Jake's Weblog » Star Wars Galaxies

It’s Alive

Jake — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:28:41 +0000

It, in this case, is my Internet connection. I’m happy to report that I didn’t loose anything during my downtime in Galaxies. I guess I didn’t realize that I had paid as much maintenance as I actually had. Lucky me. Actually, the connection came back to life a couple days ago, but I didn’t really get a chance to post about the good news.

Speaking of good news, I recently found out that I should be back home before March. While not nearly as good as I thought it was going to be when I first deployed (eg, home right now), it is still better than it could be. The biggest thing, in my mind, that could become an issue is the upcoming elections. This current schedule has us actually leaving Iraq right around the same time the elections are supposed to take place. Hopefully it won’t effect us. We are, after all, not directly related to security “on the street.”

SWG Developers Chat

Jake — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:00:25 +0000

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the developers chat this evening hosted by Stratics.com. Fortunately, I was prepared for this possibility and had my IRC client logging. I filtered the logs to remove many of the join/part/quit messages and put them on my site. I haven’t had a chance to read them yet, but will be doing so shortly .

Another new time sink … I mean character

Jake — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 03:14:01 +0000

Sony Online Entertainment had some problems with a patch they did this morning resulting in many of their galaxies (read, servers) being down for an extended amount of time this morning. This included the ones I normally play on. While I was waiting patiently (ya, right) for the game to be playable again I created a new character… as if I didn’t waste, I mean spend, enough time on the existing two. Anyway, this new character’s name is Oplem Koped and he resides on the Sunrunner galaxy. He hopes someday to be bounty hunter and a loyal servant of the Empire (even though some Imperials don’t like bounty hunters). I spent most of the day playing this character and helped him to learn a couple of skills. He’s about half-way to the required faction points to join the Empire… I really forgot how fast that initial 200 FP took to earn.

School’s starting soon….

Jake — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:00:21 +0000

Has anybody else noticed a decrease in my posting frequency since I bought Star Wars Galaxies has decreased significantly? If you haven’t, I certainly have. My other online activities have also fallen by the wayside (such as Bugzilla’s documentation. Heck, bugzilla.mozilla.org transferred to their new server and I didn’t even know it until I was actually going through my bugmail and clicked on one of the links to get more information. So let that be a lesson to you: don’t buy Star Wars Galaxies… it’s full of bugs and extremely addicting (does that even seem like a possible combination?). Maybe now that schools starting I’ll play games less and accomplish more. Maybe.

Character Bios … Saved Some Time

Jake — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 04:27:58 +0000

Came across a really slick site today: Stratics guide to Star Wars Galaxies. One of the features the site has is the ability to create character bios that are tailored to Star Wars Galaxies (such as what Skills the character has). I set up a bio for both of my characters: Aliena Shiring on the Valcyn Galaxy & Accacattiurra on the Kettemoor Galaxy. The site seems a little slow, but it’s probably because of people like me who use the service but don’t buy the advanced membership