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Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (Prima Official Game Guide)

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On April 28, 2005, Sony Online Entertainment released a massive revamp of "Star Wars: Galaxies." The whole combat system is different, as are the in-game professions and creatures. This edition of the game guide is now completely obsolete.

I have played Star Wars: Galaxies for 782 days according to the /getvet command. I have purchased all of the expansions out to date. I was considering creating a second account. As of 11-17-05 my account is cancelled. The New Game, also known as the Starter Kit, is the third version of SWG and it is riddled with bugs and incomplete. It is a far inferior product to its previous versions as well. The NG was released after being kept secret for an unknown period of time and allowing players only a two week notice of it being published. Even less time was devoted to it being tested by sources outside of SOE. Trials of Obi Wan and the NG were released in such a manner as to call into question SOE's and LA's ethics. As represented by the employees who post to the forums SOE and LA are uncarring, glib, and/or vastly out of touch with the player community.

Most of these are not new complaints. However, with the release of the NG these problems have escalted to such a degree that the game is no longer playable. While some are content to merely switch games I am not. Simply changing the direction of the flow of money to SOE and LA will not get their attention. I am boycotting all products created by Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts. I encourage others to do the same.

I do not think my actions alone with effect SOE or LA one iota. In fact, I doubt anything will change their policies. The fan base for Star Wars and other properties is sufficiently numerous to mitigate any discontent portion. While some have predicted that the NG will cause the collapse of SWG I believe otherwise. It will lose many current players but those will be replaced by SOE's and LA's new target market. SOE and LA will later use the negative comments and future subscriptions numbers to prove that they were right all along and to dismiss anyone who opposes them as being knee jerk reactionaries who are against change just because they don't like change. Because most likely the next expansion will also bring a new version of SWG as SOE and LA attempt to copy whichever game is doing better then.

Sad to say, this guide is useless. The game, as many other have stated, has undergone many changes and even the Jump to Lightspeed side is now out of date.

IF the book was $1 it'll be a nice addition to a collection, but being a guide to SWG? Not at all. :(

this is such a waste....heck, just send me your money and i'll burn it for you....bumm deal!

I would highly recommend against purchasing this guide. In late April 2005, Star Wars Galaxies underwent what is called the "Combat Upgrade," which completely changed the way the combat system works, as well as many of the professions. In fact, even since the CU professions have changed even more. If you purchase this guide, it may be helpful for the Jump To Lightspeed portion of the game (space missions, etc) but will give you nothing but bad information in regards to the ground-based portion of the game. Hope this helps!

1. it takes a day or so to master any pilot profession if you're half- decent.
2. SWG is dead. the CU killed it. it will be folding up shop any day now for good so be aware of that. nothing sucks worse than paying for a game that morphs into the cra#$iest game in the universe as this one did.

SOE WE WILL NOT PAY TO BETA TEST YOUR WASTE KNOWN AS THE COMBAT UPGRADE!!!

Ok combat upgrade was a big change into swg and i didnt really liked it in the beginning, I have 3 accounts and 4 chars.

One mainly used for crafting and business, one is a doc for buffing etc, my main char wich is combat proffs and my jedi character wich i unlocked after 16 months of playing.

Its been over 2 years i play swg and i thought CU was horrible when it came out, i thought about quiting the game but i didnt, i tried to get to the point as the whole game was 90% new and now et voila im enjoying it more than ever! before CU players can become almighty and nearly untouchable but now is quite more balanced so once u get used to it and u learn ll new abbilities and commands is not bad at all, just different.

I like more the old system but i still enjoy my time of play, im the guild leader of a PA and we have more people joining every week, we still have fun all together and believe me if youre a sw fan u cant miss it, try it if u like it go ahead i assure ull have fun and meet so many cool people, if u dont u havent waisted anything.
THe fact now is harder to level up has made many people go to other games but hey we have more content than any other mmorpg and we still have a huuuuuge community.