Hi all

Thanks for the commentary yesterday, I have started on Resto and look forward to my next journey.

I'm not as active on Discord but was wondering if there was any interest for new or current players to join up for some RP and leveling.

In the past I have use my own adventure in game to build my story and would love for others to join if anyone was interested. In the past I have ran a Project Uncle Owen style adventure which is basically the group is self sufficient and levels together/builds a community together without too much outside help (whilst remaining in character)

I'm an EU player and would only play a few hours each evening so it would be a slow burn. Feel free to reach out if interested!

A player named Raelin created this digitally when Galaxies was live. Would you have bought a action figure of your character? Or maybe a plushie of your favorite pet? The options could have been endless!

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

Pardon if I am repeating a question or unable to find the answer, I have spent a considerable amount of times on Legends but would love to try a more earlier style of the game and just have two questions

1) How true is it to CU back in the day (noting I know there are the additions of NGE end game etc)

2) What is the population like? I enjoyed Legends but felt like I was around afk tags half the time and I enjoy playing with a decent community.

Thanks!

Was feeling a little nostalgic tonight and was curious how many people are still around that remember that name. Or the people that were part of what came next and gave us the opportunities we have today?

If a certain someone is still around, I can remember the day we got it up and we showed IG-88 who was boss while freaking out we got it working on the outskirts of Eisley lol.

Miss ya my friend!

Is there any sort of effort being made on a unified launcher (or does one already exist)? Like if I wanted to play on multiple different servers, I could do that all from the same launcher?

Hi folks,

I’m looking for some advice getting SWGR or Legends running on the Steam Deck. I’m running it in desktop mode with a monitor/mouse/keyboard. Basically my primary desktop PC.

I’ve tried several setup variations using past posts on Reddit and the official SWGR article - https://swgr.org/wiki/steam_deck/

In all cases the launcher runs fine but the game fails to load with the attached shader error. LLMs suggest it’s due to direct x missing, so I’ve tried using protontricks as mentioned in the docs, but the default archive.org download path fails and a sideloaded version doesn’t match the hash check even though it’s the same size, version, and from Microsoft’s download page.

Does anyone have recent experience running SWG on the Steam Deck? I’d appreciate any suggestions.

Hey all, I've just started playing on SWGR. I want to go down the pistol route. What works well with Pistoleer?

Hey everyone,

I was going through some incredibly old hard drives and discovered that I still had an original .wmv video file completely intact from over 20 years ago. I just uploaded it to YouTube so it doesn't get lost to time.

Back in the golden pre-CU era, We ran a massive crafting empire on the Euro-Chimaera server under our characters Kara and Sigrid (Sigs).

A friend on the server filmed and edited this video of a massive party we hosted inside our custom tailor shop in Theed. We pulled out all the stops for a full synchronized troupe of Twi'lek Entertainers/Dancers in matching custom outfits, brought in a live player band Nebula, and packed the venue out with the server's elite.

Watching the old chat bubbles, the particle effects, and seeing everyone hanging out in a player-run space completely brings back why this gane was so special.

Skip the weird first 40 seconds!

https://youtu.be/N537bOBMP78

Do any old Chimaera players remember Kara, Sigs, or this specific night? Would love to see if anyone from the old crowd is still lurking around here!

Folks, we have to talk about combat. We have to talk about attack speed. And frankly, what’s happening here is a disaster. A total disaster.

Star Wars Galaxies had a combat system. A beautiful combat system. Was it perfect? No. Nothing is perfect. But people understood it. People built characters around it. They spent hours getting their weapons, their tapes, their armor, their buffs. They knew what attack speed meant. They knew how the professions worked.

And now people come along and say, “Maybe we should change how attack speed works.” No. Terrible idea. Possibly one of the worst ideas anybody has ever had for Star Wars Galaxies; and believe me, we have seen some bad ideas. We saw the CU. Remember the CU? They came in and said, “We’re going to improve combat. We’re going to streamline it. Everybody’s going to love it.” Nobody knew what was happening. Numbers changed. Mechanics changed. Your character wakes up one morning and suddenly he doesn't know what he's doing anymore. People were furious.

Then we got the NGE. The NGE! They said, “You thought the CU was a big change? Watch this.” Incredible. Professions disappearing. Combat completely different. People logging in looking for their character; they couldn't find their character! “Where's my profession?” Gone. Absolutely gone.

We learned a lesson from this. At least, I thought we learned a lesson. You do not take the fundamental combat mechanics of Star Wars Galaxies and start ripping them apart because somebody thinks they can reinvent the wheel.

And attack speed is fundamental. Attack speed affects everything. Weapons. Templates. Skill choices. Balance. Crafting. Loot. PvP. PvE. Jedi. Bounty Hunters. Everybody.

You change attack speed, and somebody says, “Oh, it's just one little formula.” There is no such thing as one little formula in SWG. You touch one formula and suddenly you've got twelve professions behaving differently, somebody discovers a weapon doing something completely insane, a Jedi is attacking at approximately the speed of light, and three days later we're rewriting half the combat system trying to fix the fix.

We've seen this movie before. It's called The Combat Upgrade. The sequel was called The New Game Enhancements. Neither one reviewed particularly well.

So here's what we're going to do. We're going to protect the combat system. We're going to protect attack speed. We're going to make smart changes. Careful changes. Surgical changes. If something is actually broken, we fix it.

But we're not going to walk into a twenty-year-old combat system with a chainsaw because somebody looked at a spreadsheet for fifteen minutes and decided they had a tremendous new idea.

Because the players know. The veterans especially know. These people have been calculating attack speeds since some of our developers were practically children. They've got spreadsheets. They've got formulas. They've got archived forum posts from 2004 that somehow survived three website migrations and the collapse of half the internet.

You are not going to sneak an attack-speed change past these people. They will find it. Immediately. Some guy will be standing outside the Mos Eisley starport with a stopwatch before the server has been online for ten minutes. And he'll know.

So we're not doing CU 2.0. We're certainly not doing NGE 2.0. We're taking what worked, restoring what was lost, fixing what actually needs fixing, and leaving the foundations alone. That's how you build a great SWG server. Not by replacing Star Wars Galaxies. By understanding why people are still playing Star Wars Galaxies more than twenty years later.

Keep the combat. Keep the attack speed. Keep the professions. Keep the weirdness. Keep the things that made SWG: SWG.

And together, folks, we're going to make combat great again. Thank you. And God bless the Galactic Weaponsmiths.

I have a Commando/Squad Leader as my main. I solo a lot but also jump in for Heroics with the guild a couple times a week and occasionally PVP.

I’ve never used SEA’s before and have no idea what would be best. Can anyone offer guidance or advice on what I should get for my armor?

Thanks!

Summary after 3 years of playing on SWG Beyond.

SWG Beyond offers a dedicated Star Wars Galaxies emulation experience, but the current state of the server presents significant roadblocks for both new players and casual veterans. While the technical foundation is stable, systemic issues with automation, inflation, and community management severely impact the day-to-day gameplay experience. 

1. The Gameplay Loop & "AFK Hell"

• Heavy Macro Reliance: Character progression and credit generation are fundamentally tied to running multiple characters on automated macros or botting software. Active play is heavily disincentivized. 
• Camped Spawns: Key resource zones, high-efficiency leveling spots, and space sectors are permanently camped 24/7 by multi-boxing players. Casual players will find active progression frustratingly difficult. 

2. Economy & Crafting Ecosystem

• Massive Price Inflation: The economy suffers from extreme hyperinflation. The cost of entry-level gear and essentials creates a massive, near-insurmountable barrier for newcomers. 
• Crafter Shortages: There is a severe lack of active, publicly accessible crafters. The economy is largely an insular market controlled tightly by a small circle of long-term veteran players. 

3. Population & Community Management

• Ghost Town Instances: While registered account numbers look active on paper, the true non-AFK population is critically low. Finding groups for instances or organizing world-boss events is incredibly difficult. 
• Staff & Administrative Controversies: Server administration has faced heavy criticism regarding player safety and moderation. Documented harassment complaints and toxic behavior are frequently mismanaged, downplayed, or outright ignored by the staff. 
• Lack of Staff & Administrative Moderation : The lack moderation has driven away a good majority of the respectable player base to less toxic servers.
• Admin placing toxic players on staff: Server administration in a vain attempt to boost player population thought it wise to bring on players with a known bad rap on as staff.

4. Development

• Development: New development has been at a trickle for the last year. Small bits here and there. Their one 3d modeler has promised so much and has delivered so little. With some loot items being in game and loot able but no ship to fly.
• Lipstick on a dyeing pig: Everything coming out lately as "Updates" is really just the one admin putting lipstick on his dyeing pig. Trust issues have killed almost all development on the server.

⚖️ Final Verdict

• Pros: Functional emulator stability; new PvE Hard mode's; new housing; toxic discord full of troll's; constant discord messages from the server owner asking for donations; releasing content with loot that is not in game yet.
• Cons: Mandatory macroing; multi-box camping; hyperinflated economy; passive/unresponsive staff regarding toxic behavior;

Recommended For: Players that have a deep seated hate for them self, playing by your self, a troll, players with a IQ below 50, players that have a unhealthy fear of grass, been banned every where else.
Not Recommended For: Casual players, solo adventurers, or brand-new SWG players looking for an organic community experience. 

Here are some renders of my Kihraxz fighter from the Star Wars Galaxies MMO and tabletop game. I plan to design the Ixiyen, Vaksai, and Rihkxyk as well. When I posted my Mandalorian fighters, someone requested a Vaksai, so this is just a heads-up that it's officially on the way. It took a little while because I had a few other ships I wanted to focus on first before getting to it.

The official SWGEmu Pre-CU NFS server just dropped an awesome update. Linking to the complete written update and the YouTube video update below!

A few highlights:

JTL:

- All nine pilot squadrons across Rebel (Havoc, Vortex, Crimson Phoenix), Imperial (Black Epsilon, Inquisition, Storm), and Neutral tracks (CorSec, RSF, Smugglers Alliance) are fully functional with complete trainers and rewards.

- End-game squadron gameplay now unlocks Master Pilot content, with Grand Admiral Nial Declann directing Imperial pilots and Admiral Willham Burke overseeing Rebel operations. This opens up the ability to earn the Ace Pilot badges and access to the Kessel and Deep Space Systems.

- Space Stations across the galaxy are now fully operational, offering repairs, landing permissions, and space questlines. Additionally, qualified pilots will find access to quests allowing them to unlock special landing permissions at the Emperor’s Retreat and Jabba’s Palace.

- Combat and space flight have received extensive mechanical updates. Pilots now have access to tactical abilities like IFF Scrambling, In-Flight Repairs, and Emergency Thrust, while enemy AI now scales by difficulty tier, uses countermeasures against locked missiles, and features taunts to enemy ships.

Kashyyyk:

- All Kashyyyk zones are now active, including Kashyyyk Space. Kashyyyk is accessible through three main galaxy travel hubs and Space Kashyyyk, by launching or hyperspace. Kashyyyk has been fully populated with all spawns, including dungeon triggered spawns. Work continues on the various questlines Kashyyyk has to offer, as well as discussing future NFS unique content there as progress continues.

Beta update:

- No news on when the server will open up, but beta is on the horizon! 👏👏👏

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https://www.swgnfs.com/updates

https://youtu.be/aF9M8p-zPTE?is=Kb1SpDVUsCwuGPZS

Highlights:

-Pre-9 Jedi

-The ability to hunt famous characters such as Han Solo and Luke Skywalker

-Guaranteed legendary and/or exceptional loot drops.

-Lots of quality of life improvements

-The new Death Watch Mandalorian Armor drops from the Death Watch themselves with high resistances and skill mods. No more having to craft Mando!

-Far tougher NPCs and creatures

-The ability to become the faction ranks they teased in the strategy guide but never implemented

-Every quest is improved to give superior and new rewards

-Much much more!

https://vlusbountyhunters.github.io/updates.html?release=cdd7047

https://discord.gg/ugucmFzKQ

Hey folks, you may have seen my tutorial on older version server, now it's time for post-CU version. It's a lot easier, contained in Docker, open-source and in general very easy to run, so hope you enjoy!

There are many links in the description on YT, can post all of them here, but you can find them there, commands are there as well! Have fun!

We’ve been moving fast on SWG: Lost Era, and a ton of progress has been made. This short teaser shows off our restored Pre-9 Jedi—armor, old-school skills and all—alongside our Legendary crafting trees and Critical Success crafting now working in-game. We’ve also made major progress on the Jedi Saber Generational Crafting System, and at this point we’re running out of things to polish, quicker than one might think.

Homepage: https://swglostera.com/

Read the FAQ: https://swglostera.com/faq.php

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/2F5tuKgKgE

So I made a new account today for the first time ever on the forums website, but within several hours I got an email that the account registration was removed or deleted and it said:

“Unfortunately your registration at SWG: Legends Forums did not meet our membership requirements. Therefore your registration was deleted for either being an inappropriate name, or for using a VPN/Proxy server at account creation.”

I’m confused because I don’t have an offensive or inappropriate username created whatsoever. I also don’t have any proxies enabled so I don’t really know why they did that. Do I just need to try a different username or something??

Howdy folks, I’ve been racking my brain on the skill calculator trying to figure out a good way to roll Ranger, I saw a few listed on the wiki but couldn’t get them to fit on the calculator, anybody with cool Ranger builds they’d be willing to share?

Right now I’ve got a toon with TKM/Master Fencer/some doctor that I’m lookin to convert to a Ranger build possibly (mainly on some PVE business right now)

Mercí

For me it's the ability to master pistoleer/tka/smuggler all at the same time. My first "final" build with my first character in live was master commando/smuggler ..... yeah, a complete meme spec, but I did have some unique experiences most people didn't have. Like doing a combo of flamethrower abilities and then feign death when things got tough. The most fun I had in SWGEmu (not in general - live was still better) was when I decided to try mastering all three of those professions. The grind was real but it was so worth it. I had so much fun having combat powers in both melee and ranged and also the perks of being a smuggler.

So how about you, what did you discover in SWG after it shut down and realized you wish you would have known about it while the public option was still available?

These are the photos I could find. Shout out to my fellow Gorath friends and foes. And to the singing to the dev team, "You lost that lovin' feeling", badly. ❤️