Kiara posteth :

Please be advised that SOE phone support and in-game support will be unavailable from 10am – 2:00pm (PST) this Friday, November 21st.  Phone support will resume at 2:00pm and available for the remainder of the day until 7pm.  In-game support will resume at 2:00pm and be available for the remainder of their normal business hours. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

Source:  EQII Official Forums

Chapter 11: The Battle of Echo Base goes live today! Players will finally get the chance to experience Hoth in the form of a heroic encounter in Star Wars Galaxies.

Holo-beasts, minor profession changes, and improvements to the Character Transfer Service are just some of the other updates involved in this patch.

The full update notes can be found here or below.

SOE podcast #50 is now live and contains interviews that will be of special interest to EverQuest II and Star Wars Galaxies fans.

This is our milestone Podcast #50! Tune in for an interview about EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey, and an interview with Kelly “Valara” Knox, the SWG Community Manager. Timmy tells us about his Halloween. Ashlanne gets her gamer card back and more!

The EQII interview is with designers Kander and Ilucide. You can listen to it here.

Since it's my post, I'll tell you why I play, and then you can join in after!

I started out in Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs), back when AOL was the only internet I knew.  Don't snicker!  Internet connection costs of $484 a month were enough to make my parents ground me for weeks.  But then came Ultima Online (UO).

I once played on the Sonoma server of UO, back when it first launched. For a while I played Tovin, an anti-pk. Then Tovin became a role playing tailor. She mostly stayed in town and, one day, was scammed. I was outraged and reported the scam via in game reporting and a Counselor appeared. Dressed in a pretty blue robe he explained to me that though I had technically gotten the short end of the stick, the guy had used no real bug or exploit, but had just been smarter than I had been. I decided then and there that I loved that blue robe. So I went out to find counselors.

In their weekly Friday Feature, the Star Wars Galaxies team has provided us with various statistics on characters across all realms to give us a feeling for what's currently popular in the game.

According to the statistics, the professions are generally male-dominated except for Entertainer, which is 70% female, and Trader - Domestics, which is 45% female. Tatooine is the most popular planet, followed by Naboo and Rori.

All data was collected Nov. 3. You can see it all here.