1. Migrate stats to increase your Constitution, Stamina, and Willpower to at least 500 each for faster refresh.

2. Grab a Novice in Med, Ent, Art, Scout no matter what your profession to help assist your friends online.

3. Grinding is not cheating...It can be taken too far but to increase in one stat to be a more effective member of a group is not a bad thing.

4. Collect 1K bone and 1K hide and then make camps until your inv fills up. Then camp/uncamp over and over to grind EXP for Scout. Continue until you reached desired level.

5. Collect 1K Hide 1K Chem to make stimpacks. Grind Med.

6. Collect 2K Metal 1K Chem to make non General Crafters. Grind Art.

7. Make a bunch of instruments. Grind Ent.

8. Extractors waste a lot of time and money and using an Alias will collect more materials than two Extractors running all night.

9. 4cr each material is normal going rate. Sell resources 3cr each material for fast cash. This should only be done at increments of at least 100 resourcese of one type. (We need more low-grade-ore)

10. tip at least 1cr per point of BF to entertainers. At least 1cr per wound to Meds. Never tip less than 100cr.

11. Make Macros for everything...Macros are built into the game under CTRL A macro. Use them for speaking or combat or even sampling and flourishing.

12. Make a Shoot Peace Macro /attack;/pause 2;/peace for nests on Destroy Missions.

13. Make a combat Macro for animals that will harvest after several attacks and a seperate macro for NPC's that loot after killing.

14. Experiment on Scopes for increase speed and Experiment on Muzzles for increased damage.

15. Buy and wear a pack to store your stuff. If wearing a pack when dead you may have to repack and reloot.

16. NPC's give more exp than critters and they drop (sometimes) useful stuff.

17. use the /waypoint -5868 -6189 command often and frequently. Rename the waypoints and save them. Delete waypoints that are unneccesary if the WP's areeven working

18. Never pay for skills from NPC trainers (except Novice) as long as you tip people for the Teach, you can usually find people willing to teach you. Masters have all the skills in your prof and will usually teach for free. Still always tip.

19. /rtell , /pointat , /assist , /peace , /disband , /leave , /tendWound Constitution , /flail , /chestpound , /cheer, are all very useful.

20. Use Num lock key when walking in a group so you can walk and type.

what i should have known Posted @ Tue, Feb 15th 1:03 PM 2005 By: davelope 4 posts Score: Decent [3.00] what i wish i knew about swg before starting(that make me say "Wtf"): Shooting globs of acid, high-powered lasers and grenades are not as strong as some guys bare fist. Even though tatoonie has 2 suns shining on it, it is usually not a good place to harvest solar power. Most of the people who complain about whats "fair" in this game have multiple accounts and characters per server. Lots of people still think role playing is cool.     0 Replies

playing the game Posted @ Sat, Feb 21st 4:42 AM 2004 By: evillepper 16 posts Score: Decent [3.00] i need some help to get in the game.                                                                                ---------------------------- 500 1 Reply

RE: playing the game Posted @ Sat, Feb 21st 4:46 AM 2004 By: evillepper 16 posts Score: Decent [3.00] plz can u help me get to play the game plz. plz page me at bdavid218@qwest.net                                                                   ---------------------------- 500 0 Replies

Macros and ethical use Posted @ Fri, Oct 10th 9:02 AM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Good [4.00] All the people gripping about Macros get this..... If they did not want us to use it. They would stop us. Also we pay to be able to play (however long our accounts are for) lets use an exsample of a MONTH. If you paid for a month of useing this game and the servers arn't comming down any time soon. In my opinion (only one that really counts). Type .afk start harvesting and go to bed you got a hard day at school or work tomarrow. And when you get out of school or work go back and stop sampling those resources. Did you just say in the game MORE then 24 hours? Possibly, But YOU PAID FOR IT!!! /ui action toolbarSlot03; ( this is my give em the finger macro!)   0 Replies

Macros Posted @ Wed, Sep 24th 1:42 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] "The medical macro mentioned is clearly not a violation if it is being used the way described." so by this logic, i can basically tell SOE that i was sitting at my computer crafting while using my sample macro loop.. and everything would be fine. fact is, SOE has enough to track on all the servers than to read people's in game emails and find out who uses the macros. the devs programmed in the ability to use macros, they expected people to use it to their advantage. so be it.   0 Replies

Grinding Posted @ Sun, Sep 14th 8:00 PM 2003 By: dantaglo 2 posts Score: Decent [3.00] Ok what is Grinding I have no idea what grinding is                                                                                 0 Replies

Tabages Posted @ Sun, Aug 10th 6:36 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] A tabage was a easy kill before with great experiance benefit. They were so slow anyone could run and gun on them and never get touched. They fixed them. They are very fast and hit VERY hard. Crazed Durnies give good xp and are slow still. Surprised they didnt fix them with the Tabages. Dire cats, fast and hit pretty hard but die very fast good armer and a decent weapon and you can rake in xp. All correlian beasties.   0 Replies

Tabages run faster Posted @ Sat, Aug 2nd 2:40 AM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] Just a heads up, the patch that make the cats run faster, also made the tabages run faster. Such a shame too... I had just found out how slow they were...                                                      0 Replies

jax missions Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 8:44 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] if you want HUGE xp, go to Endor. Go to the research camp (They might have them at the smugglers camp, never been there) and go to the mission terminal. Get missions to go after jax lairs. It's quite possible to kill the lair while avoiding the jax, they're incredibly slow. If you want, you can kite the jax to kill them too. Either way, huge XP. Just don't expect to kill the jax -quickly-.               1 Reply

RE: jax missions Posted @ Wed, Jul 30th 9:25 AM 2003 By: Sir Mhodi 1 posts Score: Decent [3.00] with the new patch coming in...this kiting could get you in a bit of a bind... they are increasing the speed of the Jax's and other catlike mobs.... be warned.                                                      0 Replies

Experimenting Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 5:02 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] Re: Experimenting for Damage/Speed, You must not be an artisan. Experimenting for Damage and Speed both derive from the same experimenting, damage. Hence as one goes down, so does the other, no way to choose one or the other.                                         1 Reply

RE: Experimenting Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 8:29 PM 2003 By: saluce 21 posts Score: Decent [2.90] And you must not be very familiar with what Artisans can do.  Muzzles and Scopes are powerups that Engineers can make (levels I and II, respectively)                                                      ---------------------------- -Th'Lok Den-Seti, Twi'Lek Master Artisan (SWG) -Cuiva Lapdancer, Gnome Enchanter (EQ) 0 Replies

3 to 6 Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 4:46 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] Grinding is boring and a waste of time. You can get plenty of general crafting xp, med craftig xp, and camping xp without grinding. A much funner and equally effective piece of advice would be: Do your thing. Camp when you need to. Make stuff you need while resting in camp. In that way you're doing it all at once without mind-numbing boredem.  I never ground anything, and had a very easy time making master scout just by hunting and camping and making stuff when I needed it. I also got throught the first 3 levels of medical crafting the same way...and can only imagine how much general crafting xp I'd have gotten throughout that time period, if I were an artisan.   1 Reply

RE: 3 to 6 Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 8:42 PM 2003 By: saluce 21 posts Score: Decent [2.90] Grinding is sometimes necessary, but as mentioned above, you can do multiple grinds simultaneously.  Start by finding yourself a nice place to survey. Set up a camp and begin massive surveying. While surveying, craft whatever hits your fancy. When you get tired of surveying, sit down. (Ideally, with good action and mind stats you can go 20+ minutes from full HAM). After half an hour, disband your camp and set up a new one (you should get 600 Survival xp, max possible from the basic camp). Keep surveying, crafting, and flip flopping your camp and you'll gain a LOT of multiple types of experience. Alternately, if you just want to pound the ground for a few hours for resources and do other things, stop in on occasion and set up a new camp. For overnight sampling, use the macro guides on this site to keep you going for several hours.   ---------------------------- -Th'Lok Den-Seti, Twi'Lek Master Artisan (SWG) -Cuiva Lapdancer, Gnome Enchanter (EQ) 1 Reply  RE: 3 to 6 Posted @ Sat, Oct 11th 10:43 PM 2003 By: ANolan Scholar 29 posts Score: Decent [2.96] I would agree that grinding(macroing) is ok in some cases like that as long as it wont burn you out in a long run (you know who you are :)) Trust me I dont think I could take a long strech(sp) as an entertainer if it wasnt for macroing :( Just be carefull as the guy a little bit up was talking about 24hr grinding if they ever think about it they may just grab up someone for an example Creative grinding is better than cram grinding camping and surveying and crafting is a good example but surveying 24h is not (nothing aginst thoes who do) now iv just made music 1 so let me get back to the game ;)   ---------------------------- Just Say No To Spice (JSNTOS) wwjd Read the book and find out (john 3:16) 0 Replies

Alias Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 3:59 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] 8. Extractors waste a lot of time and money and using an Alias will collect more materials than two Extractors running all night. Can someone tell me what an Alias is?                                                      1 Reply

RE: Alias Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 4:23 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] Check out the link to the right under "Game Guides" called "Macros..." There's alot of info in there (read through the comments too)                                                      0 Replies

Camps, Survey and Crafting Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 2:36 PM 2003 By: Zandaris 7 posts Score: Decent [3.00] You can up all 3 of these at once.  Find something to survey where you are far enough out to set up a camp. Set up the camp. Start your surveying and begin crafting.                                                       0 Replies

Looping Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 1:25 PM 2003 By: MychaelaM 15 posts Score: Default [2.00] I am a dancer and I use looping macros so I can keep dancing without constantly pounding function keys for flourishes, sitting, standing, changing dances, while I chat to customers.  It has been a godsend (once I figured out how to do it) and I've made a lot more friends of customers, because I can pay more attention to THEM than my dancing. I think other entertainers will agree with me as well. Also, why is it alright for people with harvesters, factories and the like to continue to get experience when they are not even ONLINE, but its not ok to use looping macros? This doesn't make much sense to me. -Mychaela Edited, Tue Jul 29 13:19:25 2003   0 Replies

Tabbages much rarer now Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 11:55 AM 2003 By: Zomig 12 posts Score: Decent [3.00] Tabbages on Corellia are very rare these days.  A patch probably made them rarer to prevent the quick leveling mentioned above. The only way I have found them these days is to get a mission that tasks you to kill them.                                         ---------------------------- Zomig Shadowbane 65th Level Necrochanter Seventh Hammer 0 Replies

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Tabages, Corella Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 9:05 AM 2003 By: Abbi 16 posts Score: Decent [3.00]                                                                                 0 Replies

Tips please Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 5:36 AM 2003 By: Leorstef 1 posts Score: Decent [3.00] (My Rant) >>>10. tip at least 1cr per point of BF to entertainers. At least 1cr per wound to Meds. Never tip less than 100cr.<<< Let's change that to 'ALWAYS tip at least ... '  Trust me, those folks have taken a lot of time, to do a lot for you, They have had to grind a lot of SLOW experience to get to a Master level. Really, they shouldn't have to beg for it. Tip them accordingly, ... OFTEN ... please! :)   0 Replies

Not a macro Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 3:01 AM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] What exacly is an 'alias' Also is it 'cheating' or violating the user agreement if you find a spot that spawns enemies who aggro you but you kill them in 1-2 shots and leaving your char there? I found such a spot and usually go to bed with my char doing the hunting for me. Its poor exp but 10-20k per night isnt horrible for just sleeping. Its not a macro, I just have faction that makes me KOS to some weak enemies.   1 Reply

RE: Not a macro Posted @ Mon, Aug 11th 6:44 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] You misunderstand the issue if you think that the prohibition is against running macros.  The prohibition is against running the game in an unattended mode, regardless of the method. Also, what you are doing is considered an exploit, which, I believe, also violates the agreement. Look, I know you do not want an ethics lecture from someone you do not know, so let's just look a the practical side. Leaving your character unattended to run macros or otherwise racking up XP while you are sleeping ties up server resources (memory, CPU time, IP traffic, etc.) which could be devoted to making the game run more efficiently for those who are taking the trouble to actually be working their character up levels. And that is unfair. If you were playing a single-player game on your own computer, more power to you if you find something like this. It is your time, and the resources are yours to waste. But every resource you use in a multiplayer game is a resource not being devoted to someone else's game play. And that is a big difference. So the next time you run stutteringly into the cantina griping about lag, think about the CPU time and other resources being wasted by people who are not even bothering to sit at the keyboard while their character racks up points. Then think about all the CPU time and other resources you have taken from other people while you were catching a snooze. Just something to think about.   1 Reply  RE: Not a macro Posted @ Tue, Aug 26th 8:37 AM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] "But every resource you use in a multiplayer game is a resource not being devoted to someone else's game play." Well, you're paying to play on the servers, so in theory you should be allowed access to them whenever you want, as you pay for your position on them. Having said that, MMORPG devs usually go by the assumption that there will only be a fraction of the total number of players online at any one time - (ie ~2000 per server), and they don't account for every single paying customer to be online all the time.   0 Replies

Money for nothing. Posted @ Mon, Jul 28th 9:22 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] 21 - If you're not using your alloted harvester spots, rent them out to someone that will.  1k per spot per day is not unreasonable. That's based on getting 50% purity with a personal harvester and charging 3 credits per unit. That gets you to 4k credits per day after energy costs. So 1/4 of that for rent.                            0 Replies

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RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Mon, Jul 28th 9:32 PM 2003 By: Mortiis 89 posts Score: Default [2.23] "8. True, but if they catch you looping, your account could be suspended." Hmm.... might have missed it, but does the user agreement say anything about not using "looping" macros??  It's standard policy in a MMORPG to prohibit use of a third party utility to do so, but in SWG, it's quite possible to do so only using the built in game functions. This site has a few guides in the guide section that explain how to do so. My personal favorite "looping" macro is my AutoHeal macro. I'm just a novice medic, and if someone has a few hundred points of wounds, it would take me forever to heal them back up. What I do is target the patient, and start up the AutoHeal macro which uses a woundpack stim on the patient as quickly as my skills allow me to. This does make the game more fun for me, because it allows me to talk and chat while still healing the patient to my full efficiency. And I'd like to second something I heard elsewhere. More so than any other MMORPG, this game is more about interacting than exp grinding.   1 Reply

RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Mon, Jul 28th 11:31 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] It's right in the license agreement: Quote: you may not use or distribute macros or other programs which would allow unattended game play.                                          1 Reply  RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Wed, Jul 30th 9:55 AM 2003 By: Krahn 15 posts Score: Decent [3.00] This is in regards to 3rd party macroing.   If they don't want you using the in-game macros, they will fix them (i.e. sampling). Until they fix them, in-game macroing is perfectly legal in regards to the TOS.                                         1 Reply  RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Mon, Aug 11th 7:09 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [1.50] You are correct, but you are missing the point.  The quote mentioned above is not about prohibiting the use of macros. It prohibits the use of macros to play the game in an unattended mode. So all these macros on how to setup a continuous loop so you can gather resources overnight while you sleep are a clear violation of the agreement, doubly so since they are also distributing it. The medical macro mentioned is clearly not a violation if it is being used the way described. The player is at the keyboard and interacting with other players while the macro runs. That is the intent of any such macro system, to free up the player to work on other in game tasks, not to allow you to boost XP while you are off in RL doing something else. On the other hand, start that same macro then run off and eat dinner or watch a movie, and you would violate the agreement. The intent of the provision is to stop extended unattended play, not the use of macros.   0 Replies

RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Mon, Jul 28th 8:39 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] Oh, yeah, one more: Tabages: Find em, kill em, level more often.                                                                   3 Replies

RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 6:03 PM 2003 By: Anonymous Score: Default [2.00] What in the cornbread hell is a tabbage?  Is it an old diet soda made of cabbage?                                                                    0 Replies  RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Tue, Jul 29th 8:43 AM 2003 By: cyanbane 11 posts Score: Decent [3.00] What planet and what area are tabages found?                                                                                0 Replies  RE: What is this crap, Posted @ Mon, Jul 28th 8:51 PM 2003 By: kurtuk 10 posts Score: Decent [3.00] I totally agree. Never pass up an oppurtunity to kill a nest of tabages. They run very slowly have a weak attack even if you want to stand there and let them beat on you and they give great xp.                                                      0 Replies

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