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Phonebook update!
(Posted by Chupacabra on Year 24 Day 119)
Year 24 Day 119, 16:51 Chupacabra has changed a players handle: Liz Kickmepapa to Lei Murough.   That is all
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No one left behind.
(Posted by Noctis on Year 24 Day 72)
Year 24 Day 72, 17:21 Noctis banned player Rishard Galays providing the following reason: Multi Ban Year 24 Day 72, 17:21 Noc...
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Handle change, update your rolodex.
(Posted by Noctis on Year 24 Day 72)
Christian Hall is now known as Cyrus Vel.  
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Community News

New The next great tournament
(Posted by Chupacabra on Year 24 Day 124)
Hello, everyone! Remember this? Well it's time for round two! The next round of matches and tournament will be held in a bit ove...
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Art Rules Updated
(Posted by Kolomon Seph on Year 24 Day 105)
Hello Combine!   The Art Rules for custom images have been reworked and consolidated into one cohesive page combining rules spre...
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Community Update: Droid/Vehicle Terrain Updates and Razor Crest Images
(Posted by Falcon on Year 24 Day 98)
EDIT Y24 D99: KX-12 Probe Droids have been updated to remove all terrain restrictions in conjunction with their canon stats/use. Th...
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Technical News

Sync Report Y24D119
(Posted by Clarr Solo on Year 24 Day 119)
Force Update The first step in the ForceX project has been released. There are several changes, so you should review the updated F...
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The Destroyer of Worlds
(Posted by Akasha Ru Tauk on Year 24 Day 118)
The D8 Smelter Droid now is capable of destroying pesky items you have about. Exceptions apply to ownership by Darkness, Pucks, an...
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Sync Report Y24D105
(Posted by Clarr Solo on Year 24 Day 105)
- Changes to entity crewlist access: - You can now block entry for characters and factions via the crewlist. This is crewlist block...
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Posted by Chupacabra on Year 24 Day 124 2:19 New

Hello, everyone!

Remember this?

Well it's time for round two!

The next round of matches and tournament will be held in a bit over a month from now on May 5th to May 7th, and include many annoying blue icons that will be shifted to a thread here. The rules will be mostly the same but with one major difference - the times games will be held will be from 15:00 - 0:00 Combine time. This is to allow different groups of people to participate that were not able to before.

I will monitor said thread that totally is not located in this link and answer questions and provide updates.

Don't forget to thank Noctis!

Exhibition discord link

Sign Up Sheet

Rules 2.0 - Now with arbitrary and nonsensical additions! (subject to change before the start)

THE BRACKET

 
Posted by Clarr Solo on Year 24 Day 119 18:35

Force Update

The first step in the ForceX project has been released. There are several changes, so you should review the updated Force rules. The biggest change is the removal of Facets, unused force skills, and the force meter has changed scale to be between -1000 to 1000. Some existing force skills that were running during the sync have been cancelled.

This is the "core" update for ForceX and additional changes will arrive in the future, including additional skills (such as combat skills). Some of these skills will be restricted if the Force user is wearing armour or has certain cybernetics installed. Because of the Force Meter scale change, using Force skills aligned Light or Dark will affect your Force Meter more than before. Existing character Force Meters have been scaled into the new system as appropriate.

Other changes:

- There is now a basic public vendor list available on the SWC website, and public vendors can be linked to. Vendors can be set to public on the vendor list page.
- WS planet list fixed for black holes.
- Rules pages now show how much XP is gained from recycling for given entities.

 

Edit Y24D121:
The force speed constant of 0.04 has been updated to 0.10.  The new value should be represented on the Speed Rules.

 
(Edited by Vadik Edik on Year 24 Day 121)
Posted by Akasha Ru Tauk on Year 24 Day 118 18:40

The D8 Smelter Droid now is capable of destroying pesky items you have about. Exceptions apply to ownership by Darkness, Pucks, and Quest items. A special thank you to Mador Anami for this latest addition.

 
Posted by Kolomon Seph on Year 24 Day 105 19:41

Hello Combine!

 

The Art Rules for custom images have been reworked and consolidated into one cohesive page combining rules spread across multiple forum posts, the old rules page, Art Queue Team discussions over 4+ years, and FAQ’s from players.

 

The biggest change is to Public Images, which will now require those images to be created from scratch by an artist from the community. All currently approved Public Customs will remain accessible to the community for the duration of their normal 2 years rolling approval, at which point unless they meet the new rules they will be reverted to Private.

The majority of the rest of the updates are expansive clarifications on what is allowed for existing entities, so artists in the community know what the expectations are from the Art Queue Team. As always, the rules will evolve as time goes on, new entities are added, or new issues arise.

The entirety of the rules can be found here.

 

Any questions can be directed to Kolomon “Kolo” Seph, either via Darkness Message or Discord.

 

Any complaints can be directed to Noctis via handwritten letters in Middle English using the Comic Sans font on legal-sized paper only. Noctis can be found on any sun playing with porgs.

 
(Edited by Falcon on Year 24 Day 105)
Posted by Clarr Solo on Year 24 Day 105 19:29

- Changes to entity crewlist access:
- You can now block entry for characters and factions via the crewlist. This is crewlist blocklist applies before the "open to all" and "open to faction" crewlist options. Rules Link
- Crewlist is no longer checked when disembarking from a docked entity. 

- There are some backend changes added for R&D.

 
(Edited by Vadik Edik on Year 24 Day 105)

EDIT Y24 D99: KX-12 Probe Droids have been updated to remove all terrain restrictions in conjunction with their canon stats/use. Thanks to the guy who reached out about that.

EDIT: Assign Darkness your ship, not me. Sorry for the confusion.

Hey little birds, it's big bird!

I come to you today with some updates. First and foremost is that the Razor Crest image will be updated to have the non-holiday image in the next hour or so. At that time, I will apply the customs to everyone who has assigned me DARKNESS their ship. If you miss out, please don't hesitate to reach out, and I'll consider doing a second pass. 

Next up, we've listened to some of the Vehicle Terrain feedback and have updated them again. The current terrains are below and have been applied to the vehicles in question:



Finally, we've updated droid terrains and the list is below and applied to all droids. If you have suggestions for improvement, please take to the forums. again, the list is below:


Thanks to everyone who provided feedback about the vehicle terrains. We tried to be inclusive of all comments. As always, if you have any issues, you can send me a DM or submit a support ticket

 

 
(Edited by Falcon on Year 24 Day 99)

EDIT Y24 D98: The 156 ships assigned to me have had their images re-updated to the holiday image. Please let me know if I missed yours. Thanks!

PENULTIMATE EDIT: Tomorrow the regular Razor crest image will take place and I will apply the holiday custom to anyone who assigns Darkness as Commander of your ship. One more edit will follow this post once I've applied the custom.

EDIT 2: this is your one-week-ish reminder
 

EDIT: To clarify, I will be applying customs AFTER the March 1(ish) conversion to normal Razor Crest image. You're free to assign Darkness now if you like, but it's not necessary until Feb 28th or so. Again, I'll push out a reminder 24h+ prior to this change.

 

Polar Falcon Here!

 

After a long overdue round, I've managed to stumble my way across the Advance Deathmath button and we've moved into the final round. Who will win? Artemis or Jado? THE CHOICE IS YOURS!

Along the same vein, we've got some new Grudge matches (my favorite of them being favorite bear). This cycle we will find out your lifelong answers to:

  • What is SWC?
  • Best Bear
  • Best Star Wars Board Game pt 2
  • Greatest SW Video Game

Thanks to those who submitted questions! We've got a good number waiting, so if you haven't seen yours yet, don't worry, it's still in the queue. For those that have closed out, It seems as though the video game favorites were All Battlefront games and KOTOR I & II. I can't say as though I disagree, though I dislike the newer battlefront games myself. Poor Obi-Wan only got one vote. Some day Obi-Wan... Some day... Finally, it comes as no surprise, but Propulsion matters most in a ship followed by Cargo Capacity

 

Our final update of the night is long overdue, and I apologize as I've been busy with moving. As you all know, the winter quest is over and done with, and the reward NPC has vanished. Everyone still has the holiday custom by default, but it will be switching to the non-holiday version come March 1, 2023(ish) (Y24 D94). I WILL PUSH OUT A REMINDER 24 HOURS BEFORE THE CHANGE. If you would like to keep the holiday custom, please assign Darkness as Commander, and we will apply the holiday custom image to your ship. free of charge. Thanks again to everyone who made that quest possible and HUGE thanks to Polar for everything he did. We're gonna miss him. Lots. 

 

As always, if you have any questions/concerns please freel free to send them to Noctis, so that he can properly file them in the garbage, otherwise you can submit a support ticket.

 
(Edited by Falcon on Year 24 Day 98)
Posted by Falcon on Year 24 Day 97 20:21

Hello!

Well I advanced the deathmatch tonight, and apparently I refreshed the advancement page again because it seems we had a LIGHTNING ROUND! You can thank or hate me later. My condolences to those that unexpectedly got knocked out or missed the last round that lasted approximately 4 hours. For now, go vote for our contestants!

 

In other news, lets recap last round's grudge matches and introduce the next round:

  • In a non-surprising majority, most of you would prefer combat only in certain areas, without the chance of permadeath and with some sort of associated penalty for dying... GTA Hospital anyone?
  • Again, the overwhelming majority of you enjoyed Qui-Gon's death the best. You monsters.
  • In the final overwhelmingly one-sided vote, #galaxy-events is the best channel in our SWC Discord Server. If you're not there, feel free to pop on by!
  • Finally, it seems we finally had a vote that the community was divided on. Most of you would fall back to Star Trek, but the rest of you are split fairly evenly amongst the other choices

 

In our next lineup we've got the following grudge matches:

  • Favorite Hapan Leader?
  • Best Droid Fighter? (If you don't vote for the Vulture Droid, I hear Dex is gonna extend R&D another 10 years)
  • Santa Claws vs Chiss Cringle
  • Favorite Disney TV Series?

 

Go vote, have fun and make the community proud! I'll be rolling out the next round of terrain restriction updates tomorrow with the Razor Crest image update. Stay tuned for that. 

 
Posted by Falcon on Year 24 Day 89 18:02

Congratulations to Art for winning the latest deathmatch! We've got a new one started with faces new and old alike! I'm interested to see the results of this one.

In other news, it looks like Polar lost Best bear to himself. That's what he gets for leaving us. The people have also spoken and agree that SWC is not A bunch of trashy hateful people grinding to be worth something in a game that doesn't matter. After all, we WERE voted by ourselves to be the best Star Wars game... So there's that. Go us! If board games are your thing, Star Wars Armada is the game to get into if you feel like spending $80-$90 USD. I wholeheartedly concur that this is the superior game, having played it a few times myself.

This round, feel free to express yourself by deciding:

  • What kind of combat you want
  • Best Force User Death on Screen
  • If not Star Wars, then...?
  • Best Combine Server Channel (talking about our DISCORD SERVER)

 

Big shoutout to the 12 people who found my hidden message last sim news and earned 100CPs each, as well as those who have submitted grudge matches. Stay tuned for more hidden messages in the future! ;)

 
Posted by Falcon on Year 24 Day 87 22:16

EDIT: Hover Transport TC9 has had its restrictions further updated. Its only restriction now is Cave terrain. It also has repulsors. 
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Hello all,

In similar fashion to the Creature Terrain Updates , vehicles have also been updated. Below is a list of the new restrictions , and you can also find them on the rules page. 

 





These changes should be reflected shortly , if not already(sometimes it takes a bit for changes to appear). As always , please submit a support ticket with any issues you may have.

I hear droids may be next. Plan accordingly.

 
(Edited by Falcon on Year 24 Day 88)
Posted by Falcon on Year 24 Day 87 21:03

Bug Fixes/Improvements:
- Bacta refinement no longer enforces an operator being in a medical faction at the end of the cycle , to be consistent with all other mining and production rules.
- The defunct "Production" menu on the sidebar below "Inventory" has been repurposed and is now an "Actions" menu.
- Certain labour droids can now construct facilities/stations See Rules Page for more info.
- A bug was patched to prevent an exploit where players can uncrate droids in restricted terrain.
- Up/Down votes may now be deleted(unclicked/de-selected) in voting-enabled forum threads.

Web Services:
- Fixed inventory/entity “producedentities” field for production actions. The format of the field has been changed as a result.
- API location responses now correctly show "System" field where it may have been previously missing.
- Inventory/Planet API endpoint will no longer crash for planetoids.
 

 
(Edited by Tor`Vor Xess on Year 24 Day 87)
Posted by Falcon on Year 24 Day 82 10:19

The following entities have had Max Passengers bumped up from 12 to 13:

SHIPS:

  • PB-950 Patrol Boat
  • Empress-class Super Freighter
  • Class 720 Freighter
  • Herald-class Shuttle
  • 578-R Space Transport

VEHICLES:

  • QH-1 Imperial barge
  • EVS Construction Droid
  • Senate Shuttlebus
  • Personnel Skiff Model IV

This allows you to now take a full squad with you. Enjoy!

EDIT: I forgot to actually apply the change to existing ships, but it should show 13 passengers now. Sorry!

 
(Edited by Falcon on Year 24 Day 82)