Game Guides Archive

• You can drag a droid from the datapad on to your toolbar, allowing you to quick call a droid. (New feature added in the last major publish)



• You can store items in a droid to avoid decay and Imperial scans.



• You can put an item in the toolbar, that is located in a droid with storage, whether the droid is active or not. If you need to equip the item, such as a weapon or armor, you can simply click on it in the toolbar twice. The first time calls it into your inventory, The second time will equip it.



• You can instantly call a Droid from a deed, even while in combat. This is a great tip for crafters that do not have combat skills. Just pick up a Combat Droid Deed and call the droid when ever you are ambushed while on a harvester run. Issue the droid a guard or attack command and you have an instant bodyguard. It might be best to pick up crates of combat droids from your local DE, since you can not redeed droids. If you decide to use this tip, be sure to keep room in your datapad, since you will need to make sure that you always have 1 droid slot free at all times, for this to work.



• Anyone can have up to 5 droids in their datapad. Droids do not count against the the number of creatures, faction perks, mounts, or vehciles that you can have in your datapad at the same time.



• Anyone can name a droid, with the exception of any Converse style droids - which are still bugged and un-namable. Unlike Creature pets, you can program the name of your own droid, as well as program all of its features. Just keep in mind that the same naming rules apply to Droid naming as are applied to Character naming. No numbers, special characters besides ' and - and no words that are reserved or offensive.



• A Droid can have between 1 and 6 features installed, depending on the make of the droid. Seek out a local Droid Engineer for further information. Check here for a Droid Engineer in your neighborhood.



• You can trade programs with any faction and any level of knowledge. This makes Astromech and Flight Computer use invaluable in space. Be sure to check out the programs that each profession can supply.

Message Edited by Drashk on 03-22-2005 06:19 PM

When it comes to disabeling, theres a time for the reactor, and theres a time for the engine.


Duty missions, typically reactor. Why? Some NPC's with a severly damaged engine have this tendency to run away very fast at a range of 3000 meters before they slow down and stop. I hate chasing them down, so ill go for the reactor.

A wings, engine. Engine damage slows them down, making them easier to kill.

Capture and escort? Reactor, just makes things cleaner.

COntrary to popular beleif, killing the reactor, on say, a gunboat does not disable the ships weapons.

On most starfighters, taking out the reactor and engine has the same result -them dead in the space with an autodestruct timer of 5 mins.

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MajorXP wrote:

CONTROL-ALT-ENTER switches between windowed mode and non-windowed mode.

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BioEngine wrote:

Please, tell me the employees of Sony, with degrees and such, know the difference between

February

and

March

Maybe that's what all of the miscommunication is coming from? Perhaps the CUwould have come earlier?

I'm not flaming, just making an observation......

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Errare humanum est.

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Earnhardt wrote:

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Zutan wrote:
/flushGraphicsResources fullReset

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or /flushG fullreset

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This is a great command for older or slower machines. I have this as a macro called flush and have that bound to ctrl + F and it makes a big difference when landing in coronet

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MrTopi wrote:

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BioEngine wrote:

Please, tell me the employees of Sony, with degrees and such, know the difference between

February

and

March

Maybe that's what all of the miscommunication is coming from? Perhaps the CU would have come earlier?

I'm not flaming, just making an observation......

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Errare humanum est.

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Yeah, what he said
(In other words...QFE)

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john_p wrote:

Probably worth pointing out that a ship that has been disabled only stays around for so long - after a few minutes of being disabled, it will just blow up and you won't get any XP or loot.

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BadgerSmaker wrote:

Here is a fun macro that can make life a little easier.

If you drag your speeder bike from your data pad to a toolbar slot, you can use this macro to call it and mount (with a little jump to make it look a bit more realistic).

Bind this macro to a key and it makes calling your bike and getting on it very quick (lag and other speeders being around permitting).

/ui action toolbarPane04;

/ui action toolbarSlot08;

/ui action toolbarPane00;

/pause 1;

/tar speeder;

/jump;

/pause 1;

/mount

Here, I have my speederbike swoop in toolbar 3, slot 7. You can do the same for other vehicles by just changing the "/tar speeder" line to AV-21 for example.

And a handy tip, you can buy the new speed and accuracy stims cheaply from the bazaar (on most galaxies), go to a bazaar terminal, select Entire Galaxy then drop down Misc and Item and you can buy cheap speed and accuracy enhancements for your profession.

Also, while you are here, have a browse through Misc > Clothing Attachments and order by auction time, (longest time remaining, and therefore newest items at the top) you can sometimes pick up some bargain CAs and AAs if you look at the right time.

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Only 1 small problem with your macro...
It will call the speeder... but only if you put it in slot 9(F9) I am not SURE, but the toolbar may be #5 too.... Not sure how the panes are numbered....
(Option Base 0 and all.....)

Message Edited by Everseeker on 03-23-2005 01:55 PM