Star Wars GalaxiesWikipedia – a free online Encyclopedia has a great source of info.
TimelineThe game events are set between the events of Episode IV: A New Hope, and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Geography The game covers 10 planets: Tatooine, Naboo, Corellia, Talus, Rori, Dantooine, Lok, Yavin IV, the forest moon of Endor, and Dathomir. In the 2nd expansion Rage of the Wookiees, the Wookiee planet Kashyyyk was added. In the 3rd expansion Trials of Obi-Wan, the planet Mustafar was added.
GraphicsThe game is generally praised by reviewers for its realistic character models, detailed architecture and lush environments.
ShipsThe Jump to Lightspeed made individual ships attainable by players for the first time. this allowed players to acquire and pilot ships of various sizes. these ships ranged from fighter-sized ships up to ships like the Millennium Falcon. Some players chose to play most of the game in space, while others went back and forth between space settings and plantary settings.
Player housing, guilds, and citiesCharacters can erect, own and decorate a variety of buildings, including houses, cantinas, guild halls and city halls. These buildings, when grouped, can be organized into cities. As cities grow in population, they become eligible to add services and facilities such as vehicle repair garages, shuttleports, cloning facilities, hospitals, cantinas and garden displays. They can show up on the planetary maps alongside canonical cities such as Theed and Mos Eisley. Other features Single- and multi-passenger ground vehicles and starships: (landspeeders, speeder bikes, swoops, Player-run economy where player characters are responsible for creating many in-game items including blasters,starships, clothing, armor, food, housing, furniture and even a wide variety of droids. Items are created from player-collected raw materials and looted items. An extensive set of emotes, moods, and associated animations, which affect not only an avatar's physical appearance but also the text used to describe a character's speech, and even the shape of the speech bubble displayed on-screen. The ability for players to place bounties on opponents that kill them in PVP. Player character bounty hunters can then pick up another character's "bounty mission" on the terminals and track the character down. A bounty can be claimed at anytime, regardless of the target's PvP setting. Up to three bounty hunters can be tracking a character at any given time. An extensive character creation system. Characters can hire Entertainers to change their appearance in-game, with even more options than those available at creation. Every visual aspect of a character is thereby changeable at any time after character creation except species and gender. Initial release and expansionsAn Empire Divided - June 26, 2003 My 2 CentsThere is a game purchase price of $50 and a monthly fee with lower rates if you purchase for more than 1 month at a time. They range from $15 to 12 a month depending upon the plan you choose. Like the movies there are many path's you can choose. The starting path's are:
Once you master one of the above path's you move toward a Master Profession. Those are:
Here are some of the Species you can play. As you can see from some of my screen shots I have did quest that allowed me to meet many of the Rebel and Neutral people of the movies. I am working an imperial on another server so I can meet the rest. Visit my SWG Gallery to see some of the fun things that I get to see on the game.
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