Star Wars Galaxies: Community Update December 20th

Greetings,

Welcome to the Community Update for December 20th! This will be the last big update for the year (though I will be on the forums through the holidays) so I wanted to cover as much ground as possible.

Publish 27 Highlights!

We've been working together to get a lot of great new features into Publish 27. Be sure to check out all the posts!

Here are the must see links!

Publish 27 Preview Thread

In Development: Heavy Weapons Revamp

In Development: Stealth Enhancements & New Gadgets

In Development: Profession Specialization - Jedi Enhancements

Hyperspace Home!

Along with these new features we will be seeing some anticipated fixes as well:

• Overall game performance improvements
• Legacy, Kashyyyk and Mustafar Quest Fixes
• The radial menu for Multi Passenger vehicles will be addressed so getting in and out of vehicles with your friends is easier.

Where's the Entertainer Info?

Some of you may have noticed that there wasn't any information included in all of the latest updates. The reason why is that we know this is an important change for many of you and for the game. We had a meeting to discuss the Entertainer changes and we are going to be moving the Entertainer Profession changes to Publish 28.

I know many of you were anxious about seeing the changes, but this had to be done.

Ground/Space XP

With today's update , many of you have been interested in the details about how the Ground/Space XP works. Basically if you have a combat profession, when you kill a target in space, you get General Combat XP and Space XP. Because this was a change to combat, Traders and Entertainers weren't included in this preliminary change to how the XP works.

This isn't because we are neglecting you; it is because Trader XP and Entertainer XP aren't related to the Combat XP system at all so making this change is going to take a bit more effort. We will be looking at making the change to this in the New Year.

For all of you Ace Pilots out there who are capped and aren't earning XP in space, we will be looking at what changes can be made to accommodate you as well. No promises, but we'll do what we can.

Mouse-Only Game Play

It has been on live galaxies for a bit while we did some final testing, but I wanted to call your attention to the Mouse-Only Game Play Feature that is now live. You can find more on the details and how to enable the feature in this post .

Looking Ahead at Thursday's Update!

We have one more update to the live service this year and I wanted to get some of the details out to you. Here they are:

• The Level-Up Loot Item will be added throughout the Galaxy! These will be randomly dropping off of all creatures and NPC's and when you find them, you can use them to earn a whole level!
  
• We'll have a fix for everyone who has been having problems receiving tells!
  
• Tired of sending Trade Requests to other players in combat? So are we! We are working to have this fixed in Thursday's update!

We've brought you a whole bunch of new game info today and we hope you like it!

Please be sure to hit all of the In-Development Threads and give us your feedback on the proposed changes.

Thanks!

 
[p]Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager