Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 21.5

On Thursday, October 27, 2011, at 4:00 a.m. PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be brought down for an Update. 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 Update is complete, all galaxies will be live but unavailable while we complete final testing. All galaxies will be made available after that time.

Raids

• Halloween afflicted raids will no longer drop the rarest RLS items. They will still drop the more common RLS items as well as Jedi items and crystals. Non-Halloween raids will still drop all the RLS items.
• Kor Vella raids should now work properly
• Ewok raids will now drop the correct loot
• Fixed an issue where raids would pause for 10 minutes between waves even if all mobs were dead. Once all mobs are dead and their corpses gone, a new wave should trigger within a short amount of time.
• You can now only get the Rebel and Imperial raid badges if you're of the appropriate faction or a faction helper of that faction.

Faction Strike Teams

• Strike team leaders and troopers now have a chance to drop RLS items.

Player Bases

• Players can now donate turrets and mines to SF Player Bases. The deeds for both mines and turrets can be purchased from faction recruiters.
• Both SF and PvE Player Bases will now spawn NPC's to patrol the area around the base.
• You can only donate turrets and mines to a PvP base while it is vulnerable.

Atmospheric Flight Air <-> Ground PvE

• All rats/womp rats (except for storyteller and pet womp rat) have been flagged as attackable by ship guns, so that you may hone your ship gunner skill.
• A Ship Gun Mastery collection (with server first) has been added to the Badges collection page to track your progress and grant badges and titles for reaching various milestones.
• Rats/womp rats killed in this fashion will not drop any loot or harvestable resource.
• The ship must be moving above a certain speed threshold for the hit on the rat/womp rat to count. The speed threshold is approximately the same as a character's normal run speed. If you keep shooting at rats/womp rats while below the speed threshold, you will eventually get a system message reminding you of the errors of your ways.

Jabba's Palace

• There is a new NPC outside Jabba's palace!
• You no longer need quests or pre-requisites to enter the different sections of Jabba's Palace.

Scavenger Hunt Collection

• Tweaked the conversation with the Reprogrammed Collection Droid.
• The Corellia Times vendor now sells the Meatlump scavenger collection item.