In Game Family Legacy System

[Jammer]

From GameSpy

Finally, in the second game update, we're also providing the full Legacy system. From a fictional standpoint, it's inspired by the fact that Star Wars has a lot to do with family -- Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker being one of the more famous father-son relationships in fiction. The legacy system is really meant to appeal to players who love to re-roll characters, to create alt characters, who like to play through different storylines and see how they play out. What the Legacy system is going to allow you to do is actually create a family tree of characters that can be sisters, brothers, husbands, fathers, sons, basically the characters that you're creating are all part of that family tree. Whenever one of your characters is adventuring, you gain experience points for your family Legacy, and you gain Legacy levels. Legacy levels unlock abilities and perks, they allow you to use bind on legacy items. It also allows you to customize your level of experience. We know that when a player has played a character from levels one to 50, and he's starting up a new character, so there's certain things where he wants his experience to be slightly different, he might want to optimize it so that he's doing more PvP than he was the last time, or maybe he wants to focus more on heroic quests. The legacy system will allow him to essentially optimize his gameplay experience, through things like experience point bonuses, other things like that.

[rabb]

now that is pretty fuckin' cool

[Jammer]

Video here of some of the upcoming changes to the game. One thing that we will look forward to is they will be bringing a guild bank to the game.

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/coming-star-wars-old-republic

[Clem]

The guild bank will be great for crafting, trading, and depositing weapons/armor that we don't need but that might be useful to other guild members. I'm really excited about that.