Cultist is there a beginners page to see what we need to have to start using this? I take it you have to have the actual SWG game discs? Looks interesting from the info I got from the forums. I think I need to register to actually see the good stuff.

I'm just surprised Sony or George Lucas is letting this project happen 🙂

Yessir you need to buy the original disks to play.From Ebay that is.

But its worth it.

This is the link that tells you what to do

http://www.swgemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43171

but i think you have to register to see it.

Basically you need to install the game from the disks (downloading the game from the site doesnt work,since it updates it),then download their launchpad http://lpe.ocdsoft.com and let it update the game to the server version.

Click play and enjoy.

Very complex this game is

Taken fro a guide for new or returning players!

"There are 32 Professions

There are as Follows:

Every 1 starts out the game by choosing a Novice skill which is:

1) Brawler - Melee combat

2) Marksmen - Ranged combat

3) Entertainer - Music/Dancing (Social class)

4) Artisan - Crafter

5) Medic - Healer / Doctor

6) Scout - towards Creature handler / Ranger

Melee (Close ranged combat):

1) Brawler - Novice leads you to far better skills with a melee weapon.

2) Teras kasi - Karate, If you like Karate and Melee than this is for you, if u want the option of keeping your enemy on the ground, or keeping him blind of all to see, this is for you!

3) Fencer - One-handed melee / Batons (Defensive class) If you like to tank and dodge blaster's, id suggest this is for you!

4) Swordsman - Two-handed Weapon Specialist, If you like to wave a sword and cut people’s heads off, this is for you!

5) Pikeman - Double-Bladed staves/Pole arms (Knockdown / AoE class) If you like awesome looking abilities and cool weapons and AoE grinding, this is for you!

Ranged combat:

1) Marksmen - Novice learning this class will lead you to far better skills with a gun.

2) Rifleman - Long ranged weapons (Head hit specialist) Want Shoot so far they don’t even know it till they are on the ground? This is for you!

3) Pistoleer - Short ranged weapons (Fast shooting, and decent defense to melee) want run up and Pistol Whip some 1? Maybe just want to shoot so fast your hands shake when you don’t shoot.

4) Carbineer - Medium range weapons (great for a suppress gunner, decent knockdowns. Mabey u want have distance but have the option to be up close and personal!

Advanced Marksmen -

1) Smuggler - Requires Pistols & Unarmed training, Want live on the edge, Smuggling Spice (Drugs) People will pay by the crate full for the stuff your rocking!

2) Commando - Requires Master Marksmen + Unarmed 4 (Awesome damage to turrets + Flamethrowers and grenade launchers.)

3) Bounty Hunter - Requires Master Marksmen + Scout (Most feared gunfighters of the game, they are masters of ranged combat, and have technique in all ranged abilities.)

4) Squad leader - Lead your squad into combat, directing and focus firing, Make judgments or flag for Retreat!

1) Entertainer - Social Classes

2) Dancer - Want to enjoy the company of others? You enjoy being an entertainer and meet tons of people! Also while making money dancing for players and giving them buffs.

3) Musician - Want to enjoy the company of others? You enjoy being an entertainer and meet tons of people! Also while making money performing for players and giving them buffs.

4) Image Designer - Want to change your face, hair, changing stats or body size? or maybe make money helping some 1 else. This is the class for you.

1) Artisan - Crafter

2) Armor smith - Want to make many Rare and different stated armor? Take orders from others to make armor for $$$$ then this is for you!

3) Weapon smith - Want to make kick ass weapons and make some $$ MULA then this is the class for you.

4) Tailor - Interested in being a fine Tailor, want help put clothes on other peoples backs? well this is the class for you!

5) Architect - Want build homes, Structures, Resource harvesters? Then this is for you, expensive to make but very rewarding!

6) Chef - Want cook food, fill people up and make them stronger? then this is for you, Hook them up with some Jawa Juice!

7) Shipwright - Want sell some space ships? Customize your very own Millennium Falcon or maybe you like Boba fett's Slave I?

8) Droid-Engineer - Want make a Droid to help market your shop? maybe to allow you to buff in outside area's or make a combat droid to stand by your side!

9) Merchant - Cant be a crafter without people able to higher Merchants for your Home to sell stuff for you!

1) Scout - Harvesting, Setting up camp or Raising powerful Beasts.

2) Creature Handler - Want Tame Babies and grow them up to do your bidding? your power is limitless with 3 Razor cats standing next to you.

3) Ranger - Want be a master tracker? Help your Bounty hunter friend track down that Jedi? or maybe just want kill some Krayt's for some tissues, Maybe just want have a big camp out? This is for you!

1) Medic - Every combat class needs this as a secondary, you are pointless without the ability to heal! just depends how far u want go.

2) Doctor - Specializes in Mending wounds, Buffing players, and bringing the dead back to life!

3) Combat Medic - This is a personal favorite; Want have to ability to Area heal? or maybe u just want spread some disease and poison through your enemies, THIS IS FOR YOU! Toss some AoE Dots on them and make them sick!

4) Bio-Engineer, Want make important Chemicals for other Medics / Doctors? or maybe u want to get some DNA and make your creature handler buddy a rare pet. This is a crafting profession for you!

And this brings us to our final 2.

Pilot, feel like u just wants to go to space? Now’s your change, start off doing missions for your factions, level by doing missions and shooting people out of the sky! End up like Luke sky walker or maybe even Han solo, Learn different weapons and maneuvers, this is a Side profession, any 1 can be it!

And this of course brings us to our final Profession.

JEDI

Who doesn’t want to be Darth Vader or a Darth maul? Maybe a Mace Windu or Master Yoda? You have the Power to find the Force in you! But it’s a long and hard life, not only are there a series of tests it could take months maybe even years to achieve this special honor! But when you get it you are a GOD, Slice through a Teras Kasi's armor, reflect a blaster bolt! The powers are endless. For further interest ask me this one, too much to type.

Those are the professions, here is a link to the way you spend points.

http://www.swgcharacterbuilder.com/swg-cb.php

There are a Total of 250 Skill points when your character is made, each skill u buy reduces the points, in the end depending what professions you chose, and you can have up to 2 Master classes and a half. The limitations are limitless, be totally different then the Rifleman right next to you."

/me is signing up as soon as i can get me some disks from somewhere. heard that SWG wus real fun b4 sony decided to end the fun...

Cultist, how stable are the servers? Are there resets of accounts or clean wipe of the game?

I just want to make sure that the time you put into the game isn't ruined every few months.

yes,i wipe will follow,i do not know when.

the server is a test server and not everything was implemented as was in the original.

right now its not worth to invest too much time in it since a iminent wipe,but after that game will be wipeless.

I haven't signed up to the forums yet and I will but. Is this just a glorified private server running SWG? There has been some private servers I have used for other MMO's like WoW and Lineage 2 and eventually they get shutdown because the company squashes them. What is SWGemu doing that is different that gives them permission to run the server?

I haven't kept up on SWG info lately are they shutting down the game soon or something?

I'd like to point out there is another emu in develpment called SWG: ANH. Neither SWGEmu or SWG: ANH will be emulating servers for the Jump to Lightspeed expansion any time soon. I believe SWGEmu has a lot of the packets researched for JTL but they won't work on it until the meet their 1.0 release.

Both of these emulators are commited to bringing back the early gameplay called PreCU (Pre Combat Upgrade)

I think there are two major reasons why these emus are not being shut down. First they are bringing back an older version of game play that no longer exists on SOE servers. Second Lucasarts owns the content and they generally don't sue star wars fans. So as long as everything is nonprofit it should be cool.

I don't Think SWG is shutting down but they have done some server consolidating. The pop. isn't as large as it once was. I have a feeling when SW: the old republic MMO is released. That it won't take more than a year for SOE to shut down SWG.

As for server stability. I have attended a server stress test. And with the right hardware and connection the server pop should be able to exceed 2500.

to check progress I usually visit the forums and SwgEmu's assembla at http://trac2.assembla.com/swgemu/timeline

http://www.swganh.com/

http://www.swgemu.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWGEmu

Is there a particular server that is more far along in development than the other? And does SWGEmu or SWG: ANH doing different things on their servers or are both just trying to bring back the original gameplay?

I'm going to sign-up to one of the servers and try this out and report back 🙂

Well its kind of hard to judge which is further along. Both are making good progress. I think SWGEmu Might be a little behind now but not by much. IMO SWGEmu severs will probably be easier to modify and make custom gameplay choices. (like removing jedi or making jedi toons harder to obtain)

Both Groups seem like they are committed to bringing back the original gameplay first. With SWGEmu there seems to be more discussion on what can be added and modified after version 1.0

In addition to the Emu groups there are other Guild groups that have committed to running their own servers along with some of their own mods. But, guild groups are dependent on the Emulator being completed.

Here is a site with some older links to guild server groups(not sure if all are working)

http://swgemuservers.com/

here is a guild that seems pretty active/prommising, and has some members that are modders.

http://www.darjani.org

Seems like my cursor on screen can never access the icons on the lower right of the screen and hitting esc on the keyboard does nothing. Am I missing something simple?

The ALT key toggles cursor mode. hopefully that is your problem...

Shortcut for the game menu is SHIFT+ESC

That did the trick 🙂

Thanks M0u53r.

Well I'm going to change my opinion on which is further along. SWGEmu has been updating their assembla page a lot more frequently these past few days. Although, so far no official update on the completion of the object restructure project.

They also just recently updated their server that handles the account logins and website. Which leads me to believe they are gearing up for lots more traffic.

The wipe of the test center might be getting closer.

Still, at this rate we won't see JTL for quite some time

UPDATE:

SWG: ANH announced June 2nd that their project will be going open source. Following the release TrueGalaxies.com plans on hosting a Beta TC.

Read for yourself here