• Lolindir

    Publish 8: A Galaxy Divided 

    by
    Lolindir
    Published on 06-04-2016 07:31 AM   

    Publish 8: A Galaxy Divided

    06/04/2016
    The SWGEmu Development Division


    Publish 8: A Galaxy Divided


    System
    • Improved server stability
    • Made some performance optimizations
    • Made some adjustments to reduce server memory usage
    • Fixed some memory leaks
    • Fixed some more causes of database bloat
    Spawns/World
    • Improved and optimized how random world spawning works. A player no longer needs to be moving for things to spawn nearby
    • All planets now have a chance to dynamically spawn various spawns that are not unique to the planet (faction spawns, thugs, dark jedi, etc.)
    • Added/changed several static spawns, especially within non-player cities
    • Added some spawns to the Talus Imperial vs. Rebel Battle POI
    • Added spawns to the Tatooine Imperial Oasis
    • Added spawns to the Rori Black Sun Bunker
    • Added many public starship crafting stations
    • Added the Naboo kidnapped royalty and associated heralds
    • Many Jabba's Palace mobs now have animations or patrol about the palace
    • There have been some non-existent buildings showing up on some planet's planetary maps. These have been removed.
    • Increased the diameter of the the village "fog" area
    • When trying to place a structure, the ground around a dynamic spawn is now yellow
    Creatures/NPCs/AI
    • Fixed stats and/or other details on many mobs
    • Mobs now regen HAM at a percentage of the max per tick
    • Mobs should no longer aggro through locked doors
    • Mobs no longer instantly stand after a posture change
    • The use of certain emotes on imperial npcs will now cause them to knock the player down, in addition to them being fined
    • Npcs will no longer use intimidate or force intimidate
    • Npcs that give a quest will now have the appropriate overhead icon. Please report any non-JTL ones that are still missing.
    Events/Dungeons/Theme Parks/Quests
    • Much work has been done on the village, force sensitive, and jedi but it is incomplete and not ready for mass testing. They will therefore remain disabled for this publish
    • Added the theater manager quest series
    • Added Act 2 of the Cries of Alderaan story line (Requires the badge from Act 1 in order to start)
    • Added Kima Nazith quest line
    • Added Melios Purl quest line
    • Added Pooja Naberrie quest line
    • Added Shaki Hamachil quest line
    • Added Shibb Nisshil quest line
    • The item rewards from Thrawn's final mission in the Imperial theme park should now always be a matching helm and suit
    • Escort mission targets no longer take on the player's faction when the player is on leave. This prevents them from being attacked by mobs that the player cannot attack.
    • Fixed a few theme park spawns that would attack each other when they shouldn't
    • Fixed Cries of Alderaan message not appearing in inventory if the fragments were combined with a full inventory
    • Newly acquired warren evidence can now be deleted from a player's datapad
    • Turning in the warren evidence will now properly grant a faction point award
    • The life day quests can now be repeated each year
    Player
    • The new player tutorial has been completely rewritten and re-enabled
    • New players are now sent the new-player starting email
    • The new player creation lockout timer is now 1 hour (down from 24 hours)
    • Changed HAM regeneration rates to be more in line with live
    • Fixed several full inventory checks that didn't take into account the items within containers
    • Surrendering a skill will no longer remove abilities that are also granted by another skill that the player has
    • Getting an item from a factory crate will now always place the item into the player's inventory
    • Triple incaps should more reliably cause death and the span that they must be within is now 10 minutes (down from 15)
    • Added 6-month expiration to in-game mail. Because of the large number of old mails on Basilisk, we're throttling the expiration. This means that not all old mails will be deleted right away. There is no predictable order that the deletions will take place in. Any mail over 6-months old is at risk and might be deleted at any time.
    • Fixed the sender format of in-game mails
    • LD duration is now 3 minutes
    • /logout will now properly remove a player from the world if they are in a safe location, rather than setting them LD
    • Logging in while still LD will no longer make your player invulnerable while loading
    • A player's action queue is now cleared when they are set LD
    • A player will no longer auto-attack while LD
    • Speak language commands no longer appear in the command browser
    • The various language commands (/basic, /dosh, etc.) now cause the player to speak in the appropriate language for the given message
    • A decay report is now presented to a player upon cloning
    Combat
    • The /assist command is now functional
    • It is no longer possible to attack mobs behind locked doors
    • Auto attacks are no longer sent to the client to queue but instead just executed server side. This will prevent them from sometimes getting queued after another attack is queued due to latency.
    • Auto attacks will now fire at an interval closer to a player's attack speed
    • The attack command will no longer queue with higher priority than other commands
    • Using /peace will now clear the combat queue
    • All attacks that hit a single pool will now also do a small percentage of the damage to the other two pools as well
    • Attacks that blind, dizzy, intimidate, or stun will now refresh the duration of those states if they are already present on the target
    • Defense vs. Intimidate is no longer functional
    • The intimidation state applied from multiple sources will no longer stacks it's effect
    • Warcry, and similar delays, will now delay more types of actions including posture changes, squad leader commands, and species' innate abilities
    • Increased the range at which combat spam will appear from 70m to 85m
    • Fire dots should no longer be reduced by armor
    • Fire and Disease DoTs can now incapacitate their target
    • Creature special attacks with a DoT component will now apply the DoT to pool that was hit with the attack instead of always applying to health
    • DoT timers are properly reset when a DoT is cured so that dots applied later do not tick at incorrect intervals.
    • Dots should now tick more reliably at the proper intervals
    • The amount of battle fatigue applied by a fire DoT will now be static for each tick instead of possibly increasing with each tick if the target has high BF already.
    • Weapon fire dots no longer cause excessive amounts of wounds
    • Fixed many issues with combat animations
    • Combat commands that include a posture change now properly animate
    • Attacks that incapacitate or kill a target will now animate properly
    • Area of Effect attacks should now animate towards the proper target
    • Default attacks should now play a much larger variety of animations
    • Many attacks now have multiple animations that are used under the appropriate conditions instead of always using the same one
    • The use of consumable heavy weapons should now animate properly
    • Using the last grenade or heavy weapon in a stack should now show the correct animation
    • Added combat flytext that denotes hit location
    GCW
    • Fixed the layout of several different faction base types (newly placed bases only)
    • A faction base can no longer be placed where there are already 3 faction bases within 600m
    • All faction bases now have stronger defenders more in line with live
    • Faction bases should no longer bug out and prevent entry after the turrets are destroyed
    • A single defense can now be donated to a PvP faction base during each vulnerability
    • PvE faction bases can no longer have any defenses donated or removed via the HQ terminal
    • Faction Base terminals should now have functionality that is closer to live
    • A player must now remain at a faction base's HQ terminal for 60s in order to shutdown a base destruction sequence
    • Added many missing system messages related to faction bases
    • Players of the appropriate faction rank can now view the vulnerability status of a faction base
    • Only Special Forces faction bases will now register on the planetary map
    • Doctors/Dancers/Musicians can now register within SF faction bases of the appropriate type
    • Added faction perks for players registered within SF faction Bases
    • Turrets now attack faster
    • Each turret type now has a different damage type
    • Fixed the armor rating and resists of some turret types
    • Turrets can now attack non-player targets
    • Auto-fire turrets will no longer focus fire a single target but will instead change targets periodically
    • Turrets are no longer aggressive towards non-faction targets
    • Faction mobs should no longer ever attack their own faction's turrets
    • All GCW stronghold cities should now have mobs of the appropriate faction spawning within them
    • GCW planetary control is now checked and adjusted periodically rather than changing on the fly
    • Added factional spawns to non-stronghold, non-player cities on Corellia, Naboo, and Tatooine. The controlling faction is checked when spawning and re-spawning to determine which side's mob to spawn.
    • Faction recruiters now have conversation options to check the status of the GCW on their planet
    • /gcwstatus now directs players to visit a faction recruiter or a newsnet terminal to check the status of the GCW
    • Added field faction status change
    • The pvp rating system (and /showpvprating) are now functional
    • Attacking an opposing player's vehicle will now cause a tef
    • Triple incapping someone during a duel will no longer give a tef to their opponent
    Professions

    Armorsmith:
    • The imperial PSG schematic now has the proper effectiveness ranges and now utilizes the proper resource attributes for base effectiveness
    Artisan:
    • Adjusted mind/action drain amounts for surveying and sampling
    • Dismounting is no longer required prior to sampling (it will automatically dismount you)
    • Fixed a bug with experimentation success calculations which caused experimentation results to always be better than they should be
    • Survey tools now only have pre-cu range options
    • Newly crafted Dustcrepe should now be functional
    Bio-Engineer:
    • Adjusting a bio-engineered pet's stats will now properly recalculate based on the adult level instead of on the current level
    • Fixed stun resist not being passed on to pets during crafting
    • Adjusted damage and resists formula for crafted pets
    • Being attacked as a result of a failed dna sample attempt will now remove mask scent
    Bounty Hunter:
    • Increased the damage and wounds caused by torso shot's fire dot
    • Fast blast now hits all 3 pools and has a high accuracy bonus
    • Npc bounty mission success/failure is now determined by who gets loot rights rather than by who gets the killing blow
    • Fast Blast and Spray Shot now have their proper weapon type restrictions
    Brawler:
    • Fixed the animation of 1h and 2h lunge2 attacks
    Creature Handler:
    • Changed the taming process to be more like live
    • Creature Handling xp is now awarded separately for each pet instead of in one lump
    • Changed the creature training success formula to be more forgiving to lower skilled creature handlers
    • The Creature Taming Bonus skill mod on SEAs is no longer disabled
    Droid Engineer:
    • Players can now download the waypoint from a droid with a merchant barker module installed
    Entertainer:
    • Adjusted action drain amounts for entertaining and flourishing
    • It is now possible to listen and watch at the same time regardless of which action you perform first.
    • Fixed the bug that caused buffs to not be given reliably
    • /bandflourish now only gives xp to the one who uses the command and not to the entire band
    • It is now possible to drop an instrument to play when a different one is already dropped
    • The sing emote is now properly entertainer only
    Image Designer:
    • We think we fixed the issue where players could end up bald after an image design session. Please report if it still happens.
    • Ending up with a hair object in inventory after an image design should no longer happen
    Marksman:
    • The point blank area 1 skill is now an area of effect rather than a cone effect
    Medic/Doctor/Combat Medic:
    • /healdamage will no longer sometimes not work if a player with no Combat Medic skills is carrying some ranged stimpacks
    • /quickheal can now be used in combat
    • All medical commands with a mind cost should now have the cost adjusted based on the player's focus
    • Area heals now properly check all potential targets for validity before healing them
    • Revived players will now have a 60s grogginess debuff
    • /healstate and /healenhance can now be used without arguments
    • /healstate now plays the proper client effect
    Merchant:
    • Removed the female Bith vendor option
    • Newly created vendors now have the vendor search option enabled by default
    • Vendors that run out of maintenance are now unregistered and have vendor search disabled
    • Vendor Ad-barking is now functional
    • It is once again possible to transfer a structure containing a vendor
    • More bazaar/vendor pages can be filtered by category
    • Fixed pagination on various bazaar/vendor screens
    Pistoleer:
    • Removed the knockdown effect from disarming shot 2
    • Added a knockdown effect to pistol melee defense 2
    Politician:
    • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause a mayor to lose citizenship in their own city
    • Civic structures can no longer be transferred
    Ranger/Scout:
    • It should no longer be possible to get scouting xp via mask scent more than one time per creature
    • Mobs no longer continuously check against mask scent/camo. If a player succeeds once, the mob won't notice them as long as they stay within range
    • Area track results will no longer include transport shuttles
    • The resource concentration thresholds for each harvest adjustment (skinny, fat, etc.) have been changed. All steps above skinny should now be more prevalent.
    • Added the flytext for snare/root traps
    Smuggler:
    • Adjusted the amount of xp granted from most types of slices
    • Slicing armor with negative encumbrance will no longer increase the encumbrance
    • The feign death skill is now functional
    Tailor:
    • Newly crafted Crafting Aprons can now be worn by Wookiees and Ithorians
    • Crafting apron schematics that take a crafting tool as an ingredient can now be crafted with individual (non factory crate) tools
    Items/Loot
    • Newly crafted or looted personal shield generators now have lightsaber resistance
    • looted janta and donkuwah knives now always have their static dot
    • Fixed the values on static janta knife dots
    • Looted Bounty Hunter Armor now always has its default color scheme
    • Added bubble tank schematic to loot
    • Fixed the range check on the /loot command
    • Vehicles will now decay over time as long as they are called. The decay rate is dependent on the type of vehicle.
    • Removed the Nightsister armguard from loot and added it and the Rebel Endor Helmet as options to the Veteran Rewards System
    • Powerups now have a yellow name
    • Fixed the position of many housing signs
    • With publish 7 we made the chance for exceptional and legendary item loot be modified by the level of the mob. That modifier's effect has been reduced.
    • Fixed some helms that appeared as armor to appear as clothing (newly acquired ones only)
    • Fixed several item types that would not properly update their charges left when going from 2 to 1 charge
    Pets
    • Added guard command functionality
    • Added ranged attack command functionality
    • Added befriend command functionality
    • Pets should now properly disengage when their owner ends a duel with their target
    • Pets are no longer immune to being attacked while their master is dead
    • Pet's max HAM is now reduced as their vitality drops
    • Newly tamed humbabas and savage humbabas can now be trained as a mount
    • Pets are now considered valid targets for AI threat evaluations. This should allow pets to tank if they are not out damaged
    • Droid medical bonuses are now removed from the owner if the droid dies, is incapacitated, runs out of power, or is out of range
    • Items can now be placed in a droid's item storage compartment while in a full house
    • The gallop cooldown is now tied to the mount and not the rider
    • Pets can no longer be told to follow or attack a target behind a locked door
    Group/Guild
    • Changed the group level formula. Each individual member now has a more significant impact on the final level instead of 90%+ of it being decided by the highest level member
    • A Group's level should now properly be recalculated any time one of it's members' level changes (changing weapons, learning/dropping a skill, etc.)
    • Added the lottery and random group loot rules
    • looted credits are now split among nearby group members
    • Group loot messages should now always display the player and item names properly
    • Out of range group members will now properly display their planet or a directional arrow pointing in their direction
    • A guild leader can now claim ownership of a guild hall owned by an inactive member (one that hasn't logged in for more than 28 days)
    • All guild prompts should now properly include names
    • A guild will now cleanup their sponsored players list during it's weekly update
    • Added guild elections. These can be manually enabled by a guild leader and will also trigger automatically during a guild's weekly update if it has an inactive leader (30 days since last being online) or no leader
    • /guildstatus no longer requires the one using the command to be in a guild
    • A guild leader can now leave the guild. Elections will begin automatically.
    Missions
    • Fixed some mission details changing after logging off and back on again
    • Mission descriptions are now displayed on examine, and the mission waypoint title are now correct
    • Entertainer mission terminals can now send player's to player cities to perform
    • Hunting missions now only target creatures
    • Significantly increased hunting mission payouts
    • Deliver missions can now be taken on the adventure planets at any of their outposts
    • Deliver/crafting missions should now actually send you to the start and end locations that they advertise instead of a random one near the advertised positions
    • Adjusted the deliver/crafting mission reward formula to not only consider the distance between the start and end npcs, but also the distance to the start npc
    • Doubled the xp reward for completion of a bounty mission
    • Bounty hunter mission terminals can no longer be sliced
    • Adjusted which mobs are attached to some destroy missions (especially npc ones) so that the range of levels of the mobs are not as wide.
    • Standardized the span of levels that destroy missions will be available at. This should make it easier to find certain missions that had a short span before and make missions that had a long span less prevalent.
    • When looking for destroy missions in a group there is a threshold where a higher group level will not increase the minimum level of missions shown. This is to prevent high level groups from having no missions show up when none on the planet are high enough (and has been this way for several publishes). That threshold is now set on a per planet basis. Planets with higher level missions have a higher threshold.
    • Changed the formula for calculating the credit rewards of destroy missions. Being in a group no longer gives a significant boost, but the new baseline is higher than what payouts were while in a group before. A player's/group's level now has a small impact on the max potential payout (higher level groups can see higher paying missions).
    • Fixed grouped mission payouts to function as they did at 14.1. The payout is divided by the number of total players instead of only by the number of players in range. A player must be in range to receive their portion.
    Misc
    • Redesigned the random name generator for players, npcs, and resources with different rules based on species or resource class. Random names should be more similar to how they were on live
    • Added the following decoration type player event perks: AT-AT, AT-ST, bantha, fruit stand, gravestone, meat rack
    • Added all venue type player event perks
    • Added the following game type player event perks: jukebox, capture-the-flag, lottery droid, scavenger hunt chests, shuttle beacon
    • Added the following personnel type player event perks: recruiters, honor guards
    • The self powered harvester veteran reward is now functional and available
    • Fixed a few potential causes of client crashes
    • Added the ability to create and moderate custom chat rooms
    • The auto-joined 'General' chat room no longer exists. Players can opt to join the main 'Chat' room via the channel browser for a public, galaxy-wide chat room
    • When chatting in a chat room, "Core3" is no longer appended before the player name on each message
    • Added and/or improved many abilities for staff

    SWGEmu End of the Year Update 2015 

    by
    Lolindir
    Published on 01-20-2016 07:11 PM   

    SWGEmu End of the Year Update 2015

    January 2016
    SWGEmu Team



    SWGEmu End of the Year Update 2015













    Table of Contents
    • Project Update
    • Staff Updates
    • Quick Stats
    • Staff Round-Table
    • Closing
    SWGEmu Project Updates

    Major Additions/Changes

    Staff Updates

    SWGEmu is Recruiting!
    SWGEmu is an ever-changing and growing organization where new talent is always being sought out. We especially would like to mention the need for more developers, please see this thread for more information.


    SWGEmu is also in need of other positions filled. For anyone interested in spending some of there free time toward this project, please consider to join in on our SWGEmu Internship Program . Its once more possible to apply for an event coordinator position.



    Quick Stats

    Developer Code Commits:
    • Total Commits 2014: 1936
    • Total Lines of Code (LoC):
      Code:
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Language           files     blank   comment      code
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HTML               12391    122129     37170   3275804
Lua                25419    495607    646792   1469961
SQL                   27      1365      2102    453995
C++                  860     83974     37260    276783
C/C++ Header        2444     89854     82966    194332
Javascript             6      2571        60    158311
Bourne Shell          25      8406     10196     60298
IDL                  234      9058         2     33579
m4                    17      2267       303     19385
make                  15       532       614     11156
Python                29      1571      2433      4289
C                      1       619       359      3160
Bourne Again Shell     2       190       280      1923
CSS                    4       231        38      1163
PHP                    1        37         2       256
XML                    2        30         0       114
C#                     1        29         5       107
MSBuild scripts        1         0         7        42
DOS Batch              2         0         0         4
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SUM:               41481    818470    820589   5964662
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    Registration Statistics:
    • September 07, 2015 - 249 accounts registered
    • November 18, 2015 - 30 accounts registered
    • August 2015 - 3,575 accounts registered
    • November 2015 - 1,673 accounts registered
    • 2015 - 31,290 accounts registered; average 2,607.5 per month
    User Activity Statistics (Users online in one day):
    • Most users online: June 07, 2015 - 1743 users
    New thread statistics (Posted threads):
    • January 2015 - 2,612 new threads
    • November 2015 - 1,212 new thread
    Most users online: 1,657 (05-11-2011 06:22 PM)
    Most viewed thread:     Project Status List
    Most replied thread: What are you listening to right now?
    Most popular forum: Basilisk Trade Forum
    Top poster: Some Idiot (30,566 posts)



    Staff Round-Table



    Miztah - Developer
    Another year down, another year closer to our end goal. I'd like to start off giving huge props to our CSR and EC teams and our QA teams. They've got some of the most difficult and time consuming jobs the project has, and they put an amazing amount of effort and time into keeping those departments going. Also, a huge thanks to our community. When it comes down to it, you all are the reason we're here. SWG lives through its community, and this community has been hugely supportive over the years.

    On the development side, it's been a pretty great year for progress. We've made huge strides in our AI (which is getting yet another overhaul to make it even better), quests, various system functionality, and of course the huge leaps we've made to stability. I'm excited to see what we're able to accomplish with the upcoming year.

    And then we've got the release of our unlocked engine, which has allowed third party servers to grow and push out some impressive new features. I'm looking forward to see what some of those talented teams come up with in the future.

    To return to what I said first, big thanks to all who have supported the project over the past year and years prior. I'm sure you'll be as excited as we are with what we've got in store for the future!
    Scurby - Quality Assurance Leader
    An interesting year. I have learned so much. Code submissions have been focused on implementing missing parts of the game. And we still handled over 400 bug reports. Amazing.

    Mantis Report:

    By Status open resolved closed total
    new 89 - - 89
    feedback 83 - - 83
    acknowledged 60 - - 60
    confirmed 181 - - 181
    assigned 4 - - 4
    resolved - 408 - 408








    Engine3 was released without segfault timers. Servers sprang up. I have talked to so many of them. I still do from time to time. Usually bug reports... Thanks. I see a future developing for this project beyond 1.0. It is an honor to watch that happen.
    nee2earth - Quality Assurance
    "Happy Holidays & New Year, SWGEmu! This past year 2015 was one of our most productive ever. And that SunCrushing *light* at the end of our 1.0 tunnel keeps growing closer & closer. Here's hoping 2016 shines upon us the best & brightest!

    To all Community: THANK YOU for continuing to support our cherished Project. Don't give up the fight til the fight is done.

    To all Staff: THANKS for continuing to allow me the honor of contributing every day. Our Team is second-to-none.

    Take care everyone...and i'll see you all in 2016, on Nova, in Mantis, and perhaps even somewhere in-between.

    best regards, Nee

    p.s. Remember to check those old hard-drives for our ever expanding 'Screenshot Archives' ! "
    Niffer1976 - Lead CSR/EC
    It is just amazing how far we have come and yet another year is gone. This just all means we are that much closer to finishing this wonderful project we all work so on. I just want to say thank you to everyone:

    Developers: You guys have been busting it out and never get enough recognition. Thank you for everything you do. Rather it be helping us with a commands to help our community or sitting back putting your brains to work with all the coding.

    Code Contributors: Thank you to those that are here everyday working with Developers to get this project complete. Your work is so greatly appreciated.

    QA Department: Thank you for all your hard work in testing and helping the development of this great game. If it wasnt for you guys we would literally up a creek without a paddle. As your dedication helps those who wish to not come to Nova and help in making sure the game works properly.

    CSR (Customer Support Representatives): For those we lost, you will be missed. I wish you all well and hope you have a wonderful 2016.

    EC (Event Coordinators): You guys have been great bringing back events and helping the CSR side. You have no idea how appreciate of you I am. I look forward to a wonderful and eventful year with you all.

    Moderators: I just am not sure how much I can say about what you do. You are the best at making sure our forums stay up to date and our community is informed on everything. You are our middle man and help in ways you will never understand.

    Our Community: You guys and gals just rock! Thank you all for coming to this game to help us test and make it what it is. Your dedication to this project is a wonderful presence and I look forward to a wonderful 2016 with you. I know we do not always good days but it is the bad days that will help us fix bugs and have this project where it needs to be in the end.

    It was a good 2015 and 2016 will be even better. We lost a lot of staff and look forward to see many more come in and help us out. I love you all and cant wait to see how our year goes.
    Mistress Aerea - Event Coordinator
    Wow. I can't believe another year has gone by already. It just feels like the other day when I was writing this note for last year's End of Year Update.

    When I first started following this project, it was clearly a development project. There was a lot that did not work, had problems, or was full of bugs. It is amazing how far we've come. There is still a ways to go, bugs to squash, and features to implement, but I cannot stress enough how impressed I've been with the Devs over the past year. It is almost forgivable to forget that we are playing in an incomplete development project. I am extremely excited to see the next publish or two in 2016!

    I am also looking forward to interacting with the community over the next year. In a very real way, it is you, the community, that makes this entire project worth pursuing. Thank you for being the best players and community out there.

    To my fellow staff members, I appreciate everything you all do to help bring SWG back to life. Thank you for putting up with me and allowing me to be a part of the team.

    I hope everyone had a great 2015, and has an even better 2016!
    Weedie - Event Coordinator
    Another year has passed bringing us yet closer to our goals. With each passing update SWGEmu gets closer to completion, and it is truly amazing to see it shape up into the game we all loved. I want to say a huge thank you to everyone that makes this project tick: Developers and Code Contributors, Quality Assurance and Community Testers, Customer Service Representatives and fellow Event Coordinators. I am truly humbled to be working with you and seeing first hand how much work, heart and soul you pour into SWGEmu on a daily basis.

    But most of all, I would like to thank our community. You guys make me want to play this game all these years later because really, it has the greatest community among any other MMO I've played. I thank you for your support, your testing, your contributions in helping new members of the community and coming up with great event ideas. I thank you for your patience and understanding when things go haywire. Thank you for everything.

    Here is to a great 2016!
    Vlada - Lead moderator
    I hate you. I wish you would all just go away.
    Lolindir - Moderator
    Another year have passed and SWGEmu is in good shape. We have come far and our project status list of orange and red have almost become only green. The time limit on our engine have been removed and this have been a positive for the servers using our code as base. We have even had a few fixes from the play servers. The only thing I wish we had more of was testers. There are few testers on Nova and the guys lurking there need help to test all the code our devs write. Happy New Year and lets hope we meet even more milestones this year.


    Closing

    We would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of our community members for your support,donations and your time spent with our project. This year we removed our engine3 time limit, so that servers using our code didn't restart every 2,5 hours. It was well received and have in most part been viewed as a positive change from the community. Sytner released his Iff Editor 3, where Timbab have been an active contributor and the project have seen one publish. The project are moving forward and our devs and testers are working hard to implement the last profession to the project.


    Lets continue in to the new year with the same positive energy that we have had in 2015. Happy New Year!





    ~The SWGEmu Team

    Publish 7: The Source Awakens 

    by
    Lolindir
    Published on 06-07-2015 08:38 AM   

    Publish 7: The Source Awakens

    06/07/2015
    The SWGEmu Development Division



    Publish 7: The Source Awakens

    System
    • Greatly Improved server stability
    • Made some performance optimizations
    • Fixed many instances where objects were not properly being destroyed from the database
    Spawns/World/Missions
    • Added heralds to all planets that will direct players towards various points of interest
    • Added dynamic Black Sun spawns to Dathomir, Endor, and Yavin 4
    • The Endor smuggler outpost now has a functional tavern
    • Taming a baby at a static spawn will no longer cause that mob to cease respawning
    • A sarlacc will now erupt and disease anyone nearby when a player approaches too closely
    • All types of dynamic spawns will now despawn when no player has been in range for 5 minutes (instead of just lair spawns)
    • Added distant ship flyovers above static cities
    • Added many more possible destroy missions to all planets and faction terminals (including many humanoid missions)
    • Reduced the size of a no-build zone on Tatooine
    Creatures/NPCs/AI
    • Many mobs now distinguish between special protections and effectiveness resists when examined
    • Fixed the resists/armor of many mobs
    • Wild creatures and wild tamed creature pets will now always have a 2.0 attack speed (not retroactive to existing pets)
    • Creatures can now have a special attack 2 without having a special attack 1
    • Fixed special attacks on many creatures
    • Creatures will now use their special attacks less frequently
    • Mobs will no longer regen HAM while in combat but will now regen it faster when not in combat
    • Fixed several other mob details
    • Most npcs should now have randomly generated names
    • Many npcs will now be talkative in reaction to their environment
    • Imperial npcs no longer take disrespectful emotes directed towards them lightly and will respond
    • Mobs will now be less prone to fleeing when a player approaches
    • Ai will no longer be aggressive towards vehicles, but will still be able to attack them
    • Ai can now be aggressive towards players who are riding a mount or vehicle
    • Adjusted aggro determinations so that aggressive NPCs will aggro more reliably (and from further away)
    • NPCs are now smarter about selecting attacks and should use their special attacks at a more consistent rate
    • Mobs are now more likely to engage their enemies in combat (mob vs. mob)
    • AI awareness is no longer dependent on player movement. As long as players are in range, mobs should be active
    • Aggressive mobs are much less likely to drop aggro when a player tries to /peace
    • Tougher mobs should now apply longer lasting states
    • A mob's resistances will now degrade based on their battle fatigue (beyond 500)
    • Added loot to some mobs that were dropping none before
    • Jedi sentinels no longer drop loot, give very little xp when killed, and will respawn faster
    Events/Dungeons/Theme Parks/Quests
    • Added Hero of Tatooine quests
    • Added generic quests to criminals, scientists, businessmen, and nobles
    • Rewrote all existing Death Watch Bunker code to fix issues with it
    • Added new functionality to the Death Watch Bunker
    • The Bestine Museum curator no longer limits a player to one schematic purchase
    • Captain Heff should now remove the warren evidence from your datapad when you turn it in
    • Fixed a couple of issues with Nym's themepark containers
    Combat
    • There is now combat spam for incurred wounds and battle fatigue, posture changes, armor mitigation, and state application/removal
    • Fixed grenade combat spam
    • Players can no longer be attacked while loading
    • Players in the same group can no longer attack each other except when in a duel
    • /peace will now clear the combat queue
    • The combat hit equation has been modified to be closer to live
    • Counter attacks have been fixed and re-enabled. They will no longer delay a player's combat queue
    • Adjusted melee combat range to account for latency when chasing a moving target
    • Multiple attributes can now be wounded by a single attack
    • Mobs now have hit boxes and one will no longer be required to stand inside of larger creatures to hit them in melee
    • Added generic weapon type checks to combat commands to fix some issues where certain commands could be used with the wrong type of weapon
    • PvP "House TEFs" have been added. A player executing abilities in PvP will now be ejected from and won't be able to enter a player structure for 5 minutes
    • It should no longer be possible to incapacitate oneself by using combat abilities
    • healing now generates less threat
    • Wearing a PSG should no longer sometimes increase the amount of damage that you take when the attacker has a high AP weapon
    • Many more actions are now prevented by warcry (or a similar delay)
    • many more actions are now prevented by the swimming state
    • Non-damaging state attacks (warcry, intimidate, etc.) are now only subject to the target's state defense (and no longer have to beat their primary defense as well)
    • Modified the formula for state application/defense chances to be closer to live
    • Intimidation now lowers min and max damage instead of just max damage
    • Intimidation from different sources now stack their effect
    • Intimidation now also lowers primary defenses
    • Increased the chance to successfully stand while dizzy
    • Increased the damage and accuracy bonus and the defense penalty from going berserk
    • The stunned state now imposes a larger damage reduction
    • Slightly increased the accuracy penalty from the blinded state
    • Fixed knockdown and posture change delays and dizzy flopping
    • forced posture changes will now cancel an active burstrun/retreat
    • Droids are now immune to blind, dizzy, stun, intimidate, delays, and biological dots
    • Vehicles are now immune to blind, dizzy, stun, intimidate, delays, biological dots, and posture changes
    • AT-STs and AT-ATs are now immune to blind, dizzy, stun, intimidate, delays, and posture changes
    • When applying multiple dots of the same type and pool to a target, weaker ones will no longer overwrite stronger ones
    • Reapplying a dot with the same or greater strength will no longer push back the tick of the existing dot. Instead, it extends it's duration and increases it's strength to that of the new one (if greater)
    • Weapon dots can now be applied one per weapon rather than one per type of weapon
    • The damage of dots applied from weapon attacks is now reduced by the target's armor
    • Bleeds now do damage once every 20 seconds
    • Fixed the order in which dots are healed
    • DoTs are no longer automatically cleared from a player or pet that is incapacitated and will resume their damage/wounding when the player/pet recovers
    • Players must now be within 80m of a mob when it dies to gain xp from the kill
    • Damage from dots now counts towards kill credit
    • Disengaging from combat during a battle will no longer clear a player's credit towards loot rights
    Professions

    Artisan:
    • The plain short robe can now be crafted with sockets
    • Vehicle customization kits can now be crafted in a generic crafting tool (requires a newly crafted tool)
    • Fixed a rounding error when calculating xp for practice mode
    Bio-Engineer:
    • Fixed sampling checks to prevent sampling DNA from droids and other invalid mobs
    • Refined dna sample stat generation and pet crafting formulas to be closer to live
    • Bio-engineered pets will have their stats/level checked to see if they align with the new formulas. Any outliers will prompt the owner to have their stats or level fixed
    Bounty Hunter:
    • Bounty missions will no longer fail when your pet gets the killing blow
    • Bounty missions will no longer fail if a dot gets the killing blow
    • Arakyd droids can now be used at investigation 1
    Brawler:
    • Lunge attacks can no longer be used while kneeling or prone
    Creature Handler:
    • The transfer command can now be used with a non-CH as a target (provided all the requirements are met)
    • The special attack commands are now functional
    • Adjusted the formula for CH xp granted from combat to be closer to live
    • Newly tamed pets should now automatically follow their owner
    Doctor/Medic:
    • It should no longer be possible to heal/cure while swimming
    • Cure packs no longer apply their full strength to every dot on the target
    • Buffing no longer has faction restrictions
    Droid Engineer:
    • Added framework for droid module functionality. Only newly crafted modules will be functional.
    • Added functionality to the following modules: crafting station, armor, auto-repair, medical, item storage, data storage, repair, stimpack dispenser, effects, detonation, merchant barker, combat, playback, trap, harvest, and structure maintenance modules
    • Module clusters should now function properly
    • Droids without combat modules or innate combat capability should no longer attack and should now flee when being attacked
    • Added some functionality to personality chips
    • Droids with personality chips are now programmed via conversation
    Entertainer:
    • Soft Logging should no longer stop a player's performance
    Ranger/Scout:
    • Trap throwing speed is now static and no longer based on the speed of a player's equipped weapon
    • When throwing a trap vs. a target that is not in combat, combat is no longer initiated until the trap lands
    • Only rangers should now be able to tell when something is stalking them
    • Area track animals will no longer show droids
    Rifleman:
    • Strafe shot 1 and 2 will now remove the cover state and apply a delay to anyone that has cover removed
    Squad Leader:
    • Group terrain negotiation should now function
    • All squad leader group modifier should apply and persist more reliably
    • boost morale should now distribute wounds properly
    • Squad leader group skill mods and activated commands will now only affect group members in the same building as they are (or only those outdoors if the Squad Leader is outdoors)
    • It should no longer be possible for a squad leader to incapacitate themselves by using their abilities
    Tailor:
    • Skill mods added to an item from a schematic will no longer overwrite the skill mods an item gains from bio-enhanced components
    Weaponsmith:
    • Components crafted into weapons should now be visible on the final weapon, where appropriate
    Items/Loot
    • Added anti-decay kits to veteran rewards
    • Added datadisk loot kit and components to loot
    • Added empty datapad loot kit and components to loot
    • Added additional checks to prevent trading of no-trade items
    • Removing a powerup from a weapon now destroys it rather than placing it back in your inventory
    • When applying an attachment with multiple, same value skill mods, the first listed should now properly be chosen
    • The chance for a looted item to be exceptional or legendary now scales with the level of the mob it dropped from
    • Adjusted weapon decay. Weapons now have a chance to decay by 1 point with every attack instead of always decaying by a fraction of a point with every attack.
    • The chance for a mob to have loot was adjusted on nearly every mob in game. Now, generally, the higher level the mob is, the higher the chance for it to have loot
    Pets
    • Follow other command now works with non-player creature targets
    • It's no longer possible to store a pet while you are in combat
    • Faction pets can now only attack and be attacked by opposite faction targets
    • Pet stims can now only be used on creature pets
    • The ranged attack and special attack commands can now only be taught to pets that have the corresponding ability/attack
    • Get patrol point and clear patrol points commands can now be taught
    • Pet patrol commands are now functional
    • Pet follow range is no longer based on the pet's equipped weapon
    • Pets should no longer re-aggro previous targets after death or being stored
    • It should now be possible to call a pet within any public building
    Player
    • Un-equipping a weapon now properly updates a player's level
    • Structure permission lists will now automatically remove entries of deleted players and update entries of players whose name has been changed
    • Faction point caps now only increase for your current faction when you take a promotion
    • Fixed faction point gains/losses from pvp deathblows
    • Resigning from a faction now removes any faction you have beyond your new cap
    • It should no longer be possible to get stuck with an unhealable, non-damaging dot state
    • Fixed the distances to which spatial chat and emotes will now carry. That distance is now based upon the chat type
    • A player can now claim a new veteran reward for every 360 days accrued beyond the pre-set milestones
    • Canceling a crafting session during the add ingredient step can no longer cause some components to be lost. Components will now always return to inventory even if it overfills it
    • It's no longer possible to store clone data where it is already stored
    • Clone data will continue to be stored when a player clones
    • Cloning to a pre-designated facility no longer applies 100 battle fatigue
    • Player event perks can now be deployed while mounted
    Group/Guild
    • A weekly update is now performed for each guild. During this update, the member list will be cleaned up.
    • Guild renaming now happens during the guild's next weekly update instead of always 1 week later.
    • Guilds now must have a minimum of 5 members. If a guild is below the minimum during it's weekly update, it will be disbanded.
    • Guild management terminals are now automatically associated with the guild of the hall's owner
    • Maintenance can now be withdrawn from PA halls
    • A group leader can now select the loot rule to use. Functional rules right now include 'Free For All' and 'Master Looter'
    Player Cities
    • Cities no longer perform their very first update after 24 hours. The first update is now performed after 1 week.
    • The citizen assessment that a new city (and a city that drops below 10 citizens) performs is now independent of the city update cycle and therefore will no longer delay elections from happening when they are scheduled to do so.
    • During a city update in which an election takes place, the election is now processed before city contraction/expansion. This ensures that a newly elected mayor gets any mails relevant to the update instead of the old mayor.
    • Mail is now properly sent to a mayor when a city is first started, after a citizen assessment occurs, any time a citizen is lost or gained, any time a structure is added to a city that wasn't added by the mayor, any time a structure/decoration/terminal/trainer is removed from a city for being outside city limits after city contraction, from a lack of maintenance, or because there were too many for the new city rank
    • Mail is now properly sent to a player who becomes a citizen via a city's expansion or whose structure is added to a city by any other means
    • Mail is now sent to all citizens when a mayoral candidate unregisters from an election
    • A player city must now be rank 3 or higher to set a specialization
    • A city specialization can now be removed at any time (even when a city is on cooldown for setting a new one)
    • The defense bonus from the stronghold specialization now only applies to a city's militia members, and only when attacked by another player
    • Adding a non-garden decoration to a player city now has the proper politician skill check
    • Fixed the info displayed on all of the city reports
    • City banned players that later become citizens will have their ban automatically removed. Any citizens already banned in their own city will have their bans lifted automatically
    • A city must now be at least rank 2 in order to have taxes levied. A city contracting to rank 1 will have all tax rates set to zero
    • The incumbent will now always win a city election that ends in a tie (if the incumbent is one of those tied for the lead)
    • Any mayoral candidate that loses their citizenship will now automatically be removed from the race
    • Whenever a player loses citizenship, their vote in the current mayor election is properly removed
    • If a mayor is deleted, their city's civic structures are no longer deleted along with them and a new mayor can be elected to take their place
    • Player city bank terminals, mission terminals, and skill trainers will now only register on the planetary map if their city is registered
    • A mayor can now align a decoration or mission terminal's facing to north, south, east, or west after it has been placed in the city
    • A city that doesn't have the funds to pay for it's specialization during it's update will have it removed
    • A city that doesn't have the funds to pay for it's registration during it's update will be unregistered
    • A player who has been city banned can no longer use that city's skill trainers or slice that city's mission terminals
    • City banned players no longer receive the benefit of a city specialization
    • /cityban, /citypardon, and /grantzoningrights now require both the player issuing the command and the target to be within city limits
    • When a city contracts, civic structures that required the previous rank are no longer deleted immediately but will be deleted during the following city update if the city does not expand back to the original rank
    • Skill trainer and mission terminal limits are now enforced when a city contract. Any trainers or terminals beyond the new limits are removed
    • Garden city rank requirements are now enforced during city updates and gardens are at risk of being destroyed if the city's rank remains below the requirement.
    Misc
    • Newsnet terminals are now usable
    • Weather effect duration now scales down with severity
    • Updated player, vendor, guild, and city naming filter checks to be closer to live
    • Fixed the way in which certain commands are queued so that they will no longer get queued multiple times in some situations
    • Added/Improved more admin commands for staff

    Publish 6: The A.I. Strikes Back 

    by
    Lolindir
    Published on 11-16-2014 05:52 AM   




    Publish 6: AI Strikes Back

    System
    • Improved server stability
    • Improved server performance
    • Added a new Artificial Intelligence system (see AI section)
    • Added additional unit tests to verify that mobile/lair templates have valid values
    Spawns/World/Missions
    • New types of spawns have been implemented (dynamic/theater)
    • Added many new random spawns to all planets
    • Random spawns in the wild will now generally spawn further apart
    • Spawns should no longer end up outside of planetary boundaries
    • Mobs left behind when a lair is destroyed will now despawn on their own if not killed
    • Lairs (and their mobs) will now despawn on their own if no players are nearby for a time
    • The sarlaccs on Tatooine and Dathomir will now disease players who wander too close without protection
    • Added some static spawns to Naboo, Endor, and Dantooine
    • Changed the static spawns at the Sulfur Lake Pirate Hideout on Lok to the correct ones
    • Added static spawns to the Gas Mine on Lok
    • Added static spawns to the Imperial Research Facility on Lok
    • The number of spawns at a destroy mission now varies with the mission's difficulty
    • Ben Kenobi's house is now off limits
    • The rebel hideout on Corellia now has the correct turrets (and they'll now respawn)
    Creatures/NPCs
    • Many mobs had one or more of their stats/details corrected
    • Adjusted the size of most creatures
    • Fixed the default ranged attack animation for creatures
    • Modified the accuracy calculation for npcs/creatures/turrets
    • Added wound chance to some npc weapons that were missing it
    • The npc version of the nightsister energy lance now properly does energy damage
    • Creature disease and poison dots should tick for more reasonable amounts
    • Turrets will now attack a random ham pool rather than always health
    • Turret attacks now consider mitigation and posture, will break attack delays, and can now cause wounds
    • Non-GCW faction npcs will now consider a player's faction with their group when deciding whether to be aggressive or not
    • Faction gains/losses from PvE kills are now based on the level of mob that was killed rather than being a static amount
    • Rewrote faction recruiter conversations and fixed some bugs with them
    • More junk dealers are now fully functional
    • Npcs/creatures will no longer react to, attack, or follow invisible staff characters
    AI
    • Many mobs will now wander about when not in combat
    • Pack type mobs will now assist one another when attacked
    • AI can now attack other AI and will aggro enemies if they wander too close
    • AI will now return to their spawn point if pulled too far away
    • Improved AI awareness logic
    Events/Dungeons
    • Added Event Promoter npcs with a limited selection of decorations for rent
    • Added Bestine museum event
    • Added Cries of Alderaan Act 1 event
    • Added the 2004 Wookiee Life Day event/quest (available during December)
    • Added/rewrote all Geo Lab conversations
    • Fixed issues with Geo Lab door unlocking
    • Key cards in the Geo Lab should now be obtainable and functional
    • Geo lab keypads can now be sliced open
    • Fixed several issues with the Warren
    Theme Parks/Quests
    • Fixed many issues with theme park/quest NPC conversations
    • Factional quests can no longer be attempted while on leave
    • Added support for quests with a destructible building
    • Enemy quest targets are now more aggressive towards the one with the quest
    • Group members can now assist with theme parks/quests provided the quest owner is nearby
    • Escort targets will now take on the faction and status of the player attempting to escort them and will be attackable while being escorted
    • Hedon Istee quest line now requires an elite combat profession to undertake
    • Rewrote RIS armor quest and fixed some issues with it
    • Added Record Keeper npcs
    • Added Nym's theme park
    • Added Lady Valarian theme park
    • Added Zicx bug bomb quest line
    • Added Polished krayt skull quest line
    • Added Lady Hutt quest line
    • Added Arven Wendik quest line
    • Added Blerx Tango quest line
    • Added Boss Nass quest line
    • Added Bren Kingal quest line
    • Added Champhra Biahin quest line
    • Added Chertyl Ruluwoor quest line
    • Added Coraline Dynes quest line
    • Added Corran Horn quest line
    • Added Denell Kel'Vannon quest line
    • Added Didina Lippinoss quest line
    • Added Farious Gletch quest line
    • Added Fixer quest line
    • Added Gilker Budz quest line
    • Added Ging Darjeek quest line
    • Added Gins Darone quest line
    • Added Gramm Rile quest line
    • Added Hal Horn quest line
    • Added Haleen Snowline and Hagrin Zeed quest lines
    • Added Huff Zinga quest line
    • Added Igbi Freemo quest line
    • Added Ikka Gesul quest line
    • Added Irenez and Garm Bel Iblis quest line
    • Added Jadam Questrel quest line
    • Added Jaleela Bindoo quest line
    • Added Jilljoo Jab quest line
    • Added Kaeline Ungasan quest line
    • Added Kirkin Liawoon quest line
    • Added Kormund Thrylle quest line
    • Added Leb Slesher quest line
    • Added Lergo Brazee quest line
    • Added Lian Byrne quest line
    • Added Lorne Prestar quest line
    • Added Lt. Harburik quest line
    • Added Luthin Dlunar quest line
    • Added Mourno Draver quest line
    • Added Mozo Bondog and Dolac Legasi quest line
    • Added Mullud Bombo quest line
    • Added Noren Krast quest line
    • Added Nurla Slinthiss quest line
    • Added Om Aynat quest line
    • Added Oxil Sarban quest line
    • Added Palejo Reshad quest line
    • Added Phinea Shantee quest line
    • Added Radlee Mathiss quest line
    • Added Raxa Binn quest line
    • Added Rovim Minnoni quest line
    • Added Ruwan Tokai quest line
    • Added Sergeant Tarl and Gillad Pellaeon quest lines
    • Added Sidoras Bey quest line
    • Added Sigrix Slix quest line
    • Added Sindra Lintikoor quest line
    • Added Slooni Jong quest line
    • Added Stella quest line
    • Added Stoos Olko quest line
    • Added Talon Karrde quest line
    • Added Tamvar Senzen quest line
    • Added Thrackan Sal Solo quest line
    • Added Tolan Nokkar quest
    • Added Vana Sage quest line
    • Added Vordin Sildor quest line
    • Added Wallaw Loowobbli quest line
    • Added Wilhalm Skrim and Prefect Talmont quest line
    • Added Xalox Guul quest line
    • Added Xarot Korlin quest line
    Combat
    • Out of range messages from intimidate use are now only broadcast to the player who used the command
    • Bleeds from weapon dots will now consider the target's bleed resist skill
    • Bleeds from special attacks will now consider the target's combat bleeding defense skill
    • Poison and disease from weapon dots and combat medics will now consider the target's poison/disease resist skill
    • Fires from weapon dots will now consider the target's fire resist skill
    • Accuracy while moving skill mods now function to reduce the penalty to accuracy caused by moving
    • Weapon range modifier now displays next to one's target
    • Fixed an exploit that allowed a player to get more xp than intended
    • Counterattacks will now attack
    • It is no longer possible to attack with a ranged weapon while prone and in melee range
    • Commands with a verbal component will now only have it broadcast a minimum of once every 30 seconds.
    • NPCs can now be affected by dizzy
    • The stunned state now properly reduces damage done
    Professions

    Armorsmith:
    • Padded armor belts can now be crafted with sockets
    Bio-Engineer:
    • Pet deeds now have stats and can be tamed or sampled from
    • Unattackable creatures can no longer be sampled from
    Bounty Hunter:
    • Bounty mission targets will no longer be aggressive or stalkers
    • Added a few more possible bounty mission targets
    • The direction and distance reported by a BH droid should now be accurate if you're inside a structure when the droid reports back
    • Arakyd droids should no longer land inside structures, but will no longer follow you
    • Arakyd droids will now despawn if not used after a time
    Brawler:
    • It is now possible to intimidate, taunt, and warcry while kneeling
    • Fixed the unarmed damage skill mod not adding as much damage as it should
    Carbineer:
    • All carbineer cone attacks have had their cone width increased
    • Wild shot 2 is now a cone attack
    Chef:
    • High quality Parwan Nutricake should no longer leave one permanently tired
    • Parwan Nutricake and K-18 rations should now properly reduce burst run's HAM cost and can no longer be used while burst run is active
    Creature Handler:
    • Tamed pets will now retain the (baby) in their name until explicitly renamed
    • A pet must now be taught 4 unique commands in order to be named
    • Pet level checks when trading and calling now considers the pet's adult level
    • Pets will now show their master's name when examined
    • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused a baby to remain unattackable when taming doesn't complete properly
    • Pets can now attack in PvE and CH xp can be gained via PvE combat
    • Faction awards from PvP kills will now go to a pet's owner if the pet gets the kill
    • Pets will now obey the stay and follow commands when in combat
    • When exiting combat, pets will now return to their pre-combat stay/follow state
    • Pets should now always appear next to you when called
    • It's now possible to group your pets when you aren't the group leader
    • There is now a system message when destroying a pet control device
    • Dead or incapacitated pets will no longer respond to commands issued via /tellpet
    • Pets issued the attack command will remain focused on the command's target until it dies or they are issued a new command
    • Pets will now switch targets when ordered to via the attack command
    • Pets will now respond more promptly to commands issued to them while in combat
    Droid Engineer:
    • Droids now require power in order to obey the group command
    • Interplanetary survey droids are now functional
    Image Designer:
    • The image design process will now properly pull credits from both cash and bank
    Jedi:
    • Fixed several bugs in preparation for the day Jedi will be attainable
    Medic/Doctor:
    • Fixed xp granted by healing, tending wounds, and enhancing
    • /healdamage will now work properly if a lair/turret is targeted
    • It's no longer possible to buff/heal wounds while outdoors in a medical center city
    Merchant:
    • Selling an item from stockroom will no longer count the item's size twice in the item limit check
    • Retrieving an item from a vendor now considers the item's size when checking inventory space
    • Re-listing an item from stockroom should no longer move the item to the vendor you're at if it was on a different vendor
    • It will no longer be possible to place items for sale if the merchant has more vendors than their maximum
    • Vendor names on overhead and planetary maps will no longer include the "Vendor: " prefix
    • Droid/terminal vendors in player cities will no longer use the city's name when registered
    • A vendor is now properly considered empty when nothing is for sale (regardless of what else may be on the vendor)
    • It should no longer be possible to register an empty vendor
    • Vendors can no longer be renamed
    • Fixed the subject of vendor emails sent when a sale expires
    Politician:
    • An email will now be sent to citizens when someone registers to run for mayor
    • Fixed text in some city maintenance emails
    • Street lamps can now be placed closer to buildings
    Scout/Ranger:
    • Attempting to harvest a resource that a creature does not have will now give an error message rather than randomly distributing a different resource
    • Fixed the level displayed when those with the appropriate skill examine a baby creature
    • Added milk to a few more creatures
    • Mask scent and Conceal should now function
    Shipwright:
    • Fixed many ship part/component schematics
    Squad Leader:
    • The speed of squad leader commands is no longer based on your equipped weapon's speed
    • Squad leader commands now only apply their affects to groups members of the appropriate faction and standing relative to the squad leader
    Swordsman:
    • Fixed the skill needed for certification with the Black Sun Executioner's Hack
    Items/Loot
    • Stats on looted items will now have more variability
    • Weapons no longer decay when cloning and no longer can be insured
    • Fixed the formula for decay based stat reduction for weapons/armor/vehicles
    • Broken armor now offers no protection
    • Statues, fountains, and street lamps should now have pickup/move/rotate radial menu options when dropped in a building
    • Firework show packages are now functional
    • Throwpillow schematic now has two additional variants
    • Added functionality to treasure maps
    • Mandalorian armor now has it's profession restrictions
    Player
    • Added player unity (marriage)
    • Added /registerwithlocation command for those with the appropriate skill
    • Adjusted the formula for secondary stat (strength, quickness, willpower) ham cost adjustment
    • Players will no longer lose faction points if killed by a factional NPC. PvP deaths still cause faction point loss.
    • It should no longer be possible to set an invalid skill title
    • All species should now be able to learn and use all of the languages appropriate to them
    • Newly created characters should now all start knowing the appropriate language skills
    • Deleted characters can now be removed from friends list and structure permission lists
    • It is no longer possible to place structures outside of planetary boundaries
    • Structure damaged emails now include the planet name that the structure is on
    • Player structures that run out of maintenance will now deduct funds from a players bank account (if present) prior to decaying
    Group/Guild
    • Guilds can now be renamed
    • Emails are now sent to guild members when a guild name changes, guild leader changes, or when a guild is disbanded
    • Guild naming/renaming now properly checks the naming filter
    • Guild leaders are now able to kick members from the guild management terminal
    • /guildremove can now be used to kick other members
    • Added nearest mission for group way point functionality
    Travel
    • Reduced vehicle repair prices
    • A vehicle's name will now signify when it has been disabled
    • Vehicles now have resists
    • A vehicle can no longer be generated while indoors
    • /purchaseticket can now be used to purchase round trip tickets or to purchase tickets for other departure locations
    • /purchaseticket now requires one to be close to a travel ticket terminal
    • It should no longer be possible for terrorists to destroy a shuttle
    Misc
    • Added /who command
    • Added Veteran reward system
    • Added /flashspeeder command usable by those who have selected the flash speeder as a veteran reward
    • Color codes are now filtered out of item names during crafting and when vendors/bazaar sends in game mails
    • Setting a way point name no longer toggles the way point
    • General chat is now an auto joined chat channel
    • When bait is lost while fishing, the rest of the stack will now be fresh
    • It should no longer be possible to ignore chat from a staff character
    • Added/improved more staff commands

    Basilisk Publish 6 merge - Sunday, November 16th 1AM EST 

    by
    Lolindir
    Published on 11-15-2014 04:56 PM   

    Basilisk Publish 6 Merge

    November 16th 2014
    The SWGEmu Team



    Basilisk Publish 6 Merge - Sunday, November 16th 2014 1AM EST



    On Sunday, November 16th, at 1AM EST (Check your local time here) Basilisk will be taken offline. Unfortunately we do not have an ETA on when it will be back. During this time, the code from Nova will be merged with the Basilisk code.

    This means that any changes that were made on Nova, will now be on Basilisk.



    As it is with every merge, its expected to be unstable for the next week or so and bugs are     inevitably going to pop up. Any and all bugs found should be reported on our Bug Tracker (Mantis). If you don't know how to report bugs, you can find more info here.



    Basilisk patch notes will be added at the beginning of the merge.
    • If you need support please submit a ticket to support or join us at live support.
    • As always TC: Nova and Basilisk server status are available on our front page www.swgemu.com or on our IRC #status channel.
    • TC:Nova will be online during the merge.
    We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your continuous support. We hope to see you on Basilisk as soon as it's back online.




    ~ The SWGEmu Team

    Publish 5: Pets and Race Tracks 

    by
    Lolindir
    Published on 05-18-2014 10:30 AM   

    Publish 5: Pets and Race Tracks

    05/18/2014
    The SWGEmu Development Division


    Publish 5: Pets and Race Tracks

    System
    • Improved server stability
    POI/Cave/World - Added spawns to the following locations:
    • Corellia: Lord Nyax Cult (outside), Rebel vs. Imperial minor poi, Research Camp
    • Endor:Ewok Lake Village, Korga Cave, Dulok Village
    • Naboo: Emperor's Retreat, Gungan Sacred Place, Mauler Stronghold (inside), Theed
    • Tatooine: Tusken King quest area (no quest yet, just spawns)
    • Fixed and/or added a few no build zones
    • Open Magseal containers will now relock on occasion
    • Magseal containers should no longer double spawn loot
    • Adjusted respawn timer on many static spawns
    Creatures/NPCs
    • Babies now spawn in the wild with varying rarities
    • Many common npcs will now have random names
    • Fixed stats and/or tamability on several creatures
    • Lairs should spawn on cliff sides less frequently
    • Lairs should no longer spawn quite as close to one another
    • Some lairs now have a chance to spawn a boss (just a few, more will come later)
    Items/Loot
    • Increased junk dealer payouts (newly looted items only)
    • Adjusted loot and loot chances on all Dathomir NPCs
    • Added clothing as possible loot from most NPCs
    • Several weapons that were not dropping as loot before are now able to
    • More varieties of armor can now be found in loot
    • Newly looted armors can now be sold to junk dealers
    • Many more types of items can now be found inside locked containers
    • Locked containers will now indicate if they are slicable or not when examined
    • Loot with negative value stats will no longer be worse from higher level mobs than from lower ones
    • Adjusted the possible stat ranges on Nightsister Armor Shards
    Missions
    • Grouped missions now have increased payouts
    • Missions with npc targets no longer use the same titles/descriptions as creature missions
    Theme Parks/Quests/Dungeon
    • Added the Theed Palace Librarian with trivia quiz
    • Added Singular Nak quest
    • Fixed return waypoint for Han Solo in the rebel themepark
    • Added Nitra Vendallan quest
    • Added Lareen Dantara quest
    • Added Aaph Koden quest
    • Added Kathikiis Ruwahurr quest
    • Added conversations to 3 NPCs in the Geonosian Bio-Lab
    Combat
    • melee toughness skill mods now only apply vs. melee attacks
    • Destroying a lair should now grant experience
    • It should now be possible to swap weapons with a full inventory
    • There is now a small chance to successfully /stand while dizzy
    • Weapons without a powerup will no longer artificially cap their speed at 1.0
    • Weapon powerups should now always adjust weapon stats as expected
    GCW
    • Faction pets can now be purchased
    • Fixed some recruiter conversations
    Professions

    Architect:
    • Harvesters should no longer shut off prematurely
    • Harvesters should now shut off properly when the hopper is full
    • Harvesters resource selection screens will no longer list twice (or at all) resource spawns that have expired
    Artisan:
    • The contents of creature habitats can now be released
    • Resource spawns that have expired can no longer continue to be surveyed and/or sampled for a time
    Bio-Engineer:
    • Pet stimpacks and vitality packs can now be crafted and are functional
    Bounty Hunter:
    • An arakyd droid can now only be launched once
    • Bounty hunter mission fail messages are now sent to the mission owner rather than the one who kills the target
    • Bounty mission targets spawning on a planet other than the hunter's current planet should no longer spawn in water or buildings
    Brawler:
    • /setintimidate and /setwarcry now function
    Combat Medic:
    • Willpower area B disease packs now affect willpower instead of strength
    • Area heals will now also heal yourself (if you are in the area)
    • Adjusted the amount healed by /healmind
    • /healmind can no longer be used on duel or guild war opponents
    Creature Handler:
    • The taming of babies is now functional. See pet section for more details on what pet functionality is currently working. *Note: Bio-engineered pet deeds are still non-functional.
    Doctor:
    • Area cures will now also heal yourself (if you are in the area)
    • /healenhance and /healstate will now automatically choose an attribute/state if one is not specified
    Droid Engineer:
    • Droid Deeds can now be crafted
    • Droids can now be generated from deeds - see pet section for more details on what pet functionality is working. *Special Note: droid modules are not yet functional
    • Droid Repair kits and droid reconstruction kits can now be crafted and now function
    • Droid customization kits can now be crafted and now function
    • Fixed several schematics so they are now craftable and/or require the correct ingredients
    Entertainer:
    • Band flourishes can once again be used by any group member
    Image Designer:
    • Holo-emotes are now functional
    Marksman:
    • Fixed action shot 1 bleed
    • You will now most likely fall down if you attempt to /takecover while dizzy
    Medic:
    • /tendwound should now cause the correct number of focus/willpower wounds
    Merchant:
    • Vendor ad barking messages can now be up to 128 characters long
    • Shop signs can now be changed
    • NPC vendor appearance is now much more random
    • Access fees may now be placed on a structure by any admin with the correct skill rather than only by the owner
    • Access fees may no longer be set at more than 50,000 credits
    • Vendor item limit skill mod is now a total limit across all vendors rather than a per vendor limit
    • The contents of containers placed on vendors will now count towards a player's item limit. *Special note: all currently listed items will not be tallied correctly. To fix, withdraw and re-list your sales
    • Fixed a bug that would cause items on vendors to delete themselves under certain circumstances
    • Vendors in a structure that is destroyed will now properly be destroyed as well rather than ending up in the void
    • A merchant with vendors stuck in the void can now create new vendors (the missing vendors will be deleted when you start creating a new one)
    Musician:
    • The /bandflourish argument for chidinkalu horns is now "chidinkalu" rather than "flutedroopy"
    Politician:
    • Added additional rules to validation of player city names
    • City wide emails can now be sent by mayors to their citizens
    Scout/Ranger:
    • Fixed ingredients required to craft Lok camo kit
    • You will now receive a system message when entering/exiting your own camp
    • Harvesting creatures inside interior locations now only yields 1 unit of resource
    • Using /destroystructure on a camp will no longer leave the no-build active area behind
    Shipwright:
    • Fixed a few schematics
    Smuggler:
    • Mission terminals now have a slice radial menu option
    Swordsman:
    • Fixed damage multiplier on Two Handed Area 3 attack
    Tailor:
    • Fixed ingredients for Droidsmith's Toolkit
    • Fixed the grand ball gown so it will craft with sockets
    Teras Kasi Artist:
    • Increased the duration of the dizzy effect from the unarmed dizzy 1 attack
    Pets - The following is the current state of pets:
    • A non-Creature Handler can have two creature pets stored in their datapad and can have one non-aggressive pet active (max CL 10) at a time
    • A Creature Handler can store and control creature pets according to their current skill mods
    • A player can have up to five droids stored in their datapad and one active at a time
    • A player can have up to three faction pets stored and three active at a time
    • It should be impossible to trade a pet to someone who cannot control it (or if they are at their max number stored)
    • Pets can be called/stored in public buildings or outdoors
    • Droids require power to operate and can be recharged with droid batteries or power droids
    • Pets can be trained commands
    • The following commands are currently functional: follow, stay, store, follow other, group, recharge other (power droid only), trick1, trick2, transfer, attack (pets can only attack players for now)
    • Pets can be named
    • /tellpet is functional
    • Tamed babies will grow over time
    • Pet growth can be arrested if it will grow too large to be trained as a mount
    • Eligible pets can be trained as a mount
    • /gallop and /gallopstop are functional
    • Mounts will slow down when in combat (unless galloping)
    • Basic attacks can be done while mounted and not galloping (though a mount cannot attack while it has a rider)
    • Pets can be fed and will be buffed by pet restricted buff food
    • /emboldenpets and /enragepets are functional
    • Certain emotes when used with your pet as a target will elicit a reaction
    • Creature and droid pets will lose vitality upon death (Faction pets die permanently)
    • Pet owners have an "incapacitation recovery" radial menu option to revive incapacitated pets
    Player
    • You can now equip 2 rings (and anything else that should have more than one possible slot)
    • When boarding a shuttle, any active pets or vehicles will be stored
    • The following wearable skill mods are now disabled: medicine use, combat medicine use, additional pets, stored pets, creature taming bonus, combat medic effectiveness
    • Added a potential fix for certain characters' filling not reducing. If you have a character in this state, please log it on, wait 1/2 an hour, and let us know if your filling went down
    • A player is now limited to 3 vehicles stored in their datapad at once
    • A player must now be close to a shuttle to board it
    • /findfriend now only requires that you be the target's friend
    • You should no longer be able to overload your inventory when retrieving filled containers from a vendor/bazaar
    • You can no longer /addignore yourself
    • Ignoring a player will now block duel requests, trade requests, group invitations, planet chat, and auction chat from the ignored player
    • It should no longer be possible to trade no-trade items by putting them inside a container and trading the container
    • Shuttle ticket prices should now always display properly
    Guild/Group
    • Guild halls no longer need to be redeeded to recreate a guild (not retroactive)
    • Guild leaders can no longer be kicked from or leave a guild (temporary until guild elections are implemented)
    Misc
    • Added the following race tracks: Agrilat Swamp, Keren City, Mos Espa, Narmle Memorial Rally, Lok Marathon, and Nashal River Race
    • Added galaxy-wide auction chat channel (/auction or /auctionsay)
    • /planet will now send chat to planet chat channel
    • /movefurniture and /rotatefurniture no longer work on players or pets
    • Many admin commands have been implemented/improved to better allow QA/CS personnel to enforce rules and diagnose problems
    • Added 100 million credit limit to housing maintenance and city treasuries
    • Fixed issue causing pholokite extrusive ore to only ever spawn on Lok
    • Using /waypoint will create a waypoint at the location of your target if no location is specified
    • When logging in you now should only see friend's list messages for online friends
    • Friend's list offline messages should no longer be sent each time a player is loaded from the database
    • Staff characters will now have their tag displayed when chatting in any channel or via tells instead of just in spatial


    *A special thanks to Ivojedi for putting the list together




    ~ The SWGEmu Development Division

    SWGEmu End of Year Update 2013 

    by
    Lolindir
    Published on 01-16-2014 06:43 PM   

    SWGEmu End of Year Update 2013


    January 2014
    SWGEmu Team





    SWGEmu End of Year Update 2013















    Table of Contents
    • Project Update
    • Staff Updates
    • Quick Stats
    • Staff Round-Table
    • Closing
    SWGEmu Project Updates

    Major Additions/Changes


    Staff Updates

    SWGEmu is Recruiting!
    SWGEmu is an ever-changing and growing organization where new talent is always being sought out. We especially would like to mention the need for more developers, please see this thread for more information.


    SWGEmu is also in need of other positions filled. For any one interested in spending some of there free time toward this project, please consider to join in on our SWGEmu Internship Program



    Quick Stats

    Developer Code Commits:
    • Total Commits 2013: 1518
    • Total Lines of Code (LoC):

      Code:
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Language                      files          blank        comment           code

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HTML                          12391         122129          37170        3275804

Lua                           24285         503016         634064        1745391

SQL                              27           1365           2102         453995

C++                             803          77915          35329         252730

C/C++ Header                   2335          85161          80692         183178

Javascript                        6           2571             60         158311

Bourne Shell                     25           8384          10194          60209

IDL                             225           8676              2          30596

m4                               17           2265            303          19361

make                             15            531            614          10746

Python                           29           1571           2433           4289

C                                 1            619            359           3160

Bourne Again Shell                2            190            280           1921

CSS                               4            231             38           1163

CMake                            16            158            302            500

PHP                               1             37              2            256

C#                                1             29              5            107

XML                               1             30              0            105

MSBuild scripts                   1              0              7             42

DOS Batch                         2              0              0              4

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SUM:                          40187         814878         803956        6201868

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    Registration Statistics:
    • May 12, 2013 - 510 accounts registered
    • September 26, 2012 - 72 accounts registered
    • May 2013 - 4957 accounts registered
    • October 2013 - 3013 accounts registered
    • 2013 - 48,533 accounts registered; average 4044.42 per month
    User Activity Statistics (Users online in one day):
    • Most users online: February 24, 2013 - 2458 users
    New thread statistics (Posted threads):
    • June 2013 - 4625
    • October 2013 - 2524
    Most viewed thread: Project Status List
    Most replied thread: What are you listening to right now?
    Most popular forum: Basilisk Trade Forum



    Staff Round-Table


    bluree - Developer
    Quote Originally Posted by bluree View Post
    2013 was a great year for the project as a whole. 2 Major publishes, the switch to Gerrit/Jenkin, increase in community/dev activity, and the new & improved SWGEmu lp client.

    Although I have been away from the project/game the last several months due to RL and work, I am ramping up for a full time return shortly to start squashing some bugs and contributing to the Jedi progression. The project is a long way from completion but looking back at this past year I am very excited and optimistic about what 2014 will bring us.

    A big special thanks to our EC/Support/CSR/QA/Mod folks. The work you guys do for us all on a daily basis isn't always easy, fun and often times thankless but you guys still do an amazing job and we all appreciate the hardwork.

    Oh, and happy new year everyone, party hard!!!!
    elpete - Developer
    Quote Originally Posted by elpete View Post
    It's been a great year. My first full year with the project. I have learned so much from the team. It goes to show that a hobby can have a lot of real world benefits.

    I think one of the major high points of the project was the move to the new Gerrit/Jenkins - the Community should be thanking those that made this move. That makes contributing so much quicker/easier. We also got some new devs, QA and staff that are great and easy to work with.

    I think it's really awesome that BE, DE, CH, and mounts are now starting to appear on Nova. What great progress by the guys and gals working on that.

    It was busy year for me. I was involved with the team and spent tons of time working on GCW and Player Cities which made it to Basilisk. Thanks to the whole community, QA, Staff and Devs in getting all the research & testing done. One thing I learned about myself is that I probably prefer bug fix / QA more so than new feature implementation.


    Work picked up a lot toward the end of the year and I was AWOL for a bit. I'm back to fixing occasional bugs and hope to continue doing so.
    Ivojedi - Developer
    Quote Originally Posted by Ivojedi View Post
    It's been a little over a year since I started contributing code to this project. Time sure does fly!

    To be honest, when I first decided to start submitting patches, I wasn't sure if they'd be approved or not. I only had the barest idea of what I was doing. I've never been a professional programmer, and hadn't done any coding for about a decade. I started with small tweaks and was surprised when they were approved. I kept branching out and doing larger and larger things. I've certainly made mistakes and have had to rewrite a lot of my own code multiple times to get it approved (and even afterwards when it broke things). I've certainly learned a lot this past year and I want to give special thanks to the other developers (especially TheAnswer, Loshult, and ElPete) for putting up with my inexperience and helping me along the way.

    I was completely surprised the day I was promoted to developer. I never expected it, given my limited experience and ability. Since then, as before, I've tried to familiarize myself with more and more of the code base and become as competent as I can be. There's still a lot I do not know and much that is outside of my experience or beyond my ability. Regardless, I want to do what I can to keep this project moving along, and to learn more as I go.

    It's been an honor to have had the opportunity to help this past year to rebuild this game that we all love and miss. I have every intention of continuing to do so. I'm currently working on pets and hope to have them in as functional a state as possible in time for our next publish to Basilisk. In the mean time (and beyond too!), I'd like to encourage you all to spend time on Test Center Nova. The more bugs we can catch and squash the better. QA team members, Community Testers, and all the others who choose to regularly spend time on Nova have my deepest respect. Without you all, our game would not be as good as it is. Hats off to you all!

    Loshult - Developer
    Quote Originally Posted by loshult View Post
    I'm really glad that we decided to switch source version control system to Git and to use Gerrit/Jenkins as our review and verification. It has simplified the review process for us developers. I remember that I before the switch almost spent all my time on this project reviewing, applying and compiling patches from community contributors. With Gerrit and Jenkins this process became quick and easy. Two really big publishes this year and the size of the list of changes in each weakly update shows how much faster our progression has been since then.

    We have also introduced the Google Test framework together with the Google Mock framework as our unit test and software integration test frameworks. We can now create unit test for our new code, ensure that the tests passes with every commit through the verification in Jenkins. Hopefully this will save us at least a couple of bugs every now and then. For the Lua part of the code we now use the Busted unit test framework.

    A big thank you to everyone who help us get closer to our goal! Developers, QA, Event Coordinators, CSR, Forum Moderators, Testers, Players, Community and whoever else that I forgot to mention! Let us hope that 2014 will be as progressive as last year and we will soon(tm) be at our goal!
    Oru - Developer
    Quote Originally Posted by Oru View Post
    2013 was such a busy year but my time was not mostly spent working on the emu. First baby born, switched jobs with more responsibilities and what little time i had left i worked on future engine improvements and managing the NPO.

    After all it is so nice to see that the project goes on in good hands even without me being around too often. There has been such a great progress and seems things go on quite smooth compared to previous years.

    Hope to see the project gets close to completion this year, keep up the good work guys!
    Scurby - Lead Quality Assurance
    Quote Originally Posted by Scurby View Post
    It has been an amazing year. I look back at the time I was writing this last year.... I was brand new to the project. I had very little idea what do to or how to do it. I have learned so much in this last year. Just enough to realize that I have a lot left to learn. One of the things that have had the biggest impact on me this past year are the people I have met. The opportunity to interact and get to know them has been an opportunity I would never have experienced any place else. I have had the opportunity to learn more about this game than I ever thought possible. Not just the game, but how it is put together and the people that have made it possible. My awe from a year ago has turned into true respect and admiration for all those who give their time to volunteer. My deepest thanks to everyone for giving me this opportunity to be of service to the project and the community.

    Pub 3 was huge. 10 months of hard work. It brought the GCW to life again. Those wars are still waging across Basilisk. Themeparks, POI's, Caves, and Quests helped to fill out a lot of the old feel of the game. Pub 4 was even bigger. In 3 months time. That went by so fast it seems time stood still. It brought the ability to master the Bio-Engineer profession. Imperial and Marauder themeparks. And DOTS. Tons of new loot items were added. Now we are into Pub 5. Creature Handler and Driod Engineer have begun to take shape. Watching pets and droids follow players around on Nova has ignited that old feel yet again. And yes, even the Jedi progression is getting some serious attention. It's been a truly amazing year for me.

    I look forward to 2014 and the changes it will bring. I get excited to see what will come next or what new person I will meet. Most of all, I want to thank our community for all the support and dedication to the project.

    PS. Get on Nova and lend a hand. There is always something to do.
    nee2earth - Quality Assurance
    Quote Originally Posted by nee2earth View Post
    To all Staff & Community:

    I have a tendency to get overly sentimental about such things (SWG being one) but as Han Solo might say: Don't get all mushy on me kid!

    So i shall just keep it short & sweet...And say this:

    These words i type to all of you here are spawned with the utmost gratitude, respect, and pride for recently being able to chat/test/work in a more official capacity each free day as a new member of the SWGEMU Team.

    I am very much looking forward to 2014 and helping out as much as possible; while hopefully learning as much as possible too.

    Happy Holidays to you all...and to all, a good next Year!

    ./bow, Nee
    Vlada - Lead Moderator
    Quote Originally Posted by Vlada View Post
    Another great year is behind us. Though not much has changed on our website and IRC, but development wise 2013 is probably the year when we progressed the most. Basilisk looks more and more like a real play server. With every publish its getting harder and harder to explain to people that we are still in Alpha development phase. Our community is growing, our numbers on Facebook page and our Facebook group are going up at the steady pace. I should also mention our twitter and G+ page too. Like every year we had our ups and downs, but we are still here, going strong and we are step closer to our goal.

    I want to thank our great SWGEmu team for everything they do day in and day out, and I want to thank you all, the greatest and most dedicated community any game has ever had, for your continuous support and... well for being made of awesome.

    Happy New SWGEmu Year folks!!!
    Bigevil - Community relations
    Quote Originally Posted by bigevil View Post
    Happy 2014 everyone! Last year saw many major landmarks reached, and a wonderful swelling of community support and volunteerism. So many new people have joined the team and made amazing contributions to push things along at a heady pace! Red names, blue names, green names....kind of blue names...you get the idea.

    The strides the team makes each week in development, support, testing, etc leave me excited for our future. They continue to amaze me with their steadfast devotion of time and effort to get us to the end goal. The time that each one of you in the community put towards testing, playing, and reporting what you find makes the job of the really smart people around here (not me) a lot easier. Please continue to do so, and we will realize our shared dream in due time.

    Those among the community that continue to peruse the forums and offer sage advice to newcomers and those in question, I thank you. Its the collective experience and shared desire that make this a special place. Continue to submit your findings, report wrong doing, help out your fellow players, and be genuine movers in the community. With all your help and support, we will be able to give the team the tools and support they need to see this endeavor through.

    So, continue to help out other players in game, offer suggestions with merit, submit ideas and reports, draft guides for knowledge enhancement, and make our little corner of the galaxy a better place. Happy New Year!
    Lolindir - Moderator
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolindir View Post
    The time have come to say goodbye to 2013 and welcome 2014. I came in as an moderator this year and I have found the experience interesting and insightful. There have been a few additions to staff this year, but more have left than come aboard. My wish for 2014 is that there would be more people interested in spending there free time aiding the project as members of staff.


    The project it self had a bit of a slow start of the year, but have really picked up pace toward the end. We have seen two publishes merged with Basilisk in a short time and currently we can see CH pets/droids on Nova and Jedi unlock been worked on, even some AI work have been started. Really excited to see what the project have in store for us in 2014!


    I would like to thank every one making this project possible, from coders, testers, support to the ones donating there hard earned cash so we can hold both our servers up and running, thank you all.
    Niffer - Lead CSR/EC
    Quote Originally Posted by Niffer1976 View Post
    The CSR/EC Team has been busy this year. We no longer are 2 teams and now work together to help our community with issues and events.

    CSR--(Customer Support Representative)
    We work hard trying to get everyone's tickets answered as well as live chat support. Everyone has been great working with us to determine if their issue is a bug or just something simple. Live Support has shown to be a great addition to support. With every new system there are pros and cons but as of right now things seems to be going smoothly. Everyone seems to be passing by the rules and not reading them to understand they can not have Multiple Accounts. The CSR's are working to get these entered and get players back playing as quickly as possible but you must read the rules and see what information we need to make the process go a little quicker.

    EC--(Event Coordinator)
    Our Events are picking up and that is good to see. Developers have helped us work up 2 different types of mobs now, we now have event mobs for those guilds or cities that wish to have a private event or we have our regular lootable mobs for public events. Staff will be hosting a Staff Event every month starting in January. Not every event will give out a badge but there will be lootable mobs. We ask that even if all you require is a system message for a player event that you fill out an event form as we now have a calendar that staff uses to keep up with the events. Your event will be placed on our calendar so no other event is scheduled at the same time. We hope to see our calendar grow for the upcoming year.

    We have lost a lot of Staff Support members and we have gained some as well. Each and every one did great and are doing great in helping us keep this project going. For those no longer with us, you will be missed and we thank you for the work you put in as volunteers for this project. As for those that are with us now, It is great having you here and get ready here comes 2014.

    Happy Holidays!!




    Closing


    We would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of our community members for your support, donations and your time spent with our project. 2013 had a slow start, but picked up momentum towards the end, letting us see pets and droids running around on Nova and commits toward creature AI. With your continued support we hope to keep our momentum and take our project to new heights in 2014.



    We are proud to be part of such a dedicated community. Happy New Year!








    ~The SWGEmu Team
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