Veteran SWG players home in on veteran reward
Filed under: Sci-fi, Events, in-game, Star Wars Galaxies, Player Housing
It's been some time now since Star Wars Galaxies launched, but I was surprised to see that they're now offering their 57 month veteran award. Almost five years have passed since the Galaxy Far, Far Away opened to players, and it's been about four since the Jump to Lightspeed expansion brought players into space. Folks who have been in-game since the beginning now have a brand-new option for space travel, a doodad profiled in this past week's Friday Feature.
The Homing Beacon will be a housing placeable item handed out to veteran players. If you're in the same star system as your beaconed house, you'll now have the option to land directly at your home from the system's space station. It can be placed and removed multiple times, but only the veteran player can make use of it; other housing administrators are out of luck.
I've always been partial to these regular gifts from the dev team; my personal favorite is probably the Jedi Starfighter hologram from the 21-month slot - just beautiful. Do you have a vet award that you thought was particularly spot on?
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3-09-2008 @ 8:15PM
deathwombat said...
I more like the fact that you don't even need to have been playing star wars for that long, the time is counted since you first started an account, so people who have quit SWG (and I'm sure there's a lot) could buy another month and become millionaires just by selling all their vet rewards. Although these days becoming a millionaire in SWG is very easy as they practically give copious amounts of creds for just talking to a person...
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3-09-2008 @ 11:58PM
GrimParrot said...
My favorite veteran reward was when they gutted all of my hard earned work on my character in order to provide a more iconic star wars experience...wait what?
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4-07-2008 @ 12:42AM
Kaiallard said...
Yes the three people who actually play this game often enough to get this reward and make use of it will be very happy.
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4-27-2008 @ 5:54PM
GameZig.com said...
Ah an instant travel vehicle they are adding in now. You don't even have to travel around on a planet anymore. Just when you thought they couldn't screw up a once great game any more. All in the name of instant gratification, what they got was an instant flop.
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