Star Wars Galaxies: Game Updates for 7-24-03

Here is todays patch notes!

July 24th

Downtime will be 1 hour longer than usual this morning, servers will come back up at 9am PST.
Client Version 55436.0

Improved server stability
Improved server performance (some players on Tatooine at prime time may have noticed some areas were getting laggy, this should help address that).
Added "practice" for crafting - when you practice, you'll use all the resources naturally, but you won't actually make the item - you'll also get a 5% xp bonus. This is to help address those people who want the xp from practicing crafting, but don't want (or don't think they can) to sell the items they are making.
Storing a pet will no longer heal it.
Storing an incapacitated pet will no longer kill it.
Pets that were previously 'dead' when called, will be alive again.
Any remaining Bio-engineered pets with crazy stats will delete themselves from the world.
Fixed a crash associated with manufacturing from multiple resource containers at once.
Melons provided to newbies have been reduced from 3 to 1

Practice sounds like an awesome idea!, to bad they couldn't have put it in early! Do you guys know how many gaderiffi batons or weapon upgrade kits I destroy in a day?