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Star Wars Galaxies is celebrating The Empire Strikes Back's 30th anniversary. Each week in May, starting on the 4th, eligible characters will receive a new publish gift. It will contain a collection item and an in-game gift to commemorate the event. Be sure and log in all your characters each week to get them or you will miss out. Once you complete the collection you will receive a fifth gift. Eligible characters are ones that are at least 10 days old (i.e. characters that normally get a publish gift when we offer a new one) and they must log in each week to receive the gift. In addition, there will be new rewards as loot drops in Hoth and for purchase using heroic tokens.

BBP CUSTOMER NOTICE: The firm responsible for monitoring incubator activity for BBP wishes to apologize for the lack of concrete data concerning the unstable DNA situation. BBP wishes to make it known that those responsible have been terminated. BBP announcements have thus been reconfigured at great expense and at the last minute. Unstable DNA variations have completely usurped (and have therefore become) the native forms of all Crystal snakes, Spined snakes, and Fanned Rawl. These creatures are no longer resistant to efforts to obtain viable DNA samples. :END NOTICE

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.9

On Thursday, May 20th, 2010, at 4:00 AM PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be taken down for server maintenance and a Hotfix.

When the Hotfix is complete, all galaxies will be live but unavailable while we complete final testing. All galaxies will be made available after that time.

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Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.9

No Trade

The Unique flag has been removed from the Heroic Jewelry (past, present, and future).

No Trade:

The owner of existing no trade items that are in the list of items that have had no trade removed (http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?topic_id=1080498) can now use the item's radial menu to PERMANENTLY remove no trade from the item. The item's examine window will display "No Trade Removable" until no trade is removed.

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.8 -- On Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 (US)

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.8

The Empire Strikes Back 30th Anniversary Celebration

ESB 30 - Week 3

Log in to receive your Week 3 collection item and gift. They will be available through May 24th.
You can now buy the Infiltrator Armor from the token vendor in Aurillia.
Certain enemies on Hoth and on board the Imperial Star destroyer will now have a chance to drop a Darktrooper costume.

Jedi

Saber Shackles now grants a +1 bonus to Jedi Strike damage for each box.
The Block chance and Block Value on the meditation buff 'Visions of the Past' has been changed to 3% Evasion Chance and 30% Evasion Value.
The Guardian set will now give +1 glancing blow per piece in place of the Block Chance.
The Guardian Set buff will now give a bonus to critical hit reduction (up to 5% for 5 pieces).
A new Expertise box 'Premonition' is available at tier 3 in the General Jedi tree. The box offers an Evasion Chance 2/4/6/8 and an Evasion Value 8/16/24/32.
Grace in Motion will now correctly reduce the melee action cost when wielding a lightsaber.

NO TRADE Removal

See the following post for the list of items that have had NO TRADE removed,
- http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?topic_id=1080498

Bounty Hunter

Fixed an issue where the bounty hunter shields protection value failed to decrement correctly.

Beast Master

You can now rename your pet multiple times. There are no limitations to how often or how many times you can rename your pet.
A pet will now be automatically stored when the owner dies and the beast will no longer be automatically killed.
The Beast Mastery expertise has been rearranged.
All characters with one or more point in the Beast Mastery tree have received a free expertise reset.
The Pet Trick commands have been added to the Incubation box.
Pet Recovery. This box merges Improved Pet Recovery and Swift Recovery. It grants revive speed bonus of 5/10/15 and a beast recovery percentage of 25/50/75%.
Improved Pet Heal. Offers a healing bonus of 20/40/60% to Mending.
Enhanced Skill Acquisition - reduced from 4 points to 1 point for a bonus of 15.
Incubation Processing Time - Now a 4 point box, reduces incubation time by 3/6/9/12 hours.
Beast Evasion - A new box that grants a 5/10/15% evasion chance bonus and 15/30/45 evasion value bonus to your beast.
Harmonious Understanding (similar to the former beast mastery box). This box costs 1 point and remove the 25% damage debuff.
Genetic Engineering. Now a 4 point box granting 30/60/90/120 bonus to genetic engineering.
Beast dodge - A new box that grants a 5/10/15% bonus to the bests dodge chance.
Fortitude. Now grants 40/80/120% Armor Bonus.
Erratic Genius, A new 3 point box that grants a 2/4/6% bonus to Fervent Mutation.
Pet Revive will now set the beasts health correctly based on the Beast Recovery bonus.
Reduced action cost for Pet Revive by 50%
Reduced action cost for Soothing comfort by close to 50%
Pet revive now has a max range of 85m however the further you are from your pet when using the ability, the longer the ability will take to revive your pet.
Changed the mutation chance calculation to better reflect the size of the fervent mutation bonus.

Costumes

All costumes have had their icons changed to reflect the creature or NPC they represent.

Misc

Storyteller Vendors are no longer so aloof; they will now turn to face you when addressed.
You can no longer consume ITV deeds for an ITV command that you already have.

BBP CUSTOMER ALERT: BBP wishes to stress that the rumors of horrific experimentation upon small furry creatures on Dathomir are completely unfounded and unequivocally false. Through constant vigilance, BBP maintains the utmost in quality at all times. Persons found partaking in such slanderous attacks upon the integrity of BBP will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of Imperial Law. As a possible alternate explanation for what may be at the root of this slander, over the past several galactic standard cycles, BBP monitoring has established and confirmed an increasing number of unstable DNA variations. Initially reported in the species of Dantooine but quickly spreading through Naboo, Dathomir, and Lok, these DNA deviants appear to be supplanting the more stable native varieties and contaminating gene samples galaxy-wide. Unconfirmed reports even go so far as to claim such things as a Dantooine native species now possessing the genetic potential of a species indigenous to Lok. Select Heavy-use customers have already been urged not to underestimate the current genetic situation and to take all available precautions including, at the very least, the immediate cessation of all incubator activity until further notice. Third party bio-labs on multiple planets have confirmed BBP's initial findings, in many cases to their detriment; the identities of these third-party labs are being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin. These tragedies serve to indicate that it is during the laboratory processing that the unstable DNA presents the greatest risk and to underscore once more the severity of this situation. Again, BBP urges most strongly that all genetic experimentation activity cease and desist until further notice. :END ALERT

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.7 -- On Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 (US)

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.7

The Empire Strikes Back 30th Anniversary Celebration

ESB 30 - Week 2

Log in to receive your Week 2 collection item and gift. They will be available through May 17th.
The Hoth Reward Vendors will now sell a Snowspeeder ITV that offers the option of storing two preset destinations.

Costumes

Changed Lando costume to use Lando icon
You can now sit and dance while in costume!

Misc

Increased the drop chance of Cornburr's Brain.

Space

Lok Rebel tier 5 duty will now spawn tier 5 ships.

Structure Signs

Fixed the positioning of several structure signs. Let us know if you find any new sign issues.

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.6 -- On Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 (US)

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.6

The Empire Strikes Back 30th Anniversary Celebration

ESB 30 - Week 1

Log in to receive your collection item and gift. They will be available through May 10th.
Revisit Hoth to get a new tradable loot drop from Unkajo. It's more than your ordinary snow globe.

Jedi

Flurry - Removed the 'charge' system. Flurry can now be used as a regular attack. The cooldown is 12 seconds.
Flurry - The Exacting Strikes damage will now also affect Jedi Saber Flurry.
Flurry - Bonuses to Jedi Strike Damage and Crit Chance will now also affect Jedi Saber Flurry.
Flurry - The Dualist Heroic Jewelry Set will now give up to 4 seconds cooldown reduction to Saber Flurry (1 sec reduction for 3 pieces, 2 sec for 4 pieces and 4 seconds for 5 pieces).
Expertise - Strangulation now reduces the targets damage output by 10% per point invested.
Expertise - Exacting Strikes moved to tier 2 on the General Page.
Expertise - Heightened Speed moved to tier 2 on the General Page.
Expertise - Force Cloak no longer tied to Alacrity.
Expertise - Second Wind moved to tier 3.
Expertise - Incisiveness has been moved to tier 5 and is now tied to fidelity. Fidelity has been moved to tier 4.
Expertise - Grace in Motion (new box) requires 3pts in Incisiveness, grants 5/10/15% melee action cost reduction.
Expertise - Improved Shockwave now increase shockwave damage by 10/20/30%
Expertise - Incisiveness and fidelity have been switched around. Fidelity is now a tier 4 box with no prerequisites.
Expertise - Incisiveness is now a tier 5 box and requires 2 points in Fidelity.
Expertise - Fidelity now gives 4/8% Melee Damage Increase.
Expertise - Incisiveness now gives 2/5/8% Critical Chance.
Expertise - Forsake Fear has been moved to tier 2 and is no longer tied to the Jedi Stance branch
Expertise - Expansive Trickery has been reduced to a single box. The box will increase the range of cloud minds by 4m.
Re-arranged the Light-side Paths. The first two columns are now organized like this:
- Column 1: Saber Shackle > Riposte > Force Clarity > Saber Flurry.
- Column 2: Reactive Response > Saber Reflect > Improved Saber Reflect > Anticipate Aggression.
- Column 3: Forsake Fear has been move out of the light side path.
Shockwave - Shockwave now cause twice the amount of hate.
Forsake Fear - Forsake Fear no longer requires the player to be in a stance to use the ability
Saber Reflect now causes double hate.
Increase the duration of the meditation buff to 30 minutes.

Space

Tweaks to the ship spawned during the Black Sun Tier 4 and 5 duty missions
The interface scanning tool now has twice the chance of recovering flight plans or droid commands.

Misc

Increased the chance to loot the Geonosian Sonic Pistol schematic and the DXR6 Rifle Schematic.
Fashion Police report: Gendra of Mos Eisley, Tatooine, and Dagorel near Moenia, Naboo, cited for wearing two backpacks. One backpack confiscated from each.
The countdown timer zip bar (like the one displayed for Forsake Fear) should no longer autoswitch to mouse pointer mode.
Various city signs throughout many of the cities on Corellia, Naboo, Rori, Talus, and Tatooine now indicate the name of the city or region in which they stand.
The fashion police have re-educated another offender. Pfibee Jhorn near Bestine will only wear a single set of clothes from now on.

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.5 -- On Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 (US)

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 16.5

Plate Tectonics

The planet wide thermostat for Lok has been lowered to address the rising temperature that is causing a rise in water level on Lok.
Special load-bearing NPCs have been placed at strategic locations throughout Lok to address the issue of sinking ground on Lok. If you encounter these NPCs during your travels through Lok, please do not kill them or otherwise distract them from their duties, or Lok may become a huge sinkhole.

Junk Dealer

Fix issue where items cannot be sold at recycling station or through the Fence Items ability.
Items that cannot be sold and say "...is already in the process of being sold..." can now be sold again if you log out and wait about 15 minutes.

Misc

Yellow and white crowns removed from Lucky Despot

The Star Wars Galaxies team has been busy this spring with a number of great updates. Starting today, log in and discover the new loot that awaits you from heroic encounters, enjoy more storage for vehicles or mounts in your datapad and pick up some new rewards from faction recruiters with your GCW invasion tokens. As war rages throughout the galaxy, don't forget to stop and smell the flowers or check out all of the great spring updates!

In order to serve you better, Vivox is upgrading the core of its network!

Vivox is implementing a major network redesign, including new hardware. The new network will give Vivox even greater scalability, performance and redundancy.

In order to cause the least disruption possible for our community, they will accomplish the upgrade during off peak hours. All Vivox Voice Services will go completely offline on April 20, 2010 at 04:00 AM EDT, and return to normal service by 05:00 AM EDT.

On Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 4:00 AM PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be taken down for server maintenance and Game Update.

When the Game Update is complete, all galaxies will be live but unavailable while we complete final testing. All galaxies will be made available after that time.

Game Update 16: Star Wars Galaxies™: Stronghold of the Lok Revenants

On the planet of Lok located in the Outer Rim Territories, a well known Feeorin by the name of Nym leads a colorful band of pirates called the Lok Revenants. Their Stronghold is out of sight from the prying eyes of the Galactic Empire, but they aren't without problems. For the foolhardy, getting involved can mean a quick end on a barren, dusty planet. For those seeking a career opportunity as a pirate, the problems may just be opportunity. If you're the latter, contact Vana Sage in Nym's Stronghold.

Features:

Return to Lok and uncover secret riches found in Nym's fortress. Take on the challenge offered by Nym and the Lok Revenants in this expanded version of the original quest series and earn new rewards, including a new weapon, the Jinkins J-1 Rifle.
Battle through new side quests to earn great Collection Set rewards such as a mounted Slugthrower decoration and Nym's logo rug
Take your pirate ways to the depths of space. A new piracy system lets you and your friends pull wealthy trade convoys out of hyperspace and pillage them with your starfighters. Take out the well-armed escorts and blast the convoy ships to claim your bounty of new engines, shields and more
New space features include improved power for ship weapons and special tokens awarded for Destroy Duty Missions that can be traded in for ship parts

Nym's Theme Park

Nym's Theme Park is now at the tail end of the existing Star Wars Galaxies content path.
Players can participate in the new Nym's Theme Park regardless of their participation in the old version of Nym's Theme Park.
Players can participate in the new Nym's Theme Park by receiving a quest after completing the Bossk quest line (in the content path) OR by being level 56 or higher.
Speak to Vana Sage in the Stronghold to kick off the theme park content.
Speak to other Lok Revenants in the Stronghold such as Rek Thelcar, Stuvany Inglen, Mako Ghast, Grenz Zittoun for side content as you progress through the main content story line.
Speak to Ran Machado for a fun event clearing the Stronghold grounds of weeds (Lok 463 23 4967).

Space

Duty Missions

Planetary space stations will now offer additional 'mercenary contract' Destroy Duty missions
Stations will offer duty missions of an appropriate tier based on the area. In addition they will offer Tier 5 factional duty missions to master pilots.
You can now spend tokens earned from Space Duty Missions with the Vendor in the Nova Orion cantina
Duty missions with extra high difficulty and reward can be gotten from Dantooine, Dathomir and Endor stations. Look for the missions that sends you to Kessel.

Piracy Event

Rumors of a new small sized interdiction device have been circulating. A certain shady parts dealer might know more.
The Piracy event will grant underworld faction and a few contraband items to smugglers.

Factional Commands

Players can now go Special Forces by using the Special Forces Command
Using the command to go Special Forces now takes a total of 45 seconds.
When the command is used, you ship will start blinking on the radar of other ships.
You will need to remain at a standstill for the first 30 seconds, after that you're free to move around for the remaining 15 seconds.
Rebels will receive the /spacepvprebel command, imperials will receive the /spacepvpimperial and neutrals will receive both commands.
The command will also be available in the command browser under the space tab.
To stop being flagged as Special Forces you will need to land the ship (or die and respawn).
Neutral pilots can now declare themselves as factional combatants for either the imperial or rebel navy.
If you're a factional member on the ground you cannot declare support for the opposing faction in space
You will remain registered with the faction until you land or die and respawn
Opposing factional ships will now attack you while allied ships will be unattackable.
Declaring yourself with a faction will allow you to take factional mercenary duty mission at the space stations
A new space command /spacefaction have been added
When used it will tell the player what squadron they are part of and what their factional status are.
The command can either be used as a command (/spacefaction) or through the icon found in the command browser under 'space'.

Space - Other

Crafted weapons now have a higher ‘vs. Shields’ and ‘vs. Armor’ rating
Crafted Shields will now have 3-600 lower RED when crafted (depending on experimentation).
Removed almost all collection related space spawns. The mobs will now be available through duty missions.
All factional mobs in Kessel should now count towards the completion of the 'kill 30' pre-master quests.
You can now repeat the Lord Cyssc quest by talking to Gursan Bryes.
The quest can be repeated once daily
Completing the mission will give the player a reward of one of four space weapons that are currently attainable from other non-repeatable quests (The Vengeance Ion Cannon, the Ionic Pulse Cannon, the Trandoshan Repeater and the new Heavy Ionic Pulse Cannon).
The Nym's Starmap quest series is now repeatable. In order to start the quest series a second time you must have completed all four quests in the series.
You can repeat the quest daily.
Destroying the Imperial Star Destroyer or the Rebel Freedom Station in deep space should no longer have any effect on the Kessel System. The faction spawns that were activated by the destruction will now always be active.
The program size of Engine overload, Weapon overload, Weapon Capacitor Overload and Reactor Overload level 3 and 4 have been reduced by one.
This change is not retroactive, you will need to remove and re-add the commands to your flight computer or droid to get the new size

GCW

Turrets were not firing out to 64 meters due to their detection region being rounded down below 64 meters and using locations instead of objects.
Mini-Turret added to faction recruiters for purchase. Mini-turrets are purchased in stacks of 10 for 250 tokens, last 1 minute when dropped, and do 250-500 damage. Mini-turrets target factional enemies and do not grant experience and do not grant GCW points.
Domestics Draft Schematic Added: Imperial Command Hat

Imperial Command Hat is a wearable for only humans.

Turrets should shoot up to 64 meters.
Doing destroy duty missions while Special Forces will give you additional 50% mercenary tokens.
Rumor has it that Watto will trade certain illicit items for mercenary tokens.
You can now purchase space ship components with the special tokens granted by destroy duty missions
Reduced the factional spawn rate slightly in areas where force sensitive mobs are spawning.
The war intel pad will now repeat the last action it performed when the Use action is selected. This means that when used from the toolbar, it will repeat the last action it performed.
The Naboo System, Naboo System Player vs. Enemy, and Naboo System Player vs. Player GCW region/category contribute to the planetary score for both Naboo and Rori.
The Corellian System, Corellian System Player vs. Enemy, and Corellian System Player vs. Player GCW region/category contribute to the planetary score for both Corellia and Talus.
The "weight" of the GCW score category for the 8 space zones (Corellian System, Dantooine System, Dathomir System, Endor System, Karthakk (Lok) System, Naboo System, Tatooine System, and Yavin System) has been adjusted to contribute 5x more to the planetary and galactic score than the other GCW score categories (which will each contribute 1x). In general, the 3 space GCW score categories for each of the 8 planets with an associated space zone (space zone 5x, space zone PvE 1x, and space zone PvP 1x) contribute approximately 30% to the planetary and galactic score.

Space Factional Presence

If you are aboard an overt factional ship (can be pilot or passenger), "actively" playing the game, not incapped/dead, of the same faction as the ship (can be on leave, combatant, or special forces), and in a space zone associated with a ground planet (Corellian System, Dantooine System, Dathomir System, Endor System, Karthakk (Lok) System, Naboo System, Tatooine System, and Yavin System), each minute, for risking life and limb to provide factional presence/patrolling the space zone, you will automatically provide a nominal amount of points to the GCW score for your faction for the space zone GCW category of the associated ground planet.
If you are in the pilot seat, operations chair, or turret, the amount of points contributed is proportionate to the pilot skill, plus a 10% bonus for each GCW rank.
If you are not in the pilot seat, operations chair, or turret, the amount of points contributed is proportionate to the character level, plus a 10% bonus for each GCW rank.
The same aligned city bonus (100% bonus, plus a 10% bonus per city rank, plus a 5% bonus per year of city age) is granted if the character's citizenship city is located on the corresponding ground planet and is same faction aligned as the character.
If the character's citizenship city is located on Rori or Talus, it will be associated with the Naboo System or the Corellian System, respectively, in determining the space factional presence same aligned city bonus.
Space factional presence and contribution are displayed in the "GCW Factional Presence" and "GCW Personal Contribution" window of the War Terminal and the War IntelPad.

GCW Region Defender

The Galactic Civil War is vast in scope, and players from every galaxy have flocked to the front lines. Leaders are needed from both sides to provide leadership, planning and coordination of war activities across the 148 theaters of operation, spanning 10 planets and 8 space zones.
Guild Factional Alignment

The guild leader can set the guild's factional alignment from the guild management terminal.
There is a 1 day wait to switch the guild's factional alignment. There is no wait to align with the same faction that the guild most recently aligned with.
The guild's factional alignment is displayed in the guild status window.

Region Defender

The mayor and guild leader of factionally aligned city and guild with at least 10 guild members can use the city/guild management terminal to select one of the 148 regions to defend.
There is a 1 day wait to switch region. There is no wait to defend the same region that the city/guild most recently defended.
The city/guild region defender information is displayed in the city/guild status window.
The "GCW Region Defender" radial menu on the war terminal/intel pad will display more detailed region defender information for all the 148 regions.
The time that a city/guild started defending a region is only reset when the city/guild starts defending a different region.
If the city/guild stops defending a region, and then later resumes defending it (even as a different faction), the time that the city/guild started defending a region is preserved.

Region Defender Bonus

Region defender bonus is only available once the city/guild has defended the region for at least 3 days.
Each region has a fixed 20% bonus.
The fixed 20% bonus is divided proportionately between the 2 factions based on the percentage of the GCW score for the region.
The proportionate amount that each faction gets is then divided evenly by the total number of cities and guilds currently defending the region for that faction to arrive at the final bonus value for that faction.
The final bonus value is applied to all the citizen's/guild member's personal GCW points earned, provided the citizen/guild member is the same faction as the city/guild and earns the GCW points while in the same region that the city/guild is defending.
The final bonus value is applied to all the citizen's/guild member's GCW score contribution to the region the city/guild is defending, provided the citizen/guild member is the same faction as the city/guild and makes the contribution while in the same region that the city/guild is defending.
If both the citizen's/guild member's city and guild are defending the same region, only one bonus will be granted.
The final bonus value is displayed in the city/guild status window and the "GCW Region Defender" information window from the war terminal/intel pad.

Region Defender Title

Region defender title is only available if the citizen/guild member is the same faction as the city/guild, the city/guild has defended the region for at least 3 days, and the faction has at least 70% control of the region.
Once the title is available, the "GCW Region Defender - City" and/or "GCW Region Defender - Guild" title(s) will be available in the title drop down list.
The title will display "Defender of (region name)" ingame.

War Room Chat Rooms

The RebelWarRoom and ImperialWarRoom chat rooms will be created by the system.
Only same faction aligned mayors and guild leaders of same faction aligned cities and guilds with at least 10 guild members can enter these rooms.

War Planner Title

The "Rebel War Planner" or "Imperial War Planner" title is available to same faction aligned mayors and guild leaders of same faction aligned cities and guilds with at least 10 guild members.

Beast Master

Beasts should no longer get stuck in combat after a battle.
Beast special attacks were doing less damage due to weapon normalization, which is intended for weapons only and not beasts.
Beast glancing blow base chance from incubation modifiers has been properly hooked up.
Added a Loyalty Level Progress percentage to a beast's examine window. This progress is the percentage completed towards the next level. It is not displayed, once level 5 (Best Friend) is reached.
Wing Buffet and Trample have had their AOE cone increased from a measly 10 degrees to 30 degrees.
Provoke should now properly add hate to a target based on the provoke command level.
Specialized Supplements now affects health and action regeneration properly.
Added Spit 5 to a creature to make it available for learning.
Nerf mount camera height fixed to be three meters instead of zero meters.

Bounty Hunter

Debuff stat "Armor Break" now displays in a character's statistic summary.
Armor Break debuff effect now shows the correct statistics on its icon hover information.
Ambush expertise "Advanced Armor Break" now shows the Ambush Critical Chance in the character sheet statistics summary. The statistic is properly used in combat, but was not displayed.
Armor Break's effect descriptions have been updated.

Domestic Trader

High-end foods and drinks have had their buff amounts increased. This change is retroactive for all foods already crafted.
Starshine Surprise changed to be an artisan skill level item.
Bio-engineer subcomponents, which are no longer craftable, have been removed from synthetic cloth and fiber panels as optional components.
Beast food experience increased.
Field kit was uncraftable due to an uncraftable subcomponent and has been fixed.
Display was showing small decimal point values, which should not be displayed (.000004 on some items) for stat bonuses on food. This decimal point value has been dropped to be an even integer.

Engineers

Adding only armor to a droid should now set that droid's level properly.

Entertainer

When a player uses the /stoplisten command to stop listening to a musician, the musician should no longer stop listening to him or her self.

Jedi

Cautious Nature description updated.
Stance expertise now gives a bonus to evasion based on how many points are spent on it (1 per point).
The /battlefield command may be used with meditation.
Saber Intercept ability added. This ability redirects damage from a target that is buffed with this ability to you.

Saber Intercept requires a target that is a valid helpable PvP target.
Saber Intercept is not usable on yourself.

Cautious Nature stance expertise has had its glance bonus changed to a parry bonus.

Medic

Rheumatic Calamity greatly reduces the chance to strikethrough, block, parry, or dodge its effects.
Rheumatic Calamity now shows its damage in the combat log. Traumatize will now drain action from a target, if the target has less than the amount of action to be drained.

Munitions

The Master Crafted EE3 Carbine can only by used by Bounty Hunters (same as on live).
The Tenebrous Edge weapons can only be used by Spies (same as on live).

Officers

Paint Target 1-3 (non-expertise) may now be used by all weapons, except heavy. Previously, only pistols and melee weapons could be used.

Smuggler

Lucky Break should now always get a critical hit on NPC's.
Lucky Break now always hits.
Underworld rank now properly applies a range bonus to the equipped weapon after warping.

Structure Trader

Diagnostic Screen loot schematic is now learnable by structure traders, since it can be crafted by structure traders. Previously, it was learnable by engineers, but craftable by structure traders.

Weapon Trader

Profession restrictions on finished products for draft schematics have been lifted.

Armor Break

Effect descriptions for armor break have been updated.

Battlefield

Added an IM audio sound to the battlefield invitation window.
On-leave players may not use terminals.

Buffs

Changed many buffs from attacks to non-damage attacks, which could cause unintended posture changes (meditation affected).

Damage Over Time Effects

DOT's will keep a player in combat with the opponent that applied the dot, even if they are out of line of sight of each other.

Mos Eisley

Shuttleport travel location lowered to fix a problem of players getting stuck when flying to it

Player City

CityChat chat channel is now available for citizens of the player city.
/city and /citysay will send to the CityChat chat channel.
If you have city text chat issue, you can use the command /cityTextChatRoomRejoin to leave and rejoin the city text chat room to attempt to resolve the issue.

SNOWBALLS!

You can no longer throw snowballs at targets that are sitting down (including Meditating or people logging out).

Stealth

Using attack ability on an unattackable target will reapply stealth on the attacker. The application will take into consideration cooldown time of the stealth that was removed.

User Interface

The Waypoint count (and ratio graphic) in the Datapad UI now displays the proper values.

Weapons

Bounty Hunter DC-15 is a collection weapon and should have a profession restriction of Bounty Hunter.
Smuggler DL-T has had its profession restriction reinstated.

Wearable

Command hat appearance updated to include female versions and forced black color removed.

Misc

Added additional palette colors to the long formal jacket. Wearable’s that use this palette should have a few more colors to choose from.
Matilda Carson (Painting Allocation Engineer)...rival to Navari Trik (Painting Distribution Specialist)...is in Mos Eisley with some new paintings for you.
Start/stop/change dances no longer display menus of options to players that do not issue the command.
Start/stop/change dances now display who made the change in a system message.
Bestine Election will now properly give out the rare painting again.
Vekis Kiyanu has had his location changed slightly. (-63, 2727 to -113, 2714)
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Star Wars Galaxies™ Galactic Civil War: Forces Under Siege (Game Update 15)

Publish Notes, January 25th, 2010

*Receiving Coded Transmission*

Imperial Naval Communiqué #31756

To: Fleet High Command and Sr. Officers

From: Ysanne Isard, Director of Imperial Intelligence

Imperial counterintelligence agents embedded with a Rebel Bothan spy network intercepted the following Alliance transmission. Our field agents have noticed heightened Rebel activity in certain sectors, and it appears as though we have uncovered the cause:

Following the recent situation on Dathomir, and additional rumors of Imperial atrocities, it is imperative that we take extreme measures to expand our intelligence gathering networks and secure vital communications routes. I am calling on all fleet commanders to rally ships and available ground forces to three critical strategic points across the galaxy:

Tatooine – city of Bestine: The capital of Tatooine is rife with corruption and political turmoil, and is also a key Imperial outpost. If we take and hold this city we will control a wealth of information that moves through the galactic underworld.

Talus – city of Dearic: Another capital city plagued by dirty politics and scandal, Dearic is also home to a diverse and bustling Starport. Control of this city provides a broad spectrum of intelligence that will span the entire galaxy.

Naboo – city of Keren: As the Emperor's home world, Naboo is the beating heart of the Empire. To establish a control point on this planet would not only supply access to crucial intelligence, but would also be a devastating blow to Imperial morale and the Emperor himself. With its high level of commerce and financial influence throughout the Naboo system, Keren is the perfect target for this operation.

This mission takes top priority. The Empire must not be allowed to hold these cities. Good luck, and May the Force Be With You!

-- Leia Organa

Imperial Intelligence has confirmed the authenticity of this transmission. Squadrons will be assigned to deliver ground invasion forces to each of these locations to take and secure the cities. Under no circumstance can we allow these Rebel scum to gain a foothold. Be advised that Lord Vader himself has taken a personal interest in this matter, and failure will not be tolerated.

*Transmission End*

Galactic Civil War: Forces Under Siege Features

New, massive invasion/siege warfare scenarios in three major cities - Bestine, Dearic and Keren featuring: New Gameplay:

Dynamic changes occur in cities based on which faction is currently in control. Cities will display Imperial or Rebel banners and faction-specific NPCs, quests, terminals and pylons depending on which faction is on top
Added support for Factional Mercenaries. Neutral players can align themselves with either faction to participate in city conflicts and earn rewards
Mayors of player cities are able to set their city's factional alignment from the management terminal
Win battles within newly implemented Planetary Regions, which determine which faction controls a planet
New Planetary Region Display interface shows which faction is in command of regions and planets throughout the galaxy

New Interactive Structures:

Defend your city by manning barricades and building defensive turrets
Assault enemy cities and take out defense structures and key enemy personnel with the might of AT-AT or Hailfire missile attacks

All New Profession-Based Quests:

Contribute to the battle with profession-specific quests that let you bolster defending or invading forces
Improve and repair defensive structures, revive fallen soldiers, heal fatigue, entertain demoralized troops, slice terminals, scout and sabotage patrol points, and more

New Rewards:

Reap the benefits of war when you successfully lay waste to your opponents with invasion-specific quests
Earn tokens for defending your city with battle-specific quests such as manning barricades, building turrets and treating wounded soldiers
Cash in tokens for new rewards, which include: faction-specific clothing including capes, cloaks and battle-scarred armor; Entertainer glow sticks and multiple new weapons

The Galactic Civil War is being introduced with Update 15. With this update, your GCW points are directly responsible for control of cities, planets, and the galaxy. You will see these changes reflected on your planetary and galactic maps. Bestine on Tatooine, Dearic on Talus, and Keren on Naboo have been turned on for the new invasion system.

GCW

Defense
- Bestine
  - The Defending General can be found inside Bestine at -1214 -3626.
  - An Officer giving defending players quests can be found not far from the General at -1195 -3620.
- Dearic
  - The Defending General can be found inside Dearic at 479 -3007.
  - An Officer giving defending players quests can be found not far from the General at 478 -3023.
- Keren
  - The Defending General can be found inside Keren at 2131 2766.
  - An Officer giving defending players quests can be found not far from the General at 1787 2512.

Offensive
- Offensive Camps can be used by the invading faction for invasion specific quests, entertaining players, recruitment, and cloning.
- Bestine
  - Camps for the invading faction can be found just outside of Bestine at -900 -3782, -1253 -3348, and -1184 -3821.
- Dearic
  - Camps for the invading faction can be found just outside of Dearic at -2 -2805, 355 -2605, and -890 -2994.
- Keren
  - Camps for the invading faction can be found just outside of Keren at 1820 2192, 2131 2766, and 1212 3054.

Construction
- Tools:
  - Tools must be constructed to make pylons. Their resources are available from a supply terminal near the offensive and defensive general.
  - Supply terminals may be sliced by smugglers to provide optional components. Slicing the terminal repeatedly will increase the quality of the optional components.
- Pylons:
  - Pylons are construction points where you get construction quests.
  - Pylons are constructed by tools, which trade skill players manufacture. Anyone may use a tool, but trade skill players are the most effective at using tools during construction.
  - Constructing a pylon fatigues the builder, causing the construction of pylons to take longer and longer. This can be eliminated by visiting entertainers to work off fatigue.
  - Some Pylons have 4 levels:
    - Level 0: No construction and will not spawn during the battle.
    - Level 1: 1-49 resources have been constructed on the pylon.
    - Level 2: 50-99 resources have been constructed on the pylon.
    - Level 3: 100 resources have been constructed on the pylon.
  - Pylon objects:
    - Soldier Patrol:
      - This object spawns NPC's and is represented by a helmet icon floating over it.
      - Defensive patrols stay entrenched at their constructed location.
      - Offensive patrols assault defensive positions.
    - Barricade:
      - This object guards nearby players and NPC's and is represented by a barricade icon floating over it.
    - Turret:
      - Turrets are AI controlled and fire at enemies nearby. The pylon for these is represented by a gun barrel or dish icon floating over it.
    - Tower:
      - Towers buff non-player controlled AI nearby to do incredible amounts of damage. The pylon is represented by a floating tower icon over it.
    - Vehicle Patrol:
      - Vehicle patrols spawn tough vehicles and are represented by a terminal icon floating over it.
- Pylons are converted to their corresponding object when the construction phase ends and the battle phase begins.

Battle
- Vehicle spawn points:
  - Level 1: Level 60 elite vehicle
  - Level 2: Level 90 elite vehicle
  - Level 3: Level 90 boss vehicle
- Patrol spawn points:
  - Level 1: Level 60 NPC
  - Level 2: Level 90 NPC
  - Level 3: Level 90 elite NPC
  - Entertainers may entertain patrol points to buff NPC's spawned for both invasion and defense of a city.
  - Patrol points may be sabotaged by spies, which require a quest from their faction's general/attaché.
- Barricade:
  - No levels, but HP is increased by 5000HP per resource added.
  - Barricades offer defender quests for general combat.
- Tower:
  - No levels, but HP is increased by 5000HP per resource added.
  - Vehicles target towers
- Turret:
  - 5000HP per resource added.
  - Level 1-3: Increased damage per shot, but it can be mitigated by armor.
  - Turrets offer defender quests for general combat.
- Wounded soldiers:
  - Offer a quest to revive fallen soldiers to medics. Will reinforce a location or begin patrolling into the city to add to the invasion force.
- Damaged vehicles:
  - Offer a quest to tradeskill players for repair. Once repaired, they will reinforce the invading force by patrolling into the city.
- Demoralized troops:
  - Offer a quest to entertainers to be entertained and rejoin the battle effort for both offense and defense.

Invasions occur every three hours and last an hour. Two of the three cities will be active during each invasion.
- The construction phase lasts 30 minutes.
- The battle phase lasts 30 minutes.
- Defeating a defensive general will end a battle with the offensive team as the victors.
- Keeping the defensive general alive for the entire battle phase (30 minutes) will allow the defending team to win.
- Defensive general will flag players as Special Forces, if they persist in attacking him. A warning window will be displayed for attacking a general and not being Special Forces.

The Planetary Map for the appropriate planet will show the current phase that Bestine, Dearic, or Keren is currently in (construction, combat or occupation).

Factional Helper
- Neutral players can become factional helper to help their favorite faction.
- Use the command browser, /factionalHelper slash command, a faction recruiter, an invading city General or a city defensive Field Commander NPC to access the factional helper system.
- There is a 30 minutes cooldown once you have stopped helping one side before you can start helping the other side. You can still immediately help the side that you most recently stopped helping.
- If you are a Special Forces factional helper, you will be automatically changed to Combatant factional helper upon cloning.
Factional Presence
- If you are factional special forces (NOT factional helper special forces), "actively" playing the game, not cloaked/incapped/dead, and out in the world in a GCW contested region, each minute, for risking life and limb to provide factional presence/patrolling the GCW contested region, you will automatically provide a nominal amount of points to the GCW score for your faction for the contested area. The amount of points is proportionate to the character level, plus a 10% bonus for each GCW rank.
- Factional presence is only granted if you (or if mounted, your vehicle/mount) are on the ground out in the world. This means that factional presence is not granted if you (or if mounted, your vehicle/mount) are in/on any part of a structure (like entrance steps, roof, balcony, theater stage, etc), or on a bridge, or in a garden, or in the bazaar/bank plaza, or on a storyteller platform, etc.
- A "GCW Factional Presence" radial menu has been added to the War Terminal and the War Intel Pad that displays a window showing the GCW contested regions that currently have factional presence activity.
Player City Factional Alignment
- The mayor can set the city's factional alignment from the city's management terminal.
- There is a 1 day wait to switch the city's factional alignment. There is no wait to align with the same faction that the city most recently aligned with.
- The city's factional alignment is displayed in the city's status window and in the announcement message when you enter the city's borders.
- If factional presence (see above) occurs within the borders of a same aligned player city (i.e. the player city overlaps the GCW contested region, and the factional presence occurs in the overlap area), there is a 100% bonus, plus a 10% bonus per city rank, plus a 5% bonus per year of city age.
Travel Perks And Restrictions:
- Once a planet is 70% controlled by a faction, the following travel perks and restrictions will apply to GCW officers. To repeat, GCW travel perks and restrictions only apply to GCW officers.
- GCW officers of the controlling faction will have 0 shuttle wait time.
- GCW officers of the losing faction can only board every other shuttle, or pay a 50000 credits surcharge (each time) to avoid waiting for every other shuttle.
- GCW officers of the losing faction must pay a surcharge for shuttle travel if either the departure or the arrival planet is 70% controlled by the opposing faction, whichever is greater. The amount of surcharge is 500 credits for each % above 70%.
- If the planet has more than 1 Starport, only 1 Starport will be available for interplanetary ticket travel (both outgoing and incoming) to GCW officers of the losing faction. The 1 Starport that is available is the one that is least controlled by the controlling faction.

User Interface
- The Galactic Civil War Information Screen:
  - A new button has been added to the button bar. The Galactic Civil War screen is THE location to get all the information you need to see what's going on in your part of the world, or how the war is going in other galaxies and the final score across all galaxies.
  - This screen can also be brought up with the /gcwInfo command.
- The Galactic Travel Map:
  - The planet map has been updated to show areas that affect the outcome of the Galactic Civil War as well as the score for that current zone.
  - Areas currently under rebel control will show up as a rebel insignia, imperial control shows up as an imperial insignia, and 50/50 zones are shown with a contested insignia.
  - You can prevent the Galactic Civil War zones from showing up on your planet map by simply unchecking the "Show GCW Contested Zones" option on the Planet Map window.

Miscellaneous
- Spawns will now be affected by a regions GCW score. The higher the score is in a region, the more likely you will be to see troops from the faction that is currently winning.
- There are new collections tied to the GCW city invasions.
- GCW points directly affect some planetary spawns and are properly represented on the war terminal.
- Mon Calamari Cruisers or Star Destroyers will appear in the sky of a planet, depending on who is winning. The more your side is winning by, the more ships you'll see.

Battlefields

Replaced the original two story battlefield bunkers with reworked single story bunkers to address the line-of-sight issues caused by pvp'ing in those buildings.

Graphics

Frame rate limit increased from 30 to 60 FPS.

Storyteller

Storyteller vendors can now offer most props and NPCs in larger quantities when purchased.

Bounty Hunter

Sniper shot no longer requires a prone position.

Weapon

Pistol Launcher rocket trail particle density reduced.

Chronicles

Tusken Raiders from the Tusken King instance will now count towards 'Kill Tusken Raiders' and 'kill and loot Tusken Raiders' storyteller relics.
Greater Desert Womp rats should now count towards 'Kill any Womp Rats' and 'Kill and Loot any Womp Rats' Chronicle Relics.

Misc

Targets you cannot attack (such as same faction NPCs) will now display their health as a grey bar when targeted. You still cannot attack these NPCs, merely observe their health.
Added a checkbox on the character selection screen to hide characters screen on servers that are now closed.
Players may now equip as many cybernetic attachments as they wish. Now you can be the droid you're looking for!
The Allow Object Icon Rotation option now applies to toolbar icons and not just inventory/container item icons.
Export command now properly writes out font colors.
Players can now mark themselves as "Looking For Work" (either by using the command /lfw or checking the LFW option on the Character tab in the Community page). This tag is meant for players who wish to do commission based work or provide some type of service. You can search for players with this tag by using the community search tool.
No-Trade items can now be placed into containers inside a player's house or space POB.

Death Troopers
After a mysterious turn of events the Empire has mustered an enormous military presence in a remote location on Dathomir. Imperial High Command has issued a travel warning to notify citizens to avoid travel to the planet if possible. Citizens that cannot avoid travel to Dathomir should be aware that certain locations are now considered restricted areas. Unauthorized travel by citizenry to these restricted areas may result in fines, arrest or both. While rumors have circulated that restricted areas are being used to contain a biological threat, no official report has been confirmed or denied by High Command.

Star Wars Chronicles Master System
It's time to open your imagination and start creating stories to share with your friends. With the Star Wars Chronicles system, you now have the ability to create stories from relics you will discover throughout the galaxy. Use the Quest Builder to write your story with the relics you have discovered. Hit "Create Quest" to consume the relics and create a holocron in your inventory. This holocron can be traded to others or activated to begin the adventure. Completing holocrons will reward you with profession experience and tokens. Tokens can be used at the Chronicles reward vendor, S7-U44 Vending Droid, in both Theed and Coronet. The vendors are in the tent behind C-3PO. You can purchase relic booster packs from them as well as other exciting rewards.

For some friendly assistance, speak with C-3PO and he will explain more about Chronicles.

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