Start Your Story with the New Player Guide

The new guide system is now available in game. It introduces characters to core mechanics and helps turn the first hours of play into a clearer path through the galaxy rather than a wall of unexplained commands.

The guide tracks meaningful milestones across character development, combat, equipment, travel, trade, roleplay, daily tasks, and now the ammunition system. It can surface the next useful step, record progress, and award the appropriate account-experience and gameplay rewards when an objective is genuinely completed.

Daily goals have also been tightened up: account experience is awarded only when a daily objective is finished in full, each completed daily grants 100 account experience, and the account-experience cap applies consistently across all sources.

Badges, Public Profiles, and whois

Characters can now earn and display account-backed badges. Use badges to view earned badges, badges info <badge key> to inspect a badge's description and bonuses, and badges equip <badge key> to choose your equipped badges. Badge APPLY bonuses stack with other bonuses; characters can equip one badge initially, then unlock additional slots at levels 10, 20, 30, and 40. Equipped badges appear beside the character in who and whois.

The new whois <character> command provides a compact in-character profile with faction, species, profession, level, badges, and—when the player allows it—their description. Players control their profile privacy, including public, introduced-only, and anonymous visibility options. This makes it easier to recognize familiar faces while respecting roleplay boundaries and character identity.

A New Ammunition System

Blaster and ballistic weapons now use ammunition stores rather than automatically spending credits when they reload. Every compatible weapon can be loaded with a preferred ammunition type, and a weapon that runs dry still works at 50% normal single-shot damage. A bad reload situation is a tactical problem, not a complete loss of agency.

Players can visit an ammunition quartermaster, purchase and reload compatible ammunition, manage their carried supply, and use the streamlined ammo command to see current stores. The carried limit is 2,000 total charges, including ammunition inside carried containers; loaded weapon charges are excluded. New characters begin with standard ammunition, while existing characters receive a one-time legacy top-up. Use help ammunition or the quartermaster's catalog for full descriptions; the no-argument ammo command stays focused on what you currently carry.

The complete catalog now creates real tactical tradeoffs (prices are per 100-charge pack):

• Standard power pack (100 credits) — baseline energy ammunition for blasters, rifles, and carbines.
• Standard ballistic clip (100 credits) — baseline ballistic ammunition for slugthrowers.
• High-capacity power pack (320 credits) — +25% loaded capacity, but -10% damage.
• High-output power pack (450 credits) — +15% damage, but -25% capacity; -6 Dexterity/-6 Reflex recoil, 3% jam chance, and no burst/autofire. A Recoil Dampener cybernetic can reduce the penalty.
• Precision power pack (400 credits) — +2 accuracy, but -10% damage and -15% capacity.
• High-velocity ballistic clip (480 credits) — +12% damage, but -25% capacity; -4 Dexterity/-4 Reflex recoil, 2% jam chance, and no burst/autofire. A Recoil Dampener cybernetic can reduce the penalty.
• Match-grade ballistic clip (420 credits) — +2 accuracy, but -10% damage and -20% capacity.
• Low-recoil ballistic clip (380 credits) — +1 accuracy and +20% capacity, but -8% damage.
• Ion power pack (1,000 credits) — 150% damage against droids and 33% against organics; a 3% chance to disable a random cybernetic for one round, with -20% capacity, -4 Dexterity/-4 Reflex recoil, 3% jam chance, and no rapid/burst/autofire. A Recoil Dampener cybernetic can reduce the penalty.
• Stun power pack (800 credits) — 25% damage and a 10% chance to stun for one round; stunned targets gain five-round immunity, while stun ammunition has -1 accuracy, no critical hits, a 2% jam chance, and permits standard attacks only.
• Armor-piercing ballistic clip (800 credits) — normal damage with a stacking Reflex/Fortitude debuff up to -5; targets gain ten-round immunity after it ends, and the clip has -20% capacity, -1 accuracy, -4 Dexterity/-4 Reflex recoil, a 2% jam chance, and no burst/autofire. A Recoil Dampener cybernetic can reduce the penalty.
• Incendiary ballistic clip (950 credits) — normal damage plus 1d6 fire damage each round for three rounds, with -15% capacity, -4 Dexterity/-4 Reflex recoil, a 3% jam chance, and no burst/autofire. A Recoil Dampener cybernetic can reduce the penalty.
• Explosive ballistic clip (1,250 credits) — normal damage plus one-quarter final-damage splash to other enemies in the battle, with -40% capacity, -2 accuracy, -6 Dexterity/-6 Reflex recoil, a 5% jam chance, and standard attacks only. A Recoil Dampener cybernetic can reduce the penalty.

Standard attacks consume one charge, rapid shot two, burst fire five, and autofire ten. Standard ammunition reloads with a move action (quick/minor with Rapid Reload); specialty reloads use a full standard action (move with Rapid Reload). Charged specialty shots apply their listed Dexterity/Reflex recoil until the attacker's next turn and can jam the weapon. Recoil Dampener R1 cyberware reduces each recoil penalty by 2; R2 reduces each by 4, with damaged implants operating at half strength. A jam blocks subsequent attacks until unjam main or unjam offhand, which costs a move action in combat and persists through save, rent, trade, storage, and copyover. Fire-mode restrictions are checked before charges or actions are spent, and empty emergency shots do not apply recoil or jams. All specialty profiles consume normal mode charges; the old charge-cost field remains only for catalog compatibility.

The new Recoil Dampener R1 (level 5, 65,000 credits) and Recoil Dampener R2 (level 15, 160,000 credits) cyberware entries are available through the augmentation system. They occupy the same recoil-compensation slot, so a character must choose between the lighter +2 reducer and the heavier +4 military-grade system.

The system covers weapon preferences, reload handling, purchasing, crafting, shop support, storage, rent, trade, copyover, persistence, and special-attack paths. It also has in-game help, a guide entry, database migrations, and dedicated automated tests. Your prompt can show loaded ammunition with prompt ammo.

A Stronger Web Client

The Star Wars web client has received a substantial HUD and MSDP pass. It now supports a much wider set of real-time game information, including player and bank data, quest progress, group status, target and tank health, cooldowns, maps, bacta, power cells, loaded weapon ammunition, and combat action economy.

Launch the Star Wars web client

Star Wars players will find:

• A graphical map that shows a wider useful area with smaller room points.
• Star Wars quest information in the quest panel.
• Affects and cooldowns separated into scrollable subviews.
• Banked credits on the player-information panel for all supported MUD types.
• Force Points correctly labeled in place of the generic PSP label on Star Wars.
• Corrected experience-progress, opponent, tank, and MSDP handling.
• A centered resource strip for bacta, power cells, main-hand ammo, off-hand ammo, and available Standard, Move, and Quick actions.
• Quest objectives now include the actual target: mob short descriptions, item/source details, room names and VNUMs, escort or ambush destinations, and resolved mobs from VNUM-list quests.

The MUD now publishes the additional MSDP values required for this HUD, including the action-economy values and live weapon ammunition data.

Quests, Factions, and New Adventures

Faction storytelling has grown substantially. The Restore the Republic Rebel recruitment line has been tested and refined, with clearer objective feedback and stronger room-based objective support. A full ten-quest Hutt Cartel recruitment storyline has also been outlined, creating a dedicated path for characters who want to build a future in the underworld.

Quest authors now have more expressive objective types:

• Escort a specific mob to a specified room.
• Defeat any number of mobs from a comma-separated VNUM list.
• Trigger an ambush when a character arrives in a specific room.
• Use reliable visit-room objectives that display the intended room and room name.
• See the same objective target details from quest info <id> that appear in the web client's quest tab.
• Set custom final-objective completion text for a more story-driven payoff.

The live quest editor and quest list have been improved with clearer controls, sortable columns, and correct numeric level ordering. Quest-completion feedback is now more visible to players.

New early-level world content has also been added, including a moisture-farm mini-zone, new level-appropriate gear and enemies, scavenger encounters, and a rival cartel assassin on Nar Shaddaa.

Travel, Spaceports, and Staff Mobility

goto list now lists taxi locales with their planets and sorts them by space system. Staff can use goto <taxi locale> to reach those locations directly. Staff taxi and shuttle travel takes ten seconds, while staff hyperspace calculations complete in five seconds.

Spaceport tools have also received quality-of-life work. Typing tow without an argument lists ships a player owns that are not docked at the current station, and staff have an option to avoid seeing every other player's docked ships at a spaceport.

Better Prompts and Everyday Quality of Life

Combat prompts can now show available Standard, Move, and Quick actions with prompt actions. Loaded ammunition can be added independently with prompt ammo, while prompt all includes both options. Recent quality-of-life work also improves hyperspace destination readability on dark backgrounds and makes key status information easier to parse at a glance.

Staff, Builder, and Backend Improvements

This update is not only player-facing. Staff and builders have received tools that make running and expanding the game safer and faster:

• Account-management commands now support adding characters to accounts and changing account passwords.
• Badge administration now includes a menu-based OLC editor, descriptions, stackable APPLY bonuses, level-based equip limits, BADGES INFO, and account-wide staff/script/quest/C-code assignment hooks.
• Character identity and player-ID handling have been hardened, including fixes for duplicate IDs and associated staff lookup workflows.
• Quest, room, mob, object, and special-procedure work has been expanded to support the new live content and ammunition quartermasters.
• Lookup-table, database-query, and script/trigger handling have been refactored for more reliable data access and builder tooling.
• Daily-guide, badge, public-profile, faction, quest, and ammunition features are delivered through versioned MySQL migrations.
• The project now has a GitHub Actions CI pipeline with safer permissions and dependency fixes.
• Regression coverage has expanded across crashes, player identity, guides, public profiles, quest objectives, object persistence, ammunition, and ammunition-special-attack behavior.

Alongside this work, several crash and pointer-safety fixes, idle-connection investigation and handling improvements, and general stability fixes have gone into the game.

Your home is now part of your progression

Housing has grown from a place to log out into a persistent base of operations. House owners can establish farm plots in their rooms, and the game now recognizes those spaces as part of everyday life in the galaxy.

From field and hunt to finished goods

The farming, butchering, Provisioner, and Chemist systems now form a connected crafting loop. Gather ingredients, turn them into useful goods, and make your profession part of the player economy.

Substances now have consequences over time

Alcohol, spice, tobacco, and cannabis have been rebuilt around a clearer lifecycle. The first use gives the intended benefit; the downside arrives on its own timetable.

• The initial effect is applied on consumption and is named after the recipe that created it.
• The comedown begins only when the initial effect expires, rather than arriving at the same time as the benefit.
• Repeated use builds exposure and tolerance. Dependence begins only after the configured threshold is reached.
• Withdrawal starts after a dependent character has gone without the substance for its configured abstinence period.
• Heavier accumulated use produces stronger withdrawal. Taking another dose suppresses active withdrawal but does not cure dependence.
• Prolonged abstinence gradually reduces exposure and eventually clears dependence. Threshold-level dependence requires at least 20 real hours to recover.

Try drink, use, or smoke with a crafted substance and watch bonuses or affstats for its named effect. Consumable effects are now bounded so high crafting skill improves quality without producing extreme bonuses or penalties.

Combat enters a more deliberate era

A broad combat audit has been implemented to bring mobs, players, abilities, conditions, and build choices into the same balance model. The goal is forgiving early combat and meaningful danger after the tutorial range.

Target: forgiving below level 10, challenging from level 10 onward, and no routine same-level one-shot victories.

Builders get better instruments

Staff can now inspect and repair the world’s content using tools that expose the same numbers the game uses in play.

Cleaner commands, clearer effects

• bonuses lists the active modifiers applied to your character, with aligned columns and source descriptions. Non-stacking applies use the greatest effective value.
• Recipe and crop lookup accepts player-friendly names, spaces, and unambiguous abbreviations while preserving full IDs for compatibility.
• Eating, drinking, smoking, using spice, and applying medical goods now produce descriptive roleplay messages instead of generic “you use it” output.
• The Force power formerly called Force Light is now Force Radiance, removing its keyword conflict with Force Lightning.
• Crafted food, drinks, smokeables, and spice identify their recipe in status displays instead of showing !UNUSED!.

Reconfigure your destiny

Genetic reconfiguration is now available through the Black Clinic Surgeon in the Novania Genetic Research District on Arkanis. Change your race while keeping your class, levels, skills, feats, and stat allocation intact.

Incompatible armor and weapons are moved safely to inventory, compatible gear stays equipped, health is preserved proportionally, and a successful procedure begins a 30-day recovery period. Staff can clear a player’s recovery timer with resetreconfigure <player>.

Respecs now have a safe rebuild path

After confirming a respec, characters no longer have to find their way back through level-zero character generation.

A smarter, more persistent economy

The auction house has been rebuilt around MySQL-backed object persistence, so listings and their objects survive restarts reliably.

Try the expanded form: list (category|wear slot|all|mine) [keywords].

Combat now rewards initiative

Every combat round, initiative position now affects hit rolls, damage rolls, and Armor Class. The size of the swing scales with the number of combatants.

2 combatants: +1 / −1  •  3: +1 / 0 / −1  •  4: +2 / +1 / −1 / −2

That means winning initiative matters immediately, while falling behind creates a real tactical disadvantage.

Crafting has clearer careers

Artisan skills have been consolidated into 15 canonical, player-facing disciplines. Old saved ranks are migrated to their appropriate replacements during login.

• Arms Tech and Armor Tech are now separate disciplines, with weapons and armor using their own craft rolls.
• Obsolete overlapping aliases have been removed from the skills list.
• Crafting, industrial projects, class and racial bonuses, guild practice, harvest modifiers, and legacy assembly rules now use the same canonical skills.
• Artisan focus behavior has been corrected: an Arms Tech focus can support its intended related disciplines without making every craft use the wrong skill.
• Materials placed in a crafting station persist through a crash, so a failed process no longer destroys the station’s inputs.

Travel and space tools expand

Companions and belongings are safer

When a charmie dies, its belongings now transfer automatically to its owner. If the owner cannot carry them, the items are placed in the room instead of disappearing.

This closes a painful edge case for players who rely on companions for gear storage and combat support.

Builders can do more in game

Roleplay administration gets stronger

Roleplay reward auditing now detects suspicious reward patterns and alerts staff for review. Reward records include the information needed to investigate abuse without making ordinary roleplay harder.

The bug, idea, and typo workflow has also moved into the note system, with explicit open, in progress, and resolved states.

Copyover and operations, with better communication

Staff can schedule a delayed copyover with a command such as copyover 300. The game sends timed alerts to everyone online, while cancellation instructions are shown only to staff.

The first delayed-copyover alert now briefly explains what a copyover is, so players know why the world is preparing to restart and that their character state is being preserved.

Help that understands players

Help keyword parsing now treats dashed multi-word keywords as a single phrase that can be abbreviated or typed with spaces. For example, help genetic and help genetic reconfiguration reach the same entry.

New and refreshed help entries cover genetic reconfiguration, auction filters, copyover scheduling, roleplay flags, map radius, space sectors, and related builder tools.

Reliability across the galaxy

This update includes a broad crash, memory-leak, and dangling-pointer pass across communication output, combat, character loading, objects, mail, triggers, scripts, and space systems.

• Null and malformed communication formats are handled safely instead of overrunning output buffers.
• Character, object, trigger, and descriptor references are cleared or transferred safely as entities leave the game.
• Combat, equipment, loading, and persistence edge cases received additional defensive checks.
• The full automated test suite now covers the new persistence, space, roleplay-audit, and regression paths.

🚀 Space Industry and Starships

Space gameplay received the largest expansion in this update. Ship construction now has a complete multi-stage workflow covering industrial facilities, projects, contracts, financing, credit settlement, quality rules, outfitting, and commissioning.

Mining and refining are now playable end-to-end. Light prospectors and mining emitters can collect resources, which can then be refined and used in construction. Ship and module crafting now use minimum skill requirements and skill checks, with better results improving the chance of higher-quality work.

• Playable mining and refining from extraction through construction
• Persistent ship and module construction projects
• Contracts, financing, and credit settlement
• Crafting quality based on skill requirements and checks
• Purchasable and assignable ship-industry modules
• Menu-driven ship and module builder tools
• Operational hyperspace and taxi travel
• Group-based faction space missions

The new Starship Ace prestige class rewards experienced pilots who designate an owned vessel as their signature ship. Its abilities improve ship defense, gunnery, ship systems, and evasion.

Daily bonuses now also include pilot kills, space mining, and supply orders. Daily resets are handled by the game even for characters who were offline when the reset occurred.

🧬 New Character Paths

Three new class options are now available, adding new nontraditional and advanced ways to play.

Entertainer

Perform songs, dances, stories, instrumental pieces, and holo-spectacles in cantinas. Patrons can watch, listen, and tip performers. Audiences receive temporary buffs and rewards, while entertainers earn experience for successful performances.

Crime Lord

Build a criminal network, use contacts to locate targets, gain access to criminal resources, inspire fear, and summon loyal lieutenants. The class also includes multiple capstone choices supporting different leadership styles.

Starship Ace

Specialize in a signature ship and gain progressively stronger piloting and ship-combat benefits.

The first few qualifying advanced class and race unlocks on an account now use reduced account-experience prices. An obsolete remort restriction on creating Force-sensitive characters has also been removed.

🤖 Progression, Companions, and Everyday Play

Character progression and everyday play received a broad series of improvements.

• Character level history now has a ledger-backed view through levelhistory. The new rollback command previews the effects of removing recent tracked levels and requires a confirmation code before finalizing.
• Charmies and pets can persist between sessions, including their stats, gear, and affects. New dismiss and summoncharmies commands make them easier to manage, and dismissed charmies retain equipment.
• Equipment handling now accounts more accurately for free hands when using weapons, shields, and similar items.
• Housing storage chests now support the all keyword, including commands such as house chest deposit all.blaster.
• The optional autohit setting allows hit without a target to attack the first mobile in the room.
• Prompt customization has been expanded and the time command has been refreshed.
• Food and drink effects now appear in affect listings.
• Hide and sneak now correctly use the Stealth skill.
• Help keyword parsing has been improved, including support for longer keyword strings.
• New norpsay and norpemote commands support scripted, aliased, or triggered IC text that should not award RP rewards.

📡 Wider Communication

Intermud-3 support has been added. Once the gateway is configured, players can communicate with compatible MUDs through several new commands.

• i3chat for Intermud-3 channel chat
• i3channels to manage channel subscriptions
• i3tell for private cross-MUD messages
• i3mudlist to view the current Intermud-3 MUD list

🛠️ Stability and Builder Improvements

This update also includes a broad memory-leak and crash-fix pass across combat, space, objects, mail, triggers, scripts, and character systems. Autohit and several edge cases in item and industry handling received additional fixes.

Builder workflow has improved as well. buildwalk now repairs or reuses logical connections when a new room would overlap an existing room on the automap, and the test-character command gives administrators a faster way to create controlled test characters.

Obsolete fantasy-era systems were also removed or renamed so the remaining systems use terminology that better fits the Star Wars setting. Additional help coverage, including the Armor of Abeloth Force power, has been added as these systems continue to grow.

🛸 A Living Space Experience

Space has always been an important part of the game, but it is becoming far more dynamic.

We have continued refining the entire ship system, making space travel smoother, combat more engaging, and starship management more reliable than ever before.

Ships now exist as persistent vessels within the galaxy rather than as collections of disconnected systems. This opens the door for more advanced gameplay while making everyday activities such as launching, docking, hyperspace travel, towing, and combat feel more polished and consistent.

NPC ships have also become a little smarter, with more ship AI improvements coming. Some will peacefully go about their business, while others may actively hunt their prey, creating more interesting encounters throughout known space.

Builders now have significantly improved tools for placing ships throughout the galaxy, allowing the universe to feel more populated and alive than ever before.

🪐 The Beginning of the Galactic Economy

Perhaps the biggest addition on the horizon is the new Space Industry system.

For the first time, players will be able to carve out careers that have nothing to do with bounty hunting or combat.

• Survey unexplored regions of space
• Discover asteroid fields and hidden resource deposits
• Mine valuable ores and rare materials
• Refine raw resources into industrial commodities
• Manufacture ship components
• Build specialized ship modules
• Construct entirely new player-owned starships

Rather than simply purchasing everything from NPC vendors, players will become a driving force behind the economy.

The new industrial system is designed to support all of these playstyles—and many more.

🚀 New Mining Ships and Industrial Equipment

Industry is not just another crafting profession. Dedicated mining vessels are here, each designed for different roles.

Prospector-class ships will excel at exploration and surveying, while larger industrial vessels will focus on extracting huge quantities of ore.

Specialized industrial equipment includes:

• Survey scanners
• Mining emitters
• Precision cutters
• Strip-mining arrays
• Collector systems
• Stabilization equipment
• Dedicated ore holds
• Compact onboard refineries

Even standard ships will be able to participate by installing the proper equipment, allowing every pilot to get involved regardless of their preferred vessel.

🔧 Craftsmanship Matters

One of the most exciting additions coming with industry is true player craftsmanship.

Instead of every manufactured item being identical, skilled engineers and shipwrights will have opportunities to create equipment that stands above ordinary production.

Superior craftsmanship will not simply create random bonuses. Builders will choose how they want to specialize their creations.

• A custom-built freighter might feature expanded cargo capacity.
• A fighter could emphasize handling and maneuverability.
• Mining equipment might be tuned for maximum efficiency or improved reliability.

This means master craftsmen can develop reputations of their own, with players seeking out specific builders known for producing exceptional equipment.

🌐 A True Player-Driven Economy

Industry is designed around cooperation. Different professions naturally feed into one another:

• Prospectors discover new resource sites.
• Miners extract raw materials.
• Haulers transport valuable cargo.
• Refiners process industrial commodities.
• Engineers manufacture modules.
• Shipwrights build ships.
• Traders connect buyers and sellers.

Construction contracts will also allow players to hire one another to manufacture equipment and starships, creating entirely new opportunities for commerce throughout the galaxy.

🏙️ Player Housing Begins

Life in the galaxy is not all about flying starships.

We have also implemented a brand new neighborhood housing system. Players can purchase homes within player neighborhoods, expand them room by room, customize room titles and descriptions, invite guests, and create homes that reflect their own style.

Storage has also received a major overhaul. Each house can contain multiple persistent storage chests capable of safely holding valuables, containers, and nested items, giving collectors and decorators far more freedom than before.

The system has been designed so homes only exist while occupied, allowing neighborhoods to scale efficiently without sacrificing persistence.

💽 Better Persistence Everywhere

A huge amount of work has gone into improving how the game saves information.

The new persistence system stores virtually every detail about your items and equipment much more reliably than before.

• Containers now properly preserve their contents.
• Banks can safely hold containers.
• Nested objects remain intact inside persistent storage.
• Objects survive server restarts more consistently.

These improvements may not always be immediately visible, but they provide the stable foundation needed for many of the larger features currently in development.

🤖 Smarter Ships, Better Performance

Ship interiors have also received a complete modernization.

Instead of every player ship permanently occupying world rooms, interiors are now generated only when someone boards the vessel.

This allows far more ships to exist in the galaxy while greatly reducing unnecessary resource usage.

For players, everything remains seamless: you board your ship, its interior is there waiting for you, and when everyone leaves it quietly unloads until it is needed again.