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<Vapor> Hello everyone, my name is David and I am an Associate Producer on Galaxies. <SOE-Shadowbrak> Good evening all. My name is Travis Hicks; I am a system designer working on the Beast Master system for chapter 6. <Neif> Hey guys, this is Tim from LucasArts, aka Neif <Tunso> Hello again everyone, this is Mark Halash. Im a Game Designer on SWG. This publish Ive been working on the Expertise portion of the new Beast Mastery system. <SOE-Loche> Hi everyone! I am Jesse Benjamin (Loche), a game designer. <DeadMeat> I don't have a real name <Brekkee> Acera when is ch 6 coming out? <DeadMeat> Should be hitting the test center early next week. <Brekkee> Starbuck1771 what will the chapter gift be? <Neif> Hey Starbuck, we don't to give it all away yet, but I'll say this: It's a housing decoration with a twist, something new. <Brekkee> [Naritus]Aedales It was said on the forums the Beastmaster will be something everyone has but needs to spend Expertise on. Is this true and if so do we have to use our current expertise or do we get a couple of more points to add? <Tunso> Beast Mastery will require a significant portion of your expertise points in order to get the most out of it. Theres two main branches, one for creating and engineering pets and another that deals solely with pet combat. <Tunso> The entire tree will take up all 45 of your current expertise points. However, if you only go down on side of the tree you will have some points left over to buy expertise in other areas of your class. <Brekkee> stiba a question id like put forward please: The past year we've seen alot of changes within SWG but so little content,are we to see any expansions coming our way this year? <LECjneri> No expansions are planned for this year, but plenty of chapters are stiba <Brekkee> Kye How will mounts be handled in the new system? <SOE-Loche> You will take the expertise to train mounts; you then mark an egg as a mount. You then sell that egg to other players if you wish. <Brekkee> Shadaw How long is the hatching process? <SOE-Shadowbrak> Zeta You can rename your pet at any time via a radial menu option. A pet that your currently have will need to be converted to DNA and taken through the Incubation process. <Brekkee> Jiwarri Will we be able to chose the color of the pet, like bio-engineers under the old system could? <SOE-Loche> Yes, you can color your pet during incubation. <Brekkee> DalakG what will story teller actually do? <SOE-Shadowbrak> DalakG Storyteller is an enhancement on our player event perks. Through this system you can place NPCs with storyteller determined levels, names and loot items, various props and even special particle effects. <Brekkee> Fariq_Asaka Is the Rebel Themepark still scheduled for 6 and what info can you give us about it? <SOE-Loche> Oh and on the color, your pets color will have significance <Blixtev> Still on track for an updated Rebel themepark, hopefully y'all will enjoy the new quest content! No details beyond play it out. <Brekkee> Kye What type of pet specials can we look forward to? <SOE-Shadowbrak> Kye Standard damage and defensive abilities with a few more utility ones such as chasing down an opponent and even intercepting attacks meant for the master. Currently there are 21 abilities ready to go with more being added. <Pex> Most of the items from the Event Perks will reappear, but we are adding some cool new props such as a crashed transport (really crashed, not just psarking), destroyed podracer, escape pod, etc We are putting in a number of spawnable MOBs of various flavors that you will be able to set the CL. This means you should be able to spawn high-level Tuskens and other MOBS. <Brekkee> Joakizmo Will we be able to drop one of the new pets in the house like decoration? Or will they go straight to the datapad as soon as we hatch the egg? <SOE-Loche> Joakizmo No, only pets from pre chapter 6 can be made into decoration. All new beasts go strait from egg to beast. <Brekkee> Jeram What professions will make the incubators, I know Structures is final, anyone else needed? <Blixtev> Structures does the final construction of the incubator however most of the sub components for incubators come from Engineering. There is also an additional 12 items scattered out for refining the Hydrolases enzymes with the final combine for the extraction tool being a Weaponsmith combine. <Brekkee> [Kettemoor]-Mathayus Are there any plans to increase the expertise points as more expertise is added? This would be a good way to head back towards the old sandbox playstyle, guys... <Brekkee> Starbuck1771 why did you allow rancors as pets again after say there would be a pet size limit? <SOE-Loche> Starbuck1771 We shrunk the oversized pets down to a more manageable size. Our beast rancors will be smaller than their wild counterparts. <Brekkee> telexx Greetings. I was wonder if this Beast Master profession will be comparable to the first CH that was pre-CU, or the revamped one you released before removing it. I really hope it's the original version. Thanks for bringing it back regardless... <Blixtev> The Beast Master system would beat up and take the lunch money away from the old CH system no matter what era the CH system. The team has done a steallar job creating one of the most in depth systems I've seen in an MMO. Just wait until you see it in action. <Blixtev> Im excited about it as you can tell =) <Brekkee> Aiviak Are incubators going to be made different qualities based on resources used, similar to crafting stations? Or will these items all be the same quality. Also, if quality does matter, what will it effect in the outcome of a pet? <SOE-Loche> Aiviak Yes, your resources and components will play a big role in your incubators quality. It will effect the stats and mutation probability. <Brekkee> Metar Will the action costs for abilities that use a percent based continue to use the total amount of action or will they be changed to use unmodified action like it was stated they should a while ago? <SOE-Shadowbrak> Metar Beasts have 100 action and the cost of beast abilities are scaled appropriately. The concept is quick drain and quick regeneration. <Brekkee> vimes hi all any chance we can get a confermation onbeing able to pull pets in instances (ie vette hk SK ect) <Teesquared> Currently there are some issues with pets in instances. We are working hard on getting these issues resolved but we cannot guarantee it will make it in Chapter 6. <Brekkee> vaygirl Will there be many creatures that do not yeild DNA? For instance, Krayt Dragons and Kimo's... will they be able to be sampled? <Blixtev> There are many of the "cooler" "rarer" creatures that we have made so they can't be sampled but some of them can be earned through mutations in the incubation process. Try and discover all the mutations! I like exclamation points as you can tell! <Brekkee> Jiwarri Will "your mount slows down to prepare for combat" be removed? It's a relic from the time we could actually fight from our mounts and serves no purpose now. <LECjneri> Thats a bug and I will see if its in the database. If its not there, we will add it. <Brekkee> [Sunrunner]Askikaga Will Lava Flease Obtained From extracting DNA from them be able to go through lava like the ones obtained as a reward? <SOE-Loche> [Sunrunner]Askikaga Lava Fleas are not currently harvestable. <Brekkee> Knai_Bria What new event perks will there be coming with the new story teller feature? <Pex> The big addition to Storyteller is the ability to spawn attackable mobs and trigger one-time particle effects. You will also be able to move objects in the world similar to inside a house. As for new objects, the aforementioned crashed transport will be available as will the YT-1300, 2400 and more.. We will be adding more items over time. <Brekkee> Izz Will any significant updates be made to any other professions on chapter 6? <LECjneri> There are no other profession changes in 6 outside of Beastmaster, but just wait till you get a chance to play it. As Blix said it really rocks and all players can check it out, the expertise is available for everyone. <Brekkee> {Ket}Noise Will pets currently in deed form act the same as those currently in the datapad? <SOE-Loche> {Ket}Noise We intend to have the old BE deeds function exactly the same as the old pets converted into a decoration item <Brekkee> [Bloodfin]Ledford We havn't heard much about Story Teller, we can we plan on hearing something about it? <DeadMeat> We will be having a Friday Feature on Story Teller soon. Suffice it to say that it is a very flexible system for creating cool stories. Most things are world builders can do, you will be able to do. <Brekkee> Cindal Must existing pets in the datapad be removed? and if so how soon after C6 hits? <SOE-Loche> Cindal No, you dont have to convert them. But if you dont, you cannot play with them in the new system. They will just stay in your datapad. <Brekkee> Iny With the options for beastmaster be different with the different Proffesion. Will the Entertainer and Trader ents be different from normal combat proffessions? <Blixtev> Our plan is over time to add different abilities for the different Professions, so a Medic may have a unique special to train Beasts vs a Trader. Not all our abilities will be combat based either. Our current favorite non combat ability is 'Truffle Pig' , I'm sure you all can't wait to find out what it does... <Brekkee> [Kettemoor]-Mathayus How is the Story Teller being classified, expertise, or just abilities? <Pex> Storyteller is technically item based. Anyone will be able to use Storyteller items. Tokens will be purchased in a similar fashion to the Event Perks. Expertise will not be needed, nor will abilities be put towards this system. We want roleplayers and combat-oriented players to have the ability to set up their own events. <Brekkee> Jeram Will mounts be tradeable? <SOE-Loche> Jeram yes, in egg form. Once hatched, the mount is no longer trade-able. <Brekkee> {Ket}Noise With the new "sub-class" of Beast Master will we see additional sub-classes like this in the future? <DeadMeat> I certainly hope Noise...We have Gardener on our list down the road as something we would like to try. There are a ton of opportunities there, and if Beast Master works as well as we hope, I can imagine others being proposed <Brekkee> [naritus]pal Are the pets perma-death or will they be like current pets and when they die they just say in world and get up or like droids and once they die they get packed up <Tunso> Wed like you to become attached to your beasts so obviously we wouldnt want to inflict perma-death on them. Anybody that is able to control a beast will be able also be able to revive it should it be more or less killed. <Tunso> Mechanically speaking though, when your pet dies it will stay a corpse until you take the time to revive it. And only the owner is able to revive it. <Brekkee> [naritus]cerian once a pet is fully trained will a player still need to have expertise points in beastmaster <Blixtev> The power level of the Beast is always relevant to the expertise of the Master. So if you remove your expertise boxes from Beast Master your pets power level will shrink as well. Yes we thought ahead and knew people would try and game the system by leveling the Beasts and returning back to their old profession with ultimate beast power =) <Brekkee> Cindal Will specials in existing pets (like disease, dizzy, ranged attack) tranfer with the DNA? <SOE-Shadowbrak> Cindal Abilities from the existing system, even if they have a counterpart in the new system, will not carry over. <Brekkee> {Ket}Noise ooooh colors will affect pets? Kind of like color crystals? <SOE-Loche> {Ket}Noise Kind of. The color Hue of your beast will be an indicator towards what type of pet they are. For instance, a warm colored pet was grown to be a more damage-dealing type. The Friday Feature going out tomorrow will explain more about this. <Brekkee> pirate101 The Housing Purge that will take place on June 5th, is that like a 1 time event like restuss or will it be ongoing to prevent dead structures on servers? <DeadMeat> We will continue with purges in the future, but it is not a continuous running process and it may not always involve the type of event (the bombers and all) that we are doing for this first one. <Brekkee> Guest64 What player dropped Npcs and loot can we expect to see with the storyteller additions? <Pex> We don't want Storyteller to be a system that people exploit.. MOBs are meant to be fun combat encounters and not as a way to grind levels. <Pex> You can add an item from your inventory to a Storyteller MOB, but normally they will not provide XP or loot. If they did you would just grab tokens and gank mobs in front of your PA hall. <Brekkee> Duragoth Will the "Storyteller" event perks be stackible? (or rather to say, will we beable to place one event on top of the other, or will they have to be placed next to eachother like the current event perks) <Pex> The placement restrictions on Storyteller have been loosened up significantly. We do have to check against you losing an item inside another item. <Pex> Overall, setting up objects should be much easier and similar to placing items in a house. <Brekkee> Rieka Ok Cross breading, insted of just one strand of DNA being able to but 2 or more in (only if they are compatable together) to make even rarer and more unuige creatures? <SOE-Loche> Rieka Cross breading is not planned at this time. <Brekkee> heightchKETTEMOORDARK will there be a balance pass on commandos in chapter 6? <DeadMeat> We have been looking at all of the professions since adding the expertise. We have a number of plans here, but will not do them immediately with Chapter 6. It is best to limit the number of changes you make to a system like this, and we want the focus right now on Beast Master. <Brekkee> pirate101 Recently, we were given a poll for pve content with majority wanting highend pve ground content, when will we see come new pve content placed into the game eg. new planet, new high end quests etc <Neif> High end PvE content is definitely something we'll be going for in Chapter 7. As far as next Chapter 6, we're adding a high-end quest series you'll like. <Brekkee> jedicowboy will we get a incubator thats low stats to start with? <Blixtev> I'm am sure every server will have a plethora of Structure Traders willing to get you as many incubators as you want to purchase =) <Brekkee> Fariq_Asaka Any hints as to what you have in store for Chapter 7 <DeadMeat> Chapter 7 will reflect what we heard in our polling for sure. In fact I can say that it...ahhh...<gurgle>...<DeadMeat is killed> <Brekkee> Teege Will there be a revamp to current wild creature levels? ie.. Will rancors be scary again? <SOE-Shadowbrak> Teege The goal is for a creature to be scary for their appropriate challenge level, and not only be somewhat of a challenge when leveled to 90. There are a number of changes in the works that will hopefully make those level 50 Rancor be mighty scary to Level 50 players. <Brekkee> Anon686 How will level 90 crafter fair if he takes up the full beast master line? <Blixtev> A full Trader will do okay in combat if he has full Beast Master Expertise if they get the sudden urge while crafting to run outside and blast something. For the most part their custom abilities for Beasts will be tailored towards helping them do what they do best, craft things. <Brekkee> Rubix3 As far as sampling creatures, with those whose combat lvls are above yours, will there be the reintro of camo kits so you can indeed get the DNA? <SOE-Loche> Rubix3 You will be able to sample creatures higher level than you. We are not, currently, reintroducing camo kits. <Brekkee> avamie will the story teller be ableto create dungeons to run through? if not, where will they be able to spawn mobs? <Pex> We do not currently have dungeons or bunkers planned for storyteller. The Storyteller MOBs can be spawned in the wild and in areas where you have zoning rights. Basically, anywhere you can place a house. <Brekkee> That will wrap it up for tonight. Id like to thank the folks from Star Wars Galaxies for coming! The log for tonights chat will be up shortly on http://swg.stratics.com. Thank you all for joining us! You can join #starwars to chat more about the game. __________________

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