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Thread: Tuesday Tips October 11th Your Favorite Tips!
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Your Favorite Tips!
This week, I thought we might try something a little different. Game tips are always helpful, but there is something to be said for your favorite tips. The tips you use the most in the game.
Here are the top three game tips that I use in the game and why I use them the most:
1. Binding the ALT key to my mousewheel button: I still use the modal interface. A long time ago, a friend of my mine said, "Why don't you bind your mouse wheel button to your ALT key? It'll change the way you play", and it did. This is by far the tip I use the most in the game each and every time I play.
2. Right Click Waypoint Access: We all use waypoints to find lairs, chase things, meet up with people, find vendors and so much more. As we do these things, we accumulate waypoints in our datapad. Rather than open up the datapad every time I want to find something, I switched over to using the waypoint monitor. If you open your Options Window (CTRL-O), there is an option to turn on your waypoint monitor. The monitor gives you the distance and a directional arrow to your active waypoint (s). What you can do instead of constantly opening your datapad to activate new waypoints is simply to right-click on the waypoint monitor, select your choice waypoint and turn it on or off without having to open your datapad! This makes moving place to place much easier.
3. Rebinding Keyboard Commands: Since I use the modal interface, I generally have my right hand on my mouse and use my left hand for entering commands. By using the Options window (CTRL-O), you can rebind almost every command in the game to the keys you prefer. What I did was rebind my Inventory to CTRL-W and my overhead map to CTRL-Z. I used W and Z because they were both on the left hand side of the keyboard and not previously bound to anything. What this does for me is that it lets me keep one hand on my mouse and use the other to get to my inventory, datapad, overhead map and planetary map without every having to reposition my left hand.
These are the tips that I use the most in the game. Now post your top three tips and why you use them the most or why they are your favorite tips.
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Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
Here's what you do
Go out and kill Singing Mountian Clan people until you can gain no more favor with the Nightsisters.
Now, head out to the Nightspider cult cave (bring friends) and kill spiders and npcs until you can gain no more favor with the Singing Mountian Clan.
Now you have +5000 faction points with both! Nightspider cult worshipers tend to stay near the cult cave so its not common to meet them in the wilds like you would the other groups.
Now you are somewhat safe from the main evil NPCs on the Planet.
*treat their kindness like you would with any trained wild animal...They are nice to you in general, but will still sometimes attack you unprovoked.
containing:
/ui action targetSelf
/ui action cycleTargetOutward
and bind it to ctrl-t or somethign like that.
also make a couple of macros like:
/tar speederbike
/tar av-21
/tar swoop
/mount
and another with
/dismount
i have those bound to ctrl-alt-m (mount) and ctrl-alt-d (dismount)
put your bike in the last slot on a second or 3rd toolbar and
/ui action toolbarPane01 (2nd toolbar)
/ui action toolbarSlot11 (last slot)
/ui action toolbarPane00 (back to 1st toolbar)
i bind these to ctrl-1 and ctrl -2 (i keep a spare bike )
this lets you call & store your bikes instantly. really nice when you roll up on a mob you want to kill, just hit ctrl-1 and store the bike and come out blazing as soon as you hit the ground
Qualiall wrote:
We've all had our share of random attacks by the powerful womenfolk on Dathomir. But there is a good way to protect yourselves and get in their good graces*
Here's what you do
Go out and kill Singing Mountian Clan people until you can gain no more favor with the Nightsisters.
Now, head out to the Nightspider cult cave (bring friends) and kill spiders and npcs until you can gain no more favor with the Singing Mountian Clan.
Now you have +5000 faction points with both! Nightspider cult worshipers tend to stay near the cult cave so its not common to meet them in the wilds like you would the other groups.
Now you are somewhat safe from the main evil NPCs on the Planet.
*treat their kindness like you would with any trained wild animal...They are nice to you in general, but will still sometimes attack you unprovoked.
Or, buy them chocolate.
GlargTheKelfn wrote:
crate a new macro called tarclose or something like that
containing:
/ui action targetSelf
/ui action cycleTargetOutward
and bind it to ctrl-t or somethign like that.
also make a couple of macros like:
/tar speederbike
/tar av-21
/tar swoop
/mount
and another with
/dismount
i have those bound to ctrl-alt-m (mount) and ctrl-alt-d (dismount)
put your bike in the last slot on a second or 3rd toolbar and
/ui action toolbarPane01 (2nd toolbar)
/ui action toolbarSlot11 (last slot)
/ui action toolbarPane00 (back to 1st toolbar)
i bind these to ctrl-1 and ctrl -2 (i keep a spare bike )
this lets you call & store your bikes instantly. really nice when you roll up on a mob you want to kill, just hit ctrl-1 and store the bike and come out blazing as soon as you hit the ground
Nice
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One of my favorite re-binding tips for a laptop is to rebind the auto-run from Num Lock, which messes up my keyboard, to HOME.
Drummerboychris wrote:
rebind middle mouse wheel to double click. makes life a million times better. screw alt.
Are you using the modal or non-modal interface?
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
That way, you click the middle button instead of hitting tab. works for me.
Some folks also make a /heal self macro and bind it to the right mouse button.
I only have two, but here they are.
- Double clicking your vehicle will mount/dismount (I just found this out the other day)
- A macro for /forceheal self
Thunderheart wrote:
Drummerboychris wrote:
rebind middle mouse wheel to double click. makes life a million times better. screw alt.
Are you using the modal or non-modal interface?
I have done the same thing since day one. I can not imagine playing any other way. When I create a new toon on a galaxy it is the first thing I do. I'm not sure what you mean by modal or non-modal interface TH but I use the star wars galaxis (plain one). It defautls to something else, cant recall at the moment but anyways, go to your wrench then keymap, then at the bottom select starwars, it will ask you if you are sure, you say yes, chase turns off, go up to the 'all' scroll down a ways till you see ALT,ALT. Click it, hit rebind, the box for rebinding will come up, press your wheel button on your mouse down, the click ok and apply and your set. woohoo!
Message Edited by GunJacker on 10-11-2005 02:37 PM
GunJacker wrote:
Thunderheart wrote:
Drummerboychris wrote:
rebind middle mouse wheel to double click. makes life a million times better. screw alt.
Just curious...how does this help??