Smuggler Archive
Thread: Put your bomb droid tips here for the FAQ
IndySWG wrote:
Some questions I have as I hadn't really used these:
- Since a player can only have 1 droid called at a time ... why should we have to target it? Perhaps this is something we can ask to be fixed ... would seem to be a simple tweak. I would just rather not untarget the thing I'm shooting at. (I mean if I /detonateDroid ... and can only have 1 droid called at a time ... obviously I mean the one that is called)
dorsai78664 wrote:
JWing wrote:
This is great info....
I'd love to see a nice macro for using these.
Questions though... :
1. Does the droid have to be out following me b4 I use the macro?
2. Use an alias to detonate... man I have no clue on how to use the /alias command.
Any and all help would be great
Yes, the droid must be called before you set it to chase and detonate.
An alias is pretty simple actually. To create an alias, use the synatax:
/alias
Using Last Ditch as an example, if I wanted to Last Ditch using /ld; I would:
/alias ld /lastDitch;
I can now use /ld in macros or the command line and get the same effect as /lastDitch;. If you want to alias a macro...
Let's say you have a macro to keep you connected to SWG while you are afk and you have named this macro StayOnLineWhileIGetABeer. Normally, you would use the following command line if the macro was not hotkeyed:
/macro stayOnLineWhileIGetABeer;
Let's shorten the whole thing and make a short alias that types it all:
/alias beer /macro StayOnLineWihileIGetABeer; <-- like other commands, separated by semis.
Now, if I want to stay online I just type /beer and I'm set. To remove an alias, use the /unalias command. All of your aliases are saved to the default alias.txt file. This file can easily be edited to remove or include additional aliases. Everytime you load the game, no aliases are loaded so to load your default file you would use:
/load alias.txt.
If you have multiple accounts and wish to have different alias files for them (one for your crafter, one for the smuggler, etc.), you can simply load them at the command line. A new alias is saved to the alias file that is loaded. If none is loaded, it is saved to the default. You can simply /load crafting.txt or /load pvp.txt etc. to get them loaded.
I know this was a rather long explanation but I find aliases very useful and I think many miss this rather cool feature of the game.
Analias command that I've found useful is
/alias fd /ui action clearcombatqueue; /feigndeath;
It seems the the game checks for aliases first and will do the shortened version check too. So if you do and alias called 'byebye' and then try to do a normal /bye, you will get the 'byebye' alias instead.If you mess up and replace something you didn't want to, you can delete and alias with /unalias.
/unalias fd
I do find that my aliases are loaded without using /load but I do not have multiple alias files.
Zoastra wrote:
Awesome responses! I'll start formatting these in 'FAQ style' so they can easily be cut and pasted.
One question I didn't think to ask off the bat....Do we get the ability to detonate the droids with novice smuggler or is it part of the DF tree?
It's given at novice for us as well as BHs.
Atanmir wrote:
So to answer IndySWG's question you can just avoid to target the mice and just use his name. (Remeber that usually pet names are enclosed in (), so if you call your droid mice you will need to use the form (mice).
Btw, for who doesn't know also the /requestStimpack command can accept the droid name.
Eulbobo wrote:
No deed can be used from toolbars (mmm, in fact, maybe structure deeds can....)
Only Final items in datapad can
Try it on a speeder deed, you'll see that the first option is not deploy but examine.
Yeah, but even the final item of the droid cannot be called from the toolbar. Speeders can. Bantha's can. But droids cannot. .... I think they should give droid pets the same functionality as they have given all creature pets and speeders.
Only Final items in datapad can
Try it on a speeder deed, you'll see that the first option is not deploy but examine.
IndySWG wrote:
Atanmir wrote:
So to answer IndySWG's question you can just avoid to target the mice and just use his name. (Remeber that usually pet names are enclosed in (), so if you call your droid mice you will need to use the form (mice).
Btw, for who doesn't know also the /requestStimpack command can accept the droid name.
Yes, but I was hoping to be able to use a macro very quickly after generating the droid from the deed. In this case I may not want to (or cannot) take the time to teach it four commands in order to name it.
It would be much easier to just make the command /detonateDroid defualt to whatever droid you have called (since you can after all only have one called at a time...it's clear which one I'm talking about).
This way it doesnt matter what the droids name is or if I had taken the time to teach it a bunch of command it didnt need for it's 2 minute life span. :-P
