The Future of Star Wars Galaxies

Ten Ton Hammer provides us with a report of what was revealed of Star Wars Galaxies’ future during last weekend’s SOE Fan Faire.

The Big New Thing (as the SWG team is calling it) is a new profession called the Chronicle Master that will be able to generate new quests for players to try out and enjoy. Not only will they be able to create the quests, but they’ll also be able to burn them to Chronicle Holocrons to be sold or traded to other players. The team at FanFaire 2009 gave the panel attendees a demo of the system in action, so let’s get right to the good stuff.

To create longer and more interesting quests, Chronicle Masters must gather Chronicle Relics. Relics can be acquired by looting them off of mobs and purchasing (or trading for) them. At this time, they haven’t decided on things like frequency of the drop rate, or what mobs (perhaps all) will have the potential to drop them.

During the demo, the team showed how a quest gets created from beginning to end. The order of operations didn’t appear to have to be done in specific order, but they started off by choosing to create the text for the quest. Rather than just a simple ambiguous person giving the player a quest, you can choose to use an iconic figure from Star Wars lore (such as Hans Solo) by way of receiving a communication from them. In the future, the team hopes to implement other ways players will be able to interact with their favorite characters.