !

Enjoy this awesome gift with our thanks!

The Star Wars Galaxies Team  

*Eligibility Requirements and Tradable Status:

·  Accounts in good standing are eligible to receive one (1) gift per active Character during the distribution window. 

·  Anniversary gifts may be redeemed at any time between Publish 20 (currently scheduled on or about July 19, 2005 ) through Publish 22 (currently scheduled on or about August 15, 2005 ). Gifts must be claimed on or before August 15, 2005 at 11:59PM PDT .  Publish dates are subject to change.

·  To be eligible, your character must be at least 30 days old. 

·  The anniversary gifts will be tradable in-game.

·  These holograms are a virtual property and not available as a tangible item.

Vet Rewards

·  Veteran Rewards allow us to offer players rewards in recognition of their investment in Star Wars Galaxies. The intent of the Veteran Rewards program is to show our appreciation to players who have been a part of the Star Wars Galaxies community over time by offering them a selection of exclusive rewards. Veteran Rewards will celebrate subscription milestones achieved by individual players. If you are a former player any active time you have accrued will contribute towards your veteran rewards if/when you reactivate your account.  The program will give players a choice of exclusive in-game items at significant subscription milestones. The identified milestones that will be celebrated as part of the program are very three months currently up to the 36 month mark. Players will get one choice per milestone per account. To read more about Veteran rewards click here .

FanFest/Correspondent Feedback Changes

Based upon feedback from the Correspondents and Fan Fest attendees the Entertainer profession will receive a new music and dance icon as well as 6 new entertainer abilities. Along with other requested changes that are listed below, read on for more details.

Profession: Entertainer

·  Added a New Dance - Bunduki (an interpretive dance from the planet on which the Teras Kasi fighting style originated)

·  Added a New Song - Swing

·  Add new particles to the old healing branch

·  New dance particles:

·  Center Stage

·  Color Swirl

·  Dance Floor

·  New music particles:

·  Featured Solo

·  Laser Show

·  Fire Jet 2

·  Exotic flourishes now function properly.

·  Entertainer's and elite professions' skill branches have been reworked to accommodate these changes.

·  Added NEW dance props to old healing branch

·  Staff

·  Sword

·  Sparkler

·  Glowstick

·  Torch

·  Ribbon

·  Double Ribbon

·  Mystical Ribbon

·  Double Mystical Ribbon

·  Sparkle Ribbon

·  Double Sparkle Ribbon

·  Also, at novice dancer or higher, dancers can dual wield props.

Other Correspondent and Fan Fest changes include:

·  Dying in space no longer adds wounds

·  You can now group with your droids in space

·  Group members no longer add to a Jedi's visibility

·  Rifleman cover is no longer affected by group mates

·  It is no longer possible to inadvertently pay double XP for learning a new skill

General

·  All mission terminal missions will auto decay from your Datapad after 3 days (Destroy missions, Bounty missions, etc)

·  Battle Fatigue is no longer acquired and entertainers can no longer heal it.  

Profession: Image Designer

·  Image Designers will no longer see other players avatars in the user interface as swimming

Profession: Bounty Hunter

·  NPC Bounty missions will now work properly. The Mark will be of appropriate difficulty based on the difficulty of the mission

·  Moved Player Bounty Hunting to the Master Bounty Hunter skill Box

·  Jedi missions are only created for online Jedi, the Jedi may go offline after the mission is created

·  Jedi missions display Faction instead of Jedi name

·  Jedi missions all display a payout of a random number between 45000 - 52000 credits on the terminal but may pay a bonus amount based on level and time since the Jedi was last killed

·  Seeker droids will now return the name of the Target

·  Changed the name of the "imperial probot base" Bounty Hunter droid to "Imperial probot"

Profession: Scout

·  The Phecnacine Dart will no longer cause creatures AI to turn off

·  Single target state reduction traps should no longer grant experience when thrown at a creature already affected by that type of grenade.

·  Experience granted for trap throwing should no longer depend on the throwers combat level versus the creature's level.

Profession: Pilots

·  Pilots that drop a pilot profession will no longer lose an extra 10% experience if they have an inspiration buff.

Profession: Jedi

·  Force cloak and cover break as intended when the player is not in a group or non-group members breach the area.

·  Adjusted ratio of Sith Shadow Pirates to Outlaws spawned in phase 4 of the Force Sensitive Village , to make the Village Assault (Ranged Speed / Melee Defense) quest easier to complete

·  Players that are using the ability  "force cloaked" will no longer be targetable

·  Jedi heals will no longer cost Force and Mind if the target does not require healing

Changes to Phase 4 of Captain Sarguillo's Quest: Force Village

·  Players can now take part in the Captain's phase 4 quests even if they have taken the quest in a previous attempt to complete the Phase 4 quests.

·  Improved quest journal conversation text.

·  Added animations to accompany certain dialog lines.

·  Added quest reward item for Melee Defense quest.

Combat

·  Added a debuff which is applied when you have been Dazed to prevent the instant reapplication of Daze

Player Structures

·  When a house is transferred the Admin lists will no longer clear.

UI

·  Removed the version number from the splash screen. If you would like to retrieve the version number, press  CTRL+SHIFT+G in game.

·  Master Badges will now be granted during the token respec period

·  Targeting a player will no longer cause their ham bar and name to cover the targeted players face.

·  The Network Status window will now display properly. To open the network status window you can hit Ctrl + Shift + G

·  Emote animations will now show properly when utilizing them

·  The Jedi force bar will now show properly on the HAM bar

Galactic Civil War (GCW)

·  Reduce Temporary Enemy Flag (TEF) timer to 2.5 minutes.

·  Combat between a bounty hunter and a Jedi for which the bounty hunter has a bounty mission will result in a "bounty hunter TEF". No other TEF (such as factional TEF, for example) is applied. The "bounty hunter TEF" will prevent both the bounty hunter and Jedi from entering player structures, and will eject the player from a player structure if the TEF is received while the player is in the player structure.

·  Guild war PVP no longer results in a TEF, unless the combatants are a bounty hunter and a Jedi for which the bounty hunter has a bounty mission, in which case it will result in a "bounty hunter TEF".

·  Opposing factional TEF and "bounty hunter TEF" are applied to both combatants as soon as any of the combatants attacks.

Quests / Loot

·  Mellichae now drops his cyborg arm as loot.

·  Mellichae and Daktar Bloodmoon now drop more appropriate loot.

·  NPC Jedi can now drop medpacks, clothing, and pistols as loot.

Kashyyyk

·  Players can now enter into the Falls Cave in the Dead Forest on Kashyyyk.

AI

·  Fixed an error case where AI would emit a "?" over its head when a non-threat approached.

·  Pets: If a pet attacks a mob, the mob will now also be aggressive to the pet's master. So if you send a pet on a mob, and the pet dies, the mob will attack you. If you send your pet to attack a lair, mobs from the lair will additionally attack you.

·  Pets: Pets now inherit the same aggro radius reduction as their master. Previously a lvl 80 player with a lvl 40 pet could possibly have an AI aggro the pet, but not the player. Now the pet has the same aggro radius as the player.

·  Pets: A pet can no longer pull a mob without getting within the aggro radius of or attacking a mob. Previously just telling a pet to attack a mob initiated the pet and the mob in combat instantly.

·  Pets: A pet no longer stops attacking a lair (or any immobile AI) after a short period of time. They will continue to attack as ordered.

·  Pets: Pets no longer lose their ranged weapons on occasion when incapacitated.

New Player Tutorial

·  Moved the tutorial toggle to a more obvious place in the character creation screens.

Misc

·  Player event actors will not speak their programmed text.  This interim fix is due to abuse of the system and the event actor will be removed entirely in an upcoming change for this publish cycle.

·  Players will no longer have to kill NPC's twice when they die with a Flamethrower DoT on them

·  Resource containers for sale on vendors or on commodities terminals will retain the name of the resource and the quantity from their description. 

·  Lairs HAM bars will now show properly

Valarian Quest Update

In Publish 23 we are going to be introducing a new set of quest featuring the Lady Valarian. In order to do this we have to turn off the old Valarian quests that started with Kavas, went to Ind and then finally to Lady Valarian.

To transition the player base starting in Publish 22 Kavas will no longer start the quest for players. Players currently on quests from Kavas, Ind and Valarian will be still able to complete them.

At publish 23 these old quests will be turned off and players will not be able to finish them.

These new Valarian quests are oriented to players with Combat Levels in the mid teens. The new quests can be completed only once, but players who did the old Kavas/Ind/Valarian quests will be able to do the new set.

·  Experimentation results will now update during crafting. Please note: This fix does not include the Armor Layer experimentation issue.

·  Bounty Hunter terminals no longer show Jedi that are offline.

Publish 21
August 4th, 2005

Update Headlines!

·  Big changes to the Creature Handler profession! Pet growth based on XP, a new pet training interface, new pet abilities and more!

·  Two new quest series added! "Catch a Fallen Star" and "Nagem's Jobs".

·  Chapter 4 of "Secrets of the Syren" is now live!

·  Lighting on all worlds has been updated to be brighter.  

Profession : Creature Handlers

Pet Growth Changes

·  Pet growth is now based on experience earned instead of time.

·  Babies now have the same level and stats as a full grown creature.

·  Babies still grow in size as they mature and will be able to be trained with new Pet Abilities that take their stats and capabilities beyond what they were born with.

The pet growth system has been rewritten to give a more engaging play experience that lets you start working with your new pets. Babies have the same level and stats as their parents and will be able to fight along side their master at full capacity from the moment they are tamed.  As a pet fights along with it's master it will earn experience which contributes to its growth (in physical size) as well as gaining the capacity to learn new abilities which can make the pet more powerful in specific ways than a wild creature of the same species would be.

Pet Training Changes

·  A new interface for pet command training has been implemented to make training commands easier and faster.

·  Verbal training of commands works as it has previously worked after selecting a command to train from the new training interface.

The new command training UI will show every command your pet is able to learn as well as the voice command known for each ability.  By selecting a command to train and pressing the "Train" button (or by directly double-clicking a command) will start the voice training.  Voice training works as it has previously worked.  When your pet is ready to learn a new voice command a "?" will appear over its head and you just need to speak the command you wish to train by using spatial chat.  If this is the first time a pet is learning a specific command, it will need to pass a training check to see if it can learn the new voice command.  Once your pet knows a specific voice command changing it will always succeed.

New Pet Abilities

·  Pets tamed from the wild now have a chance to start with an innate Pet Ability.

·  A Creature Handler can learn abilities from their pets and train them to other pets.

·  Pets gain Pet Ability "Slots" and Ability Training Points as they mature to learn new Pet Abilities.

·  Pet Abilities can be taught to pets to allow for combat specialization as desired or for general increases in combat effectiveness.

Pets tamed in the wild can now start with innate Pet Abilities.  These abilities will automatically increase the effectiveness of your pet, but more importantly Creature Handlers can learn those abilities from the pet by fighting with the pet over a period of time.  Once you have learned the new ability from a pet you will be able to train it to your other pets.

As a pet matures they will gain Ability "Slots" and Training Points to learn new Pet Abilities.  You can see the progress to the next maturity level on the Pet Control Device (on your Datapad: CTRL-D) under the heading "Training XP".  This will show you the current amount of XP earned and the total amount of XP required to reach the next maturity level. Experience Points (XP) are earned by fighting opponents.  At each maturity level your pet will grow in size as well gain Training Points and possibly Ability Slots.  Ability Slots will not be earned at each maturity level but the likelihood of earning one will increase as a pet reaches full maturity.  Pets will continue to earn Ability Slots until they have earned the maximum possible number of slots for their level and they will continue to earn Training Points until they have been fully trained.

To train a pet with a new Pet Ability, target your pet after you have called it and use the Train Pet command (/trainPet).  If the Creature Handler knows abilities that can be trained to the pet and the pet has available slots then the Ability Training interface will open.  From there an ability can be selected and the "Train" button pushed to teach the pet the new ability.  Using the Train Pet command with nothing targeted will show a list of all Pet Abilities known by the Creature Handler.

Many Pet Abilities will permanently modify your pet's statistics and capability. Several Pet Abilities are triggered abilities which must be given a voice command the same as any other pet command.

Bazaar / Vendor

·  Resource containers for sale on bazaar terminals or vendors should now display the name of the resource and the quantity from their item description. For example, "Domesticated Corn" should now be displayed as "Domesticated Corn Lodi (200)".

Character

·  Changing your character's profession title on the Community Window (CTRL-P) will now cause the title for your character to be displayed immediately.

·  Personal Light (CTRL-L): Made the player's personal light default to always be turned off, rather than turning it on/off with the day/night cycle. Players can still turn their personal light on or off as normal.   

Client

·  Older ATI cards prompted the SWGClientSetup to suggest a URL which no longer exists. The URL has been updated.  

Cloning

·  The /clone command will work only if a clone terminal is targeted.

Combat

·  Adjusted combat haste bonuses from Doctor & Jedi buffs due to high haste numbers unbalancing combat.

Crafting

·  Agitator motors used in recyclers can now be crafted properly.

·  During the experimentation phase of crafting, the object being crafted will now update its properties in a reasonable amount of time. Previously this took approximately 10 to 15 seconds and would make it appear as if your experimentation had no effect on the object.

·  When the item count of a resource container changes, the examine information should change as well. The examine information for crafted objects and containers should update properly in the appropriate crafting windows.

·  When using items in resource containers or surveying, the item count of the container should update properly if you changed servers or disconnected. 

·  Resource stacks in your inventory will now update their quantity when combined.

·  Objects will update properly in the examine window during the experimentation phase.

·  The examine information of split or combined resource containers will display properly.

·  Players are now able to craft the tumble blender.

Force Sensitive Village

·  Force Sensitive Quests: The initial Sith Shadow waypoint datapad will now always be useable as soon as it has been looted.  It will no longer display a "You must first loot that object" message.

·  The Sith Shadow waypoint datapads are no longer usable in space.

·  Altered conversion rate of Combat XP at Force Sensitive village.

Misc.

·  The slash command /clientQualifiedForSkill no longer auto grants skills on test servers and no longer triggers an effect in the game.  This command was originally created for Combat Upgrade testing but no longer serves a purpose within the game. 

Padawan Trials

·  NPCs will no longer disappear before players have had a chance to interact with them.

·  Improved the grammar and spelling for some of the NPC dialogue.

Player Event Perks

·  Many static Event Perk rentals such as flags and banners have had their placement restrictions dramatically reduced to allow much more flexibility when decorating for events.

·  All Event Perk rental venues now include a Venue Remote Control that allows its owner to re-deed the venue and check its time until expiration.

·  The Capture the Flag game will no longer allow an attempted flag capture if you are under the influence of Force Cloak, Cover, Feign Death, Paralyze or Stasis.

·  Event Perk rental expiration timer now begins when the rental deed is used, rather then at the time of purchase to allow event planners more flexibility in setting up their events.

·  Event Perk rentals now expire in 16 hours, rather then 8 in order to allow event planners more flexibility in setting up their events.

Profession: Bounty Hunter

·  Significantly altered NPC bounty mission NPC's and Loot. The higher the level of the Bounty Hunter increases the chance of seeing a higher level or Elite Mark. Master Bounty Hunters who are also greater than level 75 will have a small chance to draw a Boss Mark. The difficulty of the Mark will determine the quality of loot and chance of the loot to drop.

·  An NPC spawned for an NPC bounty mission can only be attacked by the bounty hunter with the NPC bounty mission.

·  Added more text to the seeker droid's examine information window to clarify the droid's options.
        

·  Using the "Identify Target" option on a Bounty Hunter seeker droid will return information to you on the name and waypoint of your mark.
        

·  Using the "Track Target" option on a Bounty Hunter seeker droid will constantly update information on the waypoint of your mark.

·  Increased the amount of Bounty Hunter seeker droids in crates.

·  Increased the amount of charges on Bounty Hunter seeker droids.

·  The Track option on seeker droids will now consume a droid charge.

·  Bounty Hunters that have completed a Jedi Bounty mission will have their mission Temporary Enemy Flag (TEF) cleared and will not be able to continue attacking the Jedi.

·  Bounty Hunters that have completed or dropped a Jedi Bounty mission will no longer be able to attack the Jedi.

Profession: Combat Medic, Doctor's and Medics

·  The Advanced version of Bacta Shot, Bacta Toss, Bacta Spray, and Bacta Jab will now heal more damage than the Improved or standard version of the same ability by a medic with the same Healing Efficiency.

·  Players will always use the best version of the bacta heal available to that player.

Profession: Dancer, Entertainer, Musician

·  If you have been denied service from an entertainer, you will no longer be able to pay a cover charge for inspiration buffs.

Profession: Doctor

·  Adjusted Doctor buff durations to improve the usefulness of Doctors in groups.

·  Doctors should now have full accuracy certifications on Battle armor.

Profession: Scouts and Rangers

·  Grey-con (considered) mobs will no longer break scentMask or camouflage kits.

·  Lower-level creatures that break scent-mask or camouflage kits, will only attack from the same distance as they would have had the player not been concealed (rather than attacking immediately).

Profession: Shipwright

·  A KSE Firespray Schematic can no longer be used to reverse-engineer a zero-mass spaceship component.  When a player's ship is launched, if there are any zero-mass components, their mass will default to a value of 50,000.

Profession: Smuggler

·  Bio-Linked items should now be able to be sliced.

·  Weapons with power-ups can no longer be sliced.  You must remove the power-up before you can slice the weapon.

Profession: Tailor

·  When crafting clothing items, only valid color palette choices will be displayed during crafting.

Quests

·  Two new quest series added! "Catch a Fallen Star" and "Nagem's Jobs".

Catch a Fallen Star: On Yavin IV the Rebels are fighting a desperate delaying action as they attempt to get their last elements off the planet. In the midst of this chaotic fighting, both the Rebels and Imperials are salvaging as much of the fallen Death Star as they can. Of course some undesirable elements have moved in to take advantage of the situation. Criminals, both great and small, have started their own operations to salvage as much as they can, and then to sell what they get to the highest bidder.

Nagem's Jobs : Nagem Dr'Lar has been hired by the Imperials as a civilian contractor to salvage as much of the Death Star as possible around an area known as the Scorch. He has been fighting off criminal groups trying to get to the salvage before he can.

·  Chapter 4 of the quest series, "Secrets of the Syren" is now live! Questgivers from "Secrets of the Syren" chapter's 1-3 will now give quests for chapter 4 as well as the previous chapters (1-3).

·  Improved the spawning locations of mercenaries on the "Secrets of the Syren" quest.

·  The lockbox on the Avatar Platform should no longer spawn inside the wall.

·  Added loot to the checkpoint lockbox on the Avatar platform.

·  Mos Eisley quests should give all badges properly.

Space

·  Players will now be able to group with pets in space.

UI

·  Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma now default to 1.0. Because of the world lighting changes, these settings have been defaulted to 1.0 to account for any Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma changes previously made. To readjust any of these settings, open your Options window (CTRL-O) and click the Graphics button on the left side of the window.

·  Objects that have been sliced should now display a message on the examine window of the object after they have been sliced.

·  Rotary timers no longer seem to "pause" for an extended period of time.

·  Reptilian Meat is once again named Reptilian Meat.

·  Grenades now have rotary timers and display their status in the combat queue.

·  Enhancer items now have rotary timers.

·  Stimulant Packs (stimpacks) now have rotary timers.

·  Vehicle control devices in the toolbar now have rotary timers.

·  Added 1 new music (Swing) and 1 dance (Bunduki) icon. These new icons are available in the Command Browser (CTRL-A).

·  Added 6 icons for new entertainer abilities. These new icons for centerStage, colorSwirl, danceFloor, featuredSolo, fireJest2 and laserShow are available in the Command Browser (CTRL-A).

·  Added Rage and Anger icons.

·  Some fungi, particularly Kasyyykian, Rori, Talusian, Tatooinian, and Yavinian will now properly display their names with no codestrings.

·  Jedi defender role icon no longer appears where it's not intended.

·  In-game references to the /find directional path "yellow ribbon" now refer it as the "glowing path".

Vehicles

·  Players can no longer offer rides to other players if they are driving a multi-passenger vehicle. Instead, qualified players can simply 'enter/exit' the vehicle through the radial menu.

A character is allowed to ride with someone:
1.      There is room in the vehicle.
2.      If they are in the same group.
3.      If they are not in combat.
4.      If a passenger is declared Overt, then the driver must also be declared Overt and both characters must be the same faction.

Note: A declared faction player can only ride in another player's vehicle if that rider is also factioned declared, and for a friendly faction. If the driver manages to go from faction declared to covert, any declared factional riders will be ejected.

·  When in a vehicle, the offer ride menu should only be displayed when the selected person is in the same group as you.

·  Increased the volume of BARC Speeder sounds.

Veteran Rewards

·  Added new display case for veteran miniatures (9 month milestone).

·  Added fireplace (24 month milestone).

World

·  The lighting for Star Wars Galaxies has been improved to be brighter, especially in dark areas, dusk, dawn and darker planets. As part of these changes, the Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma settings have been default to 1.0 so that the changes are properly displayed. To readjust any of these settings, open your Options window (CTRL-O). Also as part of these changes, Personal Lights for players have been readjusted so they will no longer turn on and off for the day night cycles. Players can still turn it on or off as normal.

·  Optimizations to the terrain system have been made to improve performance and lower memory usage.

·  Players will no longer be prevented from attacking (or being attacked by) targets throughout Level 5 of the Rryatt Trail on Kashyyyk due to invisible obstruction.

·  Meatlumps and Vandals in Coronet should spawn properly.  

Japan

·  Less IME spam in text boxes (Input Method Editor).

Hot Fix Update
August 6th, 2005

Combat

·  Group experience points (XP) will now be available only to players in a group.

Profession: Armorsmith

·  Armor pulled from factory crates will retain its color.

Profession: Tailor

·  Clothing pulled from factory crates will retain its color.

·  Full color palettes used in Tailor customizations will now be available.

·  Bio Engineered tissue modifiers will now be applied during the crafting process.

Quests

·  The "Secrets of the Syren" mercenary leader will now spawn correctly.

Travel

·  Shuttle ticket droids will display the proper arrival time.

World

·  Improved world lighting and shadows.

Publish 22
August 16th, 2005

Combat

·  Changed the Combat Haste value on Luilris Mushroom Pie to be more in line with other Combat Haste buffs.

Experience Points

·  Updated group experience point bonuses and group XP bonus rewards can now be easily identified in the XP feedback.

Misc.

·  The word "sturdy" and "glass" are no longer reserved words.

Profession: Bounty Hunter

·  Master Bounty Hunters should see more Elite level marks.

·  Bounty Hunters should no longer be prevented from attacking their NPC bounty targets.

Profession: Creature Handler

·  Pet Critical Damage (both the ability and Bio Engineered stat) will work correctly.

·  All triggered Pet Abilities will now have Action & Mind costs for the pet.

·  Ranged pet actions will now have the same Action / Mind costs as melee pet actions.

·  Pet Ability experience points will now carry over to next maturity level when completing a maturity level.

·  Creatures of the same species as a pet will no longer ignore the pet and only attack the master.

·  Creature Handlers will no longer occasionally receive double experience points when their pet is not in group with them.

·  Added the Train Pet command to the command browser (CTRL-A).

·  Pet Abilities now have unique buff / de-buff icons.

·  The pet command training window will automatically re-open once the pet learns the command.

Profession: Droid Engineer

·  All droid modules will work properly.

Profession: Jedi

·  Force Intimidation will no longer copy the previous target's posture to the current target (which sometimes resulted in a cone of death).

Profession: Musician

·  Players can no longer move other player's musical instruments.

Profession: Scout / Ranger

·  The restriction on placing a camp too close to a lair has been removed.

Profession: Smuggler

·  Slicing components will now auto-stack.

·  Slicing Critical Damage will work correctly.

Profession: Weaponsmiths

·  Weapon crafting using loot drop stocks and scopes will now create valid weapons. This change only effects newly looted component stocks and scopes.

·  Nightsister vibro motors can now be crafted with valid damage types. This change only effects newly looted Nightsister vibro motors.

Space

·  Players are now able to access components in ships in their datapad that are not the same space faction as their current space faction.

Species

·  Species abilities can again only be used by the specific species that have special abilities.

Vehicles

·  There is no longer a 15-45 second delay on calling vehicles.

·  Disabled AV21's and Jetpacks can now be repaired at garages.

Wearables

·  Some helmets (such as AT-AT Helmet, Black Sun Ace Fighter Helmet, Imperial Ace Fighter Helmet, Privateer Ace Fighter Helmet, Rebel Ace Fighter Helmet, Tie Pilot Helmet, and Tusken Raider Helmet) have been reclassified as clothing so can be worn without incurring armor penalty or being prevented from wearing the item.

·  In cases where the game would occasionally think a character is wearing armor, and they are not wearing any armor, but an armor penalty is applied will no longer happen.

Japan

·  Japanese players will notice they have a new font!

Hot Fix 0.130741

Force Village

·  Players who have completed Captain Sarguillo's quest to unlock Range Speed or Melee Defense but were not granted the quest rewards should be granted their rewards when logging in.

·  Players who could not accept a quest from Captain Sarguillo in this phase should be able to do so after next login. 

Publish 23
August 31, 2005

Headlines:

·  House Pack-up: The owner of a player house may choose to "pack-up" the structure and all its contents into a house control device.

·  Profession: Dancer, Entertainer, Musician: Entertainer professions will now be able to apply non-combat profession specific inspiration buffs.

·  User Interface: You can now detach, attach, rename, delete, and reset chat window tabs. The chat window settings are saved properly.

·  Quests: Some quests may now be abandoned using the Quest Journal. In the future, additional quests may be abandoned using this feature.

·  Inventory: Auto-stacking items will no longer stack to items in a different container than the one they are being moved into.

·  Profession: Smuggler: Auto-stacking looted items such as Smuggler slicing components can now be split and restacked with the 'Split' and 'Stack' radial menu options

·  Vehicles: Vehicles can no longer be restored at parking garages without a vehicle restoration kit.

AI

·  When a creature or NPC is attacked by multiple players and then exits combat after deathblowing one of the players, the new behavior allows the AI to continue combat with all attacking players, even after deathblowing one of the players.

Avatar

·  Player light (CTRL-L) now extends further into building interiors

Armor

·  Clone Trooper style armor appearances will now display properly when worn by female characters.

·  Update to previous patch note: The species restriction has been removed from clone-trooper style armor. The male/female appearance fix remains (so females will wear the female art versions of this armor, and males will wear the male-armor versions of this armor.

·  Fixed an issue where sometimes the system will think a character is wearing armor even though the character is not wearing any armor, which will result in an armor penalty being applied.

Combat

·  Elemental damage will now be applied to a target for weapons that have bonus elemental damage.

·  Moves requiring cool-down (ex. overcharge shot) should work properly if you have recently been moving. Previously, players could not execute certain commands right after moving, as if the system erroneously thought you were still moving.

·  Added in validation code to validate Weapons Range information and Damage Type information

Crafting

·  Crafters will no longer erroneously receive use-XP.

·  Fixed some issues with /payMaintenacne and /structureStatus not working on harvesters and factories stand inside terminals and other items inside a player structure to avoid getting attacked by NPCs

·  Fixed some instances where clothing/armor pulled from a crate was not retaining color customization. All new items created after this publish should have the correct colors.

Additional Notes:

·  Items in pre-CU crates are not impacted.

·  Post-CU crates with items will have items with invalid colors.

·  New crates of items created after this publish should have the correct colors.

Force Village

·  Players who have completed Captain Sarguillo's quest to unlock Range Speed or Melee Defense but were not granted the quest rewards should be granted their rewards when logging in.

·  Phase 2, Melee Speed: The Durable Lathe quest reward item is once again usable as a melee weapon power-up.

·  Phase 3: Melee Accuracy Quest: The Sith Shadow commander will now run and can negotiate steep terrain more effectively.

·  You should now be able to convert entertainer experience to Force sensitive experience.

·  Corrected typo in Force-sensitive experience conversion text.

Galactic Civil War (GCW)

·  Force Cloaked Jedi will take damage from turret attacks.

·  Players of the same faction can now view the status of Special Forces factional bases. Previously, only the owner could check the status.

House Pack-up

·  New Feature: The owner of a player house may choose to "pack-up" the structure and all its contents into a house control device. This control device is stored in the player's data pad (CTRL-D). The option to pack up the house is available on the structure's control terminal. You can access the structure's control terminal by using the radial menu.

Once the house is packed up, a player can interact with the house in a limited fashion via the house control device in the data pad. The player has 3 options available:

·  Check Status: This is identical to the check status available inside of the placed house. It allows a player to see the number of items stored in the house as well as the current maintenance situation on the house.

·  Pay Maintenance: This is identical to the functionality of the same name on a placed house. It allows the player to make maintenance payments for the structure.

·  Unpack house: This feature will cause the house to go into the placement mode. This works the same way as placing a house from a deed. All placement rules are followed.

** Note: Houses with vendors inside can not be packed. The vendors must first be removed before a house can be packed.

** Note: Only player houses may be packed up.

When a house is packed up:

·  The waypoint to the packed up house is removed.

·  If a player's city residency was declared with the packed up house, the residency is reset.

·  If a player was a citizen of a city with the packed up house, that citizenship is revoked.

Inventory

·  Auto-stacking items will no longer stack to items in a different container than the one they are being moved into.

Loot

·  Resources will more often be found as loot in dungeons.

·  Resources found as loot in dungeons will no longer always be in a quantity of 1.

·  Resources found as loot (or harvested) will no longer be divided into multiple containers if the quantity exceeds 100.

·  Skill Enhancing Attachments will no longer be found as loot in the Borgle Bat and Aakuan caves.

Misc .

·  Players should be able to execute certain commands right after moving. For example: dancing, singing, placing harvesters, placing houses, etc. Previously, players could not execute certain commands right after moving, as if the system erroneously thought you were still moving.

·  Death Watch Bunker: Fixed an issue where multiple Super Battle Droids could be spawned by repeatedly looting a chest.

Player Associations

·  If your guild is currently in a guild war with another guild and after you clone, you will incur a 1 minute guild war "cool down" period during which you cannot engage in guild war combat (attack or be attacked). This rule affects guild war PvP only. All other PvP rules are still in effect.

Profession: Bounty Hunter

·  Only Master Bounty Hunters will be able to draw Boss level Marks.

·  Increased the amount of bounty droids in crates.

·  Increased the amount of charges on bounty droids.

·  The Track option on Seeker droids will now consume a droid charge.

·  Moved Player Bounty Hunting to the Master Bounty Hunter skill Box

Profession: Creature Handler

·  Pets now properly use their speed enhancing abilities.

·  Triggered L1 Pet Abilities should now work properly.

·  Removed the ability to have Elite or Boss class pets. Pets will automatically return to their standard statistics for their given level.

·  Changed all Elite tamable creatures to non-Elite.

Profession: Dancer, Entertainer, Musician

·  Entertainer professions will now be able to apply non-combat profession specific inspiration buffs.

·  Inspiration buffs should now give the proper bonus to crafting experience.

·  Typing /flo will once again expand to the /flourish command.

·  Fire Jets 2 and Bunduki 2 icons should display correctly now.

·  Twi'leks should no longer have unused innate skill modifiers.

·  The Dance Floor command has been renamed to Floor Lights (/floorLights) to avoid conflicts with the /dance emote.

·  Entertainer experience should now use the proper XP point limits.

·  Inspiration Buffs should now properly use an entertainer's Music or Dance Enhancement skill modifiers.

·  Music Wound Healing and Dance Wound Healing skill mod tapes should convert to Music and Dance Enhancement respectively.

·  Adding entertainer enhancement bonus when performing in an entertainer specialized city.

·  Dance props will now be unequipped if you revoke a skill and are no longer certified to use them.

·  The existing inspiration buff granted by entertainers is now described as a "General Inspiration"

·  The "General Inspiration" buff no longer gives a bonus to crafting success

·  Entertainer professions will now be able to apply non-combat profession specific inspiration buffs. Players with a(n)...

·  Artisan Inspiration will receive a 12% experience bonus, a 5% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 1% bonus to resource quality when crafting any of the following types of items: weapons, food, clothing, vehicles, installations, and generic (miscellaneous) items.

·  Chef Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting food type items.

·  Tailor Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting clothing type items.

·  Bio-engineer Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting genetic type items.

·  Architect Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting installation, building, and furniture type items.

·  Droid Engineer Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting droid type items.

·  Weaponsmith Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting weapon types items.

·  Shipwright Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting chassis deeds and component type items.

·  Armorsmith Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus, a 10% bonus to assembly and experimentation, and a 2% bonus to resource quality when crafting armor type items.

·  Entertainer Inspiration will receive a 12% experience bonus while playing music or dancing, and will be able to use instruments and dance props one level of difficulty higher than they are normally able.

·  Dancer Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus while dancing, and will be able to use dance props two levels of difficulty higher than they are normally able

·  Musician Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus while playing music, and will be able to use instruments two levels of difficulty higher than they are normally able

·  Image Designer Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus while image designing, and will apply holo-emote generators with 50 charges

·  Merchant Inspiration will receive a 15% experience bonus and a 20 point bonus to the "Hiring" skill mod

Profession: Jedi

·  Changed the way the Padawan Robe functions are displayed. It is now displayed as a buff effect.

·  Tattle-tale shadows from "hidden" characters have been removed.

·  Transitions between characters being visible/invisible will be smoother.

Profession: Ranger/Scout

·  Phecnacine Darts will no longer cause creatures AI to turn off

Profession: Smuggler

·  Auto-stacking looted items such as Smuggler slicing components can now be split and restacked with the 'Split' and 'Stack' radial menu options.

·  Old smuggler slicing components which previously did not stack will become stackable will re-stacked with new smuggler slicing components

Quests

·  Some quests may now be abandoned using the Quest Journal. In the future, additional quests may be abandoned using this feature.

·  Secrets of the Syren quest givers should now give the chapter 3 quests.

·  Secrets of the Syren quest, chapter 4 should be able to be completed.

·  Lady Valarian's Quest Series: Kavas Urdano has temporarily stopped giving out her first quest if you have never spoken to her before.

Space

·  Female pilots which should have received their ace medals will be granted a medal for each master pilot badge they have acquired when they login.

·  Non-Ithorian female pilots will now properly be awarded their ace pilot medals.

·  Pilots will no longer be awarded multiple ace pilot medals.

·  Players are now able to access components in ships in their datapad that are not the same space faction as their current space faction.

User Interface

·  You can now detach, attach, rename, delete, and reset chat window tabs. The chat window settings are saved properly.

·  Flytext should always be visible inside buildings now.

·  You should no longer get a 'listen' or 'watch' option on an entertainer's radial menu if you are already listening to or watching them.

·  The glare that results from looking directly at the sun has been substantially reduced, and there is now an option to turn it off under Options->Graphics->Enable Glare.

·  The command browser (CTRL-A) should no longer contain a code string.

·  Added a de-buff which is applied when you have been Dazed to prevent the instant re-application of Daze.

·  An item's attributes changing in the examine window will no longer cause large amounts of client lag

·  Corrected the status bar for the cargo hold, which was previously being cut off and the "percentage full" was not visible.

Vehicles: All vehicles, jetpacks and restoration

·  Restoring a disabled vehicle will now require a vehicle restoration kit (formerly "the BARC speeder repair tool").

·  The BARC speeder repair tool is now a general-purpose vehicle restoration kit which can be used to restore any disabled vehicle.

·  Vehicles can no longer be restored at parking garages without a vehicle restoration kit.

·  The Flash speeder may still be restored for 20,000 credits (no change).

·  The vehicle restoration kit is now a stackable item.

Japan

·  When IME input is enabled, the IME Pad will not activate if you hit F5.

·  You can now correctly type in Japanese in Mail.

·  Resource category names are now localized.

Hot Fix Publish
Version 0.131677
September 1, 2005

·  Fixed an issue that prevented completion of space assassinate missions that require destroying multiple escorts.

·  Removed the incorrect description of Anti-Decay Kits which indicated the kit would bio-link upon use.

·  Fixed a crash to desktop when using the player light on systems (CNTRL + L) with no hardware shader support.

·  Fixed the examine window to not continuously reload badge and biography information when examining a player.

Hot Fix Update
Version 0.131831
September 2, 2005

Structures 

·  Fixed issue where sometimes structures don't get loaded after a server restart  

House Pack-up

·  Fixed a bug where players could pack up houses with vendors inside them. Players may now notice that some house terminal options (Packup, Privacy, Create Vendor) are not available until all items in the house have been fully loaded.  

UI / Chat

·  Detached chat windows no longer cause some windows to fail to open.       

·  Chat tabs will update when torn off (detached from) the main chat window.  

Space

·  The /findFriend command will now work in space.

Version 0.132347
September 8, 2005 

Combat

·  Players can no longer complete a deathblow while incapacitated, dead or knocked down.

·  Players can no longer deathblow while under cover or force-cloaked.

Structures / homes

·  You will no longer be able to unpack a house on a planet for which it was not designed.

·  Fixed issue where sometimes structures don't get loaded after a server restart

·  Fixed a bug where players could pack up houses with vendors inside them. Players may now notice that some house terminal options (Packup, Privacy, Create Vendor) are not available until all items in the house have been fully loaded

Version 0.133151
September 15, 2005

Character Transfer Service

·  Credits are now transferred by "with items" transfers. 

·  Lightsaber Crystals and Krayt Dragon Pearls in a player's inventory will now transfer correctly.

House Pack-Up

·  Players who logged out of the game while inside a house that was later packed-up (with them inside) should now be able to log in to the game.

Misc.

·  Improved server stability.

Profession Dancer, Entertainer, Musician

·  Inspiration Buffs will no longer increase the amount of experience points lost when surrendering a skill.

World

·  Fixed an issue that was preventing the Tusken zealots from re-spawning properly.

Hot Fix Update
October 1, 2005

·  Fixed an issue where DOT effects would play until a player logged out. 

·  Fixed an issue where DOT damage was not happening

Hot Fix
October 13, 2005 

Character Transfer Service

·  Bio-linked items will now transfer correctly.

·  Fixed issue that prevented transfer of characters with previously unstackable items that are now treated as stackable

·  Fixed issue that prevented transfer of characters with a Picture Printer containing items.

·  Fixed issue that caused certain kinds of stacked items to transfer in a quantity of 1 regardless of the actual quantity.

Publish 24
October 18, 2005

Headlines:

·  Squad Leader enhancements: Publish 24 will be bringing you significant changes and enhancements to the Squad Leader profession. The goal of these enhancements is to maintain the essence of the Squad Leader skills, leadership and group enhancement, while making the profession more robust and entertaining to play.

·  Profession Commando: As some of you may know, Helios has been working with Keldarin and JFreeman to get the community's input on some of the requested commando changes. Today, we have some very exciting update notes for you so we thought we'd call these changes out to your attention.

·  AI Specials: We are improving the variety of attacks available to NPCs in SWG. We have heard feedback from players, asking for more variety and strategy in NPC behaviors (for instance, having Dark Jedi and Night Sisters use force powers), and agree with that feedback 100%. NPCs that use appropriate tactics and strategy will make the combat experience in SWG the best it has ever been.

·  Combat - Movement Buffs and Snares Stack: Changes to the way movement buffs and snares stack in combat.

Squad Leader Enhancements

Publish 24 will be bringing you significant changes and enhancements to the Squad Leader profession. The goal of these enhancements is to maintain the essence of the Squad Leader skills, leadership and group enhancement, while making the profession more robust and entertaining to play.

Here's just a few of the things that we've changed:

·  Squad Leaders no longer need to be the group leader to benefit the group.

·  Multiple Squad Leaders can combine their skills for greater group enhancement.

·  New group buffs that give Squad Leaders more control and flexibility for how they enhance the group.

·  All passive abilities changed to more easily used and understood active abilities.

·  New group waypoint ability

The changes and enhancements are all intended to better allow a Squad Leader to enhance and lead their group. Lots of new abilities have been added and most of the existing abilities have been changed. The most useful of the existing abilities have stayed the same though their names may have been changed to keep things a bit more cohesive. The Squad Leader skill set concentrates solely on group enhancing abilities, while they do include a full set of combat skill mods (defense, accuracy and speed) a Squad Leader is still strongly encouraged to pick up another combat profession skill set to flesh out their combat abilities.

All the passive abilities of the Squad Leader have been removed and changed to active buff abilities. This will make it easier to understand exactly what benefit is taking affect when. Also Squad Leader's no longer need to be the group leader for their abilities to take affect. This allows them more flexibility to benefit the group even when they are not the "official" leader as well as allowing multiple Squad Leaders in a group to combine their abilities.

Squad Leader New Group Buffs

The buff system has been enhanced to allow group buffs. The core of the Squad Leader abilities are based on these new group buffs. Any group buff that a Squad Leader has active will automatically take affect on all the members of the group. The Squad Leader group buffs have been designed so only one buff can be in effect at a time so care will need to be taken by the Squad Leader to make sure the most important enhancement is active when it is most needed. Multiple Squad Leaders can have different group buffs active and they will all stack.

·  Steady Aim (Strategy I) - Enhances group accuracy.

·  Call to Arms (Strategy III) - Enhances group armor ratings.

·  Volley Fire (Strategy IV) - Gives group members the chance to bypass enemy armor.

·  Tactics (Tactics I) - Enhances group defenses.

·  Blaze of Glory (Tactics III) - Gives or enhances the chance to score a critical hit.

·  Double Time (Tactics IV) - Reduces cooldown times for group members.

·  Boost Morale (Leadership IV) - Enhances group Action/Mind regeneration.

·  Form Up (Mobility II) - Enhances group movement speed.

·  Retreat! (Mobility III) - Significantly enhances group movement speed for a short duration. Prevents all other combat actions.

·  Charge! (Mobility IV) - Significantly enhances group movement speed for a short duration. Places the Squad Leader at heightened risk by reducing their defenses.

Squad Leader New Individual Buffs

In addition to the ability to enhance overall group performance a Squad Leader can choose to place their attention towards a single group member to give them even greater benefits than the general group enhancements. Like the group buffs these enhancements are designed to only allow one to be in effect at any one time though multiple Squad Leaders can combine their abilities for increased enhancement.

·  Toughen (Tactics II) - Increases the armor rating of a single group member.

·  High Yield (Strategy II) - Increases the damage output of a single group member.

·  Verbal Assault (Leadership II) - Increases the amount of aggro generated by a single group member.

·  Combat Feint (Leadership III) - Decreases the amount of aggro generated by a single group member.

New Squad Leader Abilities

Finally a few completely new abilities have been added to the Squad Leader repertoire to flesh out their combat utility plus a couple of the original Squad Leader abilities have remained while others have had their names or effects changed slightly.

·  Group System Message (Novice SL) - Sends an on screen system message to all group members. (Same as previously.)

·  Called Shot (Novice SL) - Significantly increases the accuracy and damage of the next attack to the designated target. Only works for one attack and then must be reapplied. The accuracy and damage bonus increases as the Squad Leader learns more skills.

·  Rally Point () - Creates a waypoint for all group members. (Functions similar to the /waypoint command.)

·  Paint Target (Leadership I) - Increases the accuracy and damage for all attacks to the painted target in the next 20 seconds (Same as old Volley Fire.)

·  Second Chance (Master Squad Leader) - Equalizes all damage and wounds across all group members in the area. This ability has a very long recharge time.

Profession Commando

As some of you may know, Helios has been working with Keldarin and JFreeman to get the community's input on some of the requested commando changes. Here are some of the things that Commandos can look forward to in this update:

·  Heavy weapon AOE damage % is now displayed on weapons that have splash damage.

·  Fixed an issue where commando Area-Of-Effect weapons wouldn't give AOE damage.

·  Heavy weapon AOE damage percentage is now explicitly determined by the maximum range of the weapon. Longer range weapons have smaller AOE damage %.

·  Decreased the AOE range of commando grenades, should aggro less mobs now.

·  Fixed an issue with grenades where the AOE radius of a grenade would be centered on where the attacker was instead of where the target was.

·  Increased damage on all commando grenades.

·  Slightly increased the chance of grenade effects sticking to their targets.

·  Slightly increased the chance of some heavy weapon state effects sticking to their targets.

·  Slightly increased the effect duration for some heavy weapons.

·  Increased crafted grenade stack size from 5 to 10.

·  Added 4 combat specials for Commandos (3 levels each).

·  These specials are:

·  Demolition Shot : This ability gives a damage bonus against droids and buildings.

·  Focus Fire : This ability decreases the area of effect on AOE weapons & gives a damage bonus. The damage bonus is only for non-AOE weapons.

·  Dead Bang Shot : This ability decreases the range of an AOE weapon & gives a damage bonus - damage bonus only for non-AOE weapons.

·  Overkill Shot : This ability has a long warmpup/cooldown but gives a great damage bonus. This damage bonus is for non-AOE weapons.

AI Specials

We are improving the variety of attacks available to NPCs in SWG. We have heard feedback from players, asking for more variety and strategy in NPC behaviors (for instance, having Dark Jedi and Night Sisters use force powers), and agree with that feedback 100%. NPCs that use appropriate tactics and strategy will make the combat experience in SWG the best it has ever been.

The changes are designed to address this issue. Force Sensitive NPCs will use force powers, basic NPCs will use special attacks more intelligently, and high-level NPCs will use high-level special attacks.

Key to this effort was the playtest and feedback from Test Center - to ensure that the game difficulty does not substantially increase (except perhaps versus those very high-end Boss and Elite encounters). We're planning on adding several new and interesting loot items into the game, to coincide with the increasing challenge of some encounters, while balancing the baseline damage ranges from normal NPCs to ensure the overall difficulty level of the game does not increase.

Other changes in Publish 24:

Movement Buffs and Snares stacking in combat

In publish 24, we will be making some changes to the way movement buffs and snares stack in combat.

·  What is changing? We will be changing the way movement buffs and snares stack in combat. "Stacking" buffs means that multiple effects of the same type are used (or applied) in combat to cause a greater effect.

·  Who is affected by this change? This change will affect anyone who uses movement buffs and/or snares.

·  Why is this changing? This will address current gameplay issues and will prepare the way for future Squad Leader enhancements.

·  Can I get some more specific details? The current situation: Currently movement-buffs and snares stack in combat. A basic example of what this means is that if you get a movement-buff to double your speed and then get "snared" in combat to half your speed, your movement will be reduced back to your normal movement speed. Basically, a movement buff cancels a snare and a snare cancels a movement buff. Many types of movement buffs and snares can be used together to cause additional effects. For example, two or more movement buffs will "stack" to cause you to go very fast and multiple snares will stack and can prevent a player from moving. Additionally, snares will stack to quickly prevent all movement. A single snare would cut your movement in half another snare to reduce your movement in half would give you a movement of zero.

·  We are changing this so that: Only one temporary movement buff or effect can be active on a character at one time and movement enhancers will be overwritten by snares (in other words, one will cancel the other).

All buffs that modify movement will continue to stack as normal; however the movement effects will be handled so that only one is in effect at any given time.

For example, a movement buff could make your character move at x2 speed. If your character gets snared, rather than moving at x1 speed you will now be moving at x1/2 speed (as though you didn't have a movement buff on at all.) When the snare wears off you will return to x2 speed.

Also, snares won't stack. This means that if you are already moving at 1/2 speed when you get hit with a 1/4-speed snare, your movement would only be reduced to 1/4 of your base movement rate, rather than being reduced to 1/4 of your current (1/2-speed) total movement rate. (Total movement rate is calculated by adding up your base movement rate and all of your movement modifiers).

Similarly movement enhancements cannot be stacked. Only the most powerful enhancement will be active, when that one wears off the next most powerful will become active and so forth until there are no further movement buffs are on the character.

Finally there are still a few permanent movement enhancements and snares, things like weapon & armor hindrances or Fleet Footed for pets. These permanent modifiers adjust the Base Movement speed and will always stack with each other.

Client Stability

·  Fixed a Crash-to-Desktop associated with one or more locations within the city of Narmle on the planet Rori.

Combat

·  Fixed an issue with the Armor Break fail message. It will no longer display a %TT.

Profession: Dancer, Entertainer, Musician

·  Inspiration buff effects will now be visible as they are applied instead of after you stop listening or watching.

Profession: Jedi

·  Jedi Force Regeneration should be working correctly in conjunction with enhancement items.

Profession: Shipwright

·  Fixed a reverse engineering issue where the energy maintenance statistic was not applying the proper Reverse Engineering bonus.

Quests

·  Fixed the Y-8 mining Ship Convoy Protection quest. Waypoints, quest ships, and pirates will all appear as they should.

·  Smugglers and the Smuggler Captain in the Hero of Tatooine 'Intellect' quest will now have proper names so that they may be identified by name.

·  Quest: Hero of Tatooine: Mark of Altruism: Fixed issue that prevented players from placing explosives in the rocky crevice in the Sennex cave

Space

·  Fixed an issue where players were unable to move furniture up and down inside the Y-8 Mining Ship. Please feel free to decorate your mining vessels.

·  Increased the amount of resources given per astero id chunk absorbed during space mining. It is now 40 units for pieces gathered with the tractor beam and 20 units for destroyed pieces.

·  Added two new front mounted turrets to the Y8 to improve its effectiveness. Now 5 people, including the pilot, can take control of the weapons on the Y8 for exciting mining and fighting action.

Multiplayer Ship Component Changes

·  To make multiplayer ships more formidable, major Elite component changes have been made. These changes will affect newly created Elite components.

·  All component and armor hitpoints on Elite components have been boosted to three times their previous values.

·  All asteroid resource requirements in Elite components have been halved from 1250 to 625.

·  Elite Booster speed and energy values have been increased.

·  Elite Boosters now take Liquid Petrochemical Fuel like other booster components. This fixes an issue with asteroid resources not providing all the required resource stats for these components.

·  Elite Capacitor energy and recharge values have been increased.

·  Elite Engine YPR (Yaw, Pitch and Roll) has been increased, giving multiplayer ships greater mobility through their engines.

·  Elite Engines now take radioactive ore instead of aluminum, like other engine components. This fixes an issue with asteroid resources not providing all the required resource stats for these components.

·  Elite Reactor generation rates have been increased.

·  Elite Shields have had their shield points increased significantly in front and back, as well as their recharge rate.

·  Elite Gauss Cannon, Null Bolt, and Railguns have all had their damage increased.

User Interface

·  Corrected a problem where some options settings would be forgotten. For example, setting the Network Status Window to be visible will now be properly remembered across play sessions.

Additional Misc. Notes:

·  Fixed problems with consent lists including duplicate names and the inability to remove names from the consent list

·  Faction point warning messages will now only be displayed once when a cap or minimum is first reached

·  Fixed problem where clothing/armor pulled from a crate is not retaining color customization. NOTE : The problem is with the schematic itself. So any problem schematics need to be re-created to work properly.

·  Inventory scrollbar should work properly when the text in the examine window exceeds the size of the window.

·  Fixed hyperspace effect

·  Camps will automatically clean up 5 minutes after being abandoned.

Update November 1st, 2005

On November 1st, 2005 at 4:00 AM PST, Star Wars Galaxies launchpad will be taken out of service along with all servers for maintenance and a hot fix. When the servers return to service Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan will be available to all who have purchased the digital download. To purchase the digital download please click here or you can click on the icon located on launchpad.

Hot Fix Update
Version 0.140646

• Fixed an issue where starship terminals in some starports would disappear

November 9th, 2005

Getting Everyone Up To Lightspeed

Beginning on the afternoon of November 9th 2005, as an added bonus for our veteran players who do not yet have the Jump to Lightspeed expansion (and thus, space content) we will be giving you this expansion at no additional charge. This bonus content will automatically download to you upon your next log in to the game beginning on your next login to the game after this goes live. After all, space is more fun with other people to enjoy it with! May the Force be with you!

Publish 25 - Update Notes

Introduction
Publish 25 brings us all some exciting new game enhancements. For quite some time we have heard that our game is not delivering on the promise of a true Star Wars adventure. The enhancements premiering in Publish 25 take our game to an all new level of Star Wars style action making our game play experience feel more like the films and fiction; exciting, story-driven, Star Wars fun. The game plays more like a fast-paced, action-packed Star Wars adventure.

• Recently our Producer, Julio Torres, posted his thoughts on these enhancements and gave insight into the thinking that drove this development. You can read about it here.
  
• If you are looking for a guide on how to respec your character , click here.
  

• Ranged Combat
• Bounty Hunting
• Melee Combat
• Capture Techniques

• Heavy Weapons Combat
• Melee Combat
• Grenades
• Demolitions Techniques

• Dancing
• Musicianship
• Image Design

• Lightsaber Combat
• Force Powers
• Block Blaster Bolts
• Force Lightning

• Ranged Combat
• Healing - the only Profession that can heal other players
• Poisons and Diseases
• Revive

• Ranged Combat
• Group Buffs
• Sniper Techniques
• Indirect Fire
• Resupply

• Melee Combat
• Ranged Combat
• Dirty Tricks Techniques
• Fence Goods

• Ranged Combat
• Stealth and Sneak
• Assassinate
• Stealing

Update Notes November 19th, 2005
Version 0.142762

Experience Points

• Widened the level ranges for allowable experience points so that players can hunt a wider range of NPCs and creatures for their level.

GCW: New Galactic Civil War Point System

In this publish, we are adding a new Galactic Civil War Point System.  Both Rebels and Imperials can earn Planetary Control Points for their side in the war by killing both Rebel and Imperial NPCs and factionally declared players. 

Standings in the Galactic Civil War will now be based on the total amount of planetary control points your side has in the war for each of the current planets under contention.  The planets on which you can earn points for your side in the war are Corellia , Naboo and Tatooine .  Again, each of these three planets will have a different point total.

GCW: Gaining and Losing Points in the War

• You must be declared Special Forces to earn these points.
• Killing 25 NPC Rebels and Imperials will earn your side 1 point for the planet you are fighting on.
• Each factioned player (Rebel and Imperial) you kill will earn your side 1 point for the planet you are fighting on.
• The point scores for each planet will decay an unrevealed percentage every day, so you will need to remain active in the war to maintain the standings for your chosen side.

GCW: Checking the Planetary Control Score

There are "News Net" Terminals placed in Starports on Corellia, Naboo and Tatooine that players can use to determine who is winning the war on the planet they are currently on.  Rebels and Imperials can to determine the actual score by speaking with a Faction Recruiter.

GCW

• Spawns for Faction Bases are going to be temporarily disabled while we revaluate their overall role in the Galactic Civil War

Loot

• Fixed an issue that prevented looting while in a group.  You will also no longer be receiving the message, "You cannot loot that item because your inventory is full".

New Player Tutorial

• Added friend finder terminal into station gamma.

Profession Respec

• Fixed an issue that prevented characters from earning experience points (XP) after using the Profession Respec Device.
• Fixed an issue that prevented a character from getting the profession reward item associated with the last skill box earned when using a respec device.

Quests

• Fixed an issue that allowed Force Sensitive Village quest events to occur.  The old man will no longer make his visits.

User Interface

• The "Lots Remaining" description has been restored to the personal section of the Character Sheet.
• HAM Bar tool tips have been updated to display actual points and not percentages.
• The Profession selection window for profession respecs now covers the screen in all resolutions.
• Inventory windows should remember settings correctly (size, location, examine info, and avatar display).

Update Notes November 23rd, 2005
Version 0.142954

Art

• Improved many animations for NPCs and players while they are in motion.

Combat

• Running now gives you a 50% chance to be missed by an NPC using a ranged weapon (Up from 25%).

Profession: Jedi

• Decreased the cool-down time for Force Run.
• Increased the duration for Force Run.
• Increased the duration of Force Throw snares.

Profession: Medic

• Executing the Nutrient Injection ability or any of the Heal-over-Time commands without a target should now target the Medic.

Quests

• Reduced the experience point rewards for Mustafar hunting quests.
• Jabba's Palace quests will now properly award experience points (XP) for the quests.
• If you deleted your Bactapack or Slitherhorn on Tansarii Point Station and cannot complete your quest, the quest giver will now give you a new quest.

User Interface

• Chat is now modal.  Any time you want to chat, hit ENTER to begin chatting.
• Double-clicking on a vehicle deed will now generate the vehicle.
• Fixed the incorrect cursor that was being displayed for generating and storing vehicles or pets.
• Fixed the incorrect cursor that was being displayed for activating and deactivating waypoints via the Datapad.
• Fixed an issue where a rapid accumulation of fly-text would cause it to be pushed down on the screen.
• The new player tutorial continuation screen displays in the proper location at all resolutions.

Veteran Rewards

• Those players which should have been granted the Elder Buff, but were not, will now properly be granted the elder buff when they login.

Update Notes December 1, 2005
Version 0.143236

Headlines!

• Jedi have more protection with this update!
• All creatures and NPCs over level 21 have been balanced for fun combat.
• All special abilities that are snares have been fixed!
• Melee combat improved!
• Weakness Timer reduced!

Read all about it!

Character Creation

• If you create a new character with a name that is already being used, you will no longer be switched back to the beginning character creation screen. You should be able to pick a new name and continue normally.

Combat

• All creatures and NPCs level 21 and up have had their difficulty reduced.
• Fixed all snares (snares are special abilities).
• The duration for the weakness timer was reduced from 2.5 minutes to 1 minute. If you are incapacitated a second time in less than 1 minute, you will be cloned.
• Melee attacks will hit more frequently against moving creatures and NPCs.
• Melee combat speed for respec'd characters should be improved.

Profession: Jedi

• Added Force Protection to Jedi Robes/Cloaks. This will provide protection for Jedi based on the level requirement of the item. Force Protection numerical values are found on the Character sheet once the object is equipped.
• Added various new Jedi Robes to provide Protection from levels 40-80, Happy Hunting!
• The "Two Handed" Force Throw special ability should work correctly.

Quests

• The RSF mainframe quest can now be completed.
• The legacy quest, "Jabba's Dirty Work" will now give you the proper waypoint to complete the quest.
• The legacy quest, "Digital Infection" will now give you better information on how to upload the virus during the quest.
• The "Activating the Terminal" quest will no longer award experience points.

Server Stability Enhancements

• Improved some lag and over-spawning issues.

User Interface

• The class icon for the HAM bar has been corrected to display the proper profession icon.

Veteran Rewards

• The exclusive veteran reward, "Favor of the Elders" will no longer be granted to new players. It will only be granted to characters that were created before publish 25.

Update Notes December 7th, 2005

Combat

• Added a "Shoot-Through-Friendlies" Functionality for combat targeting .  This should improve your play experience when fighting in a group, both for combat and for healing. 

GCW

• Faction Bases may now be entered by enemy faction members, even with active turrets.
• Faction Bases will no longer spawn NPCs when a terminal is disabled.

Quests

• Experience Points for quests up to level 20 have been increased.
• When earning experience points from quests, you can only earn up to 50% of the total number of experience points needed to reach the next level.  For example, it will always take at least 2 quests to earn 1 combat level.
• Jabba's Palace/Bib Fortuna: Romo Vax will now spawn with the correct name.  Finding him near the Sennex bunker during the quest will be much easier now.
• Jabba's Palace/Bib Fortuna: We have increased the availability of Romo Vax.  This should also make Romo Vax easier to find.
• Bug Hunt Quest: The waypoints to infested areas will now be properly given during the quest.
• Mayor Mikdanyell's quests to visit Purvis, Paewp and Entha have been changed to include a final visit to the NPC.  This will help everyone find the next leg of the quest.

 User Interface

• Pressing the ESC key will clear your target box.  This simply clears what you have targeted.  If you are "moused over" a target, you will re-target the Object, Creature or NPC.  Also, pressing the ESC key will only clear your target, not end combat. 
• Corrected the mouse-mode toggling on the Character Sheet. Closing the Character Sheet will no longer close all other screens, such as your inventory screen.

Double Experience Points! - Extended!

As thanks to our loyal fans, we will be having a Double XP week!

From the December 7th to morning of Thursday, December 15th, everyone will be getting double experience point gains!

Happy Hunting!

Publish 26

Update Notes December 13th

Headlines

• Life Day Surprises added for everyone!
• Multiple Character Slots now available!
• New changes to Harvesters.
• Quest experience added for all Rage of the Wookiees quests!
• Recover your Profession Respec Kit without having to delete your prized items!
• Double XP is ended.

Publish 26 Update Notes

Character Slots

• Multiple Character Slots are now active! All players can now have 2 characters on the same galaxy! (Players can have up to 8 characters total across all galaxies).

Chat

• Modeless Chat is once again an option.  Please be aware that Star Wars Galaxies no longer ships with or supports key-maps with Modeless Chat.  The option has been added for veteran players who wish to use it.

Client Stability Enhancements

• Fixed a memory performance issue related to combat animations.
• Fixed a memory performance issue related to world objects.

Cloning

• It is no longer possible to open multiple cloning registration windows.

Combat

• Fixed an issue that was preventing fly text for damage amounts to appear for creatures and NPCs.
• Made a change to targeting that will help prevent players from standing in front of each other to prevent them from attacking their chosen target.
• Players with old Force ranking status will no longer prevent you from switching faction status.
• DOT damage (Damage-Over-Time) should now be visible as flytext above the target's head.
• You will no longer be able to heal players if you are currently in a duel.
• You can no longer jump while dead.
• Fixed an issue which caused Precision to always be applied (even for melee weapons) instead of Strength.
• Unarmed combat with no melee weapon equipped will now use your characters base level of damage.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes players who used elevators would not appear on observer's screens right away.

Commands

• Fixed several issues while trying to use special abilities while on a vehicle, mount or while swimming. The abilities will no longer partially activate and cause animation issues.

Experience Points

• Added quest experience to all Rage of the Wookiees quests.
• Double XP has been turned off.

GCW

• Faction recruiters will no longer sell hirelings/pets.

Harvester Changes

• Added a 50% Bonus to Harvesting amounts on All Harvesters.
• You must be an Owner of a Harvester/Generator to deposit money into it.
• Harvesters can only be accessed and operated by the person who placed it.
• All existing condemned Harvesters are now destroyed.
• Harvesters no longer pull credits from the bank when the maintenance pool reaches 0.
• Harvesters will now destroy themselves instead of going into condemned status. The Harvester will still take damage when it runs out of maintenance and decay to 0%. Once it hits 0%, it will destroy itself rather than pull credits from the owner's bank account.

Life Day

• Added a Life Day Tree surprise! Check your inventory, get together with some friends and gather around the Life Day Tree!
• Holiday gifts have been added! In your inventory, you will find a gift box for you and one to share with a friend.

Loot

• Added additional weapons of all types for all levels that can be found as loot.
• New wearable loot drop items no longer require bio-linking. Note: This change will not affect existing items.
• Fixed an issue so that using the "Loot All" button on the loot window will now include loot backpacks.

New Player Tutorial

• Now you will get a Loot window when you receive resources for Quests on Tansarii Point Station.
• The knuckler reward from Rydel's quest on Tansarii Point Station is now useable by anyone.
• If a player creates a character with the Trader Profession and skips Tutorial, they will now be issued a pistol. This will help them be able to complete their first quests.

Profession: Bounty Hunter

• Several Bounty Hunter specials have new visual effects.

Profession: Commando

• Commando Demolition Shot no longer has an incorrect maximum range.  It will now use the weapons range.
• The Stun Grenade, Flashbang Grenade and Concussion Grenade special abilities will now work as snares.

Profession: Jedi

• Significantly increased the power of Jedi defensive and offensive buffs.
• Fixed an issue with the lightsaber blade turning on and off erratically as you moused on and off a combat target.
• The blue glowing Jedi form will now turn off when you launch into space.

Profession: Medic

• Executing Nutrient Injection or any of the Heal-Over-Time commands without a target should now target the Medic.

Profession: Officer

• Significantly increased the power of Officer defensive buffs and de-buffs.
• Officer abilities Paint Target, Called Shot & Fix Target now show a targeting visual effect on the de-buffed enemy while the buff is in effect.
• The Officer Hailfire ability has been renamed to "Aerial Bombardment".
• The Officer Orbital Strike & Artillery Fire specials have new visual effects.
• Officer bomb special abilities now apply fire dots (Damage over time) instead of bleeds.
• The Deuterium Bomb special ability now applies fire dots (Damage over time) instead of bleeds.
• Orbital Strike, Artillery Strike and Aerial Bombardment (Formerly Hailfire) now go off at the target's location instead of the Officer's.
• White phosphorous grenade now behaves like a normal grenade.
• A grenade can now be found in the crate of supplies dropped off by the Officer 'Supply Drop' ability.
• The Officer special ability Stratagem visual effects will now end properly.

Profession: Smuggler

• The Jolting Blow, Stagger Shot and Concussion Shot special abilities will now work as snares.

Profession: Spy

• Increased the duration of the Spy stealth abilities.
• Spy's can now get closer to other creatures before the special ability Sneak "breaks" and they are revealed.
• The visual effect for the Spy ability "Vanish" no longer plays infinitely.
• Smoke Grenades and Smoke Bombs will now display the correct icon on the toolbar.
• The Spy's sneak & smoke grenade abilities now take the "Camouflage" skill modifier into account when determining the size of the bubble that determines how close you have to get to another NPC/creature before stealth breaks.  A higher camouflage skill modifier creates a smaller breach bubble.

Profession: Trader; Shipwright

• Shipwright Crafting XP will now count correctly towards the Trader/Structures specialization.

Quests

• Lowered the difficulty of the Sennex bunker and Squill cave.
• You must start the Huff Darklighter quest with Huff's guard. You can no longer start with Borvo's guard. If you have the old version of the quest in your datapad, please delete to prevent having further issues with the quest.
• Fixed Frangee's waypoint for Borvo's quest.
• Fixed Borvo's conversation so that the quest for the droid part in his vault works correctly.
• If you have completed all of Pooja's RSF quests and speak with her again, you will be granted any of the RSF badges that might be missing.
• Some quests on Mustafar now have a minimum level requirement.
• The level 14 Officer quest waypoint directing players to return to Ellis Arrison has been fixed.
• For each the Mayor's quests in Mos Eisley to work with Entha, Paewp, and Purvis, the NPC's will send you back to the mayor when you have completed each of their quests so you can easily find the next quest in the series.
• Anger and Harmony: For the Jedi Progression Quest, "Anger and Harmony", the twisted creatures that you have to kill to complete this quest won't be stuck inside a structure anymore.  You should now be able to target them.
• Bestine Jobs: When you take this quest from Captain Jasha, he will give you the waypoints to the Banthas now.
• Bone Gnasher: When you complete the Bone Gnasher quest for Tori, she will tell you to go back to Reimos.  Now, when she does this, you will get a waypoint that points you to the next quest.
• Darklighter Cache: On Tatooine, the Darklighter Quest that asks you to click on the target terminals, but when you do, it gives you a message that says, "That object does not interest you".  You should now be able to click on the terminals and finish your progress on the quest.  Also, if you let the timer run out, you should be able to go back to the NPC Darci and get the quest again.  If you want the quest to show up on the quest helper, just open the quest journal and it should appear in the quest helper window.
• Dem Bones , Rill Thing and Might Mites had an issue where you would be told to go to an infested location to kill the critters.  All three of these quests will now give you the correct waypoints for the infested locations. 
• Force Sensitive Essentials V: When you complete this level 38 quest, you will receive your awards which include a Lightsaber Crafting Toolkit, A first generation Lightsaber, a two-handed first generation lightsaber, a double bladed first generation lightsaber and a Force Sensitive Ring (which is still rewarded as part of the quest).
• Jabba's Palace: Crew Chiefs and Fuel Tubes: More Crew Chiefs will be available for you to kill.
• Jabba's Palace: Get Disks from Valarians: The way point has been fixed so you can complete the mission.
• Jabba's Palace: Remodeling: Fixed the waypoint so that Malakili can be found.
• Jabba's Palace: Remodeling: Fixed an issue so that you don't have to talk to EV-9D9 twice to start the quest series.
• Jabba's Palace: Shock Rods: There should now be Jundland Eopie spawns near the Sarlacc for the "Shock Rods" quest.
• Jabba's Palace:  When you have finished Ree Yees' quests, you should now get a waypoint directing you from Ree Yees to Ephant Mon.
• Jabba's Palace: When completing Ephant Mon's quests, rewards will be properly awarded.
• Jabba's Palace:  Updated the coordinates for EV-9D9 so that the quest helper will correctly point to location for quests "Tracking the Head" and "Remodeling".
• Jabba's Palace: When you complete Bib Fortuna's quest series, he will now give you the correct pointer quest to go to Jabba so you will know where to go next.
• Kill Romo Vax: When you are given the quest to kill Romo Vax, you'll get the correct waypoint and Romo will spawn in the right location.
• Lar's Homestead: When you disarm the bomb for Zef, he gives you a datapad.  When you click on it, you should get your next quest.
• Mark of the Hero: The Squill skull should spawn properly.
• Rebel Bantha Hunt: when you complete this quest by killing the Bantha's you will get a message letting you know that it's complete and Droma Ordo will give you your quest reward.
• Repo Man: All of the hostile NPCs for this quest, Daezii Mae, Buhba and Kleatus, will be more available so you can complete the quest (spawning has been increased).
• Repo Man: Fixed the missing waypoint to the speeder.
• Rescue Karl Eckener: On this Naboo Quest, Hugo Eckener will offer a rescue quest.  You can complete this quest now to follow the story.  Previously, Hugo would offer other quests that would skip the rescue quest.  Now, Hugo will offer you the quest you need.  You can go back to Hugo to get the quest again if you need to.
• Starting the Search: You should be able to speak to Barrezz again so you can accept the quest.
• Take Medicine to Dagorel: Both quest waypoints have been fixed.
• Tusken Recon 4: (Mayor's Quests): When you complete Purvis's quest, you will be asked to return to Purvis for the next part of the quest.

Space

• The escape key (ESC) now clears your target in space combat if you have a target. The ESC key will open the main menu if you do not have a target.
• Space Credit Chips will now have the default action of Use.

Species

• Currently, there are many rewards that cannot be used by some species (For example: Mon Calamari, Ithorians, Trandoshans and Wookiees). In this publish, players with characters who have these species restrictions will now be able to equip these items. Please note that many of these items were restricted due to art restrictions. Because of this, these items may be equipped, but they will not be visible on the character or to other players, but they will gain the effects of the items.
• All species innate abilities have been removed.

User Interface

• You can re-map the special abilities on your toolbar to the function keys on your keyboard (instead of 1-10, -, =). Using these keys will queue up the special ability, then use the right mouse button to activate the ability.
• Increased the size of the ham bars.
• MinDamage and MaxDamage will now properly display on your character sheet.
• Your character screen will now display statistics for Offence, Defense and Damage.
• Radar blips show up properly for waypoints.
• The Profession window has been updated to make sure the level and skills are properly displayed as experience is gained.
• The quest helper has been updated to better respond to your choices. Now the quest helper should change when you receive a new quest or if you choose a specific quest to be active in your journal.
• You should no longer be able to see the Skill-Up / Level-Up text fly-text for other players or through walls.
• Changed the text and appearance of the preview movie button on template selection screen.
• Fixed several small graphical issues with the space and politician portion of the profession window.
• Changed the "role icon" to display the player's profession choice.
• Obsolete combat spam options have been removed from the Options menu.
• The Combat category has been removed from chat tabs.
• Fixed some instances of empty brackets displaying in the Quest Journal.
• Additional chatlogs will not spawn new logs in detached chat windows when logging in.
• Added an icon, name and description for /leap Social in the Commands window.
• Removed /jump from Other in the Commands window. Note: /jump performs the same jump as spacebar, but is not considered a toolbar command at this time.

Veteran Rewards

• Items that have had an Anti-Decay Kit applied to them can now have the kit removed to recover the Profession Restart Kit without destroying the object.
• Using the Favor of the Elders special ability will no longer put the player activating the ability into combat.
• The "Favor of the Elders" special ability is now its own cool-down group.

World

• Creatures from levels 80 - 90 have been added to Yavin 4, Endor, Dathomir and Dantooine.
• Players can no longer sell equipped items to Fences (to help prevent accident sales).
• Fixed many instances of over-spawning.
• Instant Travel Terminal X-wings/Tie Fighters generated from the "Call For Pickup" command no longer has collision.
• Billboards have been added to the world for important buildings so they are easier to find for new players.

Combat

• Fixed an issue where one player would continually see lightsaber visual and sound effects even after combat had ended and the lightsaber was un-equipped.

Space

• Fixed an issue where your character may briefly appear to be seated in empty space after leaving a turret station.

UI

• Administrator Lists for houses, guild halls, factories and all player structures except for Harvesters will be visible.

Veteran Rewards

• Removing an Anti-Decay kit from a lightsaber will no longer dismantle the lightsaber.

Double XP through the Holidays!

Greetings!

We will be enabling Double XP again for the holidays from Tuesday, December 20th through Tuesday, January 3rd.

Happy Holidays!

Update Notes December 20th, 2005

Combat

• Players in melee combat should now be able to more easily hit a moving enemy.

Experience Points

• Double Experience Points have been turned on!
• Experience Points (XP) earned in Space will now count as Experience Points (XP) on the ground.

Loot

• Backpacks and other containers you may have in your inventory that have items in them can no longer be sold to a junk dealer.
• Items that have been traded to another player after the list of sellable items is displayed can no longer be sold to prevent accidentally selling prized items.
• Loot items that can auto-stack will properly stack.

Quests

• Rage of the Wookiees: Arena Challenge - Face Wirartu: This group quest can now be properly completed.
• Trials of Obi-Wan: A History Lesson Part II: The NPC Skar has been moved to prevent him from falling off the platform or getting stuck.
• Anger and Harmony: The "Twisted Creatures" will now appear in the Ruined Tusken Village on Tatooine at -7556, -1863.
• Borvo's Side Quest: When returning to Captain Dustrunner on Borvo's quest to kill the NPC Aldalad, Capt Dustrunner will now properly appear so you can finish the quest.
• New Player Experience: Fixed an issue where some players on Frelka's Quests were being granted the second quest in the series before the first quest was finished.
• New Player Experience: Fixed an issue where some players who were sent to Serissu for pilot training ended up with 2 sets of space quests. Now there will be only 1 quest.
• Sol Wintide's Quest: Players will now be able to complete this quest and get the reward.
• The Repo Man: The waypoint given for Pah's Speeder has been corrected. The correct waypoint is -2872, 2587 .
• Watto's Droid Head quest: Players have been deleting this quest and it is a quest that has to be completed as part of the Legacy Quest story arc. When this quest is deleted, players get stuck so this quest can no longer be deleted.

World

• NPC's on Kashyyyk who were stuck up in the Wroshyr trees have been moved to the ground.
• Dynamic Points of Interest such as Rebel, Imperial and Hutt camps that have been appearing (spawning) on players and causing them to get stuck will no longer appear.
• All players can now comprehend the Wookiee language (Shyriiwook).

Mouse-Only Game Play Feature!

Our new fast-action combat control scheme inadvertently presented a hardship for some without the use of both hands; for this reason we are introducing mouse-only play which allows all movements and abilities to be controlled through the mouse exclusively. This is live in the game right now and can be accessed through the options menu.

This mouse control scheme is for playing on the ground.

How to enable Mouse-Only Play:

1. Open your Options menu (press "O").

2. Click the button that says, "Keymap".

3. On the bottom half of the Keymap window, you will see a list of options.

4. Check the boxes that say:

•  "Middle mouse drives movement" and

•  "Scroll through default actions with mouse."

5. Click the button that says, "Apply" and then "Ok".

Now your mouse-only play feature will be enabled!

Here's how it works:

1.       Left click is still used to fire your weapon.

2.       Right click is still used to trigger your specials.

3.       The middle mouse wheel will scroll through the abilities on your toolbar.

4.       Holding down the middle mouse button will move you in the direction that you are facing.

5.       You can use the "+" and "-" keys on your keyboard to control your camera zoom.

Mouse-Only Game Play Feature!

Our new fast-action combat control scheme inadvertently presented a hardship for some without the use of both hands; for this reason we are introducing mouse-only play which allows all movements and abilities to be controlled through the mouse exclusively. This is live in the game right now and can be accessed through the options menu.

This mouse control scheme is for playing on the ground.

How to enable Mouse-Only Play:

1. Open your Options menu (press "O").

2. Click the button that says, "Keymap".

3. On the bottom half of the Keymap window, you will see a list of options.

4. Check the boxes that say:

•  "Middle mouse drives movement" and

•  "Scroll through default actions with mouse."

5. Click the button that says, "Apply" and then "Ok".

Now your mouse-only play feature will be enabled!

Here's how it works:

1.       Left click is still used to fire your weapon.

2.       Right click is still used to trigger your specials.

3.       The middle mouse wheel will scroll through the abilities on your toolbar.

4.       Holding down the middle mouse button will move you in the direction that you are facing.

5.       You can use the "+" and "-" keys on your keyboard to control your camera zoom.

Update Notes December 22nd, 2005

Please Note: Chat window preferences will be discarded when you log into the game for ALL characters.  This was necessary to fix the issue where /tells no longer worked for characters that were created prior to publish 26.

Client Stability Enhancements

• Fixed many cases of Crash-to-Desktop.

Experience Points

• Added a Level-Up Life Day orb as loot all throughout the galaxy!  This loot item will grant you 1 level.  This loot item can be found on all types of NPC's and Creatures.

New Player Experience

• Players will no longer find themselves back in the Medical Bay when boarding the Millennium Falcon.
  
• At the end of the trial CD, when players select the "Continue the Adventure" button, the game will exit and your web browser will be started so the full version of the game can be downloaded. You will be asked to log on to your station account and enter your billing information at that time.

Profession: Jedi

• You will no longer be able to un-equip a lightsaber and switch weapons to use the effect of Saber Block with weapons other than Lightsabers.

Profession: Spy

• Spies can no longer steal items from most Bosses, but they can still steal loot from all other NPCs.

Quests

• If you were doing Watto's Droid Head Quest (EV-9D9) you can now get the droid's head from Watto again if you deleted the quest.  You can also get the quest again in case you abandoned it.

User Interface

• Fixed the issue preventing some players from receiving /tells.  Note: Chat window preferences will be discarded when you log into the game for ALL characters.  This was necessary to fix the issue where /tells no longer worked for characters that were created prior to publish 26.

• Players should not see any more "Trade Requests" when clicking on other players using the Shoot-Through-Friendlies feature.  To trade with another player, target that player and press the tilde key "~" to bring up your radial menu and make a trade request.
  
  
• Mouse-Only Movement: If you have an empty toolbar slot, you will be able to scroll to all the actions in your toolbar and not just the abilities to the left of the empty slot.
  
• Mouse-Only Movement: The mouse-move will now work while moving around inside of multiplayer ships.

• If you log out to the Character Selection Screen and choose a different character to play, your character will display the proper Profession screen instead of your previous character's Profession.

• You can now right-click on chat tabs to close them (Menu options - "Delete Tab").

Server Stability Enhancements

• Added many server stability fixes.

Update Notes December 23rd, 2005

Quests

• Watto's: Putting It Together (Watto's Droid Head Quest): We have addressed the issues with Watto's Droid Head Quest so that it can be completed.  Players currently on the quest will also be able to complete the mission.
  
• The Gungan Battle Droid:  Fixed an issue with Boss Nass talking to players.  You will now be able to talk to Boss Nass and complete the quest.

• Rage of the Wookiees: Clone War Relics: Queen Kylantha Quest: Out of the Ashes (Arc-170 Quest): Fixed an issue where the Wookiee prisoner Grrallo wouldn't appear in Trandoshan Slaver Camp #2.  The Prisoner should now appear and you will be able to complete the quest.
  
• Rage of the Wookiees: Clone War Relics: Avenging Mort Morkov should now work correctly for Rebel and Neutral players trying to complete the clone trooper armor quests.
  
• Rage of the Wookiees: Kashyyyk Space Missions: Fixed an issue that would occur when completing Emma's duty mission quests.   The Kashyyyk space station should now offer the Blacksun Heavy quest properly for neutral pilots so you can now complete all chapters of this mission.

Server Stability Enhancements

• Added more server stability fixes.