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Useful Tips

Postby stinky613 » January 11th, 2012, 1:06 pm

I suggest we use this thread to aggregate useful tips. I'll start with some useful things I've learned.

Preferences (Ctrl+P)

  • Controls: Enabling Auto-loot on Right Click and Enable Area Loot making gathering corpse goodies faster and easier

  • Controls: Increase Camera Max Distance so you can zoom out farther and see more of what's going on in large areas

  • User Interface: Enable additional quickbars as you get more abilities and Lock your quickbars so you don't accidentally move them during combat

  • User Interface: Enable Companion Comparative Tooltips; when you mouseover an item you'll see how it compares to your companion's equipment as well as your own


General

  • Ctrl+Shift+F enables a framerate counter in the bottom left corner of your screen

  • On your character screen (C) click the icon left of your character name to choose from the titles you have unlocked. You will unlock new titles as you complete class objectives and groups of missions

  • I read that crew skill missions have better yields as your companion affection increases

  • If you want to rearrange your Skill Tree (K) you need to talk to an NPC in the Imperial Fleet. He is in the bottom right corner of the bottom left quadrant. He's standing across from the Guild Registrar. Respecing is free the first time, a few hundred credits the second time, and increases more and more each time up to a cap of 100,000 credits. The cost may reset itself over time, but I'm not sure

  • By logging out or standing around in the Imperial Fleet, your ship (gotten when your character's level is in the mid-late teens)Nyla any cantina you basically earn XP. You'll see a green outlined bar grow over your experience bar (below your quickslots). Any XP you gain within that outline is doubled.

  • At level 25 or above you can buy a Speeder Pilot License for 40,000 credits. Some pre-order packages come with a speeder. Otherwise you can buy one starting at 8,000 credits. A speeder can be mounted to increase your out of combat movement speed by 90%. Speeders greatly increase your productivity.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby stinky613 » January 12th, 2012, 11:03 am

Someone should either A) tell me that this was helpful or at least a good idea; B) Make fun of me for typing all of that up on Tapatalk.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby fuzz_e_bizkitz » January 12th, 2012, 11:06 am

I did find it helpful and did change my max camera distance and toggled the comparative tips on. Haha at you for typing all that with tapatalk.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby JohnnyHustler » January 12th, 2012, 11:07 am

stinky613 wrote:Someone should either A) tell me that this was helpful or at least a good idea; B) Make fun of me for typing all of that up on Tapatalk.

It looks like good info, I just haven't had a chance to play since you typed that up (On Tapatalk? Are you crazy?).
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby rabb » January 12th, 2012, 11:09 am

JohnnyHustler wrote:
stinky613 wrote:Someone should either A) tell me that this was helpful or at least a good idea; B) Make fun of me for typing all of that up on Tapatalk.

It looks like good info, I just haven't had a chance to play since you typed that up (On Tapatalk? Are you crazy?).


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Re: Useful Tips

Postby Jammer » January 12th, 2012, 11:09 am

Well he likely did it on his iPad though.

Was really helpful for me especially the auto loot function.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby miketheknife » January 12th, 2012, 11:10 am

Yep the next time I get online I'm going to use a few of those tips, especially the auto-loot and view companion equipment ones.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby JohnnyHustler » January 12th, 2012, 11:12 am

Jammer wrote:Well he likely did it on his iPad though.

Was really helpful for me especially the auto loot function.


Still, unless he has an external keyboard, that's no easy task even on an iPad.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby stinky613 » January 12th, 2012, 11:12 am

It was either type it on Tapatalk (yes, on iPad) or logout of the game for a few minutes. I think the choice is obvious.
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Useful Tips

Postby stinky613 » January 17th, 2012, 2:38 pm

If you say something in a conversation and it either offends a companion or doesn't mean what you wanted it to, click ESC to exit -any- conversation. Affection changes aren't set in stone until you complete the conversation. You can send your companion off on a crew skill mission if you want to say something without lowering their affection.

Higher affection = better yields from gathering, higher probability of crafting better than expected items (e.g. "[Exceptional] Leather Bracers"), and a higher rate of success and quicker completion times for all crew skills.


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Postby stinky613 » January 17th, 2012, 2:48 pm

Color Coding (from worst to best)
Grey items are literally only good for selling

White
Green
Blue
Purple
Dark Purple

Orange items are as good or bad as their mods, enhancements, etc (which are themselves color coded).


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Postby stinky613 » January 17th, 2012, 2:53 pm

Character Milestones (based on my character; correct me if I'm wrong)

Lv. 8 - First companion
Lv. 10 - Choose Advanced Class
Lv. 16ish - Second companion & your own ship
Lv. 25 - Speeder License available for purchase
Lv. 28ish? - Third companion
Lv. 35ish - Complete first act, unlock Legacy
Lv. 37ish - Fourth companion
Lv. 41 - Able to max out a skill tree
Lv. 50 - Level cap



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Re: Useful Tips

Postby Clem » January 17th, 2012, 3:39 pm

Is there a way to tell how good an orange item is in it's base condition? I've picked shit up and I don't know if it's worth throwing in the armor/mod/enhancement to see if it's better than what I already have equipped.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby miketheknife » January 17th, 2012, 3:43 pm

Are the colors based on your skill level? Like, blue represents something right at your level, then if you level up after a while it turns green, white then grey? I haven't paid any attention to equipment whatsoever.
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Re: Useful Tips

Postby Clem » January 17th, 2012, 3:48 pm

miketheknife wrote:Are the colors based on your skill level? Like, blue represents something right at your level, then if you level up after a while it turns green, white then grey? I haven't paid any attention to equipment whatsoever.


Not for equipment types, but there's a similar structure for crew skills / crafting.

In collection missions for crew skills, if the title is gray, you'll get the item, but it won't boost your skill rating. Green gets you the item plus a bump to your skill rating, and I believe yellow and orange have a greater risk of not getting any item.

For crafting skills, the number that indicates how many you can make follows a similar structure. If the number is gray, you'll get the item, but no boost to your skill.
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