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Thread: Tuesday Tip February 8, 2005 Having trouble keeping behind enemy ships?

Tiggs
Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:11 pm
#1
This weeks Tuesday Tip was sent in by Osskzzi from FarStar!!


Having trouble keeping behind enemy ships? If a ship keeps flying past you, turning, and zooming by you before you can shoot it again, just hit the “end” key , and half a second later hit the “home” key to return your ship to full speed. During this interval of deceleration and acceleration, you will have a much smaller turn radius, allowing you to get back on your target’s tail.


-Osskzzi from the FarStar galaxy





Got a useful tip that you want to share with your fellow Star Wars Galaxies players?


E-mail it to [email protected] and if we select the tip we'll post it as the Tuesday Tip and give you the credit! Send us the character name and server you'd like us to include if we post the tip.


Tips can be anything that you think would be useful to other players but may not include exploits.


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teh_n00b123
Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:15 pm
#2
Nice tip, TH take the day off though?




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Hegnauer
Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:17 pm
#3
Hey cool, I'll have to try this. Thanks!
Tiggs
Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:18 pm
#4




teh_n00b123 wrote:

Nice tip, TH take the day off though?





Yes, we do allow that every so often =P
Dormax
Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:48 pm
#5




Tiggs wrote:




teh_n00b123 wrote:

Nice tip, TH take the day off though?





Yes, we do allow that every so often =P





WHAT!?!?! Thats unheard of!! O want my money back!! SLAVE TO THE MACHINE!!


Anyhow... My tip for the week is about calling a swoop in a busy starport. Ever have times in theed or coronet that you lag when trying to call out your speeder from the datapad?? Well I did. Origionally I put my speeder on the toolbar... one-click-calling... but took up a valuable slot, so here is my workaround:



  1. Place the speeder in an unused toolbar box (mine is on toolbar 3, second box)

  2. Create a macro with the following text


    • /ui actiontoolbarPane02 (in my case thats toolbar #2)

    • /pause 0.2

    • /ui action toolbarSlot01 (01 is the second box on the toolbar)

    • /pause 0.5

    • /target speeder

    • /pause 0.2

    • /mount

I named my macro "callswoop" and set an alias:


/alias swoop /macro callswoop


Now all I have to do is type /swoop and poof... called and mounted. Works well to put it away as well







Oshal To'Vu
Sub Inquisitor of the Imperial Inquisition
Commanding Officer for the 420th Fighting Wing
Captain of the IID Hydra Flagship

TitanTen
Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:52 pm
#6
sick of typing /r and half a message just to have a new person send you a tell? An easy way to /tell a specific person is to make an alias for their name. Also very helpfull if you have a friend with a hard to type name (wookies come to mind)


/alias tf /tell friendsname


the "tf" can be what ever you want but i usually keep it a 't' for tell and then the first letter of the friends name.


after you set the alias all you have to do to tell the person is type /tf and type your message. No more annoying interuptions.



MekWare Armor
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Trinity City, Dantooine
Zeon_Zaku
Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:23 pm
#7




TitanTen wrote:

sick of typing /r and half a message just to have a new person send you a tell? An easy way to /tell a specific person is to make an alias for their name. Also very helpfull if you have a friend with a hard to type name (wookies come to mind)


/alias tf /tell friendsname


the "tf" can be what ever you want but i usually keep it a 't' for tell and then the first letter of the friends name.


after you set the alias all you have to do to tell the person is type /tf and type your message. No more annoying interuptions.





Wow, I never knew that. I'll have to give it a try.



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Sutarion
Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:27 pm
#8




Zeon_Zaku wrote:




TitanTen wrote:

sick of typing /r and half a message just to have a new person send you a tell? An easy way to /tell a specific person is to make an alias for their name. Also very helpfull if you have a friend with a hard to type name (wookies come to mind)


/alias tf /tell friendsname


the "tf" can be what ever you want but i usually keep it a 't' for tell and then the first letter of the friends name.


after you set the alias all you have to do to tell the person is type /tf and type your message. No more annoying interuptions.





Wow, I never knew that. I'll have to give it a try.




Publish 13 will be addressing this issue! It essentially does exactly that, and can also (thanks to a stealth fix) be used for cross server conversations as well!

Klinsek
Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:38 pm
#9
Great tip, thanks Tiggs.

I have a flight stick with a thrust control, which I think helps me even more. I am constantly adjusting my speed to better manuever around my target and into better attack positions.

Flying at constant full throttle isn't always the best way to win a dogfight!




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shylady
Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:25 am
#10
tiggs space tip dont work anymore. it would have back then when you could turn on a dime at spped zero. but these days you cant turn well when at zero, full speed, accelarating, or deaccelarating
DarkRealm
Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:09 pm
#11
Cool tip but I find that (on my X-wing at least) crusing at Half Speed get's the the best manuvorablilty. I think a better Tip would be how to make a Macro that Automaticly Decelerates me to half speed so that I can change from my "Chasing Speed" (full speed) ot my Attack Speed (half Speed) with out haveing to look at how fast I am going. Is there a way to macro key hits?



There are 4 Lights!!
Dormax
Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:25 pm
#12




TitanTen wrote:

sick of typing /r and half a message just to have a new person send you a tell? An easy way to /tell a specific person is to make an alias for their name. Also very helpfull if you have a friend with a hard to type name (wookies come to mind)


/alias tf /tell friendsname


the "tf" can be what ever you want but i usually keep it a 't' for tell and then the first letter of the friends name.


after you set the alias all you have to do to tell the person is type /tf and type your message. No more annoying interuptions.






Yeah, this has been one of my favorites fo a long time... especially with some people with difficult to remember names (you all know the ones... the people with 13 or 14 letters in their name that everyone calls "X" for short??) /X is a Forcesend!!


Of course, with the upcoming publish, that's about to get alot easier too (/whisper devs thanks guys!!)






Oshal To'Vu
Sub Inquisitor of the Imperial Inquisition
Commanding Officer for the 420th Fighting Wing
Captain of the IID Hydra Flagship

Ashrak
Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:43 pm
#13

Dormax wrote:

Tiggs wrote:

teh_n00b123 wrote:
Nice tip, TH take the day off though?


Yes, we do allow that every so often =P

WHAT!?!?! Thats unheard of!! O want my money back!! SLAVE TO THE MACHINE!!

Anyhow... My tip for the week is about calling a swoop in a busy starport. Ever have times in theed or coronet that you lag when trying to call out your speeder from the datapad?? Well I did. Origionally I put my speeder on the toolbar... one-click-calling... but took up a valuable slot, so here is my workaround:

  1. Place the speeder in an unused toolbar box (mine is on toolbar 3, second box)
  2. Create a macro with the following text
    • /ui actiontoolbarPane02 (in my case thats toolbar #2)
    • /pause 0.2
    • /ui action toolbarSlot01 (01 is the second box on the toolbar)
    • /pause 0.5
    • /target speeder
    • /pause 0.2
    • /mount

I named my macro "callswoop" and set an alias:

/alias swoop /macro callswoop

Now all I have to do is type /swoop and poof... called and mounted. Works well to put it away as well





Thanks that would be useful, I will build one. In addition you may want to add this line to the end of yours:

/ui action toolbarPaneXX (XX being your default toolbar, 00 for most of us)

That way you don't find yourself hitting a key you didn't intend to due to being left on the wrong pane. You also missed a space between action toolbarPane02, no biggie unless someone unfamiliar with macros tries to copy it verbatim.



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