ONLINE!

The test center is now online and should be accepting connections.

Connection Guide: http://www.truegalaxies.com/how-to-connect

Need Help?: http://forums.truegalaxies.com/viewforum.php?f=19

Want to get your client setup a little before 5PM Central to prepare for the launch of the test center? Follow the instructions in the Client Setup Guide.

If you have any problems, please post them in the Technical Support forums located here: http://forums.truegalaxies.com/viewforum.php?f=19 .

Note: The server will be locked until 5PM Central. This is to make sure we have the latest updates available for you to test.

We have been asked by the ANH team to make some things clear. Due to the quickness of everything that has happened, there needs the be some clarification. However, I believe the majority of the True Galaxies community knows what we are going to say, but this is just to make sure.

The Test Center Server will be just that - a server where you test . There will be bugs, in-complete features, and crashes a long the way. This means that while you may be able to train some professions, not all of them will have every single detail in. For example, you can craft on the server. However, not all the schematics may be in for all the given items. Also some schematics may make an item, but not make a "usable" item. The ANH team (QA & Devs) are working on this. While the crafting system is in and pretty much complete, there may be bugs and not all items have been entered to be made craftable yet.

There are also other features similar to crafting. Like Sampling (Surveying & gathering resources), Housing/Structures (Create & Drop a House, Decorate House, Harvester, etc), and Entertainer (Musician, Dancer, and Image Designer). They are pretty much complete, but may contain some bugs. There are also features like Medic that are semi-implemented and currently being worked on. There will be bugs with it, and not all features may work on the 26th.

Another area of concern is combat. Combat is IN, however, in it's current state it contains some bugs, and is NOT complete. You can shoot at things, duel other players, kill things, die, and clone. However, specials pretty much do nothing, except cost you HAM. While creatures are spawned and can be spawned, development wise they are not complete and is subject to a code re-write along with combat.

Also remember when SWGEmu first launched their Test Center. It was basic and you could pretty much only run around in under wear. However, as time progressed more features were added and stability was improved. With the ANH test center, there will be things to do, but remember this is really the first large public test center for the ANH code, so expect some problems.

In addition, things will get better. The ANH team is not calling this a production release because it is far from it. They still intend to develop the features and improve the server. As those additions are made we will update the Test Center. Our goal is to help ANH, and that's all we have ever wanted to do.

If you have any questions please ask them.

Note: There are also some details I left out on "little" features like skill training, trading, bazaar, grouping, etc - they are all in.

Discuss this here: http://forums.truegalaxies.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1645&p=18838#p18838

True Galaxies will be launching an ANH Test Center on June 26th 2010 at 5:30PM Central Standard Time. As the name implies however, this will be a test center. There will undoubtedly be bugs and it will not be completely feature-complete. You can view ANH’s current milestone page here to see what features will probably be in. You should also take a look at the post "What to expect on the 26th" - a post by an ANH developer on what it will be like.

This period will also serve as True Galaxies beta. Once ANH sees fit to release a production release we will officially launch.

The main goal of this test center will be to help ANH identify game play bugs and help aid their development. Our secondary goal is to learn all we can. This will be valuable experience in setting up the server and getting a taste of what our population may be like. If we can get a somewhat accurate representation of our expected population, it will allow us to make a smart purchasing decision regarding our servers. This will also allow the True Galaxies development team ample time to get into the code so that we will be fully prepared to add new and existing content when we launch.

These are truly exciting times. We hope that you will help us and ANH push the server to the limits.

True Galaxies will begin allowing advanced account registrations on Wednesday June 23rd 2010 at 10:30AM. You will be able to register your account (that you will sign into the server with) and reserve ONE character name.

You can read ANH’s full announcement about going open source here.

You can discuss this announcement here.

SEE YOU INGAME IN A FEW WEEKS!!! (<--- So glad to finally say that…)

-True Galaxies Staff

P.S. :: You might want to start preparing your friends.

Two SWG ANH Devs (Rouse and Lloydyboy) have posted two new Dev Blogs on the SWGANH community fourms with some interesting development updates.

Here's a brief outline of what both posts contain:

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We have switched around our official IRC chat room.

It can now be found on the ZeroAxis network. Here are the details:

Server: irc.zeroaxis.net

Channel: #truegalaxies

We will soon be adding a link on the forums and on the main site to launch a web-based version of the chat room to make it more accessible. Hope to see a few of you in there!

Here's an update from our friends over at SWG: ANH.

Hello members of the ANH Community! It has been a while since our last update, and so I thought I would fill you all in on our latest developments.

We have been chugging away at the core here in the past few weeks to prepare it for our future plans. We have lifted our feature freeze due to amazing progress with bugs in the core. But the work is not yet finished! We still have many bugs to fix and there have been many other important things happening.

I have recently revamped our log manager in order to make the core more manageable, and others have sketched out plans for other revamps and new features! From the looks of things right now, it appears the next features to be put into the core are player cities and guilds! (This makes sense now that player structures are complete!)

The QA team has been working very hard these last few weeks and deserve a special round of a applause due to their commitment as they find and nag...I mean urge...developers into fixing the issues that are most important  .

More exciting things are coming, we promise. It's the calm before the storm.

Discuss it here: http://forums.truegalaxies.com/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=1563

Check out the source here:  http://www.swganh.com/anh_community/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=289

In addition Snow has made an udpate to ANH's milestone page: http://www.swganh.com/anh_milestones/

Be sure to take a look.

Hello fellow True Galaxiers(?),

It's always a good idea to change your passwords every so often. Since things have switched around again (sorry guys and gals) you will need to reset your password. Hopefully we are set for the future, and no more *major* site work will be needed.

If you notice any irregularities from the changes, then please let us know.

**Update:** If you do not receive the reset password email, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please send it from the email associated with your account so I can verify you. You should also check your spam box.

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