Game Guides Archive

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Thunderheart wrote:

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Drummerboychris wrote:
rebind middle mouse wheel to double click. makes life a million times better. screw alt.

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Are you using the modal or non-modal interface?

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wow my first dev quote ever. only took like 4 years . Anyhow, I use the original modal interface. I find that, like you said, my left hand usually hangs out near one of the alt keys anyway, so I dont miss the functionality there. The double click i mapped in microsoft intellipoint, and I use it for all windows. I found it ESSENTIAL for grinding crafting professions. It cuts the number of clicks in half. It's also great for looting, using terminals, items, or pretty much anything ingame. It's single handedly the best modification I've made to the default keymap. (granted it's done in windows and not ingame). It's also wonderful for windows in general, as you can open documents, folders, programs, etc. with just one click. Also, in SWG, consider the borgle bat caves of old. Who do you think can double click faster? Someone who actually clicks twice? Or a button that says you already did?

I mainly use the mode you login with (the tighter one) for driving vehicles and just in general when I have the numlock pressed. After two years of training, my left hand already has one finger on the alt key whenever I'm doing something in the look around mode, so really to me I don't miss the alt middle mouse. I've tried it, and I love the double-click much much more. It's also great for attacking stuf, for instance grinding.. just mouse over and double click.

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TajPale wrote:
Here's a tip dont play Jedi the Devs and the community hates you for being Jedi and will make us immoble targets to kill

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Good tip the hate flows though the Devs for the Jedi.

saving a spot in your toolbar

on the first toolbar (ctrl f1) place your auto attack

on the second toolbar use that as your main, os as to save space, the game will save the attack only on the first toolbar, if you put on the second toolbar it wont save over to your next gameplay. So that way you can free up 1 space on your main toolbar.

My tip:

Don't go Smuggler unless you're a masochist.

I've recently made it to Master CH, and here's some tips I came up with:

1) The amount of CH xp you earn is calculated based off of the difference between your CL and the CL of the mob killed. If your CL 10 pet kills a CL 10 creature with no help from you, and you're higher than CL 20, you'll only get 1 CH xp. There does seem to be a bug where the xp calculation sometimes uses your pet's CL, but it's intermittent.

2) The amount of training xp your pet earns is calculated based off of the difference between the pet's CL (modified by whether or not it's in a group) and the CL of the mob killed.

3) If a mob is killed from damage done by both you and your pet, the amount of CH xp earned will be based on the % of that damage your pet did. If a creature gives 2000 total xp, your pet did 25% of the damage, and you did the rest of the damage with a pistol, you'll earn 500 CH xp and 1500 pistol xp for the kill

4) Because of the way pet damage scales with pet CL, a CH can do more total damage to a single target by using multiple pets rather than one large pet (although pets with AoE may skew this). So two CL 20 pets can outdamage one CL 40 pet. This combined with tip #3 means that if you're grinding CH xp, you're better off with multiple pets (sotry to get Creature Management 3 as soon as you can).

My favorite tip is twofold: first, to help a new character get credits and faction points, and secondly, a quicker way to do that.

First, since we all start on Tatooine now, it's easy to get Rebel faction points (and a few credits):

Start by shuttling to Anchorhead.

Go to the basement of the cantina and pick up two DELIVERY missions to Mos Espa.

- These will be for 590 to 615 credits payout, and *usually* be in the range of 8100-8400 N or NW.

- - be careful not to get missions over 615, as you'll end up in Mos Entha, or even worse, Mos Teike (which has no shuttle)!

Run to the two npc's that give you the missions, then buy a shuttle ticket for Mos Espa. Good idea to go ahead and buy roundtrip tickets, and I sometimes will load up with 3 or 4 roundtrip tickets.

Once you get to Mos Espa, get out either your bike or your creature mount and head for the waypoints to deliver the goods/messages/etc. And here's where a real handy, but seldom used, feature comes into play: an Alias.

Make an alias for talking to the npc's quickly whileapproaching on bike or creature:

/alias dscon /dismount; /pause 1; /conversation; /pause 1; /mount.

- you click on the npc (while still mounted), type /dscon, and *quickly* as soon as you "converse" click back on your mount!

- what happens is, you dismount, converse with the npc and remount your vehicle/critter all in one step!

- makes for some very fast delivery missions!

To get return missions (with more Rebel fps) go to the Rebel Coordinator's tent at the North end of Mos Espa (not ingame so can't give you the wp, but will look it up), take two missions back to Anchorhead (same range of payout, 590 to 615).

- then go to the NPC's here in Mos Espa to pick up the missions (slap yourself on the forehead with a "D'oh" if you end up in Anchorhead without having picked them up -- it WILL happen eventually! lol ), and use the /dscon on each of them to pick up their missions!

Once you get back to Anchorhead, since it's so small you can just run to the npc's to deliver their goodies, and you have netted about 2200 credits (600 * 4 minus 200 or so for shuttle), and 40-44 Rebel faction points!

5 roundtrips and you've got enough Rebel fps to become a member of the Alliance, which you can do by talking to the Rebel Recruiter in the basement of the Anchorhead Cantina.

I got a tip I just discovered accidently.

Like a lot of people, I have the inventory window set up so it shows my items stats on the left of the box and a picture of myself on the right of the box(by clicking the little arrows at the top).

I hated how I can't see my face up close with the inventory toon viewer.

Then I noticed if you use the mouse scroll on your toon in the window , it zooms in on your face.

Veyr handy, only complaint is that the mouse scroll is inverted(same with the toolbar when you mouse scroll). So scroll down to zoom in, scrol lup to zoom out.
*Edited for spelling*

Message Edited by Shamonue on 10-13-2005 02:03 AM