Game Guides Archive
Thread: Tuesday Tips August 23rd Grab Bag 'o Tips
Each week, we start a thread for you to your share game tips with fellow players. Be sure to join in and add your helpful tip.
Do you 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.
Each week, many community members post great tips in this thread. This week, we've collected a few of the smaller tips that folks sometimes forget.
If you know a tip, please add it to the thread!
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ALT-ENTER switches between windowed mode and non-windowed mode.
~ By: MajorXP
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CTRL-ENTER will open and close your main chat window..
~ By: WizKid72
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Musicians and Dancers can perform their special effects with different colors!
/dazzle 1, /dazzle 2 will produce different effects.
~ By: omadnay
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Double-clicking on a droid in the datapad now calls the droid instead of examine it. You can also put your Droid into the Toolbar now, as you can do it with your bikes and pets. Clicking on the Droid/Mount in the toolbar calls it, if it's called, clicking on it will store it.
~ By: Drecki
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If you use the Onscreen Waypoint Monitor you can select and deselect waypoints simply by clicking inside the monitor window. You can even open multiple windows by selecting a 2nd or so on waypoint. It's much quicker then accessing your datapad and sorting through waypoints (and if your like me you have 20+ to sort through haha).
~ By: Fion13
* SWG Classic Interface Users should right-click.
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For those who like looking at themselves or their own accomplishments, or want to see how good their biography looks to other people, type:
/ex self
~ By: Trenkor
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Best tip I've had yet. . .
go to Ctrl-O and click on the interface button.
Click on Keymap.
click on the Chat Tab and Scroll down.
On the boxes that say "Chat Copy", "Chat Cut", and "Chat Paste", rebind them to Shift+Ctrl+C, Shift+Ctrl+X, and Shift+Ctrl+V.
~ By: genkii
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If you forgot which alias you already set use /alias and you'll get the list.
~ By: Arnwald
Do you have a useful tip that you want to share with your fellow Star Wars Galaxies players? E-mail it to SWGTips 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.
Check out last week's tips 
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
For those who like looking at themselves or their own accomplishments, or want to see how good their biography looks to other people, type:
/ex self
~ By: Trenkor
For more...."useful" information type:
/con self
Thunderheart wrote:
Musicians and Dancers can perform their special effects with different colors!
/dazzle 1, /dazzle 2 will produce different effects.
~ By: omadnay
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Heh, actually that is not a direct quote from me!!
The difference in using those commands with the numbers is that the number will decide which level of effect your character will execute...
The Special Effects of Dancers & Musicians change as they increase their skills. It is not always a different color. Many times it is a larger of smaller effect (based on the level) and quite a few have some nice effects at those lower levels, which make for a nice change of pace. I suggest checking out all threee variants of each and every special effect... then decide which ones you like!!
"/dazzle 1" will produce the lowest level of the dazzle effects, "/dazzle 2" will execute the mid-level effect and "/dazzle 3" would execute the highest level effect, ALTHOUGH there is no need to type "/dazzle 3" as "/dazzle" will execute your HIGHEST version of that special effect.
Honestly, this was not originally a tip offered by me, although when TH posted this concept as a Tuesday Tip, I did post with further details (as above) about how it ACTUALLY works
So, TH, you slanderous dog... I will hold off contacting my Galactic Lawyers if you agree to ATTEMPT to garner a little information that I have been seeking and that you stated you would "Look into" a while ago in the past (You offered to some time shortly before the announcement of ROTW and the CU... so forgetting about it was an acceptable thing on your part... but I have not forgotten!!).
If you accept this bargain, I promise not to file any charges against you!
Please leave your response here or PM me and I will ask my question!
Yours truly,
Omadda Szool
Kauri
May the force be with you.
The command "/notepad" will bring up text file... actuarially the notes.txt file.
I personally have it in a macro, and have tied that macro to the crtl+shift+N key.
Tarnak_Archvold wrote:
Well here is one I have not seen put out there in a while.
The command "/notepad" will bring up text file... actuarially the notes.txt file.
I personally have it in a macro, and have tied that macro to the crtl+shift+N key.
I do too 
The notepad is awesome. Lately, I have been using it a lot to track the status of my ship components. It really comes in handy when I am looking for new components and I need to compare stats to what is already on my ship.
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
Thunderheart wrote:
Tarnak_Archvold wrote:
Well here is one I have not seen put out there in a while.
The command "/notepad" will bring up text file... actuarially the notes.txt file.
I personally have it in a macro, and have tied that macro to the crtl+shift+N key.
I do too
The notepad is awesome. Lately, I have been using it a lot to track the status of my ship components. It really comes in handy when I am looking for new components and I need to compare stats to what is already on my ship.
mindspat wrote:
Thunderheart wrote:
Tarnak_Archvold wrote:
Well here is one I have not seen put out there in a while.
The command "/notepad" will bring up text file... actuarially the notes.txt file.
I personally have it in a macro, and have tied that macro to the crtl+shift+N key.
I do too
The notepad is awesome. Lately, I have been using it a lot to track the status of my ship components. It really comes in handy when I am looking for new components and I need to compare stats to what is already on my ship.
Why type /notepad whn just /note works well.
Also, using notepad will store your text in real time thus preventing any loss of your composistion due to SOE servers locking you out of the login servers.
Why type /note when /no works?
You can open your datapad and double click your ship and see all the components inside the craft. Anywhere, anytime.
But only in front of a Starship Terminal you can Launch or remove / add / replace components.