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Another note:

Prone

If you are a markman, being prone is the best way to take down an enemies health before they even know your there. If you lay prone before you start attacking, the creature or person will spend between 5-10 seconds looking around trying to find out where the shots are coming from. After that, you'll need to stand up cause they may be right on top of you.

This gives you a few precious seconds to get in some extra hits before it gets close.

I find that kneeling is almost as effective as going prone for long-range combat, and you have a better view.

Here's my tip: Drag your main weapon to one of the hot keys (F-keys) at the top of the screen. Pressing the F-key will equip or unequip that weapon. The reason for this is you can switch between marksman skills and brawling skills quickly because if you are unarmed you are brawling, which is a very effective close-range skill.

So, find a decent target about 30m away. Go prone (F4 by default)or kneel (F2 by default). Press your F-key to equip your long-range weapon (usually rifle or carbine). Start combat (F8 by default). When target spots you and runs to you, then stand up (F1 by default) and press your weapon F-Key to UNequip. That puts you in unarmed brawler mode. Once mob reaches you, I generally take one set forward TOWARDS the mob because it seems brawling is most effective at very close range. Brawling is much more effective than kiting or running and shooting, and best of all, you get experience for both marksmanship and brawling from the same kill.

Also- a tip on the Hot Key bar (F-Keys). If you put your mouse cursor over the Hot Keys, and use the scroll wheel, it will rotate to the Shift-F-Keys list. So, you actually have the regular F-keys and if you hold down shift, you get 12 additional F-keys. To assign commands tothem, just scroll while pointing to the hot key bar, then drag stuff from your activities screen or inventory. You can use all 24 F-keys regardless of which list is displayed.

Actually, you can just resize the hotkey bar like any other window... it makes the SHIFT+FKeys always visible.

Did you know the input line supports tab command completion? Start typing a slash command like /harv and then press Tab. You will get a list of all commands that start with "harv". If only one command matches, it'll automatically complete.

tag, good thread

Ok, I have a few not mentioned that I like.

Number #1 keyboard remap : Autorun - map to mouse scroll wheel click (mouse2). Open options menu, controls, keymap, then double click on autorun mapping and just click your mouse wheel. All my movement from my mouse now.

Fkey setups: Put any in-a-hurry type command on the top level (F1-F12) and those where you always have time on the Shift-F1-F12. Example, I move prone and sit to Shift F1, Shift F2 as I'm never in a rush to push those, but stand and kneel are on F1, F2. Plan your hotkeys based on how quickly you need them in trouble.

Fkey setups: Standardize a few important keys on all 6 keymaps to ensure they are there when you need them no matter which set of keys are active. The ones I set on all maps are Burst Run - F12, Stand - F1

Missions: Did you know that the difficulty of the missions listed are based on what you have equipped. If you don't have your weapon equipped, then the mission list (and the money being offered) will be less. To receive the highest possible credit awards, equip your best equipment.

Lair Destroying:Did you know not to spam special moves when attacking a lair so you can easily switch to any other target that attacks you. Just use one special move at a time, and then you can select or double click on the approaching mob and it will switch targets next round.

Merett

Anytime you are grouping for destroy missions you can make a killing if everyone in the group picks two missions that have have the same general starting direction. For example if you take a mission that starts at 1000 South, have everyone get missions that start in the south. Then you can plow through them very quickly with little down time (running forever).

Now, everyone keeps mentioning tips for those with a scroll wheel on the mouse. Any tips for those of us with 3-button mice?

Thanks, for the tips, everyone!

nice post man

Brawler Macro I made to start combat and keep you close to the mob:

/attack;/follow

Then just target the mob using pointer or TAB key and hit the macro. Helps alot if everyone else is ranged to keep you on the target. You Can also use this to follow people as well.

SnoBall- Wookie Brawler/Scout

Chilastra

Did you know that you can make extra chat windows and drag them around whereever you like? I have a separate window for tells and groupchat so that i make sure that i dont miss anything. Right click on one of your existing tabs, and hit "Add" something. Then right click on your new tab, and hit "Modify," and you can change what channels go to that window. You can also click and drag the tab to its new location and resize it.

I've learned so much here, thanks all.

My one cent worth is.

To /stand all you got to do is tap your move foward key. probably a given to most, but I just noticed that.

Is there a way to hit apostraphy and it enter chat /say mode. and then leave hitting enter to start chat to another channel like groupspeak ? This is real handy when you get used to it.

Here's a nice macro for lazy miners:

/sample;/pause X;/sit;/pause Y;/stand;

Where X is how long your character takes before exhausting their pools when collecting resource samples, and Y is how long it takes for your character to regenerate their pools when sitting. You can repeat this line as many times as you like in your macro, to get hours and hours of endless bot mining.

However, you should be careful when using such a long macro, because I am not aware of any way to kill the macro when you want it to end prematurely. It would kind of suck to hit your 3-hour mining macro and then decide a few minutes later that you want to do something else, only to have to deal with your character attempting to alternately sample and sit every few minutes for the next 3 hours, no matter what you're doing.

Is anyone aware of a way to shut down a long macro early? That would be really useful to know.