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Jibblett · Sage

Valaras blog from Fanfaire

Jibblett · Sage

Galactic assembly

1) Gasgano's podracer, as a vehicle, will be available as a trading card game loot card.... its big, and fast.

2) New wearable in the form of glowing red eyes or glowing blue eyes as the Guise of the Sith or Guise of the Apprentice, again, TCG loot cards

3) expect next expansion set for the TCG in winder with new loot cards including the diner ... takes two lots, not municipal, offers crafting bonuses for domestics and structures traders

4) Chapter 11, slated for october, will have Hoth, and replayability will occur via collections and tangential objectives
a) north field, echo base, evacuation area, and Wampa Fun Land are zones
b) folks, the video of hoth was awesome. this is going to be fun to fly in your speeders, shoot down walkers, or shoot rebels from your AT-ST.
c) objectives will be scaled in nature, naturally, the rebels lose, it will be a matter of how well or poorly the rebs lose. Finishing with lots of sucessful evacuations counts as an excellent completion. Players will have a stack of 8 speeders or AT-STs if their speeder gets destroyed

5) galactic moon festival for the halloween.
a) moenia and eisley will be the centers.
b) centers will be perma night during the event
c) npcs will hand out "costumes" for players allowing us to dress up as jawas, monkey lizards, droidekas, toydarians, and hutts.
d) rewards not finalized

6) life day
a) 3 main cities
b) gifts for self and friend
c) taking a cure from the holiday special, there will be random spawns of trees and presents throughout the city, rebs will need to decorate the trees, imps will need to smash the presents.

7) gu6 will be politician, PAs, and spy. GU7 will be domestics and structures. GU8 is up in the air

SMILEY

2009 will be droid commander. all crafting will be part of droid engineer's profession wheel. The entirety of droid commander expertise will be combat related. DEs will have new droid components and consumables that will be used.

9) Q&A session
a) yoda fountain in game possible craftable
b) new player senator requested update of the legacy quest for new players. lag in those zones was also mentioned
c) DevH is working on "something" for low pop servers
d) team may think about subdividing lots into harvie lots, building lots, etc

10) pilots: expect new content maybe gu8, which would be 6-12 months down the road. As i mentioned above, team much more concerned about content rather than ship balancing and new chassis. Not saying that new chassis wont happen, just that they'd rather do more gcw and more post-master pve content instead. ship boarding/docking, both for combat and social, will be investigated

11) LucasArts and SOE (i.e. management) are deeply committed to supporting our dev team. They would not comment on any other licensing, but George Lucas' son plays SWG and enjoys it a lot. Therefore George is interested in making sure the game suceeds (in theory)

12) no new player species and no housing on nova orion

13) they will look into persistent chat channels for guild alliances and folks with the "HELPER" tag

14) mentoring - they don't have a tech for temporary reduction scaling of combat level/abilities/gear and they want to get that working rather than any type of makeshift mentoring solution.

15) loche wants to looks at windows for player structures... One way looking out... treat it like a portal that you cannot go through. They will do a due dilligence document

STARKSET · Starky's cool name when he comes up with one

c) DevH is working on "something" for low pop servers

Hmmm sound's intresting, well not intresting as such as no kind of real info but still......