http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/ ExcaliburStarshio Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:05:02 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Online Gaming http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:03:38 GMT This event celebrates 5 years of what is left of Star Wars Galaxies. Yet it is somewhat flawed. Many players enjoy receiving badges for various activities, including taking part in events. Usually you show up at the event, you get a badge. Not so this time. There is an Empire Day celebration in Theed, Naboo and a parallel Republic Remembrance Day in Coronet, Corellia. Once an hour, on the hour, Darth Vader and Princess Leia respectively arrive in these places. Each time one person in the gathered crowd gets a badge. So there are 24 Imperial badges a day and 24 Republican, per server,... (more) http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=17 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:45:19 GMT YouTube videos from Excalibur Starship and friends: http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFNccx385RNj8HQYZJ9RJ4vqX2-X6oUIfJs http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:47:27 GMT After the New Game Enhancement was forced on the Star Wars Galaxies community, tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of players left the game. When their accounts lapsed, their houses were left standing in player cities on all servers. Presumably this was because Sony Online Entertainment and Lucas Arts didn't want to indicate the extent of their blunder by just having so many houses disappear. The true extent of the defection from the game would have been just too apparent. Denial (and a refusal to talk numbers) was the policy.Today, despite attempts to bring in new players, the game is a... (more) http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:21:14 GMT It’s difficult to keep up with a continuing series when the books come out a year apart. “Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind” (published May 2007) is the third book in a series that started with “Vanguard: Harbinger” (published July 2005) and continued with “Vanguard: Summon the Thunderer” (published June 2006). In the case of ordinary Star Trek books this perhaps wouldn’t matter quite so much, everyone knows who Kirk, Spock and McCoy are, or Picard, Ricard and Data. But this series brings in a completely new cast of characters. Set in the period of The Original Series, it... (more) http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Fri, 11 May 2007 17:07:36 GMT When Chapter 6 hits, creatures used as decorations and mounts in datapads are supposed to turn into something else. We're supposed to be able to reuse them as decorations or turn them into DNA for pets under the new system. New mounts will have to be grown from eggs. One can only hope that when Chapter 6 hits, things won't get messed up. http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:12:46 GMT The Star Wars Galaxies universe is currently agog over the impending introduction of the Beast Master profession. This is an attempt to restore the professions of Creature Handler and Bio-engineer, which disappeared a couple of years ago when the game developers introduced the massively unpopular New Game Enhancement (hundreds of thousands of subscribers quit at the time) reducing the number of professions from a couple of dozen to nine. Part of that decision was apparently based on the low number of Master Creature Handlers, but the developers failed to understand that in the old game... (more) http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:25:37 GMT Finally, finally, finally the houses of players who have left the game are being removed from Star Wars Galaxies. All around the various servers/galaxies houses have been labeled (Abandoned). The developers are being careful however. E-mails have been sent to the owners of all the structures, giving them a chance to renew their subscriptions. If they don't, they will be deleted on June 5. It's often been speculated that one reason Sony Online Entertainment has don't this previously is because it would have revealed the massive numbers of players who quit the game after the... (more) http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:19:09 GMT This is the sequel to Crucible: McCoy Provenance of Shadows, and the middle book of a trilogy revolving around the three main characters of the original Star Trek, McCoy, Spock and Kirk. The three books are all supposed to center around a key incident in the lives off all three, the visit to 1930’s New York in the TV episode “City on the Edge of Forever”, in which Kirk is forced to allow his love Edith Keeler to die to preserve the timeline of the future. The nice touch is that both books take up the consequences of events in the TV episodes, filling in the lives of the main... (more) http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=10 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/9.html Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:36:17 GMT �Provenance of Shadows� is the first of a new trilogy of Star Trek original series books by David R. George III, each centering around the three main characters, McCoy, Spock, and Kirk. In his foreward George says he had a problem adding something new to all the TV shows, movies, and books already written about these characters. Instead he looks at their entire lives, but with a crucial point of departure, the events of the TV episode �City on the Edge of Forever�. For the complete review, go to: http://radiowood.com/2006/10/review-crucible-mccoy-provenance-of-shadows/ http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=9 http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/archive/8.html Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:32:48 GMT Shades of Mos Muerte! Someone got herself elected Mayor of Brenn, then decided she wanted to move elsewhere. Rather than let anyone run against her, she deleted the city! Now what was one of the premier commerce centers of our server no longer has a shuttle and critters and other NPCs wander the streets. Brenn was no longer what it was before the NGE, but it should have been allowed to die by attrition, and just because one person doesn't want to live there is no reason for the other citizens to lose their city. The three Excalibur Starship vendors have been removed and all... (more) http://excaliburstarship.blogdrive.com/comments?id=8