What do you do in Star Wars Galaxies?

Star Wars Galaxies
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Developer(s)	Sony Online Entertainment
Publisher(s)	LucasArts
Director(s)	Raph Koster

How many professions are there in SWG?

There are seven combat professions, four crafting professions and one entertainer profession. In addition to a main profession, there are four auxiliary professions that characters of any profession may pursue: Pilot, Politician, Beast Master and Chronicle Master.

What type of game is Star Wars Galaxies?

massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Star Wars Galaxies is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that lets you assume the role of nearly any type of character in the Star Wars universe and interact with thousands of other players’ characters as well as established characters from the movies. You can be a shady smuggler, like Han.

How do you level a creature handler?

There are three ways to gain Creature Handler XP: successfully taming a baby for the first time, teaching a new command to a pet for the first time, and having your pet contribute to the death of an NPC or creature.

What is pre CU Star Wars Galaxies?

Star Wars Galaxies Pre-CU (Pre-Combat Upgrade) refers to the game as it was played during and prior to the publish 14.1 of the game, just before the “Combat Upgrade” (CU) was implemented. Many SWG fans agree that Pre-CU was the high point of the game, while the CU update and beyond changed the game for the worse.

What is pre NGE?

Players cannot play a Jedi character unless they have “unlocked” that ability by going through the “Jedi trials.” Doing so allows a player to train Jedi-related skills and to create a second character on the server their Jedi character plays on. …

What is SWG NGE?

For all that the MMO community references Star Wars Galaxies’ New Game Enhancements (NGE) as a synonym for devs breaking a game with a horrible patch, expansion, or business decision, the actual details of the referenced events have become blurred through time, retellings, and a sort of weird mythology.

Why was Star Wars Galaxies good?

It was an ideal fit for the type of MMOG that Koster and the Galaxies team set out to make. Instead of classes, Star Wars Galaxies gave each character a budget of skill points to spend on professions that could be freely mixed and matched in whole or in part. Interdependency between players was encouraged.

Are Star Wars Galaxies dead?

When Star Wars Galaxies closed down in 2011, its final hours saw an outpouring of love for the much-maligned MMO, with players returning to log on one last time. As Vogel says, “They created their own stories living in the Star Wars universe and that was what made it special to them.”