"Spooky" Showcase Winner!

 

I'm pleased to announce Solaria, Rori was one of the locations officially chosen for the Haunted Galactic Showcase.  What does that mean?  As the image above reads, we were part of the Friday Feature section for October 22, 2010.

For those of you with emo Anakin patience issues, here's all you need to see if you're here for Solaria...

Haunted Galactic Showcase

Solaria City Hall

Location: Solaria, Rori (city hall)
Nearest SP: Rebel Outpost
Server: Starsider
Proprietor: Mayor Jivaro Qel-Jairus
In Solaria, Rori I try to keep citizens and visitors interested in the city by decorating City Hall for the major holidays. Making it spooky for the Galactic Moon Festival had received a lot of positive feedback, and I hope people enjoy it this year too.

This Death Trooper armor guards the entrance to the mayor's office. Notice the rotting stomach in the background and an appropriate warning sign to ward off the squeamish.

One of the usual city hall attractions is the "city in a city" display which the fog machine is engulfing. A carved pumpkin is resting on a house in the background and a Tusken raider is sporting some biological flair.

A krayt skeleton is trying to scale the wall while skulls and carved pumpkins watch. The two outfits are costumes from a fan film I starred in called "To the Moon and Back."

Neither heroes nor villains are safe from my decorating, hence the Jan-Go-Lantern and the big brain on Mace.

This is me posing in one of the more mundane scenes; a skeleton in front of a painting of Z'ozpheratu.

I must have gotten too close to the decorations. I ended up stuck in my own web.

It seems an afflicted version of me is trying to destroy City Hall. Hopefully his dexterity had been severely hampered but... uh-oh. Little help, GMs?

It's an honor to make it so far as a city, and I hope all the citizens are as happy as I am.  I have a good time decorating each holiday and I'll have more pics to come.

For anyone wanting to read the article in its entirety, click the jump or follow this link:
http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/en/players/news_archive.vm?id=68968

Galactic Moon Festival Submissions Needed!

 An offficial call is out for submissions.  Please hurry and act now!

Galactic Moon Festival Submissions Needed! - 10/18/2010

 

We're looking for submissions for the Fan Art Gallery, Galactic Showcase, and Galactic Couture but we want within the theme of the Galactic Moon Festival! So send us your spooky creations!

The gallery is a great place for Fan Art connoisseurs and features art in all forms of media, from digital imagery to hand painted originals. Stop by and check out the full versions of these new additions and all the previous submissions, too.
Do you have some fantastic fan art that you would like to show off to the world? If the answer is "Yes," then we'd love to see it!
If you'd like to submit your fan art, please send it to SOEFanArt@soe.sony.com. Please be sure to include the following with your email:

• Email Subject: SWG Art Submission
• Image Title: Provide a title for your image – (what do you call it, what is the theme?)
• Artist Name: Choose to submit your community forum handle or character name (full character name is fine).

To help prevent any misunderstandings, please read Section 5. Submissions, Fan Fiction and Artwork, and Photographs in our Terms of Service.

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Send Us Your Creations!
Are you an image designer? Do you make your own clothes or armor? Do you have unique designs and outfits that help you stand out from the rest of the crowd? We want to see them! We are looking for people to send in submissions of their creations so we can show them off to the rest of the galaxy.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Send the email to galacticshowcase@soe.sony.com  and put "Galactic Couture" in the subject line of your email.
Send us 1-3 screen shots of your creation and be sure to include the following information, where applicable:

• Galaxy: What server is this character on?
• Location: Where does this character normally hang out?
• Image Design: What's your most requested design and color scheme? Do you have a signature design?
• Materials: What materials and colors did you use to create your outfit?
• Inspiration: Did you have a certain inspiration for your creation?
• Purpose: Was your outfit created for a certain event, combat, or some other reason?
• Custom Made: Are you for hire? Are you willing to trade or sell your designs to other players?
• Contact: Your in-game name
• Forum Handle: What is your forum handle?

Please remember to press CTRL+Shift+H to hide your user interface when you take your screenshots. The image you send us needs to be one of these formats (.png/.bmp/.jpg/.gif) and should be no bigger than 400k. If you have multiple images you may send them as a .zip which should not exceed 1.5mb. Please try to make the screenshots as high quality as possible.
Be sure to include your forum handle, your in-game name, and your galaxy in the email.

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Send Us Your Decorations!
Are you proud of the way you decorated your home or structure? We want your submissions!
If you've decorated a unique and creative home or structure, send it to us for consideration and we may showcase it on the Star Wars Galaxies website! If you are featured, you will receive a special "Galactic Showcase" badge in game.
Please send your submissions to galacticshowcase@soe.sony.com with the subject heading "Galactic Showcase" and include the following in the body of your email:

• Character Name:
• Location: Planet, City, Coordinates
• Nearest SP:
• Server:
• Admission Fee:
• Proprietor:
• Forum Handle:
• Images: Up to 15 screenshots not exceeding 5MB. You can also send us URLs to your images hosted online. Please toggle off your UI so it isn't showing in your images using Ctrl+Shift+H. The image you send us needs to be one of these formats (.bmp/.jpg/.gif). Please try to make the screenshots as high quality as possible.
• Image Descriptions: Please a decription of each image. Include as much details as possible - tell us what we are seeing!

There is no limit to the amount of "Showcase" items you can submit, but please submit each individual one in a separate email.

It's Hip to be T Square(d)

 In case you don't know, Teesquared (or T2 as most people text him).  I even got to hang out with him recently at a recent Nomad Market event.  See?

He was exceptionally kind, and didn't even mind my Corellian attempts at humor.  Maybe my reputation preceded me - but that would be egotistical to say.

Anyway...

The point is Teesquared was featured in a great interview for Massively entitled Squaring off with SWG's producer, Teesquared.  The two page feature originally posted on October 5th not only talks about stuff like the new GCW setup, Trading Card Game teases, and the revamped rare loot system but also explains how committed SWG is for 2011 (and a certain article tells me SWG will be around longer than many assume) - including subjects such as the Galactic Moon Festival, Wookiee Life Day, and also alluding to a Nightsister [themepark] revamp: The Witches of Dathomir.  Oh yeah - one other thing...  Player-designed instances?  :)

You can read the article in its entirety if you hit the jump, but you can find the actual link here:
http://www.massively.com/2010/10/05/squaring-off-with-swgs-producer-teesquared

Paper Star Wars music video

Grab a box of tissues, because this thing sort of sneaks up on you...

The song is "Tatooine" and the artist is Jerry Messersmith.  An acoustic tale of...  Well you have to watch it to find out - but I warned you.  :)


[hit the jump to see lyrics below]



Click here to learn more about the song...

Galactic Moon Festival (Friday Feature)

Friday Feature – The Galactic Moon Festival Returns! - 10/15/2010

When the crypt goes creak and the tombstones outside the cantina quake, you'll know it's time for the Galactic Moon Festival! Beginning October 21st, adventurous and strong souls can take a shuttle to Moenia and Mos Eisley to celebrate the return of the Galactic Moon Festival... if they dare!

Galactic Moon Festival

In an effort to gain more support from the planets Naboo and Tatooine, Jabba the Hutt has decided to throw the annual Galactic Moon Festival once more so everyone can celebrate the horrifyingly awesome haunts of the season. Jabba has grown tired of all the love festivals, celebrations of life, and other saccharine events. Thus, it is my duty to report to you that he has taken it upon himself to throw the scariest festival of the year!

In order to participate in what is sure to be the ghoulest happening this year, all that citizens have to do is visit the Galactic Moon Festival Organizers who can be found outside of the Moenia and Mos Eisley Starport (waypoints 4790 -4777 and 3523 -4806 respectively).

Here, citizens can obtain a costume to use for trick or treating, purchase special Galactic Moon Festival items, the ability to craft new items, and find out more about the festival.

(more information - and possible spoilers - after the jump)

New addition(s) to Solaria

This is breaking news (in fact, I am inside the SWG browser posting this).

What's new in Solaria? At least two things.

In case you didn't know, there is already a Heroics reset terminal for anyone to use inside city hall.  All you have to do is click it if you ran instances, and it will clear all instances you ran. It can be used basically once a day for any person.

The newest of the new are the anniversary terminals. Namely the bazaar and space terminals. Both are in front of the shuttleport facing south. Shuttle into Solaria, Rori and you'll be staring right at these crowding the Solaria Spotlight Citizen statue. (When will the next be awarded? Shine your light and perhaps I'll see it.)

So what can you do with these new terminals? The bazaar terminal works similar to any other in a static city. The only difference is you cannot post items to sell there. You can search all the bazaars and vendors in the galaxy and even make waypoints to the vendors, however.  The space terminal lets people examine their ships and change out parts, but they cannot launch or travel with it.

Stay tuned to find out what's to come. Hopefully there will be much to celebrate this Moon Festival holiday.

Get Ready for the GMF!(?)

The GMF is the Galactic Moon Festival.  According to lore, Jabba likes to lavish the galaxy with fun once a year (or to show off his riches).  I'll post something OFFICIAL about that but for now, I wanted you all to start getting ready.

I try to do something for city hall and the cloning facility each holiday.  Things already started inside city hall.  See?

That's just a teaser to what's already inside.  There are decorations in each room of city hall for the Moon Fest - and more to come.

If you have your own decorating for the occasion, send your pics:  jivaro (@) bigfoot [sorry but need to keep the spammers down].

I'll keep the decorations up as long as the event goes, and I shall be wearing my own spooky attire.  If anyone wants to hold an event inside Solaria, just let me know so you can get storyteller zoning.

More news on the event to come...