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Camrux

Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:26 pm

#14

Here's a PvP related tip for you that I have come to rely on over the years

I never used my numberpad buttons for anything so I remapped them for use with combat related functions.

I created the following macros

/deathblow

/forceHeal self (could also be a stim)

/knockdownRecovery

I mapped Kd recovery to the enter key, heal to the plus key, and dethblow to the minus key. These are now mapped to a easilly reached location and I dont even have to look at what I am doing to know what command I am activating.

The added benefit is that I also free up 3 slots in my function key bar.

Marcelleus - LM Jedi and crappy rebel pilot
Camrux - MBH / MR / MM and also a crappy rebel pilot

Flatfingers

Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:14 pm

#15

Useful tip, but it raises a question:

Why "guild"? Why "guildchat", and "/gwho" and so on?

OK, yes,"guild" is a term used in various fantasy MMORPGs like EQ. But this is Star Wars Galaxies, where the term for player groups has been "Player Associations".

I'm not trying to be fanatical about usage here. I'm just trying to figure out if "guild" is now the term preferred by the developers, and thus the term we players ought to be using.

Is"Player Associations" no longer the official term for these groups in SWG?

--Flatfingers

Message Edited by Flatfingers on 07-12-2005 04:15 PM

frightwig

Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:29 pm

#16

You can also shorten it to /chatr who guild

Same goes for any created chatroom... "/chatr who rin" to see who's in the RIN channel, for example. (Ranger Information Network.. a popular chat channel used by rangers/crafters on most servers)

Speaking of chat tabs and channels... any ETA on a fix for this? We're going on two publishes now and no fix. Tabs disappearing, including guildchat, channel tabs creating multiple instances of themselves throughout your online session, etc...

..and my combat tab hasn't been since since pub18. I spend the first 5 minutes online every day resetting my chat channels and creating a combat tab. Then I do the same every time I launch into space.

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° [Carbineer] :: [Bounty Hunter] :: Imperial Storm Trooper
° [Imperial Pilot Ace] :: Storm Squadron
° [Imperial Pilot Ace] :: Black Epsilon
° [Imperial Pilot Ace] :: Imperial Inquisition

Valkyrie36

Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:29 pm

#17

Hey!..thats my guild!

"You"teh leetsauce.

KStarfire

Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:46 pm

#18

That has got to be the most useful tip ive seen in a long time, nice job.

KStarfire

ykamispet

Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:03 pm

#19

coo.!

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Zeon_Zaku

Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:10 pm

#20

Cool.

But I think the easiest way to find out who's online in your guild is to just add all the guild members to your list, then mark your guild tag in the slot there. Then you can see at a glance who's online. That's what I do, anyway...

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(Gorath) Smuggler/Commando/Rebel Space Pirate Ace
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"This flag stands for freedom. I live for what it stands for!"
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MCPrimetime

Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:45 pm

#21

Thunderheart wrote:

Each week, we start a thread for you to your share game tips with fellow players. Be sure to join in and add your helpful tip.

Do you 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.

Checking who's online from your guild

By Ehenn Gek of Eclipse

do a /chatroom who guild..guildchat to see who's online on guild. even /alias it.

to get your guild id:

on the "join chat channel" window, select "SWG", "YourGalaxy", "Guild", then guildid is the number you see there. if you see more than one guild id's there, your guild id is the one that has a "Guildchat" chatroom in it.

Example:

/chatroom who guild.12345.guildchat

("12345" there is the supposed guildchat id here. replace it with your own guild's id)

Aliasing it:

/alias gwho /chatroom who guild.12345.guildchat"

then do a:

/gwho

and the results should come up like this:

Members of this channel:

SWG.Eclipse.bar

SWG.Eclipse.coolplayer

SWG.Eclipse.foo

SWG.Eclipse.leetplayer

SWG.Eclipse.player

SWG.Eclipse.system (this one always comes up)

SWG.Eclipse.you

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ummm sounds complicated. why don't they just make a button for it.

MCPrimetime
Jingles
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Dewbacca_BHG_

Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:52 pm

#22

Thunderheart wrote:
Each week, we start a thread for you to your share game tips with fellow players. Be sure to join in and add your helpful tip.
Do you 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.
Checking who's online from your guild
By Ehenn Gek of Eclipse
do a /chatroom who guild..guildchat to see who's online on guild. even /alias it.
to get your guild id:
on the "join chat channel" window, select "SWG", "YourGalaxy", "Guild", then guildid is the number you see there. if you see more than one guild id's there, your guild id is the one that has a "Guildchat" chatroom in it.
Example:
/chatroom who guild.12345.guildchat
("12345" there is the supposed guildchat id here. replace it with your own guild's id)

Aliasing it:
/alias gwho /chatroom who guild.12345.guildchat"
then do a:
/gwho
and the results should come up like this:
Members of this channel:
SWG.Eclipse.bar
SWG.Eclipse.coolplayer
SWG.Eclipse.foo
SWG.Eclipse.leetplayer
SWG.Eclipse.player
SWG.Eclipse.system (this one always comes up)
SWG.Eclipse.you
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.
Check out last week's tips

Great tip, I can use that to make sure none of my guild Jedi are on after the next Publish so I dont waste my time tracking them down cuz I dont have a name on my BH mission....good work... :/

Dew Bacca (Gorath)
Elder Bounty Hunter and loot junkie
Verrak (Gorath)
Master Trader (Engineering)

My life style determines my death style.

Starcloud

Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:59 pm

#23

Important but little knownfact:

While browsing the bazaar, if you simply let your mouse cursor sit on the name of an item, a little window will popup under the mouse with the details of the item for sale. No need to open up the "details" window unless you want even more information.

This includes little things like, the name of the item or resource, the amount of the item or resource, stats on some items and most resources, etc. For the resource sellers, this means that it's not necessary to reload all your vendors each time there's a server reset.

Tibber

Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:24 pm

#24

mindspat wrote:

Bionic wrote:
Although I find it to be one of the handiest functions in game, many people do not know about /notepad.

Just type /notepad to open a text window, where you are free to type any notes to yourself, which save into a convenient file in the SWG directory automatically. It persists between sessions, but not between different computers, so make sure to back it up if you're switching!

/note

When typing long emails to be sent out to your guild you can use /note and type in there. The /note function saves to your harddrive in real time so when teh server boots you and locks you out until you completely reboot the entire client you're info that had been typed in /note will still be there. All you need to do now is to set up the function to copy/paste and send it to the guild.

Just/no also does the same thing

Shuey

Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:12 pm

#25

Nice tip but I have to ask why is it so complicated to do a simple search for guildmates? Is it that hard to make "/who all guild" tell you the same info? It worked well in EQ for the last 6 years.

While you are at it can you fix the chat windows so they stay the same after you log or zone into space? 2nd anniversary rewards are almost in game and the chat windows work worse now than in beta.

Murashu

Illrigger

Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:19 pm

#26

Addendum to the space mining tips from a couple weeks back:

I've been doing a LOT of space mining these last few days. It's a highly profitable industry that's a lot more fun that ordinary harvesting. In the time I've been doing it, I've come across a few helpful hints:

1. The best mining ships short of POB and the Y-8 are the Rihxyrk and Krayt. They have enough mass for you to carry a Class 3 Mining Laser, Tractor Beam and a class 8 gun. The class 8 gun is the key to you surviving high level asteroid bandit attacks. As soon as you can, move up to the Krayt and bring a friend to man the turret. The X-Wing works as well, but you have to be a sharper pilot to take down the spawns in Kessel in one.

2. Once you break off a big chunk, match speeds with it, and then don't touch your speed unless you get attacked by bandits. Going back to speed 0 as is often recommneded and costs precious seconds. Time=money.

3. Speaking of time=money, DON'T spend more than a couple seconds chasing small chunks. If you go too far from the big rock, you are wasting seconds returning to itthat you could be using to get the next easyones. Once you break the big chunk, tractor all the easy ones in and ignore the rest (especially the ones that you tractor but fly past you).

4. MAP A KEY TO "TOGGLE TRACTOR ON". As soon as you're near the big rock, turn it on and LEAVE it on until your bay is full. You'll double your mining speed by doing this, believe me.

So, what does an effiecient starfighter mining op look like? Here it is:

Load up your ship with the best mining laser you have, a tractor beam, and the biggest gun you can fit. Launch to space. Target the closest resource of the type you want to mine and autopilot to it. Toggle the tractor on. Fire repeatedly with the mining laser at the rock until a large chunk breaks off. Match speed with the chunk. Fire one shot at a time at the big chunk until it breaks (DO NOT hold the fire button down!). Spend 15-20 seconds tractoring the easy to get small chunks. Trun back to the big rock, do not slow down, and blast it until you get another big chunk. You needn't match speeds with this or any further targets. Repeat until cargohold is full (usually 12-15 minutes for a 1000 unit hold). Land, empty bay, repeat. Find a SW who will hapilypay you25-30 cpu foryour loot. Get rich.

Message Edited by Illrigger on 07-12-2005 05:23 PM

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