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been waiting for something like this

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the huge deal with being able to send tells across servers. I have two characters on two different servers. If I want to talk to friends on one server, I can just as easily sign on to that character. So, with SWG being my first multiplayer-online0only game, I don't see the usefullness of it. Plz, someone enlighten me

Thanks Q, very neat tip!

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TroThorns wrote:

With all the bugs and problems with this game, you spend time implementing this??? Well I guess it is nice when the bazaar and vendors are down you can quickly find out if they are down on just your server or every server.....

So I guess this will be a frequently used feature....

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A tip for something I just discovered the other day--yeah, I'm slow.... You don't have to get off your vehicle to operate your harvesters. I had assumed that since you have to get off to sample and survey, that you'd have to get off to manage your buildings...but you don't!! I love this.

You do have to get of your bike to retrieve stuff in the harvesters so might just as well get used to getting off your bike to do things

cool now all my friends on my server left the game i can go to other servers and make new friends.

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Sutarion wrote:

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Q-3PO wrote:

Also Test Center uses a different Chat Server so you can't talk between itand the regular galaxies, sorry.

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Are you sure Q? I was talking to people on TC from Kauri just yesterday.

/tell TestCenter.Sutarion

Be sure that the T and the C are both in caps.

Also, we can edit messages now? That's a good tip too

Message Edited by Sutarion on 02-03-2004 12:32 PM

Message Edited by Sutarion on 02-03-2004 12:33 PM

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No I'm not sure. I'll verify that. It's great to hear that it also works with TestCenter, Sutarion. Thanks! And yes, Community Veterans now have the ability to Edit Posts (however, we can easily view history on your changes, so don't try to abuse it... )

On a separate note, the Chat Servers are maintained by another department at SOE (not SWG). This change did not affect the development team of SWG one bit. (In fact many of the developers are just as pleasantly surprised as you are about it).

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Q-3PO wrote:

Each week, I start a thread for you to share game tips with fellow players. 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. To get things started:

You can now communicate across Galaxies! Use [Galaxyname].[Charactername] in tells and game mail. For example, if you are on Ahazi and want to send a message to your friend Luuke on Sunrunner, simply type /tell Sunrunner.Luuke hello. You can type /addfriend Sunrunner.Luuke and he will be on your Friends List (default CTRL P). Don't forget the important, /addignore Sunrunner.Luuke if you don't want him bothering you...

Note at the time of this writing, we still have a bug where European Servers can receive messages, but they can't send them out. We're looking into this bug now, when it is resolved I'll add this tip to the online manual and promote it more.

Also Test Center uses a different Chat Server so you can't talk between it and the regular galaxies, sorry.

Check out last week's tips.

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Ack, please. It's bad enough that the "strict" naming filter lets these kinda names go through. You don't have to encourage it. Or is it a Dev name?

Whats the definition of a "Community Veterans"

I been here since Beta beginning of beta 3, kind of make me a veteran no?

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Q-3PO wrote:

No I'm not sure. I'll verify that. It's great to hear that it also works with TestCenter, Sutarion. Thanks! And yes, Community Veterans now have the ability to Edit Posts (however, we can easily view history on your changes, so don't try to abuse it... )

On a separate note, the Chat Servers are maintained by another department at SOE (not SWG). This change did not affect the development team of SWG one bit. (In fact many of the developers are just as pleasantly surprised as you are about it).

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