SWanford University has made it public that Professor Roger Basil is looking for some help.  He’s not in the typical ivy league environment, though.  Nope — he’s built up somewhat of a shack in the wilderness of the Southern Highlands.  To find out what Basil needs, you can visit him at his home east of the Rising Glen Real Estate Office.

Or you can just say ^jump Berry Hut in-world.  One of the two

A new update has been pushed to resource nodes in SWI, as part of a systematic update we’re working on for SWI 5.0.

Resource nodes now use 1/4 the amount of time credits as before, the tradeoff being that they now also use Stamina Points (SP). Players recieved 1,000 SP, and regenerate 250 every 15 minutes to fully recharge within an hour. Unlike time credits, SP can be replenished aside from waiting. An array of SP replenishing items will be available soon, but for now check the vending machines 

Note that since you can potentially bring in 4x more resources per day, the loot tables (which determine what you dig up) have changed. There are a dozen new lesser value items added (aka junk items), making the higher value goods a bit more rare.

Equipment has also changed:

– Worn equipment now affects stamina instead of time credits.
– Tools still affect time credits as before
– Aggression tools use less time, but more stamina
– Precision tools use more time, but less stamina

Like the new system? Hate it? Blame Flint! And leave feedback here otherwise 

A new activities pavilion has been added to the quest wing of the SW City Interactive Headquarters in Town Square Park.  Once completing the Beginner’s Quest, players can browse this area to become acquainted with other features of SW City Interactive and to gain clues on where to earn flint, and even find other quests.

This addition is likely a temporary fix, as we in the development team are working towards revamping the beginning of the game to give more direction and story to the player.  In the meantime, we would like to hear your suggestions! A poll has been added to the SW City Community forum so we can get ideas from the community concerning gameplay.  Let us know what you think!

The background requirements for custom avatar pictures in SWI profiles has been lifted. So if you were having trouble taking a picture before, try it now!

…because the trash nodes around the park are now active, after all these months 
Talk to Hal the garbageman over at the parking lot on the west side of the park to get started.

Issence hunters rejoice – Issence herbs now regrow about once a day. If you’re having trouble collecting that last herb, simply return to your favorite spot and harvest away 

A submin smithy named Rouden has opened his smithing service at the town square park ruins. Rouden, a self-proclaimed weapon collector, will ID weapon fragments dug up and can reassemble them into collectible imperial era weapons for the accomplished archeologists out there