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Thread: Tuesday Tips – November 16th: Staying in touch with friends across Galaxies
Cry4Dawn
Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:19 am
#14
MajorXP wrote:
Cry4Dawn wrote:
WARNING DO NOT ADD FRIENDS FROM ANOTHER GALAXY
I cant believe you posted how to do this... First off let me say, if you want to add a friend from another galaxy it doesnt tell you what galaxy they are on. AND to make maters worse, When you want to delete the friend from your list, YOU CANNOT! It says that name does not exist, because of course it doesnt exist if that person isnt on your galaxy. CSRs CANNOT FIX THIS ISSUE which means they told me the ONLY WAY to fix this is to blank out your friend list and start fom scratch.
DO NOT ADD FRIENDS FROM ANOTHER GALAXY
I have confirmed this on multipule accts, and chars on other galaxies.. This is a BAD BUG, I cant believe they posted how to add friends to your friend list. I am totally annoyed I cant delete those friends and they haunt me because they enemies now and I have to see them on my list that I cant remove.
IDEA
How about fixing this bug then posting how this works. But until this is fix, heed my warning once you add a friend from another galaxy you cannot delete them. Wow I am shocked a dev posted this garbage...
BTW I am not bashing anyone here, I am clearly making a point for the Dev and SOE to understand that this is a major problem and needs addressing. I just find it funny they tell you to do this yet its bugged!
.....umm... look two posts up......you can delete them.........
Also, nice catch on double tipping...... I thought we saw this tip before here....
Why is it a paid CSR of SOE cannot give me the same info a player has given to us? I think is problem with lack of knowledge, which is half of the reasons why so many things go undone when it comes to fixing issues. They can do it, they just dont know how. I think this is proof
Wokka
Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:45 am
#15
Blimigerite wrote:
If you add a friend to your friend's list from another galaxy it does not show on the list what galaxy it is on.
So if you friend has the same name in 3 galaxies, you will only see that they are online but will not know what galaxy it is
To get around this put in the comment section what galaxy it is.
Lol, did they actually fix the comment field? It used to not save anything you put in there, are you saying this works now? has it been tested successfully?
Wokka-wokka
kgmkiorys
Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:41 pm
#16
antares_Kauri wrote:
Tuesday Flashback!
antares
yup, not only TH is a master liar (ask any smuggler for updates) but he is also so lazy he recycles the tips... sometimes i wonder how he could swim his way up to a promotion.
Hey SOE!! wake up, this guy is getting paid for doing nothing !!!
Cry4Dawn
Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:48 pm
#17
Wokka wrote:
Blimigerite wrote:
If you add a friend to your friend's list from another galaxy it does not show on the list what galaxy it is on.
So if you friend has the same name in 3 galaxies, you will only see that they are online but will not know what galaxy it is
To get around this put in the comment section what galaxy it is.
Lol, did they actually fix the comment field? It used to not save anything you put in there, are you saying this works now? has it been tested successfully?
Wokka-wokka
The comment field has worked for me since day 1 they put it in. I also put comments in on everyone.. Thus another bug for you
vars_t
Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:04 pm
#19
Wokka wrote:
Lol, did they actually fix the comment field? It used to not save anything you put in there, are you saying this works now? has it been tested successfully?
Wokka-wokka
I always add the name then write into the comment field. After I write into the comment field I press modify.
I have never been able to add a friend and the comment at the sametime.
Message Edited by vars_t on 11-16-2004 06:05 PM
Jehdrick
Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:04 pm
#20
Tuesday Tip -- November 23rd: Staying in touch with friends across GAMES
Solution::
Easy; Just join them in another, Since SOE continues to push TOTALLY bugged publishes!
How can we keep in touch if everyone leaves because of Broken, useless and ill conceived nerfs er I mean fixes to this game!
RonsterA
Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:32 am
#21
Thanks for the tip on how to delete cross server names.
I've wondered that ever since the original Tuesday tip on making cross server friends
Message Edited by RonsterA on 11-16-2004 12:34 PM
BadgerSmaker
Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:17 am
#22
I tried to join a chat channel on another galaxy using the appropriate command but nothing happened.
I dont think SWG supports this yet.
I can't for the life of me remember the command I used, I'll edit this post with the command later.
GrimBear
Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:26 am
#23
Been using the comments field to track subscriptions to my in game email magazine for over 9months.
Wokka wrote:
Blimigerite wrote:
If you add a friend to your friend's list from another galaxy it does not show on the list what galaxy it is on.
So if you friend has the same name in 3 galaxies, you will only see that they are online but will not know what galaxy it is
To get around this put in the comment section what galaxy it is.
Lol, did they actually fix the comment field? It used to not save anything you put in there, are you saying this works now? has it been tested successfully?
Wokka-wokka
GAThrawn_MIA
Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:45 am
#24
DeQuosaek wrote:You can make an alias to shorten what you have to type for this.I play on Bria, but I have a buddy, DrZoidberg, on Europe-Chimaera. So I made my alias tdz (which stands for Tell DrZoiberg) and it looks like this:/tell europe-chimaera.drzoidbergI had to type this to create the alias:/alias tdz /tell europe-chimaera.drzoidbergand now when I want to talk to him I just type:/tdz [the message I want to send goes here]
Note that unless they fixed this recently server names are case-sensitive, so you always have to capitalize the first letter of the server name, also with Euro servers you need t capitalize both the "E" in Europe and the first letter of the server name.
So your /alias tdz /tell europe-chimaera.drzoidberg needs to be /alias tdz /tell Europe-Chimaera.drzoidberg
Also a bit late now, but this was a great way of keeping track of your friends while you were in the Space Beta, I'd often play in the beta until I saw some of my Chimaera friends come onlne, and then switch back to the live server to messa round with them.
Zephid_the_BattleMaster
Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:04 am
#25
i couldn't test this with the new pblish but it is not possible to add 2 character with same firstname in current galsxy and 1 different galxy to friends list
i think it si because of in firend list only first name of char is seen not the servername.charname so i cant add someone from current galxy after adding some one form another..
does anone know a solution to this problem ?
lisasdarren
Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:14 am
#26
Tip for Shipwrights:
While component names are still being shortened to the first word replace any spaces in your names with underscores.
The name gets treated as one word and stay intact
So a Mark I Reactor
becomes a Mark_I_Reactor