Creating your Character

This will be one of the most important steps you do while playing SWC. What you choose here will likely stick with you until your character dies, so have a clear image in your mind as to what sort of character you wish to play.

Step 1

Here you can choose to either base your character on a pre-made template, or perform everything manually. For your first time it is suggested that you look through the pre-made template options first to get an idea of what you may need. However, it is best to then go back and run through the whole process manually so you can choose what you want exactly.

Step 2

Here there are several options available to you:

Gender

Male or Female, pretty easy. This will have no effect on the mechanics of the game (there is no discrepancy between genders like in some other games), other than the server-based images that are available to you. Since you can change this image later at any time, this is an insigificant difference.

Skill Priorities

There are five different skill categories that you can set a priority for. This will determine that number of skill points you will have available to you to use in those skill areas. These are as follows:

Priority	Skill Points
1	14
2	10
3	8
4	6
5	4

Race

This is where you choose which race of creatures you would like to play as. A drop down box gives a list of all the playable races. Selecting one will give you some relevant details about that race, as well as an image of what a member of that race would look like.

Force Probability

This is the chance that you will be sensitive to the Force. The highest value obtained by a starting character is 6%. As you can see, planning on being able to use the Force is not a good strategy - many players spend years playing and still are not sensitive to the Force.

HP Bonus, Race Multiplier

These 2 values are used in the HP equations to determine how much health you start off with. Larger numbers mean more health.

Skill Bonuses

These are extra points that will be put into the skills listed. Because of the way skills work, if you want to max out a skill at character creation, you will need to find a race that has at least one skill bonus point in that skill.

Race Restrictions

Several races are limited in what vehicles and ships they can actually use. Though they cannot stop you playing, they do provide a larger challange to play than races without such restrictions. However, they generally have better stats elsewhere to make up for this shortfall.

Terrain Restrictions

This lists which terrain types that that race cannot move on without assistance. In general, all races cannot move on Gas Terrain and Volcanic Terrain. Most cannot move on Oceanic Terrain, but there are a few aquatic races that can.

Step 3

This step allows you to set up your character to what you want to do. The Skills are explained in more detail, but if you hove your mouse pointer over each skill name a tooltip will show up to give a general explanation of the skill. Choosing a skill level is as simple as selecting the level in the drop down box. However, there is a limit to how many you can do. When you chose your Skill Priorities (see above) you determined how many skill points you would have available to use. You cannot use more than this, and you have to use up all your skill points before continuing. Skills have an increasing skill point requirement to get to increasingly higher levels. This follows the progression below:

Level	Points to upgrade to	Total points required
1	1	1
2	1	2
3	2	4
4	4	8
5	7	15

Step 4

This is where you enter your characters description and biography. You need to type something in these 2 fields, but do not fret too much about it as you can always edit these later in the Character Page section. You also get to choose one of the race images available. Again, you can change your characters image later on the above page, so don't worry too much about which one you prefer.

Step 5

This is the final step. This gives you an overview of everything you have selected so you can check that it is what you want. You can click the 'Back' button at any time to return and change something if you wish. Otherwise click the 'Accept' button and you will have created your character.