Each week, Q-3PO started a thread for you to share game tips with fellow players. Tuesday Tips will continue on. 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:

Re-mapping the Alt Key

This is my favorite tip and it literally changed my gameplay. Re-mapping your ALT key to the Mouse Wheel can be very handy. (If you don’t have a mouse with a mouse wheel, then my second tip is to go get a mouse with a wheel )

1. Open your Options Window (Ctrl-O)

2. Click the “Controls” button on the left of the options window

3. Click the button that says, “Keymap”

4. Press the keymap tab that says “UI”

5. Scroll down until you see the option for “Toggle Mouse Mode” and select it

6. Click the “Rebind” button

7. Click your mousewheel button. You’ll know it worked because it will say “mousebutton2” in the re-bind window.

8. Click “ok”

9. Click the “Apply” button

10. Click “ok” and “Done”

Now, whenever you want to shift between your user interface modes, all you have to do is click your mousewheel.

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second!

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Oooooook maybe not first

More like third

Anyway,

I never knew you could remap the alt key

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Heh, I have my keyboard mapped to EQ style so all I need to do is right click for that. JtL beta screwed with me since that was the first time I started a new char in god knows when and I forgot all the commands for everything was different.

Best command in the game:

/find

You can use that and find the closest starport, shuttleport, bank, bazaar, whatever. Niflty little thing. It can even be used as:

/find starport

That'll automatically create a waypoint to the nearest starport. There's only a few places that some of the things don't work with, like the Bazaar in Theed (I think that's it).

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I actually mapped the alt key to the right mouse button and put autorun on the wheel, that is very comfortable in the most situations.

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If you use a microsoft 5 or 6 button mouse/trackball the button on the far right CAN'T be mapped in SWG...however if you have an older version of Intellipoint you can map the far right button to something like F12 then in SWG you can map F12 to tab targets...then you can tab targets nice and fast...

I just used F12 as an example...map it to something you don't use.

For real. I did this shortly after launch when a player suggested it in one of Q3PO's tuesday tip threads and now I seriously can't play the game without it. I wish it was this way by default.

In an attempt to not have to touch the keyboard ever, I tried reassigning the close window option to button 2 (default 'forward a page' button when dealing with explorer) on my logitech wireless mouse, but it would recognize that button or any others. That's odd, because it recognizes button 3 (back button) and defaults it to auto-run, which I love. Maybe you could put in a word about this?

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