On Tuesday, August 9, 2011, at 4:00 a.m. PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be brought down for a Hotfix. The servers are estimated to be down for 4 hours. If this timeframe changes, we'll post an update on the official forums.

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.

Empire Day VIII / Remembrance Day VIII

• The Empire Day and Remembrance Day events have come to a close. We hope you enjoyed the festivities!

Fishing

• The chance of catching an ELUSIVE fish has been increased.
• The chance of catching a gigantic fish that you have not yet caught has been increased.

Player City

• The inactive citizen removal time and zoning violation time have been increased by 90 days, from 90 days since last login to 180 days since last login.

GCW

• Starting with the 8/11 GCW rank update, if you do not have enough GCW points to offset decay, no decay will be applied.

Loot

• Balanced the drop rates for the Jedi and Sith holocrons.

Instances

• Mustafar and Heroic instances should no longer have any lockout timer.
• The entry requirements have been removed for all Mustafar and Heroic Instances.
• Heroics
  • Axkva Min
  • IG88
  • Tusken King
  • Star Destroyer
  • Exar Kun
  • Echo Base
• Mustafar
  • Uplink Cave
  • Old Republic Facility
  • Decrepit Droid Factory
  • Working Droid Factory
  • Droid Army
  • Sher Kar

Beast Mastery

• Removed chance of false-positive mutations.
• Added Mooc and Pangrack DNA to the RLS.
• Added the Mooc and the Pangrack as possible mutations.
• Improved the average DNA quality acquired when using 'Extract DNA'.
• Increased the minimum number of skills on Lyase Enzymes.