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Thread: Tuesday Tips September 14th Vendor Search Find anything and everything you want!
(Or, How about a Wednesday Tip?)
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We chose this tip from miraljz because its a really great search feature.
Vendor Search - Find anything and everything you want!
by: miraljz
To find anything and everything you want to price, locate, or buy in the entire galaxy, instead of spamming in front of the starport WHERE CAN I BUY A SWOOP 4000 times a minute, do this:
Go to any bazaar terminal. If you can't find one, type /find terminal:bazaar and it will create a waypoint and a yellow ribbon leading you right to it. Select Browse Market from the bazaar terminal. In the top row of tabs, select the Vendor Search option. Next, check the This Planet, or Entire Galaxy box (whichever you prefer), then simply use the categories in the left-hand box to search for whatever it is you want!
Do you have a useful tip that you want to share with your fellow Star Wars Galaxies players? E-mail it to SWGTips and if we select the tip we'll post it as the Tuesday Tip and give you the credit! Send us the character name and server you'd like us to include if we post the tip.
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Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
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edit: Note thatyou can't buy anything using the Vendor Location tab though!
Message Edited by Gen00b on 09-14-2005 04:55 PM
Gen00b wrote:
Doing this in the default bazaar tib will only search the galaxy wide bazaars. 90% crap on them in my experiences, so if you really need something use the Vendor Location tab and use the search there.
edit: Note thatyou can't buy anything using the Vendor Location tab though!
Message Edited by Gen00b on 09-14-2005 04:55 PM
Now if they would only fix the bug that causes items to lose their stats this would be great.
ShockTroop wrote:
Wrong date Mr. ThunderHeart Sir
Guess you didn't read the first line.
Gen00b wrote:
Doing this in the default bazaar tib will only search the galaxy wide bazaars. 90% crap on them in my experiences, so if you really need something use the Vendor Location tab and use the search there.
edit: Note thatyou can't buy anything using the Vendor Location tab though!
There is a great waypoint feature though. On the main window, you can click the button that sayd "Create Waypoint" so you can find the vendor 
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
Worthless1 wrote:
ShockTroop wrote:
Wrong date Mr. ThunderHeart Sir
Guess you didn't read the first line.
I did, however, it says Tuesday Tips September 14th. Doesn't really make sense. I dont' really care, I understand what it is.
Ishiro wrote:
It's surprising how many people still don't know to use the vendor search on the bazaar instead of flying to individual vendors and spending time in each one.
That's why I picked this tip. I so rarely see people getting the most out of this great search feature.
wyrwulf wrote:
Gen00b wrote:
Doing this in the default bazaar tib will only search the galaxy wide bazaars. 90% crap on them in my experiences, so if you really need something use the Vendor Location tab and use the search there.
edit: Note thatyou can't buy anything using the Vendor Location tab though!
Message Edited by Gen00b on 09-14-2005 04:55 PM
Now if they would only fix the bug that causes items to lose their stats this would be great.
You mean while you are searching for things?
We discussed that yesterday. The team is looking at it, but it might be tricky to track down. For instance, over the weekend, I couldn't get any stats to come up, but last night, everything worked ok.
If anyone has reproducible steps to make the stats not appear while browsing the bazaar or vendor, please PM me with the information.
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
I keep swearing I am going to start a search service where people pay me to search.
Vendor search tips:
If looking for food or anythign else normally sold in crates - you will need to go to Misc > Factory Crates. For awhile I though they made the crates show up under the item categories but now they are back to only appearing under Factory Crates.
When searching for things like armor, that are sold in backpacks a lot, go to Misc > Wearable Containers and do a search on the a word like Recon or the type of armor you are looking for.
When searching for things like resources, put it a top price range lower than 99999999 -- that way you eliminate all the stuff on people's storage vendors.
If you are searching and find things priced for 99999999 NO IT ISN'T FOR SALE.
And last but not least, do remember not every vendor shows up on vendor search. For some strange reason, some people don't turn the option on for their vendors 