Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 18.4

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, at 4:00 AM PST all U.S. and European galaxies will be brought down for server maintenance and a Hotfix. The servers are expected to be down for about 4 hours.

When the Hotfix is complete, all galaxies will be live but unavailable while we complete final testing. All galaxies will be made available after that time.

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Welcome Back!

• Those of you back for free for the long holiday weekend, welcome! We hope you're having fun reconnecting with old friends and checking out all of the great new content including the Witches of Dathomir Prologue, Galactic Civil War Leaderboards, Fishing Leaderboards, the new rare loot system and much more. If you've been gone a while be sure and check out the Galactic Civil War invasions and scoring system, and the new loot for the Heroics. Also, browse the commodities market to purchase some cool loot and collections given out during The Empire Strikes Back 30th Anniversary and the Star Wars Galaxies 7th Anniversary celebrations!
• Be sure and use the new rewards - the decorative Fedora and Whip - to decorate your in-game house. If you convert your account to paying and join us after November 30th you'll be able to WEAR these mysterious archaeological items
• Enjoy your time adventuring in the galaxy! We're glad to see you back.

Player City

• The "Inactive Citizen - 60 Days Offline" notification mail should now only be sent for inactive citizens. Previously, it was also sent for inactive non-citizens, causing %TT to appear on those mail.
• The City Maintenance Paid mail now contains the updated treasury balance.

Fishing

• The rule for achieving the record fishing collections/badges has been changed. You only need to catch a Gigantic (or better) Length Genetics fish to get the record fishing collections/badges. The fish Examine window displays the fish's Length Genetics.
• The names of the fishing collections/badges have been changed to more accurately reflect the new rule of Gigantic fish rather than Record fish.
• While record fish accomplishment is no longer reflected in the fishing collections/badges, all other aspects of the record fish system remain unchanged - no record reset (at least for the foreseeable future), record fish tracking, record fish listing, record fish renaming, Examine window record fish information, current record holder title, comm. message from NPC when catching a record fish, etc.
• The ELUSIVE fish system remains unchanged, including the 70 ELUSIVE fish badges and the permanent guild/city travel point perk.

Bazaar Terminal

• The STAP-1 speeder deed no longer appear as a code string on the bazaar.