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Star Wars Galaxies: A Look At Chapter 5
GFulls
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Star Wars Galaxies gives us a look at Chapter 5: An Entertaining Enterprise.
LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment today announced that Chapter 5: An Entertaining Enterprise is now available to Star Wars Galaxies subscribers. Chapter 5 is the latest in a series of scheduled updates that Star Wars Galaxies players will automatically receive throughout 2007, at no additional cost as part of their regular subscription to the game.
Two iconic Star Wars professions, traders and entertainers, are the beneficiaries of all new skills and abilities in Chapter 5: An Entertaining Enterprise, allowing players to fully customize their characters and carve out their own place in the galaxy. Players will be able to earn up to 45 expertise points as their characters progress to level 90, which they can spend as they please on new abilities, and modifications to existing abilities for their professions.
Chapter 5: An Entertaining Enterprise introduces the following features:
Profession Expertise System for Traders - New skills are now available to traders through two expertise trees. The Production Tree allows players to choose skills such as "Advanced Production Technology" and "Deconstruction Techniques" that will allow them to not only increase their storage capacities, but also decrease the cost and the amount of resources needed to produce items. The Specialization Tree offers abilities like "Artisan's Dexterity" and "Advanced Resource Refinement" that will give players specific bonuses to their chosen profession.
New Reverse Engineering System for Traders: This new system provides traders with a greater level of involvement in the Star Wars Galaxies economy, along with making them a more valuable member of any party or player association. Through this system, traders will now be able to reverse engineer items in-game to create new item upgrades for use by themselves or other players.
Through the new reverse engineering tool, traders will be able to deconstruct items, weaponry, armor and clothing in-game, and extract "Power Bits" and "Modifier Bits" that can be combined to create item upgrades for existing weapons, clothing or armor. Traders will be able to craft both permanent and temporary item upgrades to expand their business and make them even more sought-after in the galaxy.
Time to Go Camping: The galaxy is a big place, and players often find themselves undertaking days-long expeditions. Fortunately, traders receive another new skill in Chapter 5 that will allow them to assist with players' adventures far from home.
Traders will now be able to craft and sell customizable campsites. By loading the campsites with different components during the crafting process, traders can tailor the functionality of the camp to the order of the customer. Modules such as a Shuttle Beacon, Cloning Center, Junk Dealer and Entertainment Area can be built into the campsite, truly making it a player's home away from home.
Profession Expertise System for Entertainers - Entertainers can now assign expertise points within two trees to acquire new skills and enhance existing abilities. The Artiste Tree includes skills such as "Holographic Mastery" and "Lasting Impression," which increase the stats and duration of specific bonuses and buffs that entertainers can place on other players. The Drama Tree offers abilities such as "Rising Spirit," "Controlled Spin" and "Allure," which increases the entertainer's effectiveness in group combat.
Build-a-Buff: Entertainers also receive an exciting new system in Chapter 5. They can now craft custom bonuses to bestow on other players. These "Build-a-Buff" performance packages will include a series of trade-offs (positive buffs that can be strengthened by choosing additional de-buffs), to offer players a nearly exhaustive group of new buffs.
In-Game Rewards: Players who log in after Chapter 5 goes live, and before Chapter 6 is released, are eligible to automatically receive a custom one-use campsite that they can take on their galactic adventures. In addition, they will receive a limited-edition collectable painting entitled "Camp Life" that they can place in their home or other player structure.*
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I will never, ever buy an SOE game for the rest of my life... Just because of the mess they made of this game. ffs SOE, please retire this MMORPG and let somebody else have the license!
So they didn't fix either the time-line problem or the Jedi problem I see. Because player Jedi, Luke Skywalker who isn't a Jedi yet, Yoda still living, Darth Vader and the Emperor still living and the Empire still in control of the galaxy does not mix together.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.
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Hey guys, I'm pretty sure this wasn't posted in the "Moan and complain section". Oh, sorry I mean the Veteran's section. I get those two confused the way you guys keep crying on and on.
Now that I'm sure I've pissed off a few people, I'll move right on to say if you want to bad mouth the game, do it the section reserved for you. If you respond to this message with any retarded comments, they will be ignored.
I am glad to see SOE is continuing to support the people that supported them through the hard times. If nothing else, it goes to show you they aren't going to quit without a fight. I think for the sake of those that continue to play, SOE should continue to give new and enchanced content. Good job SOE.
I love how every time SWG gets a news item here, some bozo comes along with the same tired whiny mantra: "Waaah! Why doesn't SWG die already? Waaaah!"
Sure SOE screwed up SWG, but that's in the past - must we hear about it over and over again for ever? I mean there's a whole new group of people in charge now and, although I would never have believed it, the game is actually improving now. So please can we stop with the nonsense? I'm hardly a SOE fan, but even I realise there's not much served by whining about negative changes that were over and done with over a year ago when the game is now actually improving. It's like saying "Oh, I'm never gonna drink milk again since they stopped putting it in glass bottles. It's not the milk's fault that they started putting it in cartons, and it's not the game's fault that SOE screwed it up.
Get over it! The game isn't about SOE - it's about Star Wars.
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FYI - SWG died over a year ago... the game now is SWG:NGE - which is NOT by any means, the same game. Those of you that consider it to be the same game, I would like to urge you to play EQ II for a week and then switch to WoW and play that for a week, while I sit over here and tell you that it's the same game. There really is no resemblance between the two (other than the fact that they are both "fantasy" based MMO's). Same thing applies to SWG and SWG:NGE - no resemblance between the two other than they are based (loosely) on the Star Wars franchise.....
I'm not an SWG "hater", I'm an SOE "hater." I know where the anger should be placed. I'm not mad at the milk... or something like that.
Also, respectfully, I want to know , when the game has ever NOT been about SOE.
I'm the girl the ESRB warned you about...
Isnt "Reverse Engineering" just enchanting from WoW and renamed? "Break down items into their component parts and use these to modify existing items". Sounds like you disenchant and item and then use the bits to enchant a new item.
I also love the way they say "fully customise your character with 45 points!". This isnt fully customising it. Fully customising was how SWG was pre mega nerf, and it was one of the only games that you COULD fully customise. Their new way is just WoW's talent tree.
Come on SWG, think, you can have ideas of your own too, you dont NEED to copy Blizzard at every turn. The world wont think any less of you....
"When people don't know much about something, they tend to fill in the blanks the way they want them to be filled in. They are almost always disappointed." - Will Wright
to Jayanti: No Reverse Enginering was already in SWG long before people could even play WOW, must have been put out of the game maybe for a while dunno about that, but it defintly nothing that WOW did
Anyway Good thing SOE is trying .......
Yes i hated them for what they did with SWG pre-cu, but lucky enough for me that was a long time ago, why would i keep hating a company that still is releasing games of my liking, i played MxO and never had any problems with SOE, Playing Vanguard as we speak (type) and still np with SOE (tho its Sigil who is managing the most). Maybe i've been just as narrowminded as most SOE haters in the past but no more, we already have to much narrowminded people in rl why should this continue online.
I think allot of SWG Vets are like junky's looking for that fix they felt the first time they shot up, yes I was one of those junky's but now i'm clean (sort of speak afcourse)
And to get back to topic i think it is nice that they atleast "try" and "fix" the game, tho i'm wondering that stuf like the campsite (isn't that like what rangers "can" could" do ? (no rangers currently??, no idea meself), anyway it seems by only reading the new stuff is like they bringing in the old stuff with some new names, wich is pretty good to see them implementing that again.
Because i play Vanguard i have Station Acces and tried SWG current for abit but must say that even tho my system upgraded from low/mid range when i first played SWG-pre-cu and today have like a High-end system but it still feels the same only major difference is that now is see more shaders/shadows (bit to much at some places), still laggy like it used to feel and even Vanguard feels allot smoother then SWG currently does (on my system) Also could not really say that i liked the new experiance( intro was cool) but after landing on the planet it was pretty buggy and i find it hard to believe that the game is now more casual friendly cause for me the only thing that will make it in SWG if you know people already playing hte game some time or those that might want to use some secondary market, again pure speculating and based on my experianced when i tried the game again. I made a little story of my adventurer as a Newb in the SWG galaxie: (tried to approuch the game like someone totaly new to it)
Yahoooo i can finaly get to one of the wonderful worlds in the Star Wars galaxies, my amazing adventure's on the mil.falcon and helping Han solo on the space station to prepare his ship for departure to Tatooine has made me hungry for more amazing adventure's, already set my mind on to becoming a crafter so that should be fun for me.
i rememberd i made alittle bit of cash on the spacestation, so maybe i can buy some of the meat/hide of the bazaars...That worked..back to Gendra.. Here you go Gendra the meat.
Pffooeeii finaly here, now lets see "Need to speak with Gendra" ah easy, pointer showing me the way...great...
Hello Gendra (NPC quest giver)....Hello Ynoh Tna : "i would like to ask you to make me some items..here take these resources and get on crafting..bla bla bla...
(me) cool finaly some crafting stuff, nice to get the resources from , all going well..here you are. Gendra...Thank you Ynoh Tna. Now i have a easy task for you and thats to make me some "Meat Jerky", you need to get some hides and meat to creat that, i need 5 pieces please.....
(me) hehe np, i just go outside the city walls and probebly find lots of hide/meat...running away from Gendra towards the outside......still running........running....hmm where the #$#% are those critters??......more running......YAY! finaly Rills....shoot...shout...arrggg...Incap...hmm must have done something wrong....again.....Flash...shoot....bang!!!....incap !!!...grrr, hmm maybe look for another critter around here......ah Minor worrts...piece of.....AArrrgggg incap!!...hmm....incap.....Arrgg incap....yes Rockmite's...incap incap incap !!!! /sad..walk back to the city...lets check the cantina if someone might be able to help...
Entering cantina...Hey pretty busy with lots of AFK people
Hey
Gendra thanks you and has another task for you Ynoh Tna, i need 7 glasses for my friend Lurver who is outside ME's cantina, when you have made them please bring them to him.....okay i said.
Well learned me lesson to try and find the res. meself so i wander of to the bazaar, buy some gemstone and make some glasses, head over to Lurver and unable to give/click or talk with Lurver so my story for now end as i can not continue..
I hope for those that still playing SWG will enjoy themselfs and that SOE keeps on trying atleast make the game good for its next generation, our generation (old SWG Vets)just needs to settle with other games and get over the idea that SWG will never be what it used to be, but that doesn't have to mean its all bad now, its just not what we where used to
It doesn't matter what SOE does from now until the end of time - the world could not possibly think any less of them than they already do.
I'm the girl the ESRB warned you about...
not a bad update for what it is.
to the guy that talked about the timeline. officially i believe galaxies is an eu alternate universe.
finally for the love of god stop calling this game a wow clone. wow is a really good game, it has more content in one zone than galaxies EVER had (dont even get me started on galaxies "end game". even in its pre nge days, they had what 2 high end dungeons? lol im sorry but thats absolutely pathetic.
this game is nothing like wow, never has been and never will be. if it were more like wow nobody would be complaining. 8 million plus people agree, its a great game.
just stop calling it like wow, its a really bad argument because its not even close to being accurate.
Games i'm playing right now...
"In short, I thought NGE was a very bad idea" - Raph Koster talking about NGE on his blog at raphkoster.com
Jump to Lightspeed - Release Date: October 27, 2004
World of Warcraft - Release Date: November 23, 2004
Jump to Lightspeed Expansion Announced: April 21, 2004
World of Warcraft Closed Beta sign-up's start: March 19, 2004
Jump to Lightspeed = Shipwright = Reverse Engineering
1 month is not a long time.... I am not saying that SOE stole the whole reverse engineering idea from WoW's Disenchanting ability - that would go beyond even my, personal level of paranoia and conspiracy theories.... I'm just saying... that's not a long time...
I'm the girl the ESRB warned you about...
Dislike the game? Shut your hands off from this news discussion, it wont affect any current SWG players. Nice update BTW.
p/s: i am not a current SWG player
All canceled. Waiting on Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning.
I want my game back !
You know, the one with all the professions we wasted soooo many hours on. Wonder what the current players will do when SOE come up with the really really new game experience in a years time and totally change the game again into one profession (jedi?)with 8 talent trees to fully customize their characters.
Bah
Jump to Lightspeed - Release Date: October 27, 2004
World of Warcraft - Release Date: November 23, 2004
Jump to Lightspeed Expansion Announced: April 21, 2004
World of Warcraft Closed Beta sign-up's start: March 19, 2004
Jump to Lightspeed = Shipwright = Reverse Engineering
1 month is not a long time.... I am not saying that SOE stole the whole reverse engineering idea from WoW's Disenchanting ability - that would go beyond even my, personal level of paranoia and conspiracy theories.... I'm just saying... that's not a long time...
Okay you are right it isn't a long time
a Craft rewamp without the return of decay...
its only a joke? the relation between players and soe seems be really bad atm...
why Soe work with a crap dev team? perhaps a problem with $ ?
Expertise system - like WOW
Campsites - old just put back in
Entertainer buffs - lame, not as good as classic at all
Holopets - lame, totally gay and completely worthless, i want a real pet that i can take into battle.
Holobands - well i guess they have to fill up the servers somehow
I signed on for a month to check things out. i am enjoying some aspects of the game, but its still broken as hell, lagg, bugs, glitches, and things just not working correctly. I have played classic, CU, and NGE on and off for 3 years. Its not the same. Theres a long way to go to make this game playable for a large player base again. But instead of fixing the game we get stupid shit like holopets.
I was a SWG lover until WOW show up, and ever since. The SWG was one of the best games ever and I remembered like that. I didn't saw the thousand changes and crasy stuff that happend after I left. However, I still have friends plaing there and I know a bit of what is happening. My point is that they can't change what ever is broke. They need to close the game and open a new one.
If they take the combat system from WOW and fix every bug that they have, I beleave that alot of people will come to play to that new game.
I did try to play the game 4 months ago and I did't liked. The combat system is horrible and this games are for combat guys anithing else is just extra stuff. I want a game with lasers and guns but is just imposible to find one this days playable good luck.
Sorry but this game is for combat guy's only ?? think you playing the wrong type of game, if you want lasers and guns then take your pick at over thousends and thousends of gun/laser combat games, want something more out of a game try to play a mmorpg.
I agree with you that the combat system in SWG isn't really cool but that is mostly because i don't like to only combat in a mmorpg, i would stick to single player or regular FPS online-games if i really that into combat. MMORPG's are so much more or atleast should be so much more. Oh and i really do not want that crappy WOW combat system. i would like to have challenge when fighting and WOW lacks everything at the challenge department (sorry doing the same thing over and over again is no challenge) I wanted skills in WOW that ment more then only speed up time when in a fight, put auto-attack on and fight a equel target you still will win, use your "skills" and afcourse you will win quicker. no sorry please no copy's of WOW's combat system