SWTOR Patch 2.9 Coverage Guide

Dulfy 79 Comments Aug 18, 2014

A collection of various guides related to Patch 2.9 Galactic Strongholds expansion.

FAQ

Q: Where do I go and get a stronghold?
- A: Go to the fleet, you will notice the crafting area is now renamed to Strongholds & Crew Skills. There is a big hologram NPC you talk to in that area for the intro quest that will show you how to access the stronghold terminal etc. For the free Nar Shaddaa palace, you need to access the stronghold terminal and purchase it for 0 credits.
Q: How to I get to Manaan?
- A: Go to your spaceship and travel to Manaan. If you have done Forged Alliances Part I there is a new quest to pick up at the fleet as well. Alternatively, you can simply queue up with group finder
Q: How do I do conquest?
- press L and go to the newly added Conquest tab. There are a bunch of objectives for you to complete.

Galactic Strongholds

Tor-decorating.com – Database/gallery of decorations and customized strongholds
Galactic Strongholds Tours and Unlock Pricings
Galactic Strongholds Decorations List
How to craft prefabs and dark projects
Where to find crafting mats
Hooks guide

Guild Flagships & Planetary Conquest

Manaan Flashpoint

Cartel Market

Patch Notes

Patch 2.9 patch notes

Timmah

Is there a link to see when the servers go down and back up?
- Vodorlo
  
  http://www.swtor.com/server-status
  
  Feel free to refresh the page, or just calculate when it ends.
  
  2AM PDT (9AM GMT) – 7AM PDT (2PM GMT)
  
  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Skyward

Is Manaan going to just be a flashpoint like Kuat? Or will there be questing content like Oricon?
- Dulfy
  
  Just a fp for now
  - Skyward
    
    Ah that’s a shame. I was really excited to be spending more time on Manaan again.
    
    I hope they expand on it, but that’s just getting my hopes up for nothing :c
    - Chakra Kusanagi
      
      Considering its size, I’d say odds are that they’ll be adding more there. Right now it’s the size of the entire CZ area (including the daily areas and such) and only has one flashpoint in it (and I’m not counting the area of the flashpoint)
CarpeCervesi

Are the personal strongholds shared across your legacy? or only on the toon you unlock it on?
- Dulfy
  
  Legacy
  - Josef Tauser
    
    They’re not cross-server legacy are they ?
    - SpideyBry
      
      Legacies are not cross-server so I’m sure it’s not.
Selden

I’am not sure. If I’ll buy a stronghold on Dromund Kaas, I’ll need to pay everytime to travel there? (For Republic characters)
- Dulfy
  
  Yes 1000 credits everytime unless you are a smuggler/agent (200 credits)
  - Selden
    
    Damn :c
  - prdc
    
    My Agent was made to pay 250 credits.
OldSkool

Looks like Windows XP suffers from the ol’ eternal loading screen when starting the game up.
- Chakra Kusanagi
  
  You do know they are still patching right?
  Servers are down two more hours.
  - Seph
    
    They were up early. Mine downloaded right away
    - Unoshi
      
      yeah, they mostly are.
    - Chakra Kusanagi
      
      Yeah, but when he wrote that, the servers were still down.
      - Seph
        
        They were up a full 2 hours early.
        
        Chakra Kusanagi
        
        Well they were not up when he wrote that.
        I checked.
- iceberg265
  
  Probably time to update to a version of windows that is actually supported.
Ghost

If I give a key to a preferred player, will he be able to visit my stronghold or he has to wait until pref launch?
- Crazy
  
  I’m 99% certain I read somewhere that they can visit the guild stronghold, so I can only assume they can visit yours as well.
  - Ghost
    
    I hope so. Thank you. 🙂
Meelis S

Hmm patching is stuck at Game client 150 0% ?
Anyone else?
- bumrar
  
  yep same here
  - thadalina
    
    same here
    - Seph
      
      Went fine for me
  - Xzelsius
    
    lawl… i got fully patched at 11:10 MESZ .. had no problems!
    - bumrar
      
      lawl that really really funny!
- bumrar
  
  OK a fix that worked for me, delete a file called “retailclient_swtor.version” in the SWTOR install directory.
  - thadalina
    
    did you restart the launcher after deleting the file?
    - thadalina
      
      ok i solved the issue some other way. i have had changed the loading screen to an empty file for fights like tyrans or calphayus. so i did not touch “retailclient_swtor.version” but put the original loading screen into place, restarted the launcher and patched successfully within seconds 🙂
  - Meelis S
    
    Thanks that solved issue. Closed launcher, deleted file and patched successfully.
- Unoshi
  
  patched within the first our maintenance started
Leont Stepanov

Question: Can preferred/f2p access their guild’s stronghold/other players’ strongholds?
- Unoshi
  
  as far as i know, yes.
Unoshi

Good god, loving the new wallpaper. was getting sick of the GSF one
- SpideyBry
  
  You can change your wallpaper. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=161946
  - Unoshi
    
    what have i been doing with my life… thank you so much. Now going to put my own personal taste on the wallpaper. At least i can look at something pretty when im getting constant loading screen wallpaper for no good reason
    - SpideyBry
      
      LOL no problem. 🙂
  - dodgerfn
    
    Hey thanks! I never knew
Leont Stepanov

Wow this update is big… Or the installing is really slow. Already 1.5 hours and it’s only at 18%.
- Leont Stepanov
  
  3.5 hours and 25%…
  - Vodorlo
    
    Took me 10 minutes to download it. You must be doing something wrong.
    - Ernost
      
      Not everyone’s internet speeds are the same.
    - Arby
      
      This was actually one of the fastest downloads I’ve ever had, which I find strange with all the people on the forums talking about slow downloads and locking up. I had a lot of problems in the past when no one else did. I’d really like to know what the determining factor is in all this
  - bucky
    
    plohaya skorost vidimo
Jeenia

So is there anyway to increase the number of NPC’s you can have in your strongholds?
- Dulfy
  
  Nope, Bioware said it is a technical limitation
  - Jeenia
    
    Thanks!
  - ggetaclue
    
    YEah BW cant figure out how to expand the number of NPCs in your SH in their MMO. Sheesh, what a total fail. Seriously, it’s a complete atmosphere killer. That and no interaction with the things in it. PLUS they silenced all the NPCs and holo’d your companions, so it’s like being in a friggin ghost town.
    - Vodorlo
      
      It’s not changing it that’s the problem. Severs have already crashed more then once because of new load on the servers. No way an increase in the npc count would be coming anytime soon because of that.
      - ggetaclue
        
        well BW makes enough off of subs and “free” players to upgrade their servers, sheesh….
Lord Zalla

Do decorations that come from FP drop in SM or just HM?
- Dulfy
  
  I think it is both but HM (especially bonus boss) have higher chances
  - Lord Zalla
    
    So do the decorations have a chance to drop on every boss or just the last boss?
Raxy

Having trouble with my legacy…reputation is not going up( I got the notification about the ”promotion” on screen), but I capped weekly rep(should be at friend, but it’s at outsider), also when I open the character panel the lagacy title option is greyed out and I’m getting strange achievements; ”complete a warzone” ( I have over 1000 wzs completed)

Any thoughts?
prdc

When do you get the war supplies schematics? Do you have to have advanced training?
- Raxy
  
  450 skill level
  - Karina C.
    
    not really, you can get schematics for level 150, 300 and 450
    - Raxy
      
      Right, sorry for the false info
Forever Cyrus

Can somone explain why have additional aprts? like if got narshadda why bother with any other one… just for the looks or is there some bonus to the others??
- Rint
  
  If you max out the decorations in 1 apartment you get a 25% bonus to your guild conquest points. If you do all 4 you get 100% bonus.
- Arby
  
  I believe it’s for RPers to try to out “man” each other by having more strongholds, with more rooms, on more planets with more deco than any of their friends. Those guys are sooo cool.
  I have the landing pad of mine deco’d with a mail box, legacy storage, personal storage, mod station and 1 droid to vendor junk to… and I’m done. I haven’t even been in the other rooms because I don’t need anything in there. All I need now is for the game to stop sending e-mails full of deco I’m never going to use.
  - Maxx
    
    Geez, wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
Areneth

Hmm… Is it okay that companions of other faction are naked?
- Arby
  
  Well I guess it’s not just me. In fact, all of my companions, no matter which character they’re from appear unclothed to all of my characters including the one that placed them. I wouldn’t mind, except that Risha, Kaliyo and Mako ARE still wearing their undies… I mean, if you’re going to screw something up, at least do it right.
Quantez

Do any of these decorations interact with the player? Can i sit on stool/chair or lay down on a bed?
- Dulfy
  
  Nope, gotta use /chair or /sleep
dodgerfn

I’ve only got to play about a hour with my Nar stronghold so far, but I for one am very impressed with the way they made them. Sure, I would have liked to be able to place a item anywhere, or the exact spot on the floor or wall that I wanted, but to be honest, having the hooks gives me a place to start, and maybe idea’s on where to put things that I might not have seen by staring at a empty room. I’m not a interior decorator, I would have been lost. Even with the hooks already placed, it will still take me weeks to place, look at, rearrange, and fill every room. And that’s just in the Nar palace lol. By allowing me to rotate, slide left or right, and move up and down I will be able to place everything I want to where I want to, or close enough anyway, Thanks Bio, you did good.
Ben Tan

I would like to bring up a confusion for the purchase of
the Legacy Storage Bay. If you click on the purchase additional bay, you
will see that if you purchase with credits it is label as “Character”
but with CC its “Account”. Why such a confusing label BW? Is there
really such a thing as purchasing for “Character” only with credits on a
LEGACY STORAGE BANK? Isn’t LEGACY means that all can access? Hope some
one can explain if there is really a difference or just BW making it
sounds better & confuse people to spend real money CC thinking they
will get better benefits………. I have search the internet & so far no one can reply for sure on this topic of the difference so hopefully the wise Dulfy to the rescue on this.
- Areneth
  
  Account means account. So if you buy it on one server, you can use it on second.
- dodgerfn
  
  I unlocked all 5 bays, and paid with credits. All my toons can access all 5 tabs on that server. I have not checked cross server yet, but will later today and update. Cross server legacy has been a bit odd for me. My original server that I started the legacy on has carried over to my character transfers to other servers, but when I created a brand new character on a different server, the legacy and collections did not carry over, had to start all over. Hope that makes sense. So I assume that I can access legacy storage, and my stronghold, on my original server with those characters, but I won’t be able to access it with my new character I created on the new server from scratch. I think the label Bio used was probably a mistake, and maybe was created along the lines of buying a stronghold with credits rather than CC. If you purchase a stronghold with credits and deactivate it, you have to pay same amount to re-activate. You do not when you purchase with CC.
  - dodgerfn
    
    Update: Logged onto my old server, and those toons did not own a stronghold and could not access mine I had bought on new server. So strongholds are not cross server 🙁
- Unoshi
  
  They probably copied cargo bay and made some adjustment so that its accessible by all characters on one server from your legacy. With that said, i think they forgot to make adjustment to the payment window or they are just thinking meh, lets leave it like that other wise more scripting. But end to end, buy with CC or Credits, still accessible by all characters.
ScicleX

Once again I want to thank you Dulfy, for the amazing guides and coverage so fast! If you’re not already on Bioware’s payroll yet you definitely should be. 😉
Canim

I’m not sure if anyone is watching this area anymore, since Strongholds have been out for a bit now, but I have a question I can’t seem to find a good answer for anywhere else…

What happens with your stronghold if you transfer a character to another server? Which stronghold data is kept?

For example, on server “A” I have the balcony of Dromund Kaas unlocked, and on server “B” I have the garage unlocked. I move a character from “A” to “B”, will have I have both unlocked, or just the garage?

Any information anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated!

SWTOR Patch 2.9 Coverage Guide

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