Announcements Listing

• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.13 -- Thursday, March 31, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.12 -- Thursday, March 24, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.11 -- Thursday, March 17, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.10 -- Thursday, March 10, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.9 -- Tuesday, March 1, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.8 -- Tuesday, February 22, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.7 -- Thursday, February 17, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.6.1 -- Tuesday, February 15, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.6 -- Thursday, February 10, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Reminder: We’re Accepting Galactic Senate Nominations Until February 11^th!
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.5 -- Tuesday, February 1, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.4 -- Thursday, January 20, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.3 -- Thursday, January 13, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.2 -- Monday, January 10, 2011 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 19.1 -- Thursday, December 16, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 19 -- Tuesday, December 14, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 18.6 -- Tuesday, November 30, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 18.5 -- Tuesday, November 23, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 18.4 -- Thursday, November 18, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 18.3 -- Thursday, November 11, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Witches of Dathomir Prologue – Game Update 18.2 – Thursday, November 4, 2010
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 18.1 -- Tuesday, October 26, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 18.0 -- Thursday, October 21, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.12 -- Saturday, October 16, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.11 -- Thursday, October 14, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.10 -- Thursday, October 7, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.9 -- On Thursday, September 30, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.8 -- On Thursday, September 23, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.7 -- On Thursday, September 9, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 17.6 -- On Thursday, September 02, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.5 -- On Thursday, August 19, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Claim Your 7^th Annviersary Year 3 Gift by August 19th!
• All servers are up!
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.4 -- On Tuesday, August 3, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.3 -- On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.2 -- On Thursday, July 15, 2010 (US Pacific)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.1 -- On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 (US)
• Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 17 - Empire Day VII / Remembrance Day VII
• Visit the Star Wars Galaxies Forums!
• Submitting a Customer Service Ticket In-Game
• Star Wars Galaxies: Essential Links

On Thursday, March 31, 2011, at 4:00 AM PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be brought down for server maintenance and a Hotfix. The servers are estimated to be down for 4 hours. If this timeframe changes, we'll post an update on the official forums.

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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Highlights 

• Something else has gone terribly wrong in Dr. Fool's shop. Log in on April Fool's Day to find out what.

Support The Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Relief Effort

• The Stuffed Tauntaun Toy now has a radial option to "speak." Use it and the toy will thank you for helping.
• The last day you can purchase this toy to contribute to the effort is Friday. The sale ends on April 1st at 11:59 PM PDT.
• Thanks everyone for helping out.

April Fool's

• Something else has gone terribly wrong in Dr. Fool's shop. Log in on April Fool's Day to find out what.

Armor

• Deconstructing armor should now only bio-link the schematic to the player deconstructing the armor if the armor is already bio-linked or if the armor is flagged as no trade.
• If the armor is flagged as no-trade remove, deconstructing the armor should add a bio-link to the schematic, but set the bio-link to 'pending'. This means that the armor piece can be deconstructed and traded. The armor will still need to be bio-linked in order for the player to equip the armor piece.

Collections

• Players who have already completed the Hidden Dagger collection without getting the badge should now receive the badge retroactively.
• Completing the Dwartii Statue Crafting Quota and the Framed Beetle Specimen Crafting Quota will now grant the associated badges. For players who already completed the collections, the badges will be granted retroactively.

Entertainer

• You can now call droids while performing.

Jedi

• Changed the Jedi Healing ability to use the original sound effect.

Guild

• Added Minimum Lifetime PvP Kills, Minimum Current GCW Rebel Rank, Minimum Current GCW Imperial Rank, Minimum Highest GCW Rebel Rank, and Minimum Highest GCW Imperial Rank to the guild recruiting information, which will also be publicly displayed via the List Of Guilds window.
• Guild Membership Request mail will not be sent if the requester's information would violate any of these guild recruiting information settings.
• The Minimum Current GCW Rebel Rank, Minimum Current GCW Imperial Rank, Minimum Highest GCW Rebel Rank, and Minimum Highest GCW Imperial Rank requirements only apply if the requester belongs to the corresponding faction. For example, a Neutral requester would not need to satisfy any of the Minimum Current GCW Rebel Rank, Minimum Current GCW Imperial Rank, Minimum Highest GCW Rebel Rank, and Minimum Highest GCW Imperial Rank requirements in order to send the Guild Membership Request mail. A Rebel requester would only need to satisfy the Minimum Current GCW Rebel Rank and Minimum Highest GCW Rebel Rank requirements. An Imperial requester would only need to satisfy the Minimum Current GCW Imperial Rank and Minimum Highest GCW Imperial Rank requirements.
• The requester's lifetime PvP kills, current GCW rank, and highest GCW rank is now included in the Guild Membership Request mail.
• Multiple guild recruiting information windows can now be displayed simultaneously, to allow easier side-by-side comparison of multiple prospective guilds. HINT: Because the List Of Guilds window can take a few seconds to display, especially if there are a lot of guilds in the list, display the List Of Guilds window once for browsing, and then use the /guildRecruitingInfo slash command to display the guild recruiting information windows for the guilds that you are interested in.

Highlights 

• The Entertainer Profession has received an major update. The changes include a revamp of the expertise trees, new combat buffs, new hairstyles for their image design abilities, new breakdance moves, a new flourish, improvements to grouping, and a several new commands.

Entertainer 

• General:
• All Entertainers have received a free expertise reset.
• The 'spam troopers' should now appear a lot less frequently.
• You can now use the /gcwscore and /gcwSkirmishCityHelp command while dancing/singing.
• Entertainer Terrain Negotiation is now maxed out at 50.
• You can now start dancing and start playing music while running. The character will stop moving when the startDance or startMusic skill is activated.
• You can now call and store pets while dancing or playing.
• Added new animations to Entertainer expertise attacks.
• The entertainer's system message will now show the name of the player watching.
• Attempting to inspire someone who's out of range will no longer get that player stuck in an invalid state.
• The Inspiration 'tick' will now be increased by one minute for each group member who's A) A player B) Actively playing music or dancing.
• You must now be level 46 to learn the Calypso song.
• Entertainer Terminal Mission rewards will now scale with the entertainers level.
• Calling flourish 9 while dancing will now trigger the old 'fall' animation.
• Entertainer-Holographic Image is now granted at level 26 on the profession wheel.
• The /flourish 9 command will now work if you have a weapon equipped.
• New variants of Breakdance have been added - 3,4,5 and 6.
• Added a new tab to the command browser called "perform". This tab will have all performance commands that the player has acquired.
• Moved Featured Solo, Dazzle and Cover Charge to the Perform tab in the command browser.
• You can now target other objects while playing floor based instruments.
• Clicking on a floor based instrument while performing (dance or music), will no longer stop the performance. Instead a separate 'Stop Music' option has been added to the radial menu. 
   
• Buff Builder:
• Added critical hit defense and elemental protection.
• All crafting related build-a-buff options have been consolidated into a single buff.
• The Trader buff now also provides a bonus to Lightsaber Crafting Assembly and Cybernetics Assembly.
• Changed the inspiration system messages to display the total time of the buff.
• The entertainer's system message will now show the name of the player watching.
• Attempting to inspire someone who's out of range will no longer get that player stuck in an invalid state.
• You can now train attributes 10 times (change from 5).
• Added a Handsampling buff option to the Harvest Faire expertise box. The buff will grant up to 20% bonus to handsampling.
• Added a Crafting Success buff that increases the chance of a critical success by up to 4%.
• Increased the effect of the Healer buff to 3% per package, for a total maximum of 15%.
• The Crafting Assembly buff now includes Artisan Assembly. 
   
• Image Design:
• You can n:ow use Image Design while dancing or playing.
• The Image Designer now displays the numeric value of the sliders next to the name. For example, "muscle (50)" now displays instead of just "muscle" when the slider is in the middle.
• Entertainers now have access to more hair styles when they Image Design.
• Sullustans now can be Image Designed to have hair.
• Humans now have a Hair Trim option to change the colors on those hairstyles that have accessories. 
   
• Artiste Expertise:
• Moved Improv to tier 2.
• Moved Affability to tier 4.
• Removed the Stylist expertise. New hair styles will be granted at level 90.
• Holographic Mastery is now at tier 4.
• Last Dance Expertise which increases the duration of holographic images by 1 hour. 
   
• Drama Expertise:
• Unlinked Sweeping Pirouette from Project Will.
• Unlinked Rising Spirit from Conditioned Vessel.
• Added Focused Control at Tier 3 which give 3/6/9/12 % melee action cost reduction.
• Added Improvised Footwork- speed boost/snare immunity at tier 5 for 1 point.
• Added The Show Must Go on - self heal ability at tier 2 for 1 point.
• Added Encore- increases the healing potency of The Show Must Go On by 15 % per point spent.
• Added Show Stopper- grants 2 % critical hit defense per point spent at tier 4.
• Added Stage Presence- grants 2 % dodge per point spent at tier 5.
• Thrill is now a critical hit vulnerability debuff.
• To the Hilt will now increase the Thrill critical hit vulnerability by 2% per point spent and the duration by 2 seconds per point spent.
• Emotional Prescience now gives 4/8/12/16 % Glancing Blow chance.
• Unhealthy Fixation expertise is now a stun.
• Allure will now increase the duration of Unhealthy Fixation by 1 sec per point spent.
• Unhealthy Fixation is now limited to melee weapon range.
• Conditioned Vessel and Rising Spirit now work with all melee weapons.
• Thought as Action grants 250/500/750/1000 innate armor at tier 3
• Folded Inward grants 250/500/750/1000 innate armor at tier 2
• Folded Inward and Thought as Action are now linked.
• The action costs of Strike, Project Will, Sweeping Pirouette and Spiral Kick have all been reduced.
• Strike, Project Will, Sweeping Pirouette and Spiral Kick now work with all melee weapons.
• Sweeping Pirouette should now see the damage increase from Conditioned Vessel (or other melee damage mods). 
   
• Changed the group dance system:
• startDance, changeDance and stopDance will no longer affect group members.
• Added the commands: /startGroupDance /changeGroupDance and /stopGroupDance.
• /groupdance will still function as a toggle that allows the player to ignore any group dance commands.
• The /groupdance command can now be used while performing.
• You can now add the name of a specific dance to a /bandFlourish command. This will restrict the bandflourish to the entertainers performing that dance. For example: /bandflourish 4 tumble2.
• Added icons for bandflourish 1-9 as well as Start and stop icons for both group dance and band music.
• Flourish 9 will now work correctly when using /bandflourish while group dancing. 
   
• Heroic Jewelry:
• Added the Tragedy heroic jewelry set.
• Each piece will grant +30 str/agi
• 3 piece bonus grants +30 str/agi
• 4 piece bonus grants +60 str/agi 5% melee action cost reduction.
• 5 piece bonus grants +90 str/agi 10% melee action cost reduction and 5% melee critical chance increase.
• The 5 piece set grants the Call Back ability, which decreases melee action costs by 60% for 10 seconds.

Guild

• New guild members will now have the ground and space guild war Exemption permissions set by default.
• The guild leader can now set a guild message that will be displayed to all guild members when they log in.
• The guild leader can now set the guild recruiting information/requirement. This information, along with other guild data (name, abbreviation, faction, members count, % regular - 30 days login, % active - 90 days login, guilds currently at war with), will be publicly available for everyone to see via the List Of Guilds window. The % regular and % active values are only updated at galaxy startup.
• If the guild is flagged as recruiting, a Request Membership button will be available via the List Of Guilds window to send mail to request guild membership. The Guild Membership Request mail will be sent to the guild leader and all guild members with the sponsor permission. It will contain various information about the requester. You will know that the Guild Membership Request mail is authentic because the sender is system. Do not trust any similar looking Guild Membership Request mail unless the sender is system. There is a 15 minutes wait before the requester can send another Guild Membership Request mail.
• Guild Membership Request mail will not be sent if the requester's information would violate any of the guild recruiting requirements.
• Use the /guildRecruitingInfo slash command as an alternate way to display a guild's recruiting information window, instead of launching it from the List Of Guilds window. It is also the only way to view the recruiting information window for guilds with fewer than 5 members, which are not displayed on the List Of Guilds window.

Factional Armor

• Factional armor no longer automatically bio-links when purchased from a token vendor NPC.
• Crafted Shock Trooper Armor requires you to biolink the armor in order to equip it.

Ewok Festival of Love

• All player stuctures should now display the Ewok Festival of Love 2011 standing and hanging signs correctly.

Fishing

• If your effort results in a catch, you now have 2 minutes to radial the bobber to retrieve the catch. You cannot use the /target slash command to target the bobber.

Witches of Dathomir

• Rubina will now correctly give a badge for having the trust of either the Singing Mountain Clan or the Nightsisters.
• The badge will be granted the first time you talk to Rubina with a faction high enough to gain access to the witch clan.

GCW

• Added buffs for Entertainers and Traders with the Rallying Banner.

Ewok Festival of Love Paintings Challenge

• The paintings from the Ewok Festival of Love Captivating Caption Challenge are now in-game!
• Opening the Challenge Painting Container will let you select one of the five paintings from the Ewok Festival of Love Paintings Challenge.

Guild

• A GuildWar channel has been added to receive guild war kill notification for guild wars your guild is currently involved in.
• In addition to the existing /guildnotify slash command, you can now also toggle your guild login status notification by selecting yourself from the guild Permission List window.
• The guild war Exemption/Exclusive permissions have been split into separate ground and space guild war Exemption/Exclusive permissions.
• HINT/REMINDER: Use the Exclusive permission if there are only a few guild members you want to participate in guild wars. Just flag those guild members with the Exclusive permission. If any guild member is flagged with the Exclusive permission, all other guild members will be automatically exempt from guild wars (regardless of their Exemption permission status), unless they are also flagged with the Exclusive permission. This is more efficient than having to flag everyone with the Exemption permission. Conversely, if you want most of the guild members to participate in guild wars, with the exception of a few, then use the Exemption permission. Flag those few members with the Exemption permission and everyone will be included in guild wars except for those flagged with the Exemption permission. This is more efficient than having to flag everyone with the Exclusive permission. Remember, Exclusive supersedes Exemption, so a guild member with both the Exclusive and Exemption permissions will always be included in guild wars. If someone in the guild with Set Permissions permission is making you Exclusive (or removing your Exemption status) against your wishes, because you have unilaterally given yourself the Exemption permission, perhaps it's time to consider a new guild, or a new guild leader.
• The mechanism for ending a guild war has been changed. The following are the new methods that guild X can use to end a guild war with guild Y.
• Guild X disbands. The guild war will be immediately terminated, and the newly added Status column in the Ended Guild Wars window will display "X disbanded".
• Guild X surrenders, by selecting the guild war from the Guild Enemies window, and then selecting Surrender. The guild war will be immediately terminated, and the newly added Status column in the Ended Guild Wars window will display "X surrendered".
• Guild X offers truce, by selecting the guild war from the Guild Enemies window, and then selecting Truce. The Guild Enemies window will display that X has offered truce, and the newly added Status column in the Active Guild Wars window will display "X offered truce". Once a truce has been offered, it cannot be withdrawn.
• If guild Y accepts the offered truce, by selecting the guild war from the Guild Enemies window, and then selecting Yes to confirm acceptance of the offered truce, the guild war will be immediately terminated, and the newly added Status column in the Ended Guild Wars window will display "X offered truce - accepted".
• If guild Y doesn't accept the offered truce, after 7 days have elapsed (during which time, the guild war will still be on), on the next galaxy restart, the guild war will be terminated, and the newly added Status column in the Ended Guild Wars window will display "X offered truce - expired".
• Notifications of guild disband, surrender, truce offer, and truce acceptance will be sent to the GuildWar channel of members of the 2 guilds involved.

On Thursday, March 10, 2011, at 4:00 AM PST all U.S. and European galaxies will be brought down for server maintenance and a Hotfix. The servers are estimated to be down for 4 hours. If this timeframe changes, we'll post an update on the official forums.

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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Highlights 

• We've added additional ways for guilds to PvP (both inter-guild and intra-guild).

Ewok Festival of Love

• The Ewok Festival of Love has come to an end.
• The Storyteller Vendor has returned to its human appearance.

Guild

• Any guild member can now remove herself from any rank she is currently in by selecting herself from the Rank List window.
• A 'Add/Remove Members' button has been added to the Rank Summary window for guild members with the Set Rank guild permission. This provides a possibly quicker and more efficient alternative to adding/removing guild members to/from a guild rank.

Guild: Intra-Guild Squad PvP

• Guild members belonging to any of the 4 squad guild ranks (Guild Squad A, Guild Squad B, Guild Squad C, and Guild Squad D) can now PvP other guild members belonging to another squad. This can be useful for practicing group PvP tactics, settling/creating intra-guild drama/disputes, guild RP/events/tournaments, etc.
• Access the Intra-Guild Squad PvP UI from the Remote Player Association Access Device in the Datapad, or by /guildSquadPvp.
• From the Intra-Guild Squad PvP UI, guild members with the Set Rank guild permission can toggle the PvP status of the 6 possible guild squad PvP types (A vs B, A vs C, A vs D, B vs C, B vs D, and C vs D), specify whether to track score/kill counts for each squad PvP type, and reset the score/kill counts for each squad PvP type.
• A guild member can be in multiple squads, and multiple guild squad PvP types can be enabled simultaneously, creating "interesting" alliances/scenarios.
• If you are on a squad that is part of an enabled squad PvP type, after you clone, you will incur a 1 minute guild squad PvP "cool down" period during which you cannot engage in guild squad PvP combat (attack or be attacked). This rule affects guild squad PvP only. All other PvP rules are still in effect.

Guild / Pilots

• Guild war PvP between ships has been added, including the guild war excluded and guild war exclusive rules, the 1 minute guild war cooldown after cloning or ejecting, and the guild war kill count tracking.
• Intra-guild squad PvP between ships has been added, including the 1 minute guild squad PvP cooldown after cloning or ejecting, and the guild squad PvP kill count tracking.
• For POB ships, the guild war and guild squad PvP rules will apply regardless of who is actually in the pilot chair, even if the pilot chair is empty or someone else (besides the guild war/guild squad PvP guild member who owns the ship) is in the pilot chair. It is the ship's owner, and ONLY the ship's owner, regardless of where on the ship the ship's owner happens to be, that will affect how the ship will be involved under the guild war and guild squad PvP rules.

GCW

• 1 travel point will be given to the 6th - 10th place GCW leaderboard guilds and cities if that faction is winning the galaxy (galaxy GCW score for that faction is >= 51%).
• 1 additional travel point will given to the 1st - 5th place GCW leaderboard guilds and cities if that faction is winning the galaxy by at least 70% (galaxy GCW score for that faction is >= 70%). So 3 total for 1st and 2nd, and 2 total for 3rd - 5th if that faction is winning the galaxy by at least 70%.
• The GCW leaderboard windows for Previous Week and 2 Weeks Ago will now display the 6th - 10th place guilds and cities.
• The 6th - 10th place perk and display is not retroactive. It will first start occurring at the first end of the leaderboard period (the first Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 11:00:00 PST / 12:00:00 PDT) after the update.
• Remember, guild/city travel point update occurs at galaxy restart and at the end of the leaderboard period every Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 11:00:00 PST / 12:00:00 PDT, so when the galaxy GCW score reaches (or falls below) the threshold for the perk, the perk will get applied (or removed) at the next guild/city travel point update.

Beast Master

• Circus Horrificus Auto Beast Feeder returned to working condition.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed a few code strings on the bazaar.

Beast Master

• Increased Resource Scavenger to 60% max.
• Kick stun effect duration increased to 2 seconds (all ranks).
• Enfeeble has 12 sec. cooldown and does percentage reduction to damage dealt at a progression of 4,8,12,16, & 20.
• Defensive (all ranks) has a 20 sec. duration and 45 sec. cooldown.
• The Rat family may learn all ranks of the Disease special.
• The Insect family may learn all ranks of the Poison special.
• The Caprine family may learn all ranks of the Puncture special.
• The Flying Insect family may learn all ranks of the Health Leech special.
• The Amphavian family may learn all ranks of the Defensive special.
• The Monkey family may learn all ranks of the Claw special.
• Damage output for the Charge/Trample line has been increased.
• Damage output/Health gained by the Health Leech line has been increased.
• The cone effect of the Wind Buffet line now starts smaller but increases as rank increases to a larger max.
• The vendor/bazaar now has a "Beast Master" category. It contains "Beast Master Pet" for holo/stuffed pets and eggs and "Beast Master Miscellaneous" for other Beast Master related items.
• Added new search attributes to the vendor/bazaar for the Beast Master items.
• Kowakian Monkey-lizard has animation for tricks and sound/animation for vocalize.

Fishing

• The fishing bobber now contains the angler's name, so now there should be no excuse for losing your catch because you ran and stood over another angler's bobber.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed more code strings on the bazaar.
• Fixed typo in Engineering Trader expertise window.

BBP CUSTOMER NOTICE: Genetic upheaval continues to spread throughout the known galaxy. Many laboratory-grown creatures are now capable of learning previously alien abilities. Additionally, the Snorbal has grown more docile and is now able to be trained as a mount. :END NOTICE

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, during the regularly schedule restarts all U.S. and European galaxies will be brought down for server maintenance and a Hotfix to turn off the Bonus Event. 

• US Servers - Tuesday, February 22, 2011 around 4:00 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time (California San Diego)
• EU Servers - Tuesday, February 22, 2011 around 8:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time (California San Diego)

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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 Bonus Everything Weekend

• Bonus Everything Weekend has come to an end. If you have feedback about other systems that you would like to see added for future bonus events, please join the official Bonus Event Feedback thread over on the Development Discussion section of the official SWG forums!

Bonus Everything Weekend

• During the Bonus Everything Event, everyone logged in will earn Double XP, Double GCW Points, Double Heroic Tokens, Double GCW Tokens from Battlefields and City Invasions, Double Pet XP and Loyalty, Double Duty Mission Tokens, Double Chronicles XP, Double Chronicles Silver Tokens, increased chance to earn Gold Chronicles Tokens, increased RLS chance, increased chance to catch real fish (instead of junk loot and collection fish) and bonus Restuss Commendations!

Ewok Festival of Love

• Removed the timer and no-trade flag from the Holiday Holoshroud.
• Players should no longer be gated at the Mr. Hate portion of the Disillusioned quest line.
• The Love-Struck Young Man and The Pet Lover no longer force you to choose the only reward option.
• Increased the texture resolution for the new EFoL painting.
• The hanging sign will now appear correctly on the Mustafar Bunker.

Officer

• Fixed the Dead-Eye set description.
• The Charge! expertise box will now grant the Squad Leader title.
• Storing and recalling a Reinforcement Trooper will now revive the trooper.

Fishing

• For the angler on the current fishing record list who has the largest current record fish for each of the 7 fish types (blackfish, blowfish, bluefish, faa, laa, ray, striped), as long as the angler has logged in within the past 90 days, 1 travel point will be granted to the angler's current guild and city. If multiple record fish have the same length, the most recently caught one will win. 7 travel point perks are available, 1 for each fish type. This perk will be removed when the angler no longer holds the largest current record fish for the particular fish type. Guild/City travel point update occurs at galaxy restart and at the end of the leaderboard period every Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 11:00:00 PST / 12:00:00 PDT, so the perk will not be applied immediately when the angler catches the largest record fish for the particular fish type, but will be applied at the next guild/city travel point update, if the angler still holds the largest current record fish for the particular fish type at that time. If the angler leaves/joins a guild/city, the perk will be removed/applied at the next guild/city travel point update. The perk will not transfer with the angler with CTS. The angler must hold the largest current record fish for the particular fish type on the destination galaxy in order to receive the perk.

Miscellaneous

• Kirby and his pirate "friends" have returned to Dathomir.
• Removed the No Trade restriction from the following items:
• Hologram of Jedi Knight Skywalker's Cybernetic Arm
• Data Disk Hologram
• Figrin Dan jacket pallet fix and clipping fix.
• The Hologram of Jedi Knight Skywalkers Cybernetic Arm, Data Disk Hologram and A Large Aurilian Crystal will no longer appear in rare loot chests.

Greetings, 

The issue causing the Armoire and Pillow to disappear after placement will be resolved with regularly scheduled server restarts. 

US Servers - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 around 4:00 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time (California San Diego)
EU Servers - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 around 8:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time (California San Diego)

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Highlights 

• Ewok Festival of Love - The Ewok Festival of Love returns to Star Wars Galaxies February 10th to March 10th. 
   
• Known for their ritualistic behavior, Ewoks celebrate their beliefs and practices through several festivals throughout the year. The Festival of Love is an event celebrated once a year to honor the kinship and love between tribe members. During the festival, tribe members prepare meals, dance, and sing traditional songs, such as this ancestral chant often heard drifting through the treetops of the forest moon.
   
• To participate in the festival, be sure to visit the host cities: Tyrena on Corellia, Kaadara on Naboo, and the Southern Ewok Lake Village on Endor, before March 10, 2011. You can also find Chief Chirpa and the tribe celebrating in Theed on Naboo, near the cantina, and at the Research Outpost on Endor.
   
• For more details, visit the Star Wars Galaxies website.
   
• Veteran Rewards - You can now claim the 87 and 90 month veteran rewards.
   
• Chronicle Master Title - Chronicle Masters will now achieve a new title when they get their profession badge. 

Ewok Festival of Love

• The Ewok Festival of Love returns to the galaxy! Be sure to visit host cities Tyrena of Corellia, Kaadara of Naboo, and the Southern Ewok Lake Village on Endor in order to take part in this year's Festival of Love.
• Reduced Chak Heart prices on rewards vendor.
• Increased Chak Heart payout from quests.

Officer

• Lower levels of the Advanced Target Identification and Advanced Target Tracking debuffs will no longer overwrite higher level versions.
• Added appearances for neutral Officer Reinforcement Troopers.

Veteran Rewards

• You can now claim the 87 and 90 month veteran rewards.

Miscellaneous

• Chronicle Masters will now achieve a new title (part of the profession badge released in a previous update).
• You should now receive a badge when all Hidden Daggers space collections are complete.
• "Poisionspike" can again be successfully collected.

Reminder! Nominations for The Galactic Senate will close on February 11, 2011. If you plan to get your name into the mix, do so before then.

 THE GALACTIC SENATE

We are now accepting nominations for all positions within The Galactic Senate. 

• Accepting Nominations for the Game Play Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the New and Returning Player Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Events Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Player Associations Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Politician Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Role Playing Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Test Center Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Rebel Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Imperial Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Neutral Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Beast Master Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Bounty Hunter Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Chronicle Master Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Commando Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Entertainer Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Jedi Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Medic Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Officer Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Pilot Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Smuggler Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Spy Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Domestic Goods Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Munitions Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Structures Senator
• Accepting Nominations for the Engineering Senator

Visit the related threads to nominate your favorite candidates including yourself!

SUBMITTING YOUR NOMINATIONS 

Nominations should be submitted in the appropriate threads or in private to the swgsenate@soe.sony.com e-mail address.  In your email, be sure to include:  

• Position Nominated For:
• Character Name of Nominee:
• Forum Name of Nominee:
• Server of Nominee:
• Player Association of Nominee:
• Reason for Nomination:

If you have concern about a known candidate, please avoid posting it on the forums. You may send your concern in private via the email address.  Also, please do not send Private Messages to the members of the Community Team and Development Team about it.  Thanks! 

Don't be discouraged if you see a ton of nominations for one person because we've also received several nominations via email as well!

Remember, players are not chosen based on the amount of nominations! You are not voting for a Senator, but instead telling the team why that person should be chosen. SOE reserves the right to select the candidate that they feel will fit best in the role while conforming to the community standards. 

Highlights

Officer's Update - Enhancements have been made to the Officer profession.

Officer

• All officers have received a free expertise reset.
• Rally Point:
• The Minimum Range on the Rally Point abilities has been removed.
• Group Buff Duration (from the expertise) now affects Rally Point Duration. In addition the Rally Point Duration bonuses from the generals set now increase the total duration by 10% per piece of jewelry (instead of the previous 1 second per piece of jewelry).
• Removed the "Innate Armor" modifier from the defensive rally point and replaced it with a 5% damage reduction.
• The duration for rally point is now:
• Base duration: 20 seconds
• Duration with Leadership 1 and 2: 50 seconds
• Duration with Leadership 1 and 2 plus the full general set: 75 seconds
• Supply Drop abilities:
• Supply drop can now be used while in cities.
• Tac Stims and healing stims will now show time remaining.
• Tac Stims and healing stims can now be stacked and split. The time remaining have to be the same on both stacks for them to stack.
• Expertise:
• Sturdiness, Marksmanship, Toughness and Endurance have been increased to 25 pr. point.
• Side arm accuracy now increase carbine damage by 2/4/6/8% Carbine damage. The Pistol damage increase is still 3/6/9/12%
• Dire strikes now also increase carbine critical chance by 5/10%
• Pistol Overcharge is now called Overcharge and works with both Pistols and Carbines.
• Pistol Burn is now called Called Shot and works with both Pistols and Carbines.
• A new expertise box will now grant the Leg Strike melee ability. This is a 15m snare attack with a low damage and low cooldown.
• A new box Advanced Target Tracking will now add an additional debuff to the paint target ability. The debuff will increase the critical damage of the target by 10%
• A new box Advanced Target Identification will now add an additional debuff to the paint target ability. The debuff will reduce the effectiveness of camouflage and increase Paint Target and Sure Shot damage.
• Lethal Aim is now a three point box that offers 5/10/15% Sure Shot Damage (instead of the previous 2/4/7/10%).
• Misdirect Anger now transfer 50% of the generated hate (instead of the previous 10%)
• The Anger Management boxes have been removed.
• Added a box for Emergency Shield on the Officer Specialization page. It's a one point tier 5 box that grants the emergency Shield ability.
• The Emergency Shield ability will reduce all incoming and outgoing damage by 75% for 10 seconds. The ability has a 5 min cooldown.
• Reinforcement:
• The Reinforcement NPC's appearance will now be based on your faction.
• If you have an officer pet in your datapad, of the opposing faction you will not be able to summon it.
• All troopers have had their level increased by a small amount. The tier 5 trooper is now level 90.
• All troopers have had their armor and stats increased.
• The Rebel Trooper will now use an A280 and the Storm Trooper will now use an E11.
• The Troopers should now stick to using ranged weapons and specials.
• Dead Eye Set:
• The 3/4/5 piece bonus from the Dead Eye set has been changed to grant the following bonuses:
• 5/10/15% Action cost reduction.
• 250/750/1500 Action Damage added to the Sure Shot line.
• 0/10/20 Paint Target cooldown reduction.
• The 5 piece now grants the 'Tactical Advantage' ability.
• The Tactical Advantage ability will cause a single target to be debuffed with a 50% action burn and 30% glancing blow vulnerability. The ability has a 15 second duration and a 60 second cooldown.
• Supply Drop:
• Medical and tactical supply drops have been folded into a single ability. If the officer have both medical and tactical supply drop, the box will now contain 8 of each stim. If the player only have medical drop, the box will just contain the medical stims.
• The profession wheel supply drop ability has been renamed to Field Supplies. The grenades and food items have been re-added to the box.
• The level requirement for Field Stimpack C and D has been lowered to 44 and 58 (from 48 and 62).
• The basic supply drop will now give one tactical stim and one healing stim of an appropriate level.
• Paint Target (Mark 3) can now trigger inspired action.
• Artillery Strike 1-3 can now be used inside. When fired inside they will use a different particle effect but use the same damage, range and effect.
• Artillery Strike 1-3: The comm. window has been removed from these abilities.
• The particle effects for Artillery Strike 2 and 3 and been switched around.
• Dioxis Grenade can now proc inspired action.
• Reduced the Last Word recourse effect to 60 seconds.
• General's Set: Soothing Comfort, Heal Beast 3 and Revive Beast can now proc Inspired Action when wearing the general's set.
• Master Officers can now wear Mandalorian Armor.
• Pistol Drillmaster can now be activated regardless of the weapon you are holding. The bonuses are still 5% pistol damage, 5% general damage and 10%.

Vendor/Bazaar

• Fixed an issue that prevented buying and bidding on items located on a different bazaar than the bazaar accessed.
• Fixed an issue that prevented accepting items offered on a differen vendor than the vendor accessed.

Combat

• Damage reduction effects should now consistently be calculated after damage increase effects.

Witches of Dathomir

• Due to the innovative influence of Outworlders, the Witches' War Fan can be reconstructed with a Vibro Blade Unit and is no longer limited to only Acid elemental damage.
• The Witches of Dathomir have made more items available for their vendors to trade with Outworlders.

Beast Master

• Updated formulation lists for Beast Dietary Supplements G, H, L and M.

Chronicles

• New Chronicle Comm relics are now available!
• Added "chronicles" as a vendor category.
• Added a profession badge for Chronicle Masters. All existing Chronicle Masters will receive this badge on login.
• Treasure Map Dark Jedi should now count towards kill and kill/loot Dark Jedi Chronicle relics.

Munitions Trader

• All newly crafted melee weapons will have a range of 0-5.

Restuss

• The troop dropships in Restuss have been disabled.

Miscellaneous

• More bazaar string fixes.
• Fixed clipping issues with female version of Figrin D'an Holiday Jacket.
• Fixed issue with some TCG backpacks not working correctly with the show/hide backpack option.
• Droid command icons should not appear in the toolbar when you reach level 10.
• Added a new tab to the command browser called "pet."
• All Droid and Beast commands will display under the new "pet" tab in the command browser.

Witches of Dathomir

• Fixed locations of the Witches of Dathomir house signs on several player structures.
• Players who change clan faction after The Last Recruit will be able to do The Package for their new clan affiliation.

Vendor/Bazaar

• Vendor/Bazaar purchases/bids are now verified before credits are removed.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed issue with not sitting correctly in a chair.

Witches of Dathomir

• Fixed an issue that caused the boss quests to not update correctly.

Wookiee Life Day

• The event has come to an end. We hope you enjoyed the celebration and had fun with the decorations!

GCW

• Both Rebel and Imperial troops have resumed the conflict in Dearic, Talus.

Witches of Dathomir

• New surprises added to the Witches of Dathomir!
• Fixes to ensure that the Mutant Rancor Boss will now correctly drop loot when killed.
• Fixed a number of situations where players could be prevented from retaking a quest if the quest were deleted from their quest journal.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent some players from retaking the boss quests.
• All group members should now get correct quest updates when starting boss fights.
• Items may be moved up in both of the Witches of Dathomir Huts.
• Some Witch special abilities have been tweaked.
• Singing Mountain Clan headgear is now wearable by both genders and all races except for Wookiees and Ithorians.
• Witches of Dathomir Huts are no longer restricted as merchant tents.
• The quest for the Voidsister Huntress now has correct waypoints.
• Nightsisters' Toil and Trouble now appears in the correct section of the Quest Journal.
• ...And Found now has a waypoint back to the cave entrance during the Cause a Distraction task.
• The Trader and Entertainer quests no longer give out Combat XP.
• Added waypoints for Everybody Hates the Spiderclan so that players can always find their way back to the cave.

Structure Trader

• The resource contribution for the Incubator has been fixed to correctly use 50% Toughness and 50% Overall quality.

Miscellaneous

• Decorative Fedora Hat and Decorative Whip Belt are now No Trade Removable.
• Fixed multiple hanging signs on the Chronicle tent.
• Fixed tooltip typo for Mouse Pointer Mode Default in the options menu.
• Fixed codestring tooltip for Enable Character LOD Manager.
• Fix for some codestrings showing up on the bazaar.

Beast Mastery

• You can no longer extract DNA from invulnerable creatures.

BBP ALERT: Unstable DNA variations continue to spread throughout the known galaxy. These have now completely usurped (and have thus become) the native forms of the Dathomiri Bane Back Spider, and the Kashyyykian Urnsor'is and Uwari Beetle. As with previously discovered unstable variations, these creatures are no longer resistant to efforts to obtain viable DNA samples. :END ALERT

The Witches of Dathomir

• Malkloc Plainswalkers will now properly count when hunting offerings for the Voidsister Huntress.
• Fixed several typos in the conversations and quest journal entries.

Life Day

• Disabled the GCW invasion in Dearic while Life Day is active.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed code string in structure management terminal for the Chronicles Hanging sign.
• Fixed alignment of Chronicles sign on the Chronicles merchant tent and the Mustafar bunker.
• Fixed tooltip typo for Mouse Pointer Mode Default in the options menu.

Highights 

• Star Wars Galaxies^TM - The Witches of Dathomir: On the far edge of the galaxy lies the hostile planet known as Dathomir. It is inhabited by many aggressive beings, including the Witches of Dathomir, a group of Force-sensitive women. There are two key opposing clans of the witches - The Nightsisters and the Singing Mountain Clan. Which side will receive your loyalty?
• Wookiee Life Day: The celebration of Wookiee Life Day has begun. Traditionally celebrated on the Wookiee home world Kashyyyk, Wookiee Life Day is a time to reflect on the renewal of life and to remember those who have passed on. Wookiees greatly value morality, courage, compassion and loyalty. As part of this sacred and ancient Wookiee tradition is that of the honor family. An honor family comprises a Wookiee's closest friends and companions. These family members pledge a commitment to lay down their lives for one another as well as members of any honor families these individuals may have. 
   
• Star Wars Galaxies^TM Trading Card Game - The Price of Victory is now available. Celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back with an all-new trading card game expansion!

Star Wars Galaxies^TM - The Witches of Dathomir

A representative of the Warlord Omogg can be found in the Trade Outpost of Dathomir looking to hire a few brave souls for adventure in this planet's dangerous wilds. What new plans does the mysterious Rubina have for those who have worked for her before? What is the secret of the mutated rancors? Who are the Spiderclan? How do you charm a rancor? Earn the trust of the Singing Mountain Clan or the respect of the Nightsisters and find the answers to these questions and more! 

• New storyline quests and tasks have been added for each of the witch clans.
• Nightsisters and Singing Mountain Clan vendors offer a few new speciality items including new tapestry and house signs.
• New collections have been added.
• New crafting quests have been added.
• New badges have been added.
• Several new schematics for clothing and weapons have been added.

Wookiee Life Day

Life Day is back with new rewards and a new badge! The towns of Dearic, Wayfar, and Doaba Guerfel have been decorated for the celebration of Wookiee Life Day. Visit the Life Day NPCs to sign up for the festivities! Imperial organizers, called Trandoshan Traders, can be found near the shuttleports; Rebel organizers, Wookiee Freedom Fighters, are near cantinas. Stop by the Life Day tree for gifts, music, and a special quest from Saun Dann! 

• A character must be at least 10 days old and not on a trial account to claim the Life Day gifts or to use the decoration device.

Star Wars Galaxies^TM Trading Card Game - The Price of Victory

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back with an all-new trading card game expansion! LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) proudly present The Price of Victory, the latest expansion in the successful Star Wars Galaxies^TM Trading Card Game. Experience a never-before-told story that takes place in parallel with pivotal moments of the Galactic Civil War as seen in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. This set adds more that 175 new playable cards that feature unique keyword abilities like "Versatile" and "Entanglement."

In addition, this expansion introduces new playable Avatars, new Light and Dark Side campaigns, new Expertise Units, and new The Empire Strikes Back themed Loot Cards like Yoda's Dagobah Hut and the Cloud City House.

The Witches of Dathomir Prologue

• Singing Mountain Medium Potted Tree Style I no longer uses a default appearance.

Quests

• Quest acceptance and completion windows now show the reward loot item count values.

Jedi

• Increased the damage bonus of Bondara's Folly to 6%.
• Jedi Crystals have been tweaked to provide a wider range of options. The named Saber crystals will now have the following damage modifiers:
• Bondara's Folly - 5%
• Bane's Heart - 5%
• Lava Crystal - 5%
• Perma Frost Crystal - 5%
• Black Crystal - 5%
• Windu's Guile - 6%
• Sunrider's Destiny - 6%
• Allya's Exile - 6%
• Allya's Redemption 6%
• Kenobi's Legacy - 6%
• B'nar's Sacrifice - 6%
• Cunning of Tyranus - 6%
• For existing crystals you will have to take them out of your saber and put them back in the hilt again to see any damage increase.

Character Transfer Service

• Fix issue where some no trade removable items become no trade after transfer. The fix is retroactive. Existing bugged items will correctly become no trade removable with the fix.

Miscellaneous

• The wearable Whip Belt is no longer called a hat in its description.

Thanks for coming back!

• Now that you are back, the new rewards you received during the free week - the decorative Fedora and Whip - will have an option that will allow you to convert them to clothing that you can wear.
• This option is only available to paying accounts that log into the game after November 30th. Also, once the items are converted to clothing, they will become tradable and you will get an option to recolor them up to two times.
• The option to convert the items will no longer be available after December 31st, 2010.
• All options are accessed using the radial menu on the items.

Guild

• Fix issue where sometimes %TU appears in the Guild Sponsorship mail.

Welcome Back!

• Those of you back for free for the long holiday weekend, welcome! We hope you're having fun reconnecting with old friends and checking out all of the great new content including the Witches of Dathomir Prologue, Galactic Civil War Leaderboards, Fishing Leaderboards, the new rare loot system and much more. If you've been gone a while be sure and check out the Galactic Civil War invasions and scoring system, and the new loot for the Heroics. Also, browse the commodities market to purchase some cool loot and collections given out during The Empire Strikes Back 30th Anniversary and the Star Wars Galaxies 7th Anniversary celebrations!
• Be sure and use the new rewards - the decorative Fedora and Whip - to decorate your in-game house. If you convert your account to paying and join us after November 30th you'll be able to WEAR these mysterious archaeological items.
• Enjoy your time adventuring in the galaxy! We're glad to see you back.

Player City

• The "Inactive Citizen - 60 Days Offline" notification mail should now only be sent for inactive citizens. Previously, it was also sent for inactive non-citizens, causing %TT to appear on those mail.
• The City Maintenance Paid mail now contains the updated treasury balance.

Fishing

• The rule for achieving the record fishing collections/badges has been changed. You only need to catch a Gigantic (or better) Length Genetics fish to get the record fishing collections/badges. The fish Examine window displays the fish's Length Genetics.
• The names of the fishing collections/badges have been changed to more accurately reflect the new rule of Gigantic fish rather than Record fish.
• While record fish accomplishment is no longer reflected in the fishing collections/badges, all other aspects of the record fish system remain unchanged - no record reset (at least for the foreseeable future), record fish tracking, record fish listing, record fish renaming, Examine window record fish information, current record holder title, comm. message from NPC when catching a record fish, etc.
• The ELUSIVE fish system remains unchanged, including the 70 ELUSIVE fish badges and the permanent guild/city travel point perk.

Bazaar Terminal

• The STAP-1 speeder deed no longer appear as a code string on the bazaar.

The Galactic Senate: Master Issue List
These improvements are based on feedback collected by The Galactic Senate on the Star Wars Galaxies official forums.

• Roleplay: OOC Title
• "You are now OOC." and "You are no longer OOC." system messages have been added.
• Politician: Mayor emails not received
• Mayor mail for citizen moving out of the city or structure has been removed is now correctly sent regardless of the mayor's online/offline status.
• Neutral: Factional Helper Status Isn't Displayed in the GCW Tab of the Character Sheet
• The GCW tab of the character sheet now displays the character's factional helper status, if any. This only applies when viewing your own character sheet. Others viewing your character sheet will continue to see Civilian.
• Structure Traders: Access Locks fail to add individuals properly
• Any character can now be added to/removed from the access lock permission list regardless of online/offline/nearby status.
• PA/Grouping: Click-to-DB doesn't work in Guild Wars
• Guild war combatants can now click to death blow incapacitated guild war combatants.

GCW City Invasions

• Fixed an issue that caused the invasions to sometimes not start correctly.
• Slicing a supply terminal to tier 6/8/9/10 will give out 5/10/15/20 points of underworld faction.
• Incorrectly slicing GCW supply terminals will only cause fatigue if you're at tier 3 or higher.

Galactic Moon Festival

• This year's celebration has come to end. We're looking forward to terrifying you more next year.
• All storyteller props that were persisted using the GMF persist wand will expire.
• Unused event specific storyteller tokens will remain but you won't be able to use them until next year's event.

Witches of Dathomir Prologue

• Rubina's answer will now be a lot clearer if you ask about your faction standing after having earned enough recognition to be ready for the WoD Themepark.
• Updated the journal entry for the Kill Mutant Rancor's and Kill Spider Clan Members to make it clear that the waypoint are meant to indicate the general region where the targets can be found rather than indicating a specific spawn location.
• Nightsister Medium Potted Tree Style I has the correct appearance.

Chat

• You can no longer initiate a tell while in the tutorial (Imperial Station, Millennium Falcon, Tansarii Point Station, Station Gamma, and Ord Mantell Space). You can still reply to tell (/reply), retell (/retell /rtell), and targeted tell (/ttell).
• You can no longer send mail while in the tutorial (Imperial Station, Millennium Falcon, Tansarii Point Station, Station Gamma, and Ord Mantell Space).

Star Wars Galaxies: Witches of Dathomir Prologue - Game Update 18.2

Highlights 

• On the far edge of the galaxy lies the hostile planet known as Dathomir. It is inhabited by many aggressive beings, including the Witches of Dathomir, a group of Force-sensitive women who ride fearsome rancors. There are two key clans of the witches - a group of Darksiders calling itself the Nightsisters and the Singing Mountain Clan that follows the lighter side of the Force. 
   
• The Nightsisters and Singing Mountain clans are at constant odds with one another - and with visitors who fail to show the proper respect. Visitors often find themselves siding with either side of the feud - benefiting from trade with these powerful indigenous creatures. Outcast clans continuously try their best to convince the visitors to work against the two main powers.
   
• Dathomir can only be accessed by special charter transports operated by skilled pilots. Its terrain is highly dangerous. In addition to the rancors, the witches are a constant threat on the planet.
   
• Upon their arrival on Dathomir, a representative for Omogg, a Drackmarian Warlord, greets brave explorers to warn them about the mysteries of the planet and the dangerous battle between the witch clans. From that point the visitors can start earning the trust of the Nightsisters or the Singing Mountain Clan.
   
• Which side will receive your loyalty?

Witches of Dathomir Prologue

• A representative of the Warlord Omogg is looking to hire people willing to explore the wilds of Dathomir. He can now be found in the Trade Outpost of Dathomir.
• Visit this dangerous planet in this prologue to the Witches of Dathomir. This update will allow you to explore the first part of the story and start earning the trust of either the Nightsisters or the Singing Mountain Clan.

Beast Master

• Flank 1-3 should no longer block weapon critical effects.

Galactic Moon Festival

• The Galactic Moon Festival jacket should now appear correctly on Ithorians.

Galactic Moon Festival

• Added undead walk and run animations for /mood undead.
• Ponda Baba's arm no longer shares its cooldown with the Biological and Synapse Focus Crystals.
• The cooldown on Ponda Baba's arm is now 11 hours.
• The Galactic Moon Festival Painting has been renamed to 'The Sayormi Witch'.

Weapon Crafting

• Fixed the BWDL19 and the Jinkins J-1 Rifles so they can be correctly deconstructed and recrafted.

Rare Loot System

• A saber with a Cunning of Tyranus crystal will now display its damage and element correctly after adding pearls.

Highlights 

• In an effort to gain more support from the planets Naboo and Tatooine, Jabba the Hutt has decided to throw the annual Galactic Moon Festival once more so everyone can celebrate the horrifyingly awesome haunts of the season. Jabba has grown tired of all the love festivals, celebrations of life, and other saccharine events. Thus, he has taken it upon himself to throw the scariest festival of the year!

Galactic Moon Festival 

• Jabba's festival is back with new spooky rewards and a new badge! Head on over to the Moenia and Mos Eisley starports (waypoints 4790 -4777 and 3523 -4806 respectively) and join in on another season of happy haunts.
• Feeling rotten? Emitting a foul odor? Or just having a repugnant day? We've got the perfect new /mood for you... undead!
• Get your undead on and check out the new /undead_claw and /undead_crouch emotes... GRRRH... BRAINZZZ!
• A mysterious Afflicted Storyteller vendor haunts the festival this year offering familiar and surprising new rewards. We were too scared to get within biting distance to find out exactly what. Do you dare discover his secrets?
• Event specific storyteller tokens are displayed as such in the storyteller vendors menu.
• Event storyteller tokens will only be available for purchase during the event.
• Unused tokens will not be destroyed when the event ends but you wont be able to place them until next year's event.
• There is a surprise waiting for you after you earn the new GMF badge this year. Use it horrifyingly!
• You can now upgrade more than one projector to Tier 3. Even if you already upgraded a projector in the past, talk to Z'ozpheratu and he will offer to upgrade your projector as long as you have a tier 2 projector in your inventory.
• Bat and Spider Pheromone schematics purchased from Z'ozpheratu will craft stacks of 50 to 100.
• No-Trade has been removed from many of the GMF vendor items and the old costumes are no longer flagged as 'no-trade remove'.
• Corrected the name of the Spider Web Decoration Style III (from Spider Web Decoration Style II to Spider Web Decoration Style III).

Rare Loot System

• The Rare Loot Lists have been revamped. There should now be a lot more items that haven't been available to players before, as well as a lot less lifeday and mustafarian items.

Reverse Engineering

• The following changes have been made to the RE system that will make reverse engineering less time and junk loot consuming:
• Using an RE module regardless of quality will guarantee increases of 1 per iteration regardless of your luck or RE score.
• Depending on the quality of the RE module, your RE score and your luck you can get an increase of up to +5 per iteration as opposed to the previous maximum of +1.
• See this forum thread for more details http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/...opic_id=1142535

Miscellaneous

• Added more costume icons.

Highlights 

• Rare Loot System - The Rare Loot System is a new feature in Star Wars Galaxies that gives adventurers a chance to obtain a bonus reward for defeating encounters. These rewards can range from items that are no longer available through normal gameplay to items that might be extremely rare to completely new items. 
   
• Restrictions are in place to prevent adventurers from farming mobs or spam killing trash mobs with area abilities. Adventurers need to fight challenging mobs to earn a chance to find rare loot. 
   
• There are three categories of rare loot: Rare, Exceptional, and Legendary. When an adventurer kills a mob and qualifies for rare loot, the encounter will have a chance to drop a rare loot chest. Adventures will need to loot the chest and open it in their inventory to discover what rare loot they have won. The items acquired from the Rare Loot System will be marked with a Rare Loot tag within the examine window. 
   
• Adventurers can also complete new collections and earn a new badge and the title "Fortune Hunter" through this system. 
   
• Star Wars Galaxies 7th Anniversary - The Year 7 gift and the finale are ready to claimed. For the seventh collection item, the SWG Development team hand-crafted a little surprise using the in-game Chronicles system.

STAR WARS GALAXIES: Hotfix 17.10

Star Wars Galaxies 7th Anniversary

• Year 7 gift and the finale are ready to claimed!
• For the seventh collection item, the SWG Development team hand-crafted a little surprise using the in-game Chronicles system.

Rare Loot System

• Discover rare, exceptional, and legendary loot as you adventure.
• Mobs can drop a chest that will contain rare loot.
• Many old and new loot items have been added to this system.
• Complete new collections and earn a new badge and a new title - "Fortune Hunter."
• Good luck in your adventures!

Highlights 

• Fishing Leaderboard - The Fishing Leaderboard is a new in-game feature that keeps track of the leading individual, guild, and city anglers across each galaxy. It displays the ranks, lists the leaders' names, and the total length of the best fish caught for each leader. The Fishing Leaderboard scoring period is weekly and starts/ends every Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 11:00:00 PST / 12:00:00 PDT (same time as the GCW rank and Leaderboard update). At the end of the period, the winners are determined and the list (along with all the scores) is reset to start a new period.

·         Individual Leaders: The total length of the best 10 non-collection fish caught during the period are used to determine the angler's Fishing Leaderboard score.

·         Guild/City Leaders: The total length of the best 25 non-collection fish caught during the period by the members/citizens of the guild/city are used to determine the guild/city Fishing Leaderboard score. 

• Fishing Record - The Fishing Record displays the type of fish caught, the planet on which it was caught, the length of the fish, the name of the angler (person who caught it), as well as the location, time and the bait used. For each galaxy, best length fish is tracked for each of the 70 non-collection fish (7 fish types x 10 planets). The angler who catches a non-collection fish whose length is greater than or equal to the current record will become the new record holder. Personal best is also tracked for each angler for each of the 70 non-collection fish. 
   
• Elusive Fish - Elusive Fish are rare fish that are hard to catch! There are only 70 ELUSIVE fish (one for each of the 70 non-collection fish types) for each galaxy. To view the ELUSIVE fish list, use any fishing pole. For each time that the very lucky angler appears on the ELUSIVE fish list, as long as the angler has logged in within the past 90 days, one travel point will be granted to the angler's current guild and city for each time that the angler appears on the ELUSIVE fish list. This is a permanent perk.  

STAR WARS GALAXIES: GALACTIC LEADERS - GAME UPDATE 17.9 

Fishing 

• General
• The Fishing Total - Type and Fishing Total - Planet sections in the Hobbies tab of the Collections window and displays a total count of non-collection fish the angler has caught, broken down by the 7 fish types, by the 10 planets. It is not retroactive. 
   
• Fishing Leaderboard
• The Fishing Leaderboard scoring period is weekly and starts/ends every Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 11:00:00 PST / 12:00:00 PDT (same time as the GCW rank and Leaderboard update). At the end of the period, the winners are determined and the list (along with all the scores) is reset to start a new period.
• Fishing leaderboard tracking will start Thursday September 30 2010 at 19:00:00 GMT / 12:00:00 PDT, and the first set of winners will be determined the following Thursday October 7 2010 at 19:00:00 GMT / 12:00:00 PDT.
• The total length of the best 10 non-collection fish caught during the Fishing Leaderboard period are used to determine the angler's Fishing Leaderboard score.
• The total length of the best 25 non-collection fish caught during the Fishing Leaderboard period by the members/citizens of the guild/city are used to determine the guild/city Fishing Leaderboard score.
• An angler that has just joined a guild/city will not contribute to the guild/city Fishing Leaderboard for her guild/city for the current period. She will start contributing to her guild/city Fishing Leaderboard at the start of the next Fishing Leaderboard period.
• Whenever the angler/guild/city position on the Fishing Leaderboard for the current period changes, a message is sent to the chat/guildchat/citychat window for the angler/all guild members/all citizens notifying of the position change for the angler/guild/city.
• In-game mail is sent to the anglers/guild leaders/mayors of the winners when a Fishing Leaderboard period ends, and the winners for the angler/guild/city Leaderboards are determined.
• Use any fishing pole to view the Fishing Leaderboard.
• The Fishing Leaderboard section in the Hobbies tab of the Collections window displays the count of how many times the angler has made the Fishing Leaderboard winners list.
• The Fishing Leaderboard section in the Badges tab of the Collections window displays badges the angler has earned from the Fishing Leaderboard. Badges are granted for winning 1st place, and for making the Fishing Leaderboard winners list 1 time, 5 times, 10 times, 15 times... etc.
• The Fishing Leaderboard section in the Hobbies tab of the Collections window displays the count of how many times the angler was a guild member/citizen of a guild/city that made the Fishing Leaderboard winners list.
• The Fishing Leaderboard section in the Badges tab of the Collections window displays badges the angler has earned for being a guild member/citizen of a guild/city that made the Fishing Leaderboard winners list. Badges are granted for being a guild member/citizen of a guild/city that won 1st place, and for being a guild member/citizen 1 time, 5 times, 10 times, 15 times... etc. of a guild/city that made the Fishing Leaderboard winners list.
• The angler must have been eligible to contribute to the guild/city Fishing Leaderboard score (i.e. did not just recently join the guild/city) for the period for which the guild/city made the Fishing Leaderboard winners list. They must have also caught a non-collection fish during the period (even if that non-collection fish does not end up contributing to the guild/city winning score), in order to qualify to receive credit for being a guild member/citizen of a guild/city that made the Fishing Leaderboard winners list.
• The guilds and cities in the most recent winners list will be given access to 1 guild/city travel point.
• The guild/city travel point privilege is revoked if the guild/city does not make the next winners list. To reiterate, the guild/city travel point privilege is only available to the guilds and cities in the most recent winners list. 
   
• Fishing Record
• For each galaxy, best length fish is tracked for each of the 70 non-collection fish (7 fish types x 10 planets).
• The angler who catches a non-collection fish whose length is greater than or equal to the current record will become the new record holder.
• Personal best is also tracked for each angler for each of the 70 non-collection fish.
• Use any fishing pole to view the galaxy best, the angler's personal best, and the personal best of another targeted angler.
• A record fish will be renamed to designate it as a record fish, and its Examine window will contain additional record fish information.
• A "Record Data" radial menu is available on any non-collection fish that will display the galaxy best and the angler's personal best information for that particular fish type.
• Titles (70 available) are granted to the current record holder. When there is a new record holder, the title will be removed from the current record holder and granted to the new record holder.
• Badges (70 available) are granted for catching a record fish.
• Badges are granted for catching 1, 5, 10, 15..., 100 record fish.
• A collection under the Fishing Record section in the Hobbies tab of the Collections window displays the count of record fish caught by the angler.
• 7 collections (1 for each fish type), with server first and a badge as reward, under the Fishing Record section in the Hobbies tab of the Collections window are available for catching a record fish of the particular type on all 10 planets.
• 10 collections (1 for each planet), with server first and a badge as reward, under the Fishing Record section in the Hobbies tab of the Collections window are available for catching a record fish for all the 7 types on the particular planet.
• All 70 fishing records are currently held by various NPCs. The current record length and which NPC currently holds which record are different for each galaxy.
• These NPCs are actually quite avid anglers who have recently come out of the closet to reveal their ...errr...ummm... ichthyologic tendencies, so it will take some effort to best their records.
• The angler that becomes the new record holder will get a Comm Message from the NPC who originally held that particular record, who will have a thing or two to say to the new record holder.
• There are more NPCs than the 70 available fishing records, so some NPCs will not be record holders on some galaxies. So if Darth Vader is not a record holder on your galaxy, you'll just have to go fishing on a galaxy where Vader is a record holder if you want to receive a Comm Message from the angling Dark Lord. 
   
• The ELUSIVE Fish
• Tales abound of the one that always manages to get away. Are there any truths to these stories, or are they just overactive imagination after too many rounds of Valarian Brandy?
• There are only 70 ELUSIVE fish (one for each of the 70 non-collection fish types) for each galaxy. The odds of successfully landing an ELUSIVE fish are much, much, much greater than that of successfully navigating an asteroid field, even if Han doesn't want to hear it.
• Use any fishing pole to view the ELUSIVE fish list.
• An ELUSIVE fish will be renamed to designate it as an ELUSIVE fish. For example, “a faa” may be changed to “the ELUSIVE Tatooine faa”.
• Badges (70 available) are granted for catching an ELUSIVE fish.
• The Dev Team reserves the right to revisit the "only 70 ELUSIVE fish per galaxy" rule once any galaxy has caught all its 70 ELUSIVE fish. Good luck with such an elusive feat/challenge/accomplishment though.
• For each time that the (very lucky) angler appears on the ELUSIVE fish list, as long as the angler has logged in within the past 90 days, one travel point will be granted to the angler's current guild and city for each time that the angler appears on the ELUSIVE fish list. This is a permanent perk. Guild/City travel point update occurs at galaxy restart and at the end of the Leaderboard period every Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 11:00:00 PST / 12:00:00 PDT, so the perk will not be applied immediately when the angler catches an ELUSIVE fish, but will be applied at the next guild/city travel point update. If the angler leaves/joins a guild/city, the perk will be removed/applied at the next guild/city travel point update. The perk will not transfer with the angler with CTS. The angler must get on the ELUSIVE fish list of the destination galaxy in order to receive the perk.  

Portable Bazaar Terminal

• Fix issue where a Portable Bazaar Terminal that is named a certain way is not functional. Existing Portable Bazaar Terminal that is not functional because of the way it is named will start working with this fix.
• Fix issue with the Place Bid button on the All Auctions tab being hidden after using the Portable Bazaar Terminal and then switching to the real bazaar terminal.

Crafting

• Crafting station buffs can no longer be dispelled or purged.

Guilds

• Minor change to the guild sponsorship message to clarify that this is an offer from another player.

Misc

• Fixed more codestrings in the bazaar.

Star Wars Galaxies 7th Anniversary

• The year 6 gift is ready to be claimed!

GCW Invasions

• Added a 30 minute delay to the invasion initialization to address an issue where invasions would fail to start correctly after a server restart.
• The Cure Fatigue quest now requires the entertainer to cure 20 'ticks' of fatigue instead of 10.
• The Cure Fatigue quest now gives 5 invasion tokens on completion.
• The Cure Fatigue quest now requires the entertainer to return to the general to complete the quest.
• The Rally Troops now gives 250 points of GCW on completion (instead of the previous 12 points).

Beast Master

• Update on Beast Dietary Supplements' listings of which supplement is formulated for which beast.
• Beast Dye will now work on Reeks, Nexus, and Wing-clipped Hawk Bats.
• Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR) mission bonuses will now benefit pets regardless of their master's class.

Chronicles

• Fixed Tier 1 chronicler profession box shard now should say "shared."
• Nunas and Durni will now drop kill and kill/collect chronicle relics.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed codestrings in the bazaar window for certain items.
• Fixed items showing as a codestring in the Object Type Filter window.
• Craft a Component Analysis Tool relic - the word component is now spelled correctly (name and description).
• Tusken Blood Hunters, Flesh Renders and the Vile Chieftain should now count towards the kill and kill/loot Chronicle relics.
• Players will no longer be penalized for failing their first attempt at the Rescue the Lok Revenant quest of Nym's Themepark.

GCW

• You can now buy the Imperial Gunner and Rebel Trooper Helmets using city invasion tokens. The helmets are sold by the Rebel and Imperial recruiters.

Beast Master

• Beast Dietary Supplements have been made to more accurately communicate the beasts for which they are formulated.
• COMPNOR mission bonuses will now benefit pets regardless of their master’s class.

Restuss

• The Crusader Pistol, Crusader Carbine, Crusader Rifle, Deadbolt Pistol and C-M Reaper Rifle now all receive an appearance damage bonus when crafted.
• The Restuss weapons will no longer bio-link the schematic when deconstructed.

Previously Updated 

• Beast Master
• Fix to pets that hit BFF without having their loyalty level updated.
• Fix to the loyalty progress tracker. The loyalty progress should now be correctly shown as a value between 0 - 100%. 
   
• Restuss
• Fix to conversation error in the Restuss NPC's dialog if you lacked the commendations needed to buy either of the schematics.

Highlights 

• GCW Leaderboard – Access the GCW Leaderboard from the War Terminal / War Intel Pad / War Table. It displays the top scores of the Galactic Civil War. Characters contribute to the character GCW Leaderboard by contributing to the GCW score as individuals or as members of a guild or citizens of a city.
   
• Guild Waypoint Registry – Guilds with at least ten members now have access to a Guild Waypoint Registry. With this registry guild leaders can upload waypoints for the guild members to download.
   
• City Waypoint Registry – The City Waypoint Registry is a new window that allows mayors of player cities to upload waypoints for the citizens of that city to download.
   
• Star Wars Galaxies 7th Year Anniversary - The Year 5 gift is now available to claim!
   
• Bonus Everything Weekend - Bonus Everything Weekend is returning this Labor Day holiday! Stock up on food and drinks, grab your favorite chair and get ready for double the action! During the Bonus Everything Weekend, everyone logged in will earn Double XP, Double GCW Points, Double Heroic Tokens, Double GCW Tokens from Battlefields and City Invasions, Double Pet XP and Loyalty, Double Chronicles XP, Double Chronicles Silver Tokens and an increased chance to earn Gold Chronicles Tokens! The bonus period starts on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 4am PDT and ends Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 4am PDT.

 STAR WARS GALAXIES: GALACTIC LEADERS - GAME UPDATE 17.6

Star Wars Galaxies 7th Year Anniversary

• The Year 5 gift is now available to claim!

GCW Leaderboard

• Access the GCW Leaderboard from the War Terminal / War Intel Pad / War Table. It displays the top scores of the Galactic Civil War. Characters contribute to the character GCW Leaderboard by contributing to the GCW score as individuals or as members of a guild or citizens of a city.
• The GCW leaderboard period is weekly and starts/ends every Thursday at 19:00:00 GMT / 11:00:00 PST / 12:00:00 PDT (same time as the GCW rank update). At the end of the period, the winners are determined, and the list (and everyone's GCW Leaderboard score) is reset to start a new period.
• GCW leaderboard tracking will start Thursday September 2 2010 at 19:00:00 GMT / 12:00:00 PDT, and the first set of winners will be determined the following Thursday September 9 2010 at 19:00:00 GMT / 12:00:00 PDT.
• Guild/City
• Individuals need to be the same faction alignment as their city/guild to contribute to their guild/city GCW Leaderboard score.
• In order to contribute to the score and receive credit for the guild/city GCW Leaderboard the character must have been in the guild/city for the period for which the guild/city won the GCW leaderboard. Characters that join a guild/city in between periods will not contribute to the guild/city GCW Leaderboard for her guild/city will start contributing to their guild/city GCW leaderboard at the start of the next GCW Leaderboard period.
• The restriction for access to the ImperialWarRoom / RebelWarRoom chat room and the Imperial War Planner / Rebel War Planner title has been changed. Only same faction aligned GCW leaderboard winner for the past 2 weeks, or same faction aligned mayor or guild leader of a same faction aligned city or guild GCW leaderboard winner for the past 2 weeks are allowed to enter the ImperialWarRoom / RebelWarRoom chat room and have access to the Imperial War Planner / Rebel War Planner title.
• Messaging
• Whenever the character/guild/city position on the GCW leaderboard for the current period changes, a message is sent to the GCW channel for the character/all guild members/all citizens notifying of the position change for the character/guild/city.
• In-game mail is sent to the characters/guild leaders/mayors of the winners when a GCW leaderboard period ends, and the winners for the character/guild/city leaderboards are determined.
• Titles, Badges and Collections
• Title for making the current (i.e. most recent) GCW leaderboard winners list: Reigning Alliance Hero / Reigning Imperial Champion.
• Title for having won (at any time) 1st place in the GCW leaderboard winners list: Elite Alliance Hero / Elite Imperial Champion
• Title for making the GCW leaderboard winners list 1 time, 5 times, 10 times, 15 times...: Decorated Alliance Hero - x Time(s) / Decorated Imperial Champion - x Time(s)
• The Imperial GCW Leaderboard - Current Winner / Rebel GCW Leaderboard - Current Winner title is available to the current character GCW leaderboard winners. The title will be removed if the character doesn't make the next character GCW leaderboard winners list.
• The GCW Leaderboard section in the Achievement tab of the Collections window displays the count of how many times the character has made the GCW leaderboard winners list and how many times the character was a guild member/citizen of a guild/city that won the GCW leaderboard.
• The GCW Leaderboard section in the Badges tab of the Collections window displays badges the character has earned from the GCW leaderboard. It also displays the badges the character has earned for being a guild member/citizen of a guild/city that won the GCW leaderboard. Badges (and associated titles) are granted for winning 1st place, and for making the GCW leaderboard winners list 1 time, 5 times, 10 times, 15 times... as an individual and as a guild member/citizen of a guild/city.
• Guild/City Travel Point Perk
• The guilds and cities in the most recent winners list will be given access to guild/city travel points. 1st and 2nd place winners will get 2 guild/city travel points. 3rd, 4th, and 5th place winners will get 1 guild/city travel point.
• The guild/city travel point privilege is revoked if the guild/city does not make the next winners list. To reiterate, the guild/city travel point privilege is only available to the guilds and cities in the most recent winners list.
• Using the guild/city waypoint registry, the guild leader/mayor can designate the guild/city travel point(s).
• There is a 1 minute cooldown after deactivating a guild/city travel point before activating another guild/city travel point.
• Using the guild/city waypoint registry, guild members/citizens can travel (at no cost) to the starport/shuttleport/camp with shuttle beacon nearest to the guild/city travel point.
• Only the following locations can be designated as guild/city travel point: Corellia, Dantooine, Dathomir, Endor, Kashyyyk - Etyyy, Kashyyyk - Kachirho, Kashyyyk - Khowir, Lok, Mustafar, Naboo, Rori, Talus, Tatooine, Yavin 4.
• You must be at the following locations to use a guild/city travel point: Corellia, Dantooine, Dathomir, Endor, Kashyyyk - Etyyy, Kashyyyk - Kachirho, Kashyyyk - Khowir, Lok, Mustafar, Naboo, Rori, Talus, Tatooine, Yavin 4.
• You cannot use a guild/city travel point if you are in combat, incapacitated/dead, riding on a pet, or in a vehicle.

Guild Waypoint Registry

• The guild leader can upload waypoint to the guild waypoint registry from the waypoint's radial menu.
• Guild members can download waypoint from the guild waypoint registry into the datapad.
• Launch the guild waypoint registry window using the "Guild Waypoints..." button in the waypoint window, or with /guildWaypoints.
• The guild waypoint registry can hold 25 waypoints.
• The guild must have 10 members before the guild waypoint registry is available.

City Waypoint Registry

• The mayor can upload waypoint to the city waypoint registry from the waypoint's radial menu.
• Citizens can download waypoint from the city waypoint registry into the datapad.
• Launch the city waypoint registry window using the "City Waypoints..." button in the waypoint window, or with /cityWaypoints.
• The city waypoint registry can hold 25 waypoints.

GCW

• Ground PvP kills only contribute to the GCW score if the killer is "factional presence eligible".

Hoth

• Players achieving a flawless victory during a bonus weekend should now correctly receive the Badge and painting.

Beast Master

• The amount of loyalty needed to reach BFF has been reduced by approximately 50%.
• Beast Dietary Supplements now also affect the pet's loyalty gain by roughly the same amount as the supplements effect on experience gain.
• When receiving a COMPNOR experience bonus from a destroy mission, your pet will now also receive 50% of the experience needed for the pets current level.
• Active players will see an increasing bonus to the beast XP earned pr. kill, as their pet's level increases.

Restuss

• All Restuss weapons can now be deconstructed.

Star Wars Galaxies 7th Year Anniversary

• The Year 4 gift is now available to claim!

GCW

• GCW city invasions are now staggered so that they don't start at the same time. Bestine will start first, an hour later Dearic will start, and an hour after that Keren will start.

Bounty Hunter

• Probe and Seeker Droids should now correctly inform the Bounty Hunter if their target is afk or inside a structure if the target is on a different sub server.

On Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010, at 4:00 AM PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be brought down for server maintenance and a Hotfix.

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

The folllowing servers will be down for an extended downtime for server maintenance:

Bloodfin

Chilastra

Eclipse

Gorath

Radiant

Starsider

Shadowfire

Click here for a Time Zone Calculator.

 Star Wars Galaxies 7th Year Anniversary

• The Year 3 gift is now available to claim!

Empire Day VII / Remembrance Day VII

• This year's celebration has come to an end. We hope you enjoyed the event.

Star Wars Galaxies 7th Year Anniversary

• The seven year logo is now available for your viewing pleasure!

GCW

• Player Placed Factional Base
• The message sent to the GCW channel whenever a PvP player placed factional base changes its vulnerability status now contains the name of the GCW region in which the base is located.

Player Cities

• The RemoteCityHousePackup command will no longer trigger its cooldown when house signs are not found in range.

Bounty Hunter

• Relentless Onslaught will no longer be removed if the player equips a rifle while the buff is active.

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.2

SWG 7th Year Anniversary

• The Year 2 gift is live!

Bounty Hunter

• All Bounty Hunters have received a free expertise respec.
• Tangle Bomb 1-3 will now cause up to 15% increased action cost to targets.
• The snare duration increase from Cruelty is now correctly applied to Tangle Bomb and Razor Net.
• Advanced Armor Break now results in Ambush Tier 3-8 applying Armor Break twice to a target.
• Advanced Armor Break no longer applies a 2% damage bonus to Ambush. It still applies a 10% critical hit chance to Ambush.
• Improved Endurance, Marksmanship, Evasion and Pain Tolerance boxes. All of the boxes now offer 25 points per point invested.
• Unlinked Relentless Onslaught and Take Cover.
• Relentless Onslaught and Take Cover can now be used with all weapons.
• Added the Survival Instinct box. It reduces the cooldown timer for the heal line by 2 seconds per point.
• Unlinked Return Fire from Intense Assault.
• Intense Assault now improves Assault damage by 5/10/15%
• Ambush Intensity now improves Ambush damage by 10/20/30%
• Melee Defense has been renamed to Honed Reflexes. It now offers 2 points of dodge per point.
• Ranged Defense has been renamed to Reactive Armor. It now offers 2 points of Critical Hit Defense per point.
• Improved Kinetic Armor to offer 500 points of kinetic armor per point invested.
• Assault Efficiency and Ambush Efficiency now cost max 3 points for 5/10/20% action cost reduction.
• Lethality now offers up to 20% action cost reduction to cripple.
• Trap Extension now offers 10/20% trap action cost reduction. The box now also affects the range of dire traps.
• Cruelty now offers up to 6 seconds cooldown reduction to cripple.
• Innate Assault renamed to Enduring Assault. Enduring Assault gives a 40% chance of applying a 10% action cost reduction to assault. It can be stacked up to 5 times.
• The link between Antagonize and Fumble has been removed.
• The Absorption and Deflection boxes now offer innate armor instead of kinetic or energy protection.
• Man hunter is now a 3 point box. Man Hunter now offer 2% strikethrough chance and 10% Improved Detects Camouflage per point.
• The Arakyd Probe Droid will now warn the Bounty Hunter if the target has been inactive for 15 minutes or more.
• The Arakyd Probe Droid will also warn the Bounty Hunter if the target is inside a structure that the Bounty Hunter is unable to enter, for example a house set to private or if the Bounty Hunter has been banned from entry.
• When a player bounty is collected, mail will be sent to those who placed a bounty on the mark. This change is not retroactive - only bounties placed after this change will receive the mail notification.
• Flawless Jewelry Set
• All three levels of flawless bead now have a 100% defense bypassing effect.
• Flawless bead will now only be consumed by Ambush, Antagonize, Assault, Cripple, Dread Strike, Fumble, Intimidate and Sniper Shot.
• Flawless bead attacks should no longer have a chance to be incorrectly dodged.
• Decreased the Flawless Strike cooldown by 5 seconds.
• The Flawless Strike jewelry set now adds an innate 2% flawless bonus.
• Flawless Strike no longer uses a proc based system. When the Flawless Strike ability is used, the Flawless Bead buff is applied to the BH.

 GCW 

• Messages to the GCW channel are now always timestamped, even if the "Timestamp Incoming Messages" Chat Option is not enabled. 
   
• Player Placed Factional Base
• All player placed factional bases are now displayed under a new Player Placed Factional Base node/category on the Planetary Map that's visible to everyone. Remember, for PvP bases, the Active (sun) / Inactive (moon) icon before the base name indicates whether or not the PvP base is currently in its vulnerability state (Active/sun) or not (Inactive/moon).
• The cap of the number of bases per planet will be proportionately divided between the 2 factions based on the GCW percentage score for the planet. The War Terminal/War Intel Pad/War Table GCW Report window displays the per faction cap as well as the planetary cap.
• You can only place a base in a contested region if your side is winning the contested region by at least 51%. The Uncontested Region is excluded from this particular restriction.
• A message will be sent to the GCW channel whenever a PvP player placed factional base changes its vulnerability status.
• All GCW score contributions (including Factional Presence) made by the character occurring within range of a same-faction base will receive a bonus per base. The War Terminal/War Intel Pad/War Table GCW Personal Contribution window displays the bonus that you would receive at your current location. The bonus and range for each base type are as follows.
• Forward Outpost - 1%, 750m
• SF Forward Outpost - 2%, 750m
• Field Hospital - 3%, 1000m
• SF Field Hospital - 5%, 1000m
• Tactical Center - 6%, 1250m
• SF Tactical Center - 8%, 1250m
• Detachment Headquarters - 10%, 1500m
• SF Detachment Headquarters - 12%, 1500m 
   
• Cloning Sickness Perks And Restrictions
• Once a faction controls at least 70% of a planet, the following cloning sickness perks and restrictions will apply to GCW officers.
• For GCW officers of the winning faction, cloning sickness duration and removal cost will be reduced by 50%. Each additional 1% control above 70% will provide an additional 1% reduction in cloning sickness duration and removal cost, for a maximum of 80% reduction in cloning sickness duration and removal cost for 100% control of a planet.
• For GCW officers of the losing faction, there will be a wait before the cloning sickness can be removed by the droid in the cloning facility, or pay a 50,000 credits surcharge to skip the wait. The wait is 60s, plus an additional 2s for each additional 1% control above 70%, for a maximum wait of 120s for 100% control of a planet.
• Remember, cloning sickness perks and restrictions only apply to GCW officers. 
   
• Ground Factional Presence
• The amount of ground FP you gain will scale relative to the number of other "FP eligible" characters of either faction within 500m of you. Maximum ground FP is earned when there are at least 7 other "FP eligible" characters of either faction within 500m of you.

GCW City Invasions

• You now have to return to the Factional Commander to complete the Eliminate Imperials and Eliminate Rebels quests.

Empire Day

• Fixed an issue that would gate people from the recruitment and vandalism events if they went neutral after starting one of the quests.  

Miscellaneous

• Fixed lighting issue with Star Destroyer Solar Console.
• The repair cost of the AT-ST and AT-XT has been reduced.
• The number of waypoints has been increased to 250.  

NO TRADE/BIOLINK-ON-PURCHASE/BIOLINK-ON-DECONSTRUCTION Removal

• More items have been added to the list,
• http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/...opic_id=1080498

As part of our ongoing effort to encourage players to actively play the game, there have been several changes made in this update. We will continue to look for ways to encourage active play over AFKing.

Sincerely, The Dev Team.

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 17.1

SWG 7th Year Anniversary

• Log in to receive the year 1 gift.

Empire Day VII / Remembrance Day VII

• The AT-XT and AT-ST are now both two-seaters. They also run a little faster.

The Empire Day and Remembrance Day celebrations are back! The tension heats up between the Alliance and the Empire again. Both factions are recruiting members to help post propaganda and tear down whatever propaganda the other side managed to post. Entertainers are recruited to boost the troops' morale, while Traders are hired to help keep supplies flowing to the front lines.

Imperials seek out, in Theed, Major Brenn Tantor for Propaganda Quests, Droid Kaythree for Trader and Entertainer Quests, and Mara Jade for Combat Quests.

Rebels seek out, in Coronet, Captain Derlin for Propaganda Quests, Major Carlist Rieekan for Trader and Entertainer Quests, and Wedge Antilles for Combat Quests.

This year there are new badges and collections plus some new rewards including the AT-ST and AT-XT vehicles. Time to get busy! Mara Jade and Wedge Antilles have a new way to show their appreciation for their fans so make sure to visit them!

Player Placed Factional Base

• The count of the number of bases reported in the War Terminal/War Intel Pad/War Table should now be accurate.
• The cap of the number of bases allowed per planet should now be correctly/consistently enforced.

Bounty Hunter

• The flawless Strike ability will now correctly increase the flawless bead chance by 15% for its duration.

Jedi

• The Stance Glancing Blow modifier should now be correctly applied when the Jedi is in Jedi Stance.

Officer

• Removed NO TRADE from Officer Tactical and Medical stims.

Storyteller

• Some storyteller items may now be placed inside a player structure, others may also be placed on balcony-areas of player structures.
  • http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?topic_id=1093587
• Tokens will show if they can be placed on a roof in the examine window. These can also be placed on balconies or porches.
• Storyteller Blueprints can no longer be used inside buildings or on the roof of buildings.
• You can no longer deploy multiple NPC's when on the roof of buildings (this could lead to NPC's being spawned over the side of the building).
• Due to technical issues, the Tuskan Raider Combat NPC Storyteller item may no longer be placed inside or on the roof/balcony of player structures.

NO TRADE Removal

• NO TRADE has been removed from more items,
  • http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?topic_id=1080498
• A re-deeded YT-2400 will now also be tradable. Existing redeeded YT-2400s will be No Trade Removable.
• Fixed an issue where the paintings "Five Years of Galaxies" and "Six Years of Galaxies" were not tradable or No Trade Removable.

Veteran Reward

• Changed the item description for the 81 month vet reward to indicate that the item will reset the lockout for a single instance every two days.
• Corrected typo in description for the Flight of the Veteran.

Misc

• Corrected malfunctioning Multi-painting: Forces Under Siege.

BBP CUSTOMER NOTIFICATION: BBP has located and corrected a typo in genetic classification: many Vir Vir are now correctly classified as Vir Vur. Recent genetic alterations appear to have improved the temperament of Whisper Birds and Reptillian Fliers. They may now be successfully trained as Mounts. :END NOTICE

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