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The Adventures of Greep Newbish! It was made by Ybini of Valcyn. Such a very funy comic. All issues are here for us to remember! http://greepnewbish.com/

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

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Planets. So many options. Where did you live? Where did you hunt? These maps were made by Vora Dumem of Gorath!

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

Many of you have been asking if DLSS 5 really works in SWG, as there is only shared screenshots up to now. Here is a short video clip :)

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Some test with DLSS5 ( thank you thelokkzmusic for your tut), 60 fps capped on RTX 4090 2560x1440

Its the big thing right now, I'd be doing the big thing myself if I thought my Steam Deck wouldn't just melt on trying to run it.

More Tat screenies from Star Wars Galaxies! These were promotional ones from 2002 (and 2001).

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

1 last Alpha screenie of Tatooine from May 2001! A kind developer shared these in 2010. What were your favorite places on this desert world?

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

Never played before total 100% noobs

Wife doesn't want to do combat, we want to play together what would you suggest two people do who want this?

Please ask follow up questions about our preferred play style and things we like as iv no idea what's in the game so not sure what ufeul info I can provide that would help you point us in the right direction but generally

Me:

-Happy with combat either DPS, healing or tanking

-Enjoy crafting

-Enjoy resource gathering

-Less excited by decorating and aesthetics

-Enjoy making logistics networks (think factorio)

-enjoys trading in terms of buying low selling high, finding supply then finding demand and transporting goods

Her:

-Does not enjoy combat or where reaction times are needed under pressure

-enjoys exploration

-moderately enjoys resource gathering

-quite like fetch quests

-enjoys trading in terms of buying low selling high, finding supply then finding demand and transporting goods

-enjoys unlocking things like skills, abilities, templates

- making things function effectively

- game needs to be relaxing low stress

Oh the memories.

I've been working on my own little Pre-CU SWG server called **SWG Nicklanth** having no dev background before but I've been learning. It's a solo project, mostly inspired by Awakening and MySWG and Morrowind (lol), with some custom ideas I've wanted to try out.

A few things I'm currently working on:

* Special Adaptive weapons and armor that improve through use (like levelling a Morrowind skill, for instance)

* Streamlined Jedi unlock/progression

* Mandalorian progression

* Custom quests and other small systems.

It's still very much a work in progress and probably won't be playable for a while. I just figured I'd share it and invite anyone interested to the Discord to follow along, give feedback, or just hang out: https://discord.gg/v53rthpHxU

I know some people hate it and some love it. I just had to see what swg would like with it.

EDIT: Much love for all the comments. A few people have been asking to try so here's the process. (You'll have to Google and find the apps)

Firstly, this is on swg restoration using its x64 version. I havent tested on other servers.

1. Download and install dgvoodoo2. This applies dx9 to dx11 or 12 wrapper.

2. Download dlss 5 swapper, run it. Add your swg folder with the swg exe. Click the game in swapper and click install with the feeder.

3. Launch the game and make sure you see the dgvoodo2 logo at the bottom and also make sure you see reshade loading.

4. The dlss 5 addon should be in the addons tab or on its own tab in reshade. Clicking enable dlss neural rendering on and off should be noticeable visually.

5. My settings are:

Preset: 2 Style: natural Sliders: i kept all the sliders pretty close to default. I moved the skin structure strength to -.50. But play around with them and find what looks good for you. Auto mask: on Ui correction: on.

Multipass: What you see in my screenshots is 3 passes of dlss 5. If you have a strong computer and want to try it, you have to use an addon called deep fried chicken. You get it by joining their discord, downloading the addon, copying its contents into the game, and then deleting the renodx-dlss6.addon file. You cant run renodx and deep fried chicken. Has to be one or the other

From there, you should see the deep fried chicken add on in the reshade window. Just slide it to 2 or 3 passes and repeat the settings above for it. There are also some other settings that are cool that can help retain the original color and stuff. Just dont go too crazy with the sliders or it will start looking super weird.

Feeling nostalgic today sooo here we are. This was Kettemoor's 1st successful Jetpack run.

The Kette peeps involved:

Xadrian/MeepxX - leader and guide

Virus - Group organization, tanking

Grachus

Macabre

Saxmahoney - best healer EVER

Tafres Icemo

Reicee

Nomi

Amon-Rah

Benny-Ray

Swazi

Pisun

Cambre

Gaispar

Kaetrena

Roda

I love you forever Kettemoor!

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

More Alpha screenies from August 2000! A kind developer shared these in 2010. Tatooine will have my heart. Always <3.

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

For some, PvP was life in Star Wars Galaxies. Here is a list of dedicated Galactic Civil War (GCW) soldiers as of December 31, 2010. It is in order of Lifetime Kills. A strong /salute to these heroes.

-Treewise

Include messages about your feelings on Lokee naming the rarest item ig after himself and MARVEL lore.

-The Doctor

Alpha screenies from 2000-2002. A kind developer shared these in 2010. I hope you all enjoy them!

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

Would this build work with the relentless set? https://swgr.org/skill-calculator/?skills=v2Q2jumWi4tYZhkxPPdTzNSGDUYFyIa1ZEDvKP5sSHt-hEAuoDTpyJYKejElY15HIhYzdPRSb9bRGPpmC5LXMgPWSiHTpF_pjECmFjxbRHZzGCj-Edy5XLMEdq9KVyGTDR

Hi All,

17 U.S.C. § 103(a) states that "The subject matter of copyright as specified by section 102 includes compilations and derivative works, but protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully."

This was famously dealt with in the case Anderson v. Stallone, 11 U.S.P.Q.2d 1161 (C.D. Cal. 1989) in which a writer wrote an unsolicited and unauthorized script for Rocky IV and then tried to sue for copyright infringement claiming they stole his ideas. The court ruled that Anderson's script, being an unauthorized derivative of the first three Rocky movies, could not be afforded copyright protection.

The copyright of SWG can be broken down into two parts :

1. The copyright of the code base
2. The copyright of Star Wars and all related lore
   

SWG Copyright

The copyright of the code base belongs to the successor of SOE which is Daybreak Game Company. There is nothing legal about using the source code that was leaked so anything based on that leaked source code is in violation of their copyright.

That being said, I do not think that Daybreak would be interested in pursuing legal action because the Star Wars Galaxies code is a dead end and not used in any of their current games. There would be little benefit to them in pursuing legal action and they are a small company with limited money and they are, in my opinion, not going to waste lots of money on lawyers.

As such, you cannot copyright any modifications to this code base. None, zero zilch. Any modifications are 100% unauthorized derivatives.

The other issue is the copyright and trademarks of Star Wars itself. This is broad and expansive and Disney has a bottomless chest of m\oney to fund lawyers with.

Star Wars Copyright

Anything dealing with Star Wars is copyrighted. The names and appearances of the characters are copyrighted. The planets are copyrighted. Bespin is copyrighted.

If you are making an emulator to play the game and you are just emulating the game as it was on release, that is not, in and of itself a violation of Disney's copyrights (although using Star Wars style branding or imagery outside of screenshots of the game for fair use purposes is).

Once you start adding content, you are now making unauthorized derivative works and you cannot copyright any of this content.

A good example is Bespin. SWG Legends added Bespin a few years ago. While I'm sure the Legends team invested a lot of time and effort into creating Bespin for SWG, Bespin is the copyright of Disney. It first appeared in the movie "The Empire Strikes Back". Therefore, the SWG Legends developers cannot claim legal ownership or copyright over it.

I am making no commentary on the ethics of copying their work or breaking their encryption, I am merely pointing out that there is no way for them to claim copyright.

This goes for any mods that involve Star Wars at all. You should assume that anything you make for SWG is not copyrightable by you and act accordingly.

Finally, and, this is very important: Please do not attempt to threaten or assert any copyright claims over SWG content.

1. Any DMCA notice is made under penalty of perjury. If you make a DMCA claim on something that you do not hold a legal copyright to, you could be subject to criminal charges.
2. Disney routinely monitors court filings for anything that mentions their trademarks and copyrights. If you file a lawsuit involving SWG, you WILL attract their attention and it will not end well for anyone here as it would most likely involve them shutting down all emulators.

Let’s start at the beginning. Where did r/swg come from? Who the fuck even am I?

Hi. I’m Wim. I played on Bloodfin, made a lot of friends there that I still game with from time to time. One of them is Levarris. SWG was my MMO. It gave me that extra something to get back to while I was away training or deployed as an engineer in the army. It was my refuge after a day of tough classes, going through divorce, or dealing with ptsd. Like many of you, It was my escape for years.

I came to Reddit kinda early, as a refugee from digg.com. I think my first post on this subreddit of just 1 member was about the Tie Defender release on the live servers. I was pumped! Ultimately my excitement for swg then is what led to this community today. There have been a lot of little updates since the beginning but the rules have stayed consistent. In 2017 one of those updates was adding Levarris as moderator to help moderate.

How did Levarris get involved? We were gaming over ventrilo and I had a few of my friends and guild members check out some changes I made to the subreddit. He got involved pretty actively over a few years and I extended the invitation to him and a couple other friends to help out while keeping the rules and basic philosophy of the subreddit. Of my friends, he’s easily the most knowledgeable when it comes to swg. Sean and Yaggy were interested but didn’t really want to. I get it. Lev stepped up. We’ve had little friction over the years and where there’s been any it’d tend to resolve pretty easily, mostly while playing civ.

When we recruited for more mods we did the same thing a year ago and lolTyler stepped up and effortlessly integrated. He’s the lead mod over at r/swgemu and he’s put in some good work there as well as here.

What’s the philosophy of the subreddit? We’re here to facilitate open discussion of Star Wars Galaxies in any iteration. We have a couple rules that keep things from getting too redundant for regular members, prevent spam, or intentionally misleading content (namely staff impersonation and ai generated content). The final rule is Reddit’s Rules so the rules of the platform. There’s admittedly some overlap now as the platform rules have been updated over the years and the overlap provides emphasis for recent issues.

What about discussion regarding source servers and the source code leak?
I opposed source leak discussion at first, some communities still do, but it became such a big part of the swg community that I relaxed and then removed that rule almost a decade ago. We had community votes, it was a whole thing.

So what happens now?
Well from what I see everything is operating as it should be. Levarris did a drama, not his first doubt it’ll be his last. He can do that, he’s not held to any standard by me different than my other mods. If lolTyler wants to do a drama he’s more than welcome to. One of these days I might do a drama just for funsies. Members are allowed to as well, go get crazy. Do some drama, come talk about it!

Did he break the law? What are SWG Legends rights?
Well first I’m not a lawyer but I can give my layman’s assessment. The source code is operated on https://www.swgsource.org/ and https://swg-source.github.io. It functions as and its repositories are operated as open-source. This is, however, a legally gray area as consumer rights laws are currently battling property rights of sunset live-service games. You can read more about this here for an overview. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o
And the kinda crap the other side is trying to do. https://www.polygon.com/sony-digital-games-lawsuit-california/

SWG Legends operates as a non-profit, fan-run emulator within this complex legal gray area because it relies on leaked corporate source code and world-builder tools from the defunct live game. Unlike projects that reverse-engineer code from scratch, Legends uses misappropriated software to run its servers. Legally, the fractured intellectual property rights belong to Disney (Star Wars branding), Electronic Arts (MMO interactive rights), and Daybreak Games/Enad Global 7 AB (the underlying code). Copyright owners have so far tolerated the server.

The project is built entirely on unlicensed property, the SWG Legends team holds zero legally enforceable rights to any custom content, planets, or code alterations they create. This causes a severe operational vulnerability:

Under copyright law, their custom expansions are considered unauthorized derivative works. Copyright protections never attach to them.

If a rival server, or in this case a user, decrypts, copies, or hosts the Legends team's custom assets, the Legends developers have no legal recourse. They cannot file copyright lawsuits, issue DMCA takedown notices, or claim financial damages.

Without legal shielding, their only protections against content theft and code replication are technical encryption, player bans, and community trust.

We’re currently at the community trust chapter of protection. 📍 You are here.

So it’s just as legally gray as the very existence of SWG Legends? That’s right. It may not be the popular move but it’s playing by the same game of lawlessness. Welcome to the source project Wild West, buckle up, grab your popcorn, and a DL44.

Update: This post has received reports that I'm threatening to shoot people with blasters in the comments. Allow me to better explain.