"Welcome, traveler. Heard you're new in town. Mos Eisley can be a dangerous place. What can I help you with?" - Gendra, New Player NPC
New Player Tutorial
Space Station
Welcome to Restoration Station!
Within the game code sometimes you find fragments and relics of the past. In the case of the Restoration New Player Experience, parts of the original Combat Upgrade Tutorial were preserved. Upon opening it up, there was quite a lot of clean up necessary but were able to get the space station and quests within the space station functional once again.
Using your inventory while overlooking Tatooine
The Space Station experience is more or less linear but takes you through the foundations of Star Wars Galaxies.
Learning the basics of equipping weapons, using skills, and the HAM bars
Gendra - New Player NPC
Previously, new players were thrown straight into the Legacy quest line with an option to go to Gendra. Now upon completing the Space Station tutorial, players are only pointed to Gendra. Gendra has a much expanded series of quests to learn more detail about the game. Although Gendra already existed as a helpful NPC, players often skipped straight over them in favor of Legacy. Gendra is now the singular point of contact while players gain their footing, where they can learn about various professions, get their new vehicle, and get started on Legacy.
Gendra offers many quests to get new players acclimated to Star Wars Galaxies Restoration
Gendra quests:
Expanded Tour of Mos Eisley Services
Gendra's quests now walk you to the trainers, explain skill points, and how to earn experience to train
As time goes on the team intends to add more quests to Gendra to help players get used to Star Wars Galaxies.
Rested Experience
With the traditional SWG skill tree, there are so many different professions that players want to re-spec quite often to try out varying plausible combinations of professions. At the same time, in terms of gameplay loops, leveling or re-designing your character isn’t the most engaging. After receiving resounding feedback that Battle Fatigue needed to go, Developers wanted to decide upon a replacement mechanic. As a result, Rested points have now replaced Battle Fatigue!
See your local Entertainer for even more xp boost!
Many already know that experience gain is already tuned up 500% versus the Live version of SWG. Well, we decided to turn it up a bit more as a positive incentive to visit your local Entertainer. Rested points accumulate while watching an Entertainer and you will have a 50% bonus to all XP earned with Rested points. These points drain both over time and with each time you gain XP.
Battle Fatigue has been replaced on the Character Sheet
Credits and the Economy
Credit generation and the economy has always been a hot topic at SWG Restoration. One of the cornerstones at SWG Restoration is trying to create a stable economy in part by restricting multi-accounting and limiting AFK bots. Recently, a change in the logistics of verifying multi-accounts was implemented and last year there were big shifts in anti-afk mechanics.
In an attempt to balance credit generation, the upper ceiling of credit generation was lowered last year with Chassis Dealer adjustments. Now on the flip side we are raising the floor so to speak on a few different options to create better balance.
Legacy Quest Rewards
The Legacy journey across the Galaxy
The Legacy Saga, as preserved from the original game, provides a journey across the Galaxy to see many places they may not have known existed. Experience gain on this solo path is a great way to level up but now players are also rewarded with more credits as the quest moves on. Scaling from 2,500 credits all the way to 70,000 credits, the overall journey rewards over 3 million credits in its entirety.
Watto comes bearing gifts of armor!
Prior to heading to the Squill Cave, Watto now awards players a set of beginner armor of your choice. The stats are not as good as crafted armor but still prepares you for a little bit more challenging content.
Help Boss Nass find stolen artifacts
Jokes aside, the Legacy Series packs in a lot of content and can be a cool way to level up, gain credits, and experience the Galaxy before branching out into other endeavors.
Infiltrate the Meatlump Gang hideout in Coronet
Mission Payouts
Now admittedly mission terminals admittedly aren’t the most engaging content but they do serve a purpose especially for newer players. Having a wide variety of rewarding options is what is important going forward. Want to quest? Want to run destroy missions? Want to track down animals? Want to craft items? Want to entertain? Want to be in space? You get the idea.
Have you ever even used one of these? Maybe now players will...
Adjusted payouts:
And in the near future we are working on rewarding players for additional playstyles –such as PvP, which has never really had income on our server.
Check out the patch notes at:
https://swgr.org/post/update-1-1-1-0-the-last-update-before-jedi.2099/
May the Force be With You
SWG Restoration Staff
New Player Tutorial
Space Station
Welcome to Restoration Station!
Within the game code sometimes you find fragments and relics of the past. In the case of the Restoration New Player Experience, parts of the original Combat Upgrade Tutorial were preserved. Upon opening it up, there was quite a lot of clean up necessary but were able to get the space station and quests within the space station functional once again.
Using your inventory while overlooking Tatooine
The Space Station experience is more or less linear but takes you through the foundations of Star Wars Galaxies.
- Movement
- Chat
- Inventory
- Datapad
- Quest Givers
- Quest Journal
- Waypoints
- Radar
- Equipping
- Targeting
- Activities Bar
- HAM
- Combat
Learning the basics of equipping weapons, using skills, and the HAM bars
Gendra - New Player NPC
Previously, new players were thrown straight into the Legacy quest line with an option to go to Gendra. Now upon completing the Space Station tutorial, players are only pointed to Gendra. Gendra has a much expanded series of quests to learn more detail about the game. Although Gendra already existed as a helpful NPC, players often skipped straight over them in favor of Legacy. Gendra is now the singular point of contact while players gain their footing, where they can learn about various professions, get their new vehicle, and get started on Legacy.
Gendra offers many quests to get new players acclimated to Star Wars Galaxies Restoration
Gendra quests:
Expanded Tour of Mos Eisley Services
- Head to Starport to discuss traveling, the Bank, how to use the Bazaar (new user interface), the Cantina, and Cloning Facility
- Discuss skill points, weapon experience, combat experience, training, as well as melee, ranged, and hybrid professions
- Discuss skill points, crafting experience, entertainer experience, entertainer professions, and all of the crafting professions
- Craft Meat Jerky, Small Glass, and Spiced Tea for Gendra
- Survey for and collect minerals to craft more survey devices
- Dance at the Cantina, play music at the Starport, and entertain patrons at the Lucky Despot
- Send to harvest Nunas and Worrts for a stew, also discusses healing mechanics
- A Speeder for Me quest which gives a speeder and covers the Garage
- Options to give waypoints to Rebel, Imperial, or Neutral Pilot Trainers
- Sends players to Bib's Offer and the Mayor
Gendra's quests now walk you to the trainers, explain skill points, and how to earn experience to train
As time goes on the team intends to add more quests to Gendra to help players get used to Star Wars Galaxies.
Rested Experience
With the traditional SWG skill tree, there are so many different professions that players want to re-spec quite often to try out varying plausible combinations of professions. At the same time, in terms of gameplay loops, leveling or re-designing your character isn’t the most engaging. After receiving resounding feedback that Battle Fatigue needed to go, Developers wanted to decide upon a replacement mechanic. As a result, Rested points have now replaced Battle Fatigue!
See your local Entertainer for even more xp boost!
Many already know that experience gain is already tuned up 500% versus the Live version of SWG. Well, we decided to turn it up a bit more as a positive incentive to visit your local Entertainer. Rested points accumulate while watching an Entertainer and you will have a 50% bonus to all XP earned with Rested points. These points drain both over time and with each time you gain XP.
Battle Fatigue has been replaced on the Character Sheet
Credits and the Economy
Credit generation and the economy has always been a hot topic at SWG Restoration. One of the cornerstones at SWG Restoration is trying to create a stable economy in part by restricting multi-accounting and limiting AFK bots. Recently, a change in the logistics of verifying multi-accounts was implemented and last year there were big shifts in anti-afk mechanics.
In an attempt to balance credit generation, the upper ceiling of credit generation was lowered last year with Chassis Dealer adjustments. Now on the flip side we are raising the floor so to speak on a few different options to create better balance.
Legacy Quest Rewards
The Legacy journey across the Galaxy
The Legacy Saga, as preserved from the original game, provides a journey across the Galaxy to see many places they may not have known existed. Experience gain on this solo path is a great way to level up but now players are also rewarded with more credits as the quest moves on. Scaling from 2,500 credits all the way to 70,000 credits, the overall journey rewards over 3 million credits in its entirety.
Watto comes bearing gifts of armor!
Prior to heading to the Squill Cave, Watto now awards players a set of beginner armor of your choice. The stats are not as good as crafted armor but still prepares you for a little bit more challenging content.
Help Boss Nass find stolen artifacts
Jokes aside, the Legacy Series packs in a lot of content and can be a cool way to level up, gain credits, and experience the Galaxy before branching out into other endeavors.
Infiltrate the Meatlump Gang hideout in Coronet
Mission Payouts
Now admittedly mission terminals admittedly aren’t the most engaging content but they do serve a purpose especially for newer players. Having a wide variety of rewarding options is what is important going forward. Want to quest? Want to run destroy missions? Want to track down animals? Want to craft items? Want to entertain? Want to be in space? You get the idea.
Have you ever even used one of these? Maybe now players will...
Adjusted payouts:
- Music, Dancing, Crafting, and Surveying missions have been increased 5x
- Factional destroy missions have been increased 4x
- Creature Destroy missions have been increased 1.5x
- NPC Destroy missions have been increased 2.5x
- Escort missions have been increased 3x
- Recon and Delivery missions have been increased 2x
- NPC Bounties have been increased by 1.5x
And in the near future we are working on rewarding players for additional playstyles –such as PvP, which has never really had income on our server.
Check out the patch notes at:
https://swgr.org/post/update-1-1-1-0-the-last-update-before-jedi.2099/
May the Force be With You
SWG Restoration Staff