Star Wars Galaxies Patch Notes

May 19th, 2005
Version 0.123011

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

/respec

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

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

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

• WARNING* – Your ability to respec is about to expire.

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

The following is the standard respec message:

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

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

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

No update notes provided for release.

Publish 17.0
May 26th, 2005
Major Features
Multi-Passenger Vehicles

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

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

• X31
• X34
• Flash Speeder

• AV-21

New Vehicles

• Master Artisans craft these new multi-passenger vehicles (in addition to existing vehicles).
  • AB-1 (new)
  • XP-38 (new)
  • V-35 SoroSuub Carrier (new) also known as “the Lars family speeder” can carry up to six passengers!

Multi Passenger Commands

• /offerRide — asks the target player if they would like to accept a ride. This command also appears on the radial menu. The “offer ride” menu will not show up if the target passenger is already mounted onto the vehicle.
• /acceptRide — Passenger accepts the ride.
• /declineRide — Passenger declines the ride.

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

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

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

Other Publish Notes:
[DEVL]

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

Art

• Fixed an issue with the Kashyyyk Bantha’s mouth.
• Asteroid hit effects no longer extensively clip into other asteroids.

Artificial Intelligence

• As a player becomes higher in level than an NPC or creature, the aggro radius vs. the AI becomes smaller. A gray con will never aggro. The exception to this is Imperial and Rebel NPC enemies who will still have a full aggro radius.
• Creatures and NPCs will stop combat with players when they enter any player owned structure. Prior to this, creatures and NPCs only stopped combat when entering a private player structure.
• Fixed a case where players would stay in combat when traveling from a ground zone to any other zone.
• Fixed an issue where attacking NPCs would aim and then lower their weapon between attacks

Avatar

• Updated the personal light functionality to automatically turn the personal light on at night and off during the day unless the player has toggled it – then it is left alone for the remainder of the session (press CTRL-L to turn your personal light on and off
• Attempting to move forward by using a keyboard control or by using the mouse while also trying to move backwards using the keyboard at the same time will result in the avatar moving backwards.
• If you are using the MMORPG(Modeless) keyboard controls, it is now possible to camera orbit around a character that’s mounted on a vehicle.

Client Stability

• Improved client stability

Combat

• You can now /con another player
• Wounds to stats other than HEALTH will automatically be healed upon logging in.
• Deathblow text will be sent to players around the combatants as well as the combatants.
• Increased XP grants for killing aggressive, pack and killer NPCs. NPCs that are aggressive or assist each other will give a 5% bonus XP amount. NPCs that will perform a deathblow will also give a 5% bonus XP amount
• Fixed Lair XP grants: Lairs should now give the correct XP again for destroying them
• Attacking a lair will put you in combat for a short period of time
• Commands that fail due to a bad state or posture will give feedback about why the command failed
• Fixed an issue that caused mission generated NPC’s to spawn with higher than intended statistics
• Fixed an issue that caused combat spam to not display correctly for auto-attacks
• Fixed an issue with kill-credit assessment. Now if an NPC or creature does the majority of damage (over 65%) to a target then no one will get kill rights
• Fixed an issue with combat states. If a creature or NPC is chasing you, you will now be in combat. Previously there were cases where you would not hear combat music, but a creature or NPC would be chasing you
• A 5 second warm-up, 1 second execution time, and 5 sec cool-down has been added for the deathblow ability
• Creature damage ranges are now larger but average damage done remains the same. This was done to help tankers take less damage on average than the other professions so they may better fulfill their role in combat
• Buff bars will properly display buffs
• Buffs should now be removed from players upon death
• You should no longer be able to use a stimpack when you are at full health
• Fixed an issue in the buff system that affects persisted buffs, potentially greatly increasing their time to be active
• You should no longer attempt to attack yourself when auto-attack is on and you target yourself
• Camouflage kits are now usable from the button bar
• Fixed an issue with duration of Berserk particle effect. Particle should now vanish when the Berserk buffs wears off

Crafters

• Ranger created camouflage kits are now usable by everyone. Any player may now self-apply a camouflage kit to gain a small conceal buff. This buff is less effective than if a Ranger had applied the camouflage, but it should aid crafters in avoiding the unwanted attention of critters near their installations. Also, camouflage kits are now usable from the button bar
• Crafting weapons will now grant the appropriate General or Weapon Crafting XP
• Recyclers will now be craftable again

Creatures

• Krayt Dragons have had their difficulty increased.

Cybernetics

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

Droids

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

Dungeons

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

Galactic Civil War

• Faction bases now can be placed in clusters of 3. There can be no more than 3 bases within 600 meters of one another.
• Fixed “attack” and “guard” default command setup for faction perk NPCs and droids.

Pets

• Pet Armor should function correctly.
• Pets will no longer have Action or Mind wounds
• Some rare pets have traded hit points for bonus damage and armor
• All group members can see pet health bars in a group.
• Changed pet regen. Droids will no longer regen naturally, they must be repaired. Creature pets will now regen at their correctly balanced regeneration rates for their level.

Buffs

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

Profession: Armorsmith

• Armorsmiths can now craft Wookiee armor chest plates with 3 pieces so Wookiees can wear Cybernetics with Wookiee chest plates
• Increased condition on Factional armor
• Lowered complexity on armor segments and cores.

Profession: Bio-Engineer

• Using /sampleDNA will no longer set off your auto attack
• Bio-Engineer Pet Levels should now function properly
• Bio-Engineer Pet Re-sampling should now function properly. Crafted pets should be able to be re-sampled and reused to craft new DNA
• Bio-Engineered creatures should now be usable and have reasonable balance for their level. Crafted pet levels should be appropriate for the stats the crafted creature receives
• Bio-Engineered pets from before the Combat Upgrade should convert to a usable state when called. (Old armor values will be replaced by new ones, appropriate to the creature’s level)
• Bio-Engineer Pet Stats fixed to have an effect on function
• Each of the following DNA traits now affect new attributes:
  • Hardiness: Health
  • Endurance: Health Regen Rate
  • Fortitude: General Protection (Base Armor)
  • Dexterity: Defense Value
  • Cleverness: To Hit Value
  • Power: Min/Max Damage
  • Intellect: Reduces the effectiveness of intimidated, stun, dizzy, and blinded state effects.*
  • Fierceness: Adds a small chance for each attack to be a critical hit.
  • Dependability: Adds a small chance for the creature to absorb half damage on a hit (critical save).
  • Courage: Aggro generation bonus added to normal attacks.
• This doesn’t reduce the chance the state effect will be applied, but reduces the amount it impacts the pet’s ability to fight. Dizzy, for example, makes the pet less likely to hit and more likely to be hit. A dizzy pet with high state resist will fight better in that condition.

Profession: Creature Handler

• Using /tame will no longer set off your auto attack
• Pets will no longer have Action or Mind wounds
• When taming vicious creatures, if a creature handler is unable to call a high-level vicious creature, the player should receive a message with details why the pet cannot be called
• Fixed an issue with Creature Handler skill progressions and XP caps
• Non-CH pet damage will now reduce XP amounts granted and possibly result in no kill rights. CH pet damage will still count towards CH XP
• Motley Kaadu and Plodding Falumpaset are now tamable
• Lowered the Cu-Pa and Dwarf Bantha to level 10.

Profession: Doctor

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

Profession: Droid Engineer

• Droids with Detonation Modules in them will now properly damage their targets again. Damage output of the Detonation Droid was adjusted to match the new balance of the Combat Upgrade. Detonation Droids now do Kinetic base damage plus a 10% bonus damage of Heat
• Droid repair modules should repair the proper attributes
• Crafting Droid Armor Module 5 and 6 should no longer require a Composite Armor Segment.
• Fixed Droid Auto-Repair module to correctly heal droid Health

Profession: Dancers, Entertainers, Musicians

• Added the ability to set a /covercharge for performers.
• Performers can now set themselves to have a cover charge. Use the command /covercharge <amt>. You can reset it by /covercharge 0 or null)
• Audience members who “watch” or “listen” to the performer will get a pop up box asking if they wish to pay the cover charge.
• Once the performance is complete, the performer will receive the cover charge funds when the audience member stops listening/watching.
• More than one audience member at a time may pay the cover charge and view the performance.
• Inspirations should give proper experience bonuses now.
• Fixed a typo in the inspiration buff text.
• Extended performer experience rewards to all members of the buffer’s band
• Extended experience types affected by inspiration buff.

Profession: Jedi

• Fixed an issue with Force Breach: Force Breach now has a 50% chance to strip each beneficial Force Enhancement from the target.
• Lightsaber elemental damage amounts will now correctly update any time a crystal/pearl is added or removed from the saber.
• Fixed some issues with Jedi healing that caused incorrect amounts of Force power to be used.
• Added a de-buff icon for the Force Choke effect.
• Fixed incorrect buff icons for Force Resist Bleeding, Force Resist Poison, Force Resist Disease, Force Resist States and Force Cloak.

Professions: Ranger

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

Profession: Rifleman

• The “Cover” command should work correctly now.

A player that moves during a command warm-up will get a message saying the command has been canceled, and the warm-up timer will be removed.
Profession: Squad Leader

• /formup will no longer remove Dizzy and/or Stun from team members involved in PvP.
• Squad Leader buffs should show up as buff icons to group members.
• The on-screen retreat message will display properly.
• Squad Leader experience requirements should no longer require incorrect skill branches.
• Squad Leader profession requirements should now be accurately reflected in the skills window (CTRL-S).

Profession: Weaponsmith

• Added a Level 30 Carbine Weaponsmith Schematic.
• Added the Alliance Disruptor Weaponsmith Schematic.
• Newly crafted grenade wiring and explosive power-ups now work on grenades.

Profession: Artisan

• Legacy power-ups have been converted to work under the new system at near maximum values (30% damage for explosives & 30% speed for wiring).
• Power-ups now use “Decay Resistance” during crafting which will make it easier to get higher efficiency values.
• Efficiency values are now tied to the number of uses for power-ups. Higher efficiency now gives a greater number of charges.
• Max values for power-up bonuses have been raised slightly.

Quests

• New Rage of the Wookiees quest Heralds added.
• Myyydril Caverns: Players should not be ejected to Kkowir forest on death or transitioning to the Necrosis Encounter.
• Myyydril Caverns: The Necrosis encounter will no longer report that it is active when the area is empty.
• Myyydril Caverns: The Myyydril Chief will speak with you again if you have previously told him you would not help.
• Hssissk should now grant correct reward on quest completion.
• If you have issues with Stren Colo’s Jessk Bounty you can speak with Tien Wallub again to restart the quest.
• Fixed a waypoint issue in Story Arc 1: Secrets of the Syren, quest 2

Sounds

• Fixed an issue where Varactyl animations made no sounds.
• Increased default Max Sounds setting from 16 to 32.

Space

• The Rodian warlords Tripp and Sordaan have base commanders on patrol that will give you missions. After you have completed the main Kashyyyk space story-line, you can talk to these pilots for new (Tier 5) duty missions.
• Did you know you could converse with certain escort targets? When you begin your career as a Civilian Protector, you can chat with the transports you are escorting and rescuing. They will give you more information about the villainous Ghrag, the reborn Gotal cyborg pilots, and a few surprises!
• A new space mission is available to pilots who complete the Space Kashyyyk storyline. Converse with the “CPG Veteran” pilot that patrols the Kashyyyk space station. This pilot has found a weak link in the Ghrag communication chain and can give coordinates to intercept ‘high level’ mercenaries that have been brought in to replace the ones you destroyed.

Trading

• You can no longer trade while incapacitated or dead.

Tutorial

• Players should face the correct direction when starting or skipping the tutorial (the same direction as when he or she logged out).
• Personal light should no longer turn on/off in the tutorial.
• Added New Player Ground Quests.

User Interface

• Game text chat color names will appear in the language of the client. Players who have played the same character in multiple locales may lose their color settings for game text chat colors only. User created filters will not be affected.
• Messages about XP granted will appear in the general chat channel
• PlanetMap – Various Kashyyyk zone maps (especially Kachirho) show the player’s location more accurately
• Added a new keymap button at the top level of the options screen (CTRL-O) to make it easier and more intuitive to change the game controls
• Fixed several issues with displaying palette selections for Image Designer, Character Creation, and Object Customization palettes
• Added new particle effects for knock down state and buffs
• Removed unnecessary posture change chat messages; ex. “/sit”, “/prone”, “/stand”, etc
• All group members can see pet health bars in a group
• Ham bars (particularly health) should be stable now (not jump around when a creature takes damage)
• The space toolbar and the ground toolbar now save different sets of icons
• The following settings on the Graphics tab of SwgClientSetup are now properly saved:
  • “Use Low Detail Textures”
  • “Use Low Detail Normal Maps”
  • “Disable Multi-Pass Rendering”
  • “Disable Vsync (Allow Tearing )
  • Added distance to the tooltip on the radar
  • You can turn on and off your fly-text and your target’s fly-text (Options – CTRL-O)
• Fly-text for damage and states should now be delayed until the bolt hits.
• Fly-text is clamped to the top of the screen
• Fly-text is in world space (doesn’t travel w/the object – just flys up)
• The buttons in the dealer UI no longer overlap.
• Fixed the blinking nameplates when the target was not visible, but selected and changed to a pulse.
• Added extended weapon and armor tooltip information to inventory and auction items
• Species restrictions are displayed on armor.
• Any new auction will have expanded information in the tool-tip for the item
• The con icon will show up in the target window.

Vehicles

• Multi-passenger vehicles have been added to Star Wars TM Galaxies! There are a total of 7 vehicles that now have ground-based, multi-passenger functionality.
  • Existing Vehicles: Previous versions of these vehicles will now have multi-passenger capabilities. For example, if you already own an X34 speeder, your vehicle now can carry another passenger! X31, X34, Flash Speeder, AV-21
  • New Vehicles: Master Artisans craft these new multi-passenger vehicles. AB-1 (new), XP-38 (new), V-35 SoroSuub Carrier (new) Also known as “the Lars family speeder”.
• Multi Passenger Commands
  • /offerRide — asks the target player if they would like to accept a ride. This command also appears on the radial menu. The “offer ride” menu will not show up if the target passenger is already mounted onto the vehicle.
  • /acceptRide — Passenger accepts the ride.
  • /declineRide — Passenger declines the ride.
• Once a passenger accepts the ride, they are placed inside the vehicle and can ride along. Passengers can click on the vehicle to get the Enter/Exit Vehicle menu, which will drop them out of the vehicle. Drivers will be unable to kick people from the passenger group until they exit the vehicle. When the driver of a vehicle exits the vehicle, everyone else in the passenger group will too.

Japanese

• Manufactured items can now be named in Japanese
• Houses can now be named in Japanese
• Vendors can now be named in Japanese
• Item description can now be in Japanese
• Vendor phrase can now be in Japanese
• Biography can now be in Japanese
• Waypoint name can now be in Japanese

Fan Fest Fixes!

• Altered Lightsaber special abilities animations (Fan Fest)
• Altered TKA special ability animations (Fan Fest)
• Fixed bug where Guild Elections were constantly recycling (Fan Fest)
• Ore mining units now come 5 to a crate, instead of 1 to a crate. (Fan Fest)

Respec Token

• What is the “Token Respec”? In order to offer players a final opportunity to adapt their character’s profession template, we are offering one final chance to revise your character’s template. We are calling this the “Token Respec” process. As part of this process we are putting an invisible marker on each character which allows the character skills to be reshuffled. After the character template is revised, meaning when you have confirmed your new template via the system, the token or marker is used and the option to revise/respec is no longer available.
• Once the new Token Respec option to revise the character template is live in the game, you will be offered a text window upon log in that asks if you are ready for your last “Respec”.

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

• All existing players (including players who have had character and account transfers) will receive a token allowing for one final respec of the character profession template.
• You may choose to use your Token Respec upon receipt or to use it at a later date – this option remains available for you until you use it unless otherwise notified.
• Although there is no limit on how quickly you use the Token Respec option, once you commit the template by confirming that it is final you will not have another respec opportunity.
• If you are still able to revise your character’s template in-game as part of the original Combat Upgrade respec option, the Token Respec will not activate until you are out of the Combat Upgrade respec period.
• Bonus points/unused skill points from the initial Combat Upgrade respec will not be transferred in any way to the new Token Respec opportunity.
• There is a 12-hour respec timer buffering the use of the Combat Upgrade respec option and the use of the Token Respec option meaning that you cannot take advantage of the new Token Respec option until 12 hours after you use the Combat Upgrade version.
• During the Combat Upgrade Respec process period, you will not be able to earn Master Badges.
• After you complete the Combat Upgrade respec process and while you are eligible for the Token Respec you will be allowed to earn Master Badges.

Crafting

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

Creature Handler:

• Pets in groups now get their own special “pet” role icon

Droid Engineer:

• Droids crafted without either a combat module or armor module are level 1.
• Droids with either combat or armor modules will now increase the level in 5 unit increments up to a maximum of 30.
• Crafting a droid with combat modules will increase min damage, max damage, to-hit, and give the droid the ability to attack your current target. Combat modules will also add a bit of armor.
• Crafting a droid with armor modules will increase its general protection armor value at a greater rate than combat modules, and will also increase the droid’s defense value. Armor modules will not affect the droid’s to-Hit or min and max damage attributes.
• Players with older droid deeds and pcd’s will be fixed retroactively.

Dueling

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

GCW

• Players will no longer be allowed to donate turret deeds to Special Forces facilities.
• DRX55 and XG mines can once again be purchased from faction recruiters.
• Removed turrets from PvP bases
• Fixed LOS bug with cloning terminals

Jedi:

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

New Elite MOBs:

• Bane back spider with Trophy drop
• Murra Blanca with Trophy drop
• Painted Spat with Trophy Drop

New Player Tutorial

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

Species: Wookiees

• Wookiees no longer get the clothing selection screen

UI:

• Elite indicators on mob HAM bars
• Tweaked the CON colors to make them user friendly for color-blind users
• Removed level number display for nameplate.

Vehicles / Mounts

• Fixed bug that was allowing experience to be earned for killing a vehicle
• Fixed problem where an Avatar would stand up while riding a mount and changing weapons

Publish 19.0
June 29th, 2005

Happy Empire Day!

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

Secrets of the Syren Quest

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

Smuggler – New Slicing Changes!

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

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

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

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

Here is a list of the new slices:

Weapons

• Increase Firing Rate
• Enhanced Damage
• Increased Critical Hit Chance

Armor

• Enhanced Resilience
• Impact Deflections
• Hardening (Crit save chance)
• Armor Break Defense

Update Notes List Items

Correspondents and Fan Fest fixes and Balance Changes

Animations

• Added in missing Fencer animations
• Added in missing Pikemen animations
• Added in missing Swordsmen animations
• Art: sped up two handed sword animations

Weapons and Damage

• Fixed elemental damage type on the red color crystal
• Fixed weapon elemental damage. All weapons with an elemental damage amount should now be correctly doing their elemental damage.
• Changed Lightning Rifles speed movement modifier to emulate Rifles instead of commando weapons

Jedi Defender

• Avoid Incapacitation – Increased Force cost to activate

Jedi Healing

• Force Sap – Lowered duration and debuff amount
• Force Heal – Increased cool down and execute timers
• Total Heal – Increased cool down and execute timers
• Added Mind and Action costs to most Healer abilities

Jedi Powers

• Force Choke – Armor will no longer prevent Force Choke damage, Force Defense, and Force Shield still protect against Choke
• Mind Blast – Added State effects to ability
• Improved Mind Blast – Ability is now single target ability
• Force Throw – Added State effects to ability
• Force Throw – Is now a cone attack
• Force Cloak – Increased cool down timer

Jedi Enhancer

• Force Armor – Now adds to your Jedi Innate Jedi Armor
• Force Armor – Takes a substantial less amount of Force per incoming damage
• Force Shield – Takes a substantial less amount of Force per incoming damage
• Transfer Force – Increased cool down timer
• Drain Force – Increased cool down timer
• Stasis – Increased cool down timer
• Force Speed – Increased duration of Buff
• Added slight Mind and Action costs to most Enhancer abilities

Jedi Lightsabers

• Reduced action cost of Light saber moves
• Reduced Force cost on Saber moves
• Advanced Saber Throw – Removed Cone effects from ability
• Improved Saber Throw – Removed Knockdown effect from ability
• Increased Damage Potential of all Saber Throws

Doctor/Combat Medic

• Significantly reduced Healing execute timers and cool downs on all healing abilities
• Reduced aggro generated by Healing by 50% on all healing abilities
• Reduced Mind costs all healing buffing abilities
• Significantly reduced Healing execute timers and cool downs on all Combat Medic Offensive abilities
• Significantly increased amount of Doctor/CM healing

Cybernetics

• Increased refresh rate on Revive ability from Cybernetic arms
• “Cybernetic Shock” and “Cyborg Lightning” now deal more damage.

Rifleman

• Sniper Shot – Added 20 meter minimum range

Bounty Hunter

• Duelist Stance – Increased amount of defense skill added

General Combat

• Increased the action cost of KnockdownRecovery
• Daze effects now prevent all forms of healing and buffing

Other Publish Notes:

Bounty Hunter

• Added Heavy Lightning Rifle to the Galaxy

Entertainers

• Entertainers will now heal players from a greater distance.

Pikeman

• Pikeman – Increased the amount a target is slowed by with Warcry

Smuggler

• Overwhelming Shot should now fires correctly
• Panic shot’s Daze effect now works (Daze effects break on damage)
• Concussion shot is now a Root + a Daze (Daze effects break on damage, as this is a dual effect debuff both the Root + Daze will break on damage)
• Some slices now require components that drop in various locations throughout the galaxy.

Jedi

• Added a warm-up timer to Jedi Saber Power attack
• Fixed issue with new Force Armor
• Force Choke will now break when the Jedi is Force Cloaked
• Avoid Incapacitation now adds a snare while active as well as an increased force cost.

Force Sensitive Village

• The Power Crystals in Mellichae’s camp from being destroyed.
• Improved handling of enemies defending the Power Crystals in Mellichae’s camp.
• Force Cloaked Jedi will take damage from turret attacks.

Battlefields

• Battlefields have been removed from the galaxy

Quests / Content:

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

Geonosian Bunker:

• The ‘enhanced kwi’ infestation has been reduced to a more manageable state.

Content: Kkowir Forest

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

Content: Space Kashyyyk

• Wookiee Resistance Fighters are now attackable.

Content: Space Kashyyyk

• Players who answered “Their numbers are thin. They are no threat to us” can now continue with the Eyma quest line
• The Imperial Station mission for the Imperial Guard Interceptor will now grant the correct badge. If you have already completed the mission, speak with the station again to get your service record corrected.
• The path taken by the quest target has been lengthened for Kerssoc’s “Destroy the Chiss poacher weapons” space mission.

Avatar Platform

• The lockbox on the Avatar platform is now accessible
• Added loot to the checkpoint lockbox on the Avatar platform.

Player Structures

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

Loot

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

Armor / Cybernetics

• Can no longer wear biceps from other armor sets over the Mabari jacket
• Fixed issue with Wookiee Ceremonial Right biceps and bracers
• Fixed the cybernetic proc effects. Cybernetic limbs with proc effects that trigger on a successful hit will now execute correctly
• Failing an action with a Cybernetic Limb will no longer cause the cool down timer to execute

Weapons / Damage

• Art: sped up two handed sword animations
• Fixed newly created Proton Rifles
• Elemental damage will now be applied to the target for weapons that have bonus elemental damage.

Shipwright

• You are now given another chance to name a reverse engineered component after attempting to use a reserved name.
• Unused engine acceleration and deceleration stats of 0.0 are no longer shown in the reverse engineering results dialog.

UI

• If you have nothing targeted, and take damage, you automatically target what damaged you.
• Visual improvements to the /find ribbon
• The Tool Tip for commands in the command browser now gives better descriptions of abilities.
• The target display will no longer appear when you have toggled off the HUD
• Players with pre-CU characters should no longer get a running man for their role icon the first time they log in
• Junk dealer names now appear properly on the overhead map
• The group direction arrow will now update when the player is out of range.
• Flora and buildings no longer make selecting targets difficult.
• Using WASD keys in MMORPG Modeless will no longer break you out of the radial menu. The radial menu will position itself in 3D once activated.
• The HAM bar will now show correctly over targets that are being attacked through the assist system
• BazaarUI: save sort settings for columns
• Default attack should now work for combat commands when using the assist system
• Minimized the size of the species requirements.
• Moved the species requirements to the end of the examine info when looking at wearables
• Adding a new /waypoint with coordinates will give better error messages when the coordinates are bad
• Terrain is now displayed in the Radar.

Player Cities

• City banned players can no longer travel to the banned city by selecting “Use Travel Ticket” from the ticket’s radial menu or by using the ticket from the toolbar
• Garage Fee/tax should be displayed in the City Status window now.

GCW

• All Crackdown NPC’s should now have the correct name, appearance and faction.

New Player Tutorial

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

Misc

• Added armor deconstruction script to old style Wookiee chest pieces. This will split the old armor into three new pieces: a head and chest piece and 2 arm pieces
• Fixed an issue where players could not put bio-link items on the market or drop them in houses they were admins of. Now, only items that have been bio-linked can not be placed on the market.

Japanese

• Less IME spam when playing in Japanese.
• Resource category names are now localized. These newly understood names will take time to move across the land.

Publish 20
July 19, 2005

Update Headlines!

Galactic Gifts – In Honor of Star Wars Galaxies(TM) 2nd Anniversary! Veteran Rewards – New Veteran rewards have been added in this publish Profession : Entertainer – Addition of a new song, a new dance, dance props and exciting flourishes Profession : Jedi – Group members no longer add to a Jedi’s visibility Player Structures – When a house is transferred the Admin lists will no longer clear. Kashyyyk – Players can now enter into the Falls Cave in the Dead Forest on Kashyyyk. Galactic Gifts – In Honor of Star Wars Galaxies(TM) 2nd Anniversary!

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

Enjoy this awesome gift with our thanks!

The Star Wars Galaxies Team

Eligibility Requirements and Tradeable Status

Accounts in good standing are eligible to receive one (1) gift per active Character during the distribution window. Anniversary gifts may be redeemed at any time between Publish 20 (currently scheduled on or about July 19, 2005 ) through Publish 22 (currently scheduled on or about August 15, 2005 ). Gifts must be claimed on or before August 15, 2005 at 11:59PM PDT . Publish dates are subject to change. To be eligible, your character must be at least 30 days old. The anniversary gifts will be tradeable in-game. These holograms are a virtual property and not available as a tangible item. Vet Rewards

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

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

Profession: Entertainer

Added a New Dance – Bunduki (an interpretive dance from the planet on which the Teras Kasi fighting style originated) Added a New Song – Swing Add new particles to the old healing branch New dance particles: Center Stage Color Swirl Dance Floor New music particles: Featured Solo Laser Show Fire Jet 2 Exotic flourishes now function properly. Entertainer’s and elite professions’ skill branches have been reworked to accommodate these changes. Added NEW dance props to old healing branch Staff Sword Sparkler Glowstick Torch Ribbon Double Ribbon Mystical Ribbon Double Mystical Ribbon Sparkle Ribbon Double Sparkle Ribbon Also, at novice dancer or higher, dancers can dual wield props.

Other Correspondent and Fan Fest changes

Dying in space no longer adds wounds You can now group with your droids in space Group members no longer add to a Jedi’s visibility Rifleman cover is no longer affected by group mates It is no longer possible to inadvertently pay double XP for learning a new skill

General

All mission terminal missions will auto decay from your Datapad after 3 days (Destroy missions, Bounty missions, etc) Battle Fatigue is no longer acquired and entertainers can no longer heal it.

Profession: Image Designer

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

Profession: Bounty Hunter

NPC Bounty missions will now work properly. The Mark will be of appropriate difficulty based on the difficulty of the mission Moved Player Bounty Hunting to the Master Bounty Hunter skill Box Jedi missions are only created for online Jedi, the Jedi may go offline after the mission is created Jedi missions display Faction instead of Jedi name Jedi missions all display a payout of a random number between 45000 – 52000 credits on the terminal but may pay a bonus amount based on level and time since the Jedi was last killed Seeker droids will now return the name of the Target Changed the name of the “imperial probot base” Bounty Hunter droid to “Imperial probot”

Profession: Scout

The Phecnacine Dart will no longer cause creatures AI to turn off Single target state reduction traps should no longer grant experience when thrown at a creature already affected by that type of grenade. Experience granted for trap throwing should no longer depend on the throwers combat level versus the creature’s level.

Profession: Pilots

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

Profession: Jedi

Force cloak and cover break as intended when the player is not in a group or non-group members breach the area. Adjusted ratio of Sith Shadow Pirates to Outlaws spawned in phase 4 of the Force Sensitive Village , to make the Village Assault (Ranged Speed / Melee Defense) quest easier to complete Players that are using the ability “force cloaked” will no longer be targetable Jedi heals will no longer cost Force and Mind if the target does not require healing

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

Players can now take part in the Captain’s phase 4 quests even if they have taken the quest in a previous attempt to complete the Phase 4 quests. Improved quest journal conversation text. Added animations to accompany certain dialog lines. Added quest reward item for Melee Defense quest.

Combat

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

Player Structures

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

UI

Removed the version number from the splash screen. If you would like to retrieve the version number, press CTRL+SHIFT+G in game. Master Badges will now be granted during the token respec period Targeting a player will no longer cause their ham bar and name to cover the targeted players face. The Network Status window will now display properly. To open the network status window you can hit Ctrl + Shift + G Emote animations will now show properly when utilizing them The Jedi force bar will now show properly on the HAM bar

Galactic Civil War (GCW)

Reduce Temporary Enemy Flag (TEF) timer to 2.5 minutes. Combat between a bounty hunter and a Jedi for which the bounty hunter has a bounty mission will result in a “bounty hunter TEF”. No other TEF (such as factional TEF, for example) is applied. The “bounty hunter TEF” will prevent both the bounty hunter and Jedi from entering player structures, and will eject the player from a player structure if the TEF is received while the player is in the player structure. Guild war PVP no longer results in a TEF, unless the combatants are a bounty hunter and a Jedi for which the bounty hunter has a bounty mission, in which case it will result in a “bounty hunter TEF”. Opposing factional TEF and “bounty hunter TEF” are applied to both combatants as soon as any of the combatants attacks.

Quests / Loot

Mellichae now drops his cyborg arm as loot. Mellichae and Daktar Bloodmoon now drop more appropriate loot. NPC Jedi can now drop medpacks, clothing, and pistols as loot.

Kashyyyk

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

AI

Fixed an error case where AI would emit a “?” over its head when a non-threat approached. Pets: If a pet attacks a mob, the mob will now also be aggressive to the pet’s master. So if you send a pet on a mob, and the pet dies, the mob will attack you. If you send your pet to attack a lair, mobs from the lair will additionally attack you. Pets: Pets now inherit the same aggro radius reduction as their master. Previously a lvl 80 player with a lvl 40 pet could possibly have an AI aggro the pet, but not the player. Now the pet has the same aggro radius as the player. Pets: A pet can no longer pull a mob without getting within the aggro radius of or attacking a mob. Previously just telling a pet to attack a mob initiated the pet and the mob in combat instantly. Pets: A pet no longer stops attacking a lair (or any immobile AI) after a short period of time. They will continue to attack as ordered. Pets: Pets no longer lose their ranged weapons on occasion when incapacitated.

New Player Tutorial

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

Misc

Player event actors will not speak their programmed text. This interim fix is due to abuse of the system and the event actor will be removed entirely in an upcoming change for this publish cycle. Players will no longer have to kill NPC’s twice when they die with a Flamethrower DoT on them Resource containers for sale on vendors or on commodities terminals will retain the name of the resource and the quantity from their description. Lairs HAM bars will now show properly