Star Wars Galaxies: Weekly Update #1

Weekly Update #1

Hello Star Wars Fans!

Its been a busy day, but I wanted to get this out to you. Its 7:30 and I wanted you to have one more blast of information for the weekend... Going forward, the format of this thread will grow but I intend to give it some structure so the community as a whole begins to see how things progress and evolve. Starting out, there are three key areas I want to address this week: A weekly thread follow up to things I've posted, my outlook and goals and a question and answer section. As of next week, I intend to include bi-weekly or monthly Player Correspondent summaries as well.

Some Community information. If you want to have fast, effective communication with me, rants and negative messages get ignored. I will not respond to those messages because it's not healthy. This is unfortunate because there are a couple of really good threads and I'd like to post follow up information right in those threads and now I can't. Understand that negative information is NOT a way to get my attention or "force" me to answer your questions. Actually, it will have the opposite effect and stop me from answering them.

_____Weekly Thread Follow Up______________________________

"Oh my...sir, he says there are several creatures approaching" Pt.1

There are a lot of good questions here. Next week, I will work to pull a bunch of the questions and get some replies.

"Oh my...sir, he says there are several creatures approaching" Pt.1

Me -n- the devs are happy to see all the positive feedback

"A death mark's not an easy thing to live with"

Almost across the boards, the devs are agreeing with the comments you are making on the pain of decay. All of the pain has been reduced to low single digits. The Death Penalty that is on the Test Center now is:

NO decay for incapacitation
1% decay on death if you are insured
5% decay on death with no insurance

"Mission Payouts Focus Thread"

Across the board, this was a very positive exercise. Posters gave me great information. I was able to read through everything, analyze it and give really great information back to the team. When the specifics of the changes are more formal, I'll let you know whats going on.

"I do not want the Emperor's prize damaged. We will TEST it...on Captain Solo."

This is a very important issue. We want more people to test on the Test Center and we want to do it right. There really is a lot of balance issues that have to be considered and we don't want to alienate the very good community we have there now, so there is more thinking to do on this.

_____Question and Answer ___________________________________

Why were banthas left out of the mounts?

They will be mountable in time. The reason they aren't mountable currently is because we didn't want to have two types of mountable creatures from 1 planet.

Our question is, this was 3 weeks ago now and our PA channel and pa tags still exist as we try to convince someone at your end that this is a serious bug and not an error on our part. I would like a dev to explain how the game is managing to keep our tags and chat channel running even though there isn't a PA hall.

A PA hall is used to create a PA, but the PA has independent existence from the Hall. You can pick up the hall, let it decay, or leave it be without the PA disbanding. There are a few checks we have been informed of:

Once a week the system makes sure the PA has at least 5 people. If not, the PA is disbanded.

If any person who is in a PA puts down a PA hall (even as a home or business) it will automatically become a PA hall for the PA that person belongs to (whew!) and the PA leader can use that terminal just like the "real" PA hall terminal.

Are you still launching (Europe on the) 31st?

The team has a launch window of October 31st to November 7th. Our goal is October 31st, but there is a fair chance it will be November second.

I will report to you, the community, each week on all of these issues and keep you informed.

Have a great weekend