Grand Opening of the Gnorton Zoo and Sanctuary!

The city of Gnorton is hosting a celebration for the grand opening of the Gnorton Zoo and Sanctuary. Many events are planned for the evening. Bring a loved pet or come out to find a new pet to love!

Adoption drive (dirt cheap pets)

Raffle

Lottery

Pet Show

Pet Contest (with a Master Creature Handler Prize)!

Date: Saturday, September 9th
Time: 8 pm EST.

Location: Outside of Keren, Naboo 196 1331. A shuttle beacon will be placed the day of the event.

The event will be conducted in character, but everyone who loves pets will want to be sure to attend (even if you’re not exactly a CH!)

For more information contact: Doreen in-game and SquirrelGirl in Discord/Forums

Friday Feature: 9/1/2017: Heavy Weapons Y’all!

The Empire in Flames Heavy Weapons Revamp has arrived! Commandos everywhere are rejoicing, or should be! New Entertainers should rejoice too, lots of healing XP should be available soon, from all the damage! The weapons were created unique to EiF by our lead developer and project owner, Halyn. All of the weapons require newly designed munitions components,as well.

In addition, in keeping with EiF’s mission to value crafters and interdependency, the munitions components will require items from an Artisan.

The revamp brings in four categories of weapons:

  • Heavy Weapons (40 Uses)
    • Acid Stream Launcher (this one’s gonna hurt!)
    • Heavy Particle Beam Cannon (starts singing, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s mah Particle Beam…)
    • Lightning Beam Cannon (Get out your Solar Eclipse glasses for this one folks! It’s Shiny!)
    • Rocket Launcher

Acid Stream Launcher, Heavy Particle Beam Cannon, Lightning Beam Cannon, Rocket Launcher

 

  • Special Heavy Weapons (Usable until it decays)
    • Heavy Acid Rifle (This one’s really, really gonna hurt!)

Heavy Acid Rifle

    • Light Lightning Rifle (Not as “heavy” as it’s brother…)

Light Lightning Cannon

    • Plasma Flame Thrower (‘cause who doesn’t want to shoot flames at a bad guy!)

Plasma Flame Thrower

  • Mines (5 Uses)
    • Anti-Vehicular Mine (Now we can seek retribution on the NPCs for all the vehicles they’ve destroyed of ours!)
    • DRX Mine (DRX? Dirty Rusty eX?)
    • XG Mine (XG – okay, I’m stumped)
  • Throwable Weapons (5 Uses)
    • C12 Fragmentation Grenade (Blow those suckers to tiny bits!)
    • C22 Fragmentation Grenade (Blow them to even tinier bits!)
    • CryoBan Grenade (brrr, now that’s just cold)
    • Glop Grenade (My personal favorite. Who wouldn’t want to toss a glop grenade at someone.)
    • Imperial Detonator (NR’s take your personal Imp pet out for a “spin” ahahahhaha!)
    • Proton Grenade (‘Cause who doesn’t want a mini proton topedo!?)
    • Thermal Detonator (BANG!)

All of the sub components are found in the Munition Component section of the Weapons crafting tab.

So, there ya have it! All the ‘splodie, acidy, streamy, screamy goodness any commando could desire. Go git em! Take down those arrogant Imps or dirty, rebel… erm New Republic scum.

Sandarie
Community Manager

Clearly Not Combat Princess!

New Launcher Available

Download here.

Rough & quick directions, courtesy of BluePyros:

  • Download the installer EXE
  • Run the Installer (May need additional approvals for windows control systems)
  • Run the Launcher
  • Click Settings > browse
  • Browse in the top right is for the location of the folder that contains your starsider01.tre (usually SWGemu\SWGEmu)
  • SWG install is your literal installation of SWG
  • Wait for patching to occur, then press Play

 

Additional Troubleshooting Tips:

  • Whitelist the launcher application or outright disable overbearing anti-virus programs
  • Run the launcher as Admin manually (its under compatability mode for the launcher EXE itself.)

Patch Notes: Client Patch 8/30/2017

The much anticipated CLIENT PATCH arrives tomorrow! Patch notes follow down below. The brand spanking new EiF Launcher will be available to load up the patch, as well! Instructions will be available. I’m sure you will all be grateful  I didn’t add my *squees* and *happy dances* throughout these notes, you’ll just have to guess at which ones are my favorites!

  • 4 new player races:
    • Devaronian Females
    • IG-100
    • Mirialans
    • Zeltron
  • New creature mounts have been introduced! Note that not all variants of a creature can necessarily be mounted – only the largest, toughest versions of some of these animals can carry a rider.
    • Narglatches
    • Gurrecks
    • Greater Sludge Panthers
    • Tusk Cats
    • Gualamas
    • Bordoks
    • Blurrgs
  • Entertainer Missions have been reworked using the new Fame system, which replaces the old Image Designer line in the Entertainer Profession. Entertainers with more fame can command higher payouts, particularly for gigs that require travel.
    • Fame-enhancing clothing and attachments will be coming at a future time.
    • Fame is not retroactive for already-established entertainers. The SWGEmu code that should force an update does not work, and we are investigating and will patch as soon as we have a solution.
    • Only a single entertainer mission can be taken at a time.
  • Munitions crafting has been re-added to the game. See the next Friday Feature to learn more about the Heavy Weapons revamp.
    • Weaponsmiths now have a number of new cores and components to craft to create heavy weapons.
    • Grenades, mines, and rocket launchers use explosive cores.
    • Flamethrowers and acid rifles use tanks.
    • Heavy beam weapons use capacitors.
    • Light lightning cannons use static cores.
  • Armor slicing has been re-added to the game.
  • Races that previously lacked customization now have basic morphs and palettes available, including:
    • Abyssin
    • Cerean
    • Duros
    • Gungan
    • Iktotchi
    • Kel Dor
    • Kubaz
    • Togruta
  • The first stage of the GCW has been implemented. All planets participating in the GCW now have factional troops present. (See this Friday Feature!) Planetary control scripting is still in process and has not yet been enabled, but is coming soon.
  • Port Jato, an underworld-themed player hub, can now be visited via friendly smugglers who take cash in advance. These smugglers generally don’t like being found anywhere near law enforcement, but can likely be found at the watering hole of criminal-infested hives of scum and villainy.
  • Devaronians and Kel Dor no longer appear headless when wearing hats or hoods.
  • Paintings now have backs.
  • Cats can now swim.
  • Ubese armor jackets now correctly offer chest protection.
  • Two-strap bandoleers now use the correct color palette.
  • Up to six missions can be taken from a standard mission terminal.
  • BER rates on harvesters have been changed from pre-CU BER calculations to NGE BER calculations.

Sandarie
Community Manager

One Happy Twi’lek!

Friday Feature 8/18/2017 – Teaser!

Halyn’s been doing a lot of teasing about the GCW lately. He’s been tossing up pictures on Discord with little explanation of what we are seeing. If you scrutinize them, you might begin to see some of what he’s got planned. One awesome thing is he is having a great time creating the GCW! It’s going to be unique to EiF and loads of fun! Even for us non-PvPers!

Enjoy and see what you can discover with the pics below!

One of the pictures is a tease, but not with the GCW.

Sandarie
Community Manager