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Over in the Core Systems forumwe’ve been trying out a few commands that could make travelling via shuttles in SWG a little bit less frustrating. I think we’ve tested enough to make a guide out of it, although there are still some minor issues to using these commands. All this information has been found solely by player testing, so there may be some gaps. Maybe the Devs would be kind enough to fill in any gaps for us.

Those of you who constantly find yourselves running around Starports and clicking like mad on ticket droids only to have to shuttle take off on you may find this info helpful.

There are two commands you can use to travel between ports a bit faster. Those two commands are;

/boardshuttle & /purchaseticket

/boardshuttle (or /bo) can be used by selecting the ticket droid or by adding in the name of the shuttle to bring up the ticket selection screen without having to “use” the ticket collector droid. The command has a range of 25m outside but can be used from anywhere within the Starport building. If you’ve ever seen someone vanish in front of the travel terminal, this is what they are doing.

Some examples of its use are:

1)

/target ticket; (this selects the ticket collector droid)

This can be shortened to

2)

Or

This eliminates the need to select the droid by directly naming the shuttle you wish to board.

In both cases, this will bring up the usual ticket selection window. There are some instances where the command will work at a, seemingly, greater range than 25m, such as in the square outside the Theed Starport. Also this command cannot be used while running (actually running is why you find yourself clicking multiple times on the droids, as is takes a few seconds for the sever to realise you are not running and so won’t let you “use” the droid).

I’ve tried to get the command to work without having to use the ticket selection window, by using a syntax similar to the next command, but as of yet haven’t got it to work.

The other command, /purchaseticket, allows you to buy a ticket on a valid route from anywhere in the Galaxy. The command is used as follows:

With this command you must state the planet and Port you want to leave from and the planet and Port you wish to travel to, and whether or not it will be a round trip or just one way. The command is set to a round trip as default, so you must tell it if you only want one ticket by using the single or oneway optional argument. You can use this command to plan an entire trip across the Galaxy while still at your starting point. In fact you can use this command from anywhere in the galaxy, although there have been some buggy cases where it only worked while standing right beside the travel terminal.

Some examples are:

this is a one way trip form Corellia to Theed.

this buys a round trip between two of Dantooines outposts, starting at the Agro (or pirate) outpost.

The names used must be exactly as those shown in the travel terminal pull-down menus. The names are case sensitive and any spaces must be filled in by an underscore “_”.

To save you some hassle, here is a list of all the starports/spaceports/outposts capable of intergalactic travel.

If someone wants to post a list of the shuttleports, good luck to ya . All shuttles don’t follow the same naming scheme, and of course Player City shuttles will vary per server.

The names should be exactly as they are shown here, so a tip might be to copy and paste this list into your in-game /notepad (or C:\StarWarsGalaxies\profiles\{character_name}\notes.txt) for easy reference.

One way to use this command, say if you make a daily trip to the same locations, would be to set up a simple macro. I have two little macors that I use for a regular journey I make to my shop outside Coronet.

/macro1

I then have another macro, but in the opposite direction, and have them in my toolbar.

Another method suggested by Lexy would be to alias the commands...

so if you didn’t have enough space in your toolbar or if you have a not so regular journey but which always goes by the same route, you could just have it as a simple short command.

By using these commands and the in-game macro system, some have even been able to make an entire multi leg trip across the galaxy while being afk, by placing the tickets in the toolbar and using a macro to cycle through them. Although this was admittedly a fluke, as using the tickets this way also have some range limitations, this only worked by happening to load in close enough to the shuttle (which is random depending on how busy the spaceport is).

But VeritasVenator suggests using the /follow command to get you within range. Although you can’t follow the ticket collector, you can /follow the shuttle, so a command like the following may work (to be honest I haven’t had a chance to test it yet )

This Macro is placed in the F12 slot of the first toolbar pane with the tickets placed in the F9 to F12 slots of the sixth toolbar pane. This macro will then loop around, make you walk towards any nearby shuttles and use any valid tickets to load you into the next location, where the macro should still be looping. So in theory you could set this off, walk away from the computer and be on the other side of the galaxy when you came back. Of course you could also be running around the galaxy chasing after shuttles . I’m sure it may be a little bit embarrassing to load into a starport where the shuttle is just taking off and you start you run after it while it’s flying away.

As I said above, I’m still trying to see if something similar to

will work for boarding shuttles without having to use the ticket selection window.

Anyway, there are just a few tips for easing your travel stress in moving about the galaxy. If you have any more tips or info on these commands post them below. This info seems to have been very helpful for those who have found it, so hopefully more will find it useful with this posted here.

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So I can buy multi-leg tickets from a command line, but there's no easy GUI to do this?

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It's funny how the DEVs just sneak in here and delete these kinds of threads...

..."If they don't see it, it doesn't exist"...

Once they finallyadmit to it, it will either be an exploit, bug, or "new feature" =)

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I'd like to reiterate that this does indeed work for player cities

There's a player city on Dantooine on Kettemoor named Sanctuary, so I tried this command in the coronet starport:

/purchaseticket dantooine Dantooine_Mining_Outpost dantooine SANCTUARY single

This bought a ticket from the Dantooine Mining outpost to the Sanctuary shuttleport

Now, I tested it with cities that have spaces

There's a city on Corellia on Kettemoor named New Alderaa, so I used this command:

/purchaseticket corellia Coronet_Starport corellia New_Alderaa single

this bought a ticket from the coronet starport to the New Alderaa shuttleport

I tried it using coronet shuttleports as the departure location and it worked:

/purchaseticket corellia Coronet_Shuttle_A corellia New_Alderaa single

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Pls don't use this knowledge for evil... [merchant spam]

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CSRTimV: I would suggest sending in a ticket, as there has never been a bug with the jedi system.

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Might be amusing to macro up an AFK tour of every city in sequence and just let it run for a day...

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CSRTimV: I would suggest sending in a ticket, as there has never been a bug with the jedi system.

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