Game Guides Archive
Thread: Tuesday Tips September 2nd
Handy for the Entertainers.
Ctrl + 1 targets yourself.
Then if you have Novice Medic skill you can use /tendDamage on yourself to heal your action.
In my experience, I have gotten bases within 400m of each other. Once the base goes off radar, I make camp, heal to full, then I can go back. A matter of 2-5 minutes before they respawn. You can't sit there with the base in view. Once the blip is totally off your radar, they will spawn quickly.
My tip: Read the Armor Guide, to learn how to equip yourself best for protection AND attacking.
Mission NPC farming 101
Get two missions in same direction
When you get to 250m from mission it will relocate
If your two missions are less than 400m apart kill the npc's then damage the mission object. Run to other one and do the same.
Go at least 220m away, this is what resets the npc's, not a timer. If any player is within 220m the mission will not reset.
Repeat process until npc's quit respawning. Great for faction points
To me, this seems like the best solution to the problem of mission-stealing, especially in situations where the kill-stealing is unintentional--e.g. a spawn pops up right in front of you, some Imps go aggro, you have to kill 'em in self-defense. Leaving the base means that the Imps will respawn, and everybody gets their FP.
I guess a better solution would be to have more factional random spawns, so you could go kill Imps/Rebs without having to specifically take a mission, or kill-steal, but that's neither here nor there...
how to loot and group with pets:
create some macros:
macro1:
group
macro2
/disband
macro3
/harvest hide (or bone or meat)
/loot
assign these to ctrl-keys under options | controls
i have ctrl-q as group, ctrl-shft-q as /disband and ctrl-b as harvest bone, loot
makes it super easy to group and de-group and harvest / loot.
also, always teach your pets the release and transfer command with their name in it (ie: supermonkey transfer), that way you never accidently release/transfer more pets than you intended.
and... teach the release command as something like 'supermonkey go away forever, i hate you'
you are on the wrong planet if you can't find random imp/reb base spawns. I'm not sure for the imp bases but ifyou go to dantooine there are more rebels than you can shake a stick at.
T1nman33 wrote:
Another tip:
When running faction destroy missions, base defenders will regenerate after time--IF you don't destroy the base. If you happen to pass by someone else's mission spawn and are threatened by the Rebels/Imperials who are guarding the base, kill off the defenders with impunity. But DON'T destroy the base, as this will basically be stealing the mission from the intended recipient. If you just kill the defenders, chances are they'll be respawned by the time the mission taker arrives at the target. Faction points for all!
Please, please don't do this. There is nothing more frustrating than walking 400+m only to arrive at a base that only offers 8 faction points. If you're going to take away the majority of the faction points for my mission, the least you can do is finish the mission off for me so I don't have to run there.
Healing Professions: Once you get a novice elite/hybrid profession, you should get a "Register Location With World Map" command. Use it
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Others: Healing professions have this cool command that lets them register with the world map. Open your map and look at cantinas/med centers. If it's got a half moon then it is not staffed. If it's got a star, then its staffed.
Of course, if we healers don't register, then it won't be worth people checking the map for this
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Want to highlight your auctions BUT....doh, the premium auctions don't work yet?
* * Now remember...not everyone uses your color scheme so please check how they look on other color scheme before you do this * *
When you craft an item and create a prototype...name it ' \#FFFFFF\Item Name ' to name the item in white letters. Very cool to make your items stand out on the Bazaar (doesn't work with premade or found items).
Hopefully someday they will implement premium auctions but until then...here is your free workaround. Enjoy!
omg, last night I made the BESTMACRO EVER. I was waiting in a cantina for a good while waiting for a buddy to come back from afk. I sat down at my arch nemesis, the roulette table. I usually start out just betting basic black for a few hundred, but after a few spins I'm betting high/low and odd/even, before I know it I'm betting those and like 12 diff numbers. It was getting exhausting typing all those /bet 500 0..../bet 500 00....so I wrote a couple spiffy little macros (frees up the other 119 seconds until next game to oogle the dancers
)
for the basics (note the pauses, they're key):
/bet black 5000;/pause 1;/bet odd 5000;/pause 1;/bet low 5000
and for the numbers:
/bet 500 0;/pause 1;/bet 500 00;/pause 1;/bet 500 1;/pause 1;/bet 500 2;pause 1;/bet 500 3;/pause 1;/bet 500 4;/pause 1;/bet 500 5;/pause 1;/bet 500 6;/pause 1;/bet 500 7;/pause 1;/bet 500 8;/pause 1;/bet 500 9;/pause 1;/bet 500 10;/pause 1
Enjoy these macros responsibly, (not responsible for any bankroll damage incurred
)
Happy gambling!
-Psquire
I went to the Temple of Exar Kun and Bens Hut, where are my badges? Will I have to go to all these places again once you get the badges working??
for the artisan survey missions select a specific terminal to work from and note down its location loc
then add 1024 "a klick" to the first number and then subtract 1024 from the first number and write these down these are your east and west limits
then do the same to the right loc number this is your north south limits you can even make 4 way points
then take a look at available missions usually metal ore and gas are common then while still at the terminal do some scanning and note down some sample figures looking in the 20% range and noting the directions higher concentrations may peak too early
if you find several promissing hits in a given direction head to that point 1024 away add 10 meters extra to make sure you clear the 1024 limit then scan
the process of scanning the corect resource above the range limit will complete the mission
im not sure what the limit is on the concentration i hear 70% but might work down to even 50%