Stronghold Updates

‘In the Wild’ Decoration Contest

Do you have a super cool decoration? Want to show it off in all its glory? Well the best decorators know that no piece should ever stand on its own, the decorations around it should complement it and help create a bigger story in the room. Help others think of new ways to decorate their houses with screenshots of your decorations in the wild!

Latest Contest Category: (Contest on hold)End Date: —

Computers ContestCheck back another time! See below for past winners.

How to Enter

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Take a screenshot of a decoration in a decorated room (see rules below)

2. Comment

On that decorations’s page on swtorstrongholds.com and upload your screenshot

leave-way-contact3. Leave a Contact

Make sure to leave a way to contact you back if you win in the comment!

 icon-envelope  You MUST leave a way to contact you back if you win!!! Your reddit username, your SWTOR username, your twitter, your disqus account, or your SWTOR character name ingame (plus server and faction).

Prize: Rare Taun Fawn Code
For every decoration you submit to, you will receive one entry into a draw to win a Taun Fawn code! Once the code is entered, you will receive this rare pet will be mailed to all your characters ingame. Courtesy of the Bioware Community team! Your entry will also be on display on the decorations page for others to see and gain inspiration from.

Extra Rules:

BAD:  Just the decorationVoss-ka Street Lamp GOOD: The decoration in a real decorated roomvoss-ka-street-lamp-crowded

BAD:  UI is onuion GOOD: UI is off (ALT+Z)uioff

BAD:  You submitted the same screenshot to two different decorations.swtor 2015-05-05 21-43-24-59 swtor 2015-05-05 21-43-24-59  GOOD: You submitted two different screenshots to two different decorations. It’s ok if they’re in the same room.swtor 2015-05-05 21-43-24-59 swtor 2015-05-05 21-43-35-43 

 

Past Winners

winner-kaertaContest: Civic Sculptures (ended May 19th)Winner: Kaerta of Red Eclipse!
vaartside-amunitionContest: Container (ended May 29th)Winner: Vaartside of Reddit! There were 70 entries this week!
Contest: Wall and Floor Lights (ended June 8th) Winner: Hache-Moncour of Disqus! There were 36 entries this week! Special thanks to Ivilon, Kadru, Zyera and Zero who submitted lots of lights.
Contest: Signs (ended June 19th) Winner: Zyera Keywork of Twitter! There were 34 entries this week. Special thanks to Jelra who also created a bunch of entries.
Contest: Computers (ended June 29th) Winner: IntisarNOR of Twitter! There were 7 entries this week.

 

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“Introduction to Galactic Strongholds” Breakdown

SWTOR has finally released more information about player housing as well as shown how the placement system works! Read more to view a breakdown of the gifs and a key points list as well as an explanation about some of the features.

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Coruscant Developer Pre-release Screenshot Tour

Coruscant Developer Pre-release Screenshot Tour

Before strongholds even came to the Public Test Server, Bioware released dozens of screenshots on their websites, their facebook, and in their promotional videos to tease eager fans. Here are just a few of Coruscant.

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Decorations

Decorations

Decorations are in progress, feel free to browse what’s up below.

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Decorations from Operations and Past Acheivements

Decorations from Operations and Past Acheivements

Will our participation in past operations, FPs, and pvp be honoured (tracked via achievements)? Or will it be a blank slate when housing comes out?

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Detailed Screenshots of the Tatooine Homestead via SWTOR Facebook

Nine beautiful Tatooine Homestead screenshots have been released! View the dusky twin suns, the  Jawa balloon, and th elaborate pit-style home sprinkled with various domes and tarps.

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Developer Update: Introduction to Galactic Strongholds

Jesse Sky, Lead Designer has released a Developer Update on the upcoming SWTOR player housing strongholds, showing more about the designing system and more info about unlocking decorations.

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DevTracker updates about Deactivation and Legacy Storage

DevTracker updates about Deactivation and Legacy Storage

The devtracker always lets us know a little more informally about updates coming to SWTOR thanks to our SWTOR community managers.

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Dromund Kaas decoration stream with Eric, Chill from OotiniCast, and Jack!

Decorate in Dromund Kaas with Chill from Ootinicast, with hosts Eric Musco and Jack. First look at the DK stronghold and lots of decorations.

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Dulfy “Strongholds Stream” Breakdown

Dulfy has created an indepth breakdown of the SWTOR Stream divulging a lot more about Strongholds than we’ve ever seen before. Take a look at her screenshots and notes of the stream.

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Enmity Podcast covers Galactic Player Housing in Episode 33

Enmity Podcast covers Galactic Player Housing in Episode 33

Queues are popping… and housing is imminent. The cast at Emnity podcast review their wishlist for the upcoming SWTOR player housing and guild ships.

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Free-to-play Access coming October 14th, 2014

Free to play players will soon have access to SWTOR player housing on October 14th!

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Galactic Living: Tatooine Homestead Video

SWTOR has released a cinematic view of the Tatooine Homestead player housing Stronghold, showcasing the various rooms, the twin suns and the different ways a user can decorate their house.

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Galactic Strongholds Stream with Eric and Jack!

On July 10th Erick and Jack showed off Coruscant, the invitation system and public listings.

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Guild Ships and Stronghold Tours discussed on Enmity Podcast Episode 46

Guild Ships and Stronghold Tours discussed on Enmity Podcast Episode 46

Listen to Enmity Podcast 46th episode at 42 Gaming to hear Raging Rondo and his co-host Big to hear their thoughts on the upcoming SWTOR player housing and guild flagship costs, and try to answer the question of “who are strongholds for?”

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How to take a Video Tour of your Stronghold

Want to show off your stronghold properly? Take a video of your in game player house and let visitors have the full experience without ever having to log on!

How to set up, record,edit and upload a tour of your stronghold (or anything else) to Youtube and share it with others!

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Interview with /r/swtorista (me!) at Ootinicast

I recently had a chance to be interviewed by Teo at Ootinicast, both about this site as well as swtorista.com and my involvement with the game.

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Legacy Storage Update #2 on devTracker – crafting materials and BoP items

Legacy Storage Update #2 on devTracker – crafting materials and BoP items

Another update on Legacy Storage from Eric Musco, bound items will remain bound even with a legacy bank, but the legacy bank will become incredibly useful for crafting and materials!

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Medbay Decorations Collection

A medbay, medical bay, medical center, or medical wing, was a room or area on a starship where the sick and injured were healed. It was similar to a medcenter or a hospital. Sick bays could be found on both military and civilian vessels, and in some instances in non-mobile bases, throughout thousands of years of galactic history. They were often furnished with hospital beds and bacta tanks, and they could be staffed by sentients and medical droids alike.

Medical Lab Decorations

A medbay is only as good as its equipment, so make sure to invest in the good stuff. You will need to decide what type of medical lab you are habouring – will it be an underworld clinic for criminals to get implants? A standard Republic or Military medbay for soldiers? Or are you a scientific lab, neutral to all parties?

Medbay Lights

If you can’t see what you’re doing, then you’re just an Underworld clinic, and you know the kind of work they do.

Medical Furniture

A medbay is more than just a few kolto tanks stuffed in a room. You need to create an environment where people can wait in times of needs, places for them to sleep, and add the tools your staff need to treat their patients.

Republic Medbay Decorations

The Republic knows what needs to be done when it comes to repairing broken bodies in the medical bay.

  

Imperial Medbay Decorations

The Empire does not fear death – but its citizens sometimes do, so the Imperial medbays are always well equipped.

Biological Medical Decorations

Every scientist needs something to experiment on that isn’t sentient, and it’s always nice to have your own ingredients on hand.

 

 

 

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Nar Shaddaa Developer Pre-release Screenshot Tour

Nar Shaddaa Developer Pre-release Screenshot Tour

Before strongholds even came to the Public Test Server, Bioware released dozens of screenshots on their websites, their facebook, and in their promotional videos to tease eager fans. Here are just a few.

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Nar Shaddaa Stronghold Tour & Review now up!

View the Nar Shaddaa Info Page

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New Galactic Living Twitch Series (July 2nd, 8:30 PM GMT)

Watch SWTOR’s Twitchtv channel on July 2nd for the new Galactic Living series that will showcase the innards of the upcoming SWTOR player housing.

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New Tatooine Stronghold review and tour from the PTS

New Tatooine Stronghold review and tour from the PTS

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Nov 1/2

  • Documented Rakghoul plants, posted reminder on Reddit
  • Documented Halloween items
  • Created Cartel Market singles categories
  • Added screenshots of Cartel Market singles icons
  • Screenshots of various Operation/FP decos

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Ootinicast covers Galactic Strongholds in Episode 133

Ootinicast covers Galactic Strongholds in Episode 133

With the new updates, announcements and delays in player housing, Ootinicast with guests Simon and Redna cover their thoughts, predictions and wishlists for Galactic Strongholds.

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OotiniCast Episode 137 interviews /u/SWTOR_Miner

OotiniCast Episode 137 interviews /u/SWTOR_Miner

Although much of what is covered in Episode 137 is related to general data mining as well as feature content, /u/SWTOR_Miner did have a small bit to say about Galactic Strongholds. Click read more to view mined spoilers.

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Pets, Mounts and Speeders Confirmed for Strongholds! + Market Speculation

Pets, Mounts and Speeders Confirmed for Strongholds! + Market Speculation

With exciting news from a producer’s letter about Galactic Strongholds, Bruce Maclean confirms the ability to add your pets, speeders and mounts to your stronghold!

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Player Housing Early Access being moved to Aug 18th, 2014

Player Housing Early Access being moved to Aug 18th, 2014

The original release date for Player Housing was to be in June 24th, but in order to deliver some cool new features the date is being moved back to August 18th.

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Player Housing Question asked at Los Angeles Community Q&A

Player Housing Question asked at Los Angeles Community Q&A

I got the chance to ask a question during the Community Cantina in Los Angeles, and of course it was about Strongholds. I was attempting to ask if when you share a stronghold between characters, their furniture etc would also be shared. Musco and crew delivered with info about Strongholds!

Asker: Hi there I’ve got a question about Strongholds – upcoming. I’ve got a Jedi, I’ve got a Sith on the other side. When they’re sharing the same stronghold, we know they’re legacy-wide, BUT – will my Jedi and my Sith be in the same room together, bashing eachother? Or will it simply be the unlock that is legacy wide?

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Potential Future Planets for Player Housing

Potential Future Planets for Player Housing

At this time we aren’t talking about any additional planets aside from what we have announced, which is Coruscant, Dromund Kaas, and Nar Shaddaa. [Source]

Although no other locations are being talked about, we can definitely assume that more planets will come after release if player housing is received well.

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Prepare for SWTOR Player Housing

Prepare for SWTOR Player Housing

Are you ready? We’ve been given hints and clues about what we can expect, and where decorations could possibly come from. But what can you do to get ready for the big date?

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PTS Stronghold Prices and Unlocks on Dulfy.net

EDIT: No longer relevant, link no longer works. – Swtorista

View tables of the unlock prices for credits and cartel coins of all four strongholds on dulfy.net along with video tours and maps of the PTS strongholds.

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PvP in Strongholds Discussed on The Unknown SWTOR Podcast

PvP in Strongholds Discussed on The Unknown SWTOR Podcast

Listen to the cast on gaddockgaming.com! JD has some really interesting ideas about how PvP can be incorporated into strongholds, including allowing players to “create their own warzones” and allowing large multi-player fights in a controlled environment.

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Questions About Player Housing

Questions About Player Housing

We know it’s coming, but not the specifics. There are still so many unanswered questions about player housing. Here’s just a small sample of them.

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Republic Fleet Stronghold (Carrick Station Penthouse)

Star Wars: The Old Republic players have been requesting a smaller apartment stronghold for quite a while now, and the developers have responded with two new Penthouse strongholds located on the Republic and Imperial fleets. The Republic Fleet Stronghold (properly called the Carrick Station Penthouse in-game), has only four rooms, and is much smaller than the other strongholds, but still has six hundred hooks available for decorating and cool view of space and of the VIP lounge of the Fleet.

Public Test Server Information, subject to change

To unlock access to the Republic Penthouse, you will need to purchase a “deed” items from the Galactic Seasons vendor. The deed costs 7 Galactic Seasons tokens, and subscribers would receive their seventh token by the time they reach Galactic Seasons Level 62, and free-to-play players can only earn a total of 4 tokens per season.

This Deed and the use of it transfers ownership of one Carrick Station Penthouse from its former owner (the grantor) to the new owner (the grantee) as defined by statute of the Galactic Republic. This deed is non-transferable to those outside of your Legacy. This deed may not be resold. Per regulatory statute of the Carrick Station, only those who have standard grade Station access are permitted within the Penthouse at any given time. (You can’t buy or sell the stronghold deed on the GTN or give it to a friend, [[you can not invite Imperial players to the stronghold]]. )

Carrick Station

During the final months of the Great Galactic War, the Republic became desperate to develop a new hyperroute for supplies in their conflict with the aggressive Sith Empire. To facilitate their new route, a nearly forgotten supply base known as Outpost 22 was returned to full service. By the time the Treaty of Coruscant was signed and the war had ended, Outpost 22 had become such a major hub of activity as to be as indispensable a gathering place as the capital world itself. The base was given a new and significant identity–Carrick Station–in dedication to Zayne Carrick, a once-unassuming Padawan who rose to a position of great importance during the Mandalorian Wars.

Republic Fleet Stronghold Full Tour & Review

Carrick Station Penthouse

This modest penthouse apartment is located in the upper levels of Carrick Station, the Republic’s primary space station. Such prime real estate is reserved for powerful and well-connected individuals. It features state-of-the-art architecture, a magnificent view, and a high-grade security system to ward off unwanted solicitors.

Your initial unlock gets you a small entry area, a main room, two windowed rooms and a large octagonal room. One of the windowed rooms overlooks the VIP Lounge on Carrick Station and the other overlooks space, ships, and Carrick Station’s exterior. This is a copy of Carrick Station – you will not be able to see other players running around if you look down out the window. You do hear cantina music in the cantina-facing room.

 

 

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Stronghold Crafting Covered by SWTOR Escape Podcast

Max and Sema of the SWTOR Escape Podcast cover the crafting materials and methods available on the PTS for Stronghold decorations, start to finish.

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Stronghold Decoration Art Released at SWTOR Los Angeles Community Cantina Thumbdrive

Stronghold Decoration Art Released at SWTOR Los Angeles Community Cantina Thumbdrive

Thirteen images of upcoming stronghold decorations have been released through the thumbdrive given away during the Los Angeles Community Cantina. From the Firebrand tank to the Ancient Voss Sarcophogus, we still don’t know how we’ll be able to get these decorations… but at least we can see them.

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Stronghold Decoration player suggestions request on Devtracker from Matthew Dondelinger

Associate Designer Matthew Dondelinger has requested player suggestions for ingame decorations for strongholds. Requests like this have happened in the past – only time will show if any of these suggestions are taken to heart! Suggestions range from the absurd to practical.

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Strongholds Under Construction in Coruscant and Dromund Kaas

Strongholds Under Construction in Coruscant and Dromund Kaas

During the Vancouver Community Cantina, these images were released as part of the fan thumbdrive. They show construction of the highrise Capital planet strongholds.

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Strongholds will be Legacy-Wide Confirmed

Strongholds will be Legacy-Wide Confirmed

We’ve finally gotten confirmation about how Strongholds will work in terms of Legacy with a quick note from Eric Musco on the devtracker.

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