Star Wars Combine Sim News

Deathmatch and Grudges

Noctis — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:56:05

Been a while, next round!

Utinni! Dooka Dooka! - Jawa Quest Updates

Thrall Lothbrok — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:55:40

With the new changes to capital ships we've some updates to the two Jawa quest NPC's.

- T'uk finally has Daring strike missions available! Utinni!
- The Dooka Shop has been individualised, everyone now gets their own shop each week!
- Both M'uk and T'uk have new Capital strike missions that might appear randomly! These missions are guaranteed to spawn for everyone for the next 3 months! (Groups of 4-6 are recommended)

Many thanks to everyone who helped make these quest updates happen!

Thrall EDIT Y27D139: I forgot to update the delay before waves spawn from 30 seconds to 35 minutes for the new Capital strike missions, if you have already picked up the quest "Bandit Boss - M'uk" or "Bandit Boss - T'uk" be warned that the waves will spawn 30 seconds after the last hostile ship has been destroyed. Aborting this quest and starting it again will fix this. Or don't, you've been warned.

Sync Report Y27D137

Clarr Solo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:02:22

- Capital Ship Shield Arcs: Capital ships now have directional shields and directional weapons assigned, and these can be tested in showdowns.
Rules can be found here.
Prior to combat, this also changes places where ships with directional shields can take damage, e.g. Asteroid Fields. Damage from asteroid fields will apply from a random direction. This means if you get unlucky you could take hull damage before reaching zero shields.

- Extra Changes:

Modifiers have changed for all ship classes, but primarily capitals.,
Capital and Super Capital ships can now be attacked by bandits. This means that all ships can now be attacked by bandits. Note that capitals still cannot attack a bandit and will not return fire at this time.,
Shields for capital ships are now directional. When hitting from one direction, both that directional shield and the omni shield will take damage. Once both are depleted, the hull will begin taking damage even if other directional shields are still up. Watch out when taking one into an asteroid field!,
Turbolaser Batteries now have their own modifier. The most obvious effect on current functionality is that frigates with Turbolaser Batteries will now do less damage to corvettes.,
Turbolaser Batteries have had their number of shots increased but damage reduced. Overall damage remains the same.,
Quad tracking has been increased.,
Firepower increase for personal ionic weapons (Electrostaff, Jawa Ionisation Blaster, TB-1a). This is to help counteract the previous addition of armour for droids.

Bugs:
- Fixed pew pew lasers not showing on atmosphere maps.
- Improved crewlist modify error messages.
- Added Khuiumin to the darkness map.

Feedback thread is located here.

Man I hate this part

Falcon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:32:15

Hi guys, mom said it's my turn to post on the Sim News! And this time it isn't even a ban! (~~It's much worse~~) This is gonna be an entirely OOC post with no real bearing on the game or its features, so if you don't care, you can stop reading now and continue about your day.

We are now into our fourth month of 2026, and this year has been packed for me. So far this year, I've gotten a temporary extra family member, an unexpected work trip, extra responsibility with no extra pay, and all of this has taken my time and focus away from making this community better.

In short, my priorities have shifted to focus more on my family and what is important to me. I still care deeply about this game and community, and want to contribute. However, in typical SWC Admin fashion, I am simply running out of time and energy to actually contribute in a meaningful way. Exhibit A:

So, all this to write that I will once again be taking an extended leave of absence. I'm not stepping down as Game Admin (yet), but I truly don't know if/when I will return to this position. At the very least I'll try to stay a part of the community on Discord, so you all know I'm alive lol. In my absence, Noctis, Erek, Kodkod, Chupa and Koi will fill in the gaps as they already have.

Thank you all for your kind words so far. I've been a part of this community for nearly 20 years (hello from Y8), and it's been an amazing journey going from playing, to helping the community, to creating new features for this game.

So... yeah. So long and thanks for all the fish!
(this isn't goodbye, it's see you later)

Bluest Star Dominion

Noctis — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:39:12

Hi, it's me, not Falcon.

Clarification on the recent name changes for BSD. Yes, it was reversed.

Both factions were charged for changing the names back. Additionally, og BSD was fined for breaching the naming rules (analgous to old faction checks), making the name available to be stolen.

A faction is more than a name, generally. Changing your faction name as a joke is misuse of the system. Stealing a name is also misuse of the system.