Game Guides Archive

Each week, Q-3PO started a thread for you to share game tips with fellow players. Tuesday Tips will continue on. Have a little known command you use all the time, a cool place to visit, a trick (non-exploit) to getting more out of the game? Share it here. To get things started:

Manage your SWG Mail!

There is a “save mail” command that will save your in-game email to your hard drive. This is handy if you are a crafter with a lot of email or a player who runs a lot of events and has to manage a lot of email.

In-game, simply type:

/mailsave

After you enter the command, the computer will prompt you to wait for a moment while it saves the mail to your hard drive. When it is complete, it will give you a message in your chat window that notifies you what directory the mail has been saved to. Then, later on, you can access the mail by using the explorer to browse to the following sample directory:

Inside the last folder will be all of your mail saved as a *.mail file.

If you have never opened a *.mail file, your computer will ask you to find a program to open the file with after you double-click the file. You can use a text notepad to read the files.

Also note that in the same window, there will be a checkbox asking you if you ALWAYS want to open the mail files with a notepad or other type text program. If you choose, “yes”, you will be able to double-click on any mail in your mail directory to open it with your notepad. If you choose “no”, you will have to browse for the application to open the mail file each time you double click on the file.

Make sure to choose what works best for you.

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Message Edited by Thunderheart on 08-11-2004 03:34 PM

Message Edited by Thunderheart on 07-15-2005 04:50 PM

Nice tip, never knew it Does this improve mail box loading times?

Message Edited by DreA101 on 08-11-2004 07:37 PM

• Color code your own name so that you cant miss your own name. Also stuff to color code is " tip " (note the spaces before and after tip), trade, and your guild tag.


• Although old, use /bo tr to board a shuttle from the ticket vendor


• Name the waypoints to your harvestors the name of the resource it is gathering so you dont forget when it changes


• When accepting bank tips, make sure that the first and last name of the player is displayed or it could be a fake I was told this was fixed and now the email comes from "bank"


• The command /guildr will not display your guild rank, it will remove you from your guild. /guilds shows you your guild status.

Message Edited by MajorXP on 08-12-2004 09:02 AM