General Discussion

SOE is offer a reward for 57 month veterans of Star Wars Galaxies.  The reward is a homing beacon which allows faster travel to home faster and avoid Imperial checkpoints and tollbooths.

Citizens who have been part of Star Wars Galaxies for 57 months will receive a great reward for their loyalty this month as we introduce the homing beacon. Need to avoid Imperial entanglements at the starport? Have to get home in a hurry? Save time with the homing beacon veteran reward!

Placing the Beacon

The homing beacon, the 57 month veteran reward, allows pilots in the system to land their ships from the space station above their home. Placing the beacon in a house or other building will mark that location as a direct landing spot for any starship.

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More useless crap from a broken game.

It's enough to make you want to play WoW.

57 Month Veteran Reward

vaseline?

morphine?

a knitting needle to gouge your eyes out?

How about they get the Masocist of the Year award?

So by my estimates, they will probably not be giving anyone this reward - I would like to meet the fool that has been playing this since launch and stuck with it through the whole fiasco.

I'm sure you still have to schlep your way to the nearest starport to head back out into space; this is a one-way operation.

It would be pretty neat to land just outside your house, with the ship their visibly on the ground, but I'm fairly certain that you'll just beam directly to your house (as you do when you land at a starport) with no immersive visual candy.

This is yet another "hearthstone" type innovation in the SWG world.  Thanks to our friends at Blizzard for giving the SWG crew another idea to steal.

Originally posted by AtomicDog

More useless crap from a broken game.

It's enough to make you want to play WoW.

Absolutely false statement!

It's very useful crap for a broken game, and it's NOT enough to make me want to play WOW.  I play Tabula Rasa instead! 

I feel bad for the SWG devs.  Some idiot makes them reinvent the wheel twice, and by the time they got back on the track, even the basic character/environment interaction is light years behind even the free-to-play games.

Nothing like playing a Master Jedi that can't seem to mount stairs from the side, or jump, for that matter...

Originally posted by SioBabble

I'm sure you still have to schlep your way to the nearest starport to head back out into space; this is a one-way operation.

It would be pretty neat to land just outside your house, with the ship their visibly on the ground, but I'm fairly certain that you'll just beam directly to your house (as you do when you land at a starport) with no immersive visual candy.

This is yet another "hearthstone" type innovation in the SWG world.  Thanks to our friends at Blizzard for giving the SWG crew another idea to steal.

yeah, I imagine it's probably an option when you comm into the spaceport, that just takes you to the loading screen.

That reminds me of the good times I had with my buds flying the Multi-player ships.  Under-powered, under manueverable, and near impossible to aim turrets in, but man, what a blast... yet another good idea shipped 75% complete, and ignored thereafter.

I've been talking about this since JTL launch. How cool would it be to have a large enuff city to where u can place a starport convo. This is gonna be a welcome addition to a kick ass game. lol light years behind F2P games... ROFLZ... gotta love those very vocal butt hurt minority. Stay in WoW and let the adults play SWG. Point and click ftw aye? pfft

57 months??  Good god that is a long time.  Close to 5 years...?