Game Guides Archive
Thread: Tuesday Tips – November 2nd: Adding color to your SWG Bio
_Smoke_ wrote:
Jai-Qon, you're supposed to be able to travel to any starport from any other starport if you own your own ship. One of the last builds of beta introduced a bug in which the starship terminal always thinks you're on Tatooine, severely limiting travel options. That workaround is going to be VERY useful. Five stars!
~V
OIC!
Thanks for clearing that up. I noticed that bug, but just thought it was a limiting factor of your ship or something. One question though... If our player ships aren't tied to normal transport lanes, how come we can't go from Talus to say... Rori once the bug is fixed or the workaround used. I suppose I should ask if the workaround accomplishes this as well?
Just curious as to me, this is one of the main bonuses to having your own ship.
EDIT: 5* to both of you who explained it so nicely! Thanks!
Message Edited by Jai-Qon on 11-02-2004 02:02 PM
Otegu123 wrote:
You can use /reticleSelect 1-8 to change reticles in JTL ... not sure if this is common knowledge or not
I didn't know that - - nice tip 
Tiaga found it in beta
KStarfire
Message Edited by Tiaga on 11-02-2004 04:26 PM
Thunderheart wrote:
\#FF1234\This is my bio text....
VOILA! A bio with color.
Check out last week's tips
Message Edited by Arnwald on 11-02-2004 07:39 PM
Arnwald wrote:
No f laming here,
but I find it interesting that you removed item naming colorization because it wasn't easy to use (so you told us) and now you are advertizing us to use the same thing for bio.
Am I missing something there?
Yeah, they didn't remove item coloring because it was difficult to use. They removed it because they feared it gave sellers an unfair advantage of having their item names stick out on the bazaar withoug having to pay the cost of listing it as a premium auction. Or that was the explanation we were given. It seems they could have just had the bazaar strip the color codes when showing the names, but maybe that would be difficult to implement.
A tip:
You can use these color codes when naming a waypoint,house, harvester, or backpackto help you keep your things organized better.
Oh and here's a link to some HTML color codes. The code is the full 6 digits from left to right, wrapping to the second row. It's alittle hard to read, but not really.
Message Edited by DeQuosaek on 11-02-2004 04:59 PM
DeQuosaek wrote:
Arnwald wrote:
No f laming here,
but I find it interesting that you removed item naming colorization because it wasn't easy to use (so you told us) and now you are advertizing us to use the same thing for bio.
Am I missing something there?
Yeah, they didn't remove item coloring because it was difficult to use. They removed it because they feared it gave sellers an unfair advantage of having their item names stick out on the bazaar withoug having to pay the cost of listing it as a premium auction. Or that was the explanation we were given. It seems they could have just had the bazaar strip the color codes when showing the names, but maybe that would be difficult to implement.
A tip:
You can use these color codes when naming a waypoint or a harvester to help you keep your things organized better.
Oh and here's a link to some HTML color codes
- /ui radarselect #
- Where # is a number between 0-5 (I think).
- Changing your radar display.
- CTRL-SHIFT-G
- Show detail game information, e.g: FPS, build number, the amount of time you spend on ground etc.
I'll add more for next week Tuesday tips 
KStarfire wrote:
I believe its /ui reticleSelect 1-8
Tiaga found it in beta
KStarfire
7 and 8 dont do anything, so i think its 1-6.... I like #4... looks like 5 is the default
MrWizzard wrote:
KStarfire wrote:
I believe its /ui reticleSelect 1-8
Tiaga found it in beta
KStarfire
7 and 8 dont do anything, so i think its 1-6.... I like #4... looks like 5 is the default
Hmm, I'm sure I remember there being a 0 too... 1 is the only one I care about though.
On a completely different topic, I can't believe after a year people still have that extraneous \ in there. When you do \#000000\Whatever, the second \ isn't needed. You can just do \#000000Whatever. You can also do \#. to go back to the "default" color, whatever that is.
Message Edited by Tiaga on 11-02-2004 05:01 PM
LeBob wrote:
Here is the list of new JTL emotes.
This is a nifty logout macro I wrote.
/afkmessage logging off in 30 seconds...;
/afk;
/sit;
/pause 3;
/logout;
/pause 3;
/afkmessage logging off in 25 seconds...;
/pause 5;
/afkmessage logging off in 20 seconds...;
/pause 5;
/afkmessage logging off in 15 seconds...;
/pause 5;
/afkmessage logging off in 10 seconds...;
/pause 5;
/afkmessage logging off in 5 seconds...;
/pause 5;
/afkmessage afk;
/quit
Message Edited by LeBob on 11-02-2004 04:22 PM
you could do this macro the same way like this
/sit;
/logout;
/pause 30;
/quit;
I dont get that many tells the last 30 seconds of my game.....
Message Edited by Saabotage on 11-05-2004 11:20 AM