Pilots of Starsider, come one, come all!

Bring all your parts to buy sell and trade at the First Swap Meet of the summer.

Tired of going from city to city looking at parts? Bring it all here for a weekend and mingle with other pilots doing the same. Display your prized possessions or just hang out the stuff you'd like to trade for other parts. This is an old fashioned swap meet so leave the wife at home, pack your sunscreen and come out to socialize and barter.

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HOUSE PACK UP BEGINS FRIDAY 22nd JUNE

The House Pack Up begins on Friday, June 22, 2007! The Galactic Vacant Building Demolitions Crew will be ready to begin demolition this Friday after a brief maintenance period at 2:00 PM CDT.


Any house, factory, or player association hall that has been abandoned by its owner (since April 16, 2006) has been targeted for pack up. The building sign is marked in red as "Abandoned" to indicate the structure can be demolished.


Once you see the sign with the red "Abandoned" text, open the radial menu and choose "Structure Management > Pack Up This Building" to initiate the bombing. You can pack up a maximum of five buildings every 24 hours.


If your building has been packed up, you will find it in your datapad when you return to the galaxy. Simply unpack your house in a new location and the structure will be restored with your possessions inside.


Civilians who mark ten buildings for destruction receive the Junior Wrecking Crew Worker Badge. Hard-working citizens who clear out 50 abandoned structures are recognized for their destructive talents with the Wrecking Crew Manager Extraordinaire badge.

Not only can you receive badges, but for each successful destruction of an abandoned structure, you receive one reward point. Reward points are redeemable at the Lucky Despot in Mos Eisley for in-game items that can be used for decoration.


The Galactic Vacant Building Demolitions Crew is exploding with excitement – get out there and help them clear out those buildings!

CHAPTER 6.4 TO GO LIVE TODAY
On Thursday, June 21st at 4:00 AM PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be taken down for server maintenance and a live update.

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.

It's been 2 years since the NGE hit Galaxies and people are still talking about rolling back the servers to pre-nge/cu. Now, if you are new to the game and wondering what the fuss is all about - the story is long and complex. However, if you are an old player of Galaxies and still waiting for roll back - you've a long wait, as SOE won't roll back.

But there could be hope for those players. A small band of freedom fighters have started working on the old code of the game but will players still want to play a game that is essentially 4 years old? To find out, SWGalaxies.net will be having a Q&A with the guys behind True Galaxies, a new Pre-CU Galaxies that's currently under development and due for launch soon. We are giving the community a chance to ask questions in the forum.

Q&A Thread

Rodian Rants has been updated today (sorry for the delay! and this week he takes a much closer look at something he over heard the other day - SWG cyber ***! Much to his amazement. In addition to those revelations, he laughs in the face of credit farmers, thanks to the recent changes to the 14 day trial and shares his thoughts on Base Busting.


His column

It's probably a job we all envy, sitting in front of a computer playing out the script of yet another big event, but there's more to Pex than just an Events Manager, as we strapped him to the chair, tickled his feet until he gave us the answers we were looking for in our Q&A with Pex.

Q: What games are you currently playing and do you have an all time favourite?
Currently I am spending more time in SWG as some of my old guildmates have returned and I have made some alts on servers where there are a lot of weekly events.


Full Q&A

SOE DEADMEAT has posted this

Hi Folks,

I wanted to write a quick note here to explain some of the changes we have instituted with regards to the free trial accounts. As many as you have noted, we have had a large upswing in the number of 'credit spammers' in the game, advertising their credit farming websites, etc. This is not a problem unique to Star Wars to be sure, but something that all MMO's have had to deal with over the years. Without commenting in general about credit farming, we certainly do not want our players to be harassed by these folks, nor do we wish to have their Star Wars role playing immersion be ruined by such blatant non-Star Wars behavior.

Practically all of this spamming has been done through our free trial program. Our plan had been to address this immediately following the house pack-up event with a number of restrictions and alterations to the free trial. With the house pack-up running late and the spamming problem getting worse, we decided to activate the old restrictions on the trials immediately in order to end the harassment of our players. The net result was of course that free trials could no longer leave Tansari Station.

Our free trial program is incredibly successful and we do not want to keep these restrictions in place very long. We are working now on more focused restrictions that deal very specifically with those folks using the trial for nefarious commerce. These should be in place soon, and we will lift the embargo on trials and allow them to once again enjoy as much of the game as is reasonable without the ability to negatively effect our paying customers. This will include the ability to travel to the other locations in the galaxy. Folks in the trials are our future comrades and friends (well, some may become your enemy I suppose...But in a good way ), and we should welcome them.

There were a small number of verteran players in trials as well that were impacted by this, and we do apologize for the inconvienece. Rest assured that anyone who lost items due to being forced back to the station will have those items returned if they move to subscribed status.

Once again, we will be putting systems in place that will allow you to play with friends who are trying out the game. This is a great way to introduce someone to Star Wars which and we feel it is very important to facilitate this. These changes are fast tracked at this point and should be coming very soon.

Thanks,

DeadMeat
Lorin Jameson, SOE Producer, Star Wars Galaxies