In the livestream, the developers of the Free-to-Play MMORPG “Star Wars: The Old Republic” revealed many new details about the upcoming “Galactic Stronghold” update and gave us a closer look at the player housing located on the homeworld of the Republic: Coruscant.
Although the stream repeated a lot of information that was already known, we summarize the most important points here:
The best part for role-players: The housing can be made accessible to both factions. Want to corrupt a Jedi and do it in the comfort of your own home? No problem!
Some mysteries regarding the prestige system have also been unveiled. Once a player stronghold has over 1000 prestige, it can be displayed on the public list – the higher the prestige of your stronghold, the higher it ranks on this list. This score is calculated based on the completeness of the stronghold and is multiplied by the number of decorations. Subscribers receive a doubling of the total value, which is why only paying players will likely be found at the top of the prestige list.
Access to the strongholds is simply organized – either you make them public or distribute access through three types of keys: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. While gold keys are only accessible to the owning player and their alts, silver keys can be distributed to everyone – these players will then have invite and kick rights. Owners of the bronze key can only visit the corresponding stronghold. By the way, the keys are completely free of charge.
At the same time, the developers of Star Wars: The Old Republic also answered questions, here is a summary of the most interesting statements: Players at level 16 should already be able to afford their own home, even though not all rooms are yet unlocked.
The dwellings also count as rest zones (just like cantinas), and a lot of comfort items can be purchased to save the trip to the fleet, such as a guild bank, a mailbox, the auction house, or even a character customization station.
Unlocked mounts and speeders can be displayed as decoration in your house – perfect for showing off and admiring!
Of course, you can teleport to your own home from anywhere, and from there you have four travel options: back to the last point, to your own spaceship, to the fleet, or to the planet where your stronghold is located. This significantly increases the number of recall options and massively shortens travel paths – although these weren’t very long to begin with.
You can find a complete list of all statements here on dulfy.net – unfortunately currently only in English. And if you missed the first livestream of the “Living in the Galaxy” series, you can catch up here: Star Wars: The Old Republic – Introduction to Housing.
