Ships ranged in size from small one-man fighter craft to larger gunships with up to three decks. This allowed players to acquire and pilot ships of various sizes. The Jump to Lightspeed expansion made individual ships attainable by players for the first time. However all combat professions have sustainable self healing option. The only generic role reserved to single profession is healer, as only Medic can heal another character. This system allows the combat to be more balanced between different professions, while retaining variety of playstyles. Although some of combat professions are more prone to fall into generic roles of tank/dps/support all of them can specialize via expertise and correctly built items configuration (armor/clothing and weaponry is entirely player created and developed its quality, enhancements and efficiency based on crafter's equipment and quality and proper composition of resources drop and quest reward items are sub-par). All professions were combat capable although with definite bias towards combat professions prowess, followed by entertainers (HtH combat based on Drama expertise and/or BM expertise) and traders (combat based solely on pet crafted droids or BM expertise). The Trader professions shared not only BM expertise but also general expertise (which include specializing in resource sampling and mining via player placed structures - harvesters, reverse engineering, manufacturing via player placed structures - factories and vendors maintenance), third expertise consists of two given trader type specific areas of crafting specialization. Acquired and completed automatically when a player places a structure belonging to him.Ĭharacters could specialize in three different areas of their main professions by selecting "expertise" options, including Beast Mastery (BM). Politician profession allowed users to create and manage a player city.
Advancement in profession is based on obtaining experience via constructing holocrones and having other players complete and rate such creations. opposing faction PvP flagged players).Ĭhronicler sub-profession allowed to build holocrons with player created quests: placed props (temporarily existing in game world items and NPCs), objectives and narration. Pilots may also enter atmospheric flight mode and engage in combat attacking targets on planet surface (i.e. Advancement in profession was based on obtaining experience via space combat and completion of missions assigned by chosen wing command (three different available for each faction). Pilot sub-profession allowed users to load out and use spaceships specific to three different career paths represented GCW alignment (Imperial, Neutral, and Rebel). During the Pre-NGE, customization was easier due to "skill points" which could be spread amongst many different profession trees. In addition to these professions, a character could also pursue three optional (they could be advanced in regardless of chosen main profession nor progress in it): Pilot, Chronicler and Politician. Progress in these professions was divided into three separate experience source groups: combat, crafting and entertaining. Trader was further divided into four separate professions: Domestic Goods (tailoring and cooking), Engineering (droid and vehicle crafting), Structures (shipwright and architect), Munitions (weapons and armor crafting). There were nine professions in the game after the NGE (34 pre-NGE): Jedi, Bounty Hunter, Smuggler, Commando, Spy, Officer, Medic, Entertainer and Trader. The ten species that were available to players included: Human, Twi'lek, Zabrak, Wookiee, Trandoshan, Rodian, Mon Calamari, Bothan, Sullustan and Ithorian. Notwithstanding the game's closure, there are several private emulator projects in various stages of development that intend to allow users to experience Star Wars Galaxies in different incarnations of the game's existence. The servers shut down on December 15, 2011, just 5 days prior to the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Star Wars Galaxies continued operation for six more years. The game was completely overhauled in the last expansion, which frustrated many longtime subscribers. Released on Jto much critical acclaim, it spawned three expansions through 2005. Star Wars Galaxies was a Star Wars themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts.
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