In 1.2 there is a mouse-over tooltip that will alert you to any possible benefit of reverse engineering an item - including if you will learn a new schematic or not. Wish it was there before, but at least it will be in the future. Don't get too bent out of shape about the mats; they are easy to come by, and if you need a sense of proportion, I've burned ~20 million in mats reverse engineering biochem, cybertech, and artifice. Piece of advice: don't start counting the number of times you get "You already know that schematic". It will make you angry. Very angry. On that note: 41 Oh yeah - once upon a time, I too, felt that going outside the game looking for info was cheating. That was right up until I realized that the developers were fallible, human creatures just like you and me, under constraints for time and work and family. So not all relevant information is going to get into a game, whether it be an MMO or otherwise. Don't rely on the developers to provide you with everything you need/want to know. Rule of thumb- if you can't discover it in 5 minutes in game, google it. It'll save you a lot of time and frustration. There are a LOT of things in games that you'll never, ever discover unless you consult the hundreds of thousands of other players (by proxy of googling). Don't think of it as cheating - think of it as seeing the viewpoints and experiences of thousands of other gamers. There will always be gamers more and less dedicated, lucky, and or blindly lucky than yourself. Take advantage of them, be it learning from, or teaching, others. It doesn't have to be an MMO for you to enjoy the company/kinship of a similar experience.

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For sure. What I usually ended up doing when a companion died was dismissing them then re-summoning. I got into the habit of it before I tried to right-click on their corpse, because I usually had to run away from aggro radius of the mob that had killed us both.

Damn you. Iced tea on my keyboard AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.

I actually deliberately didn't use a title like that, because the behaviors listed feel genuinely off, rather than something that you'd really want to do legitimately.

I'm creating this thread to establish a list of strange game behaviors in order to circumvent game mechanics that impede normal gameplay. This is **NOT** a place to list, discuss, or even mention exploits or other things to gain an in-game advantage over other players. This is a place to discuss behaviors you take in order to make the game better, but feel strange and counter-intuitive to normal gameplay. I'll start with these examples: 1. In order to get crafting missions that you actually want to send companions out on (such as metal quests for Underworld Trading, or rich missions, or lockbox missions) you repeatedly zone in and out of an area. Or, better yet, send your companions out on all missions of that tier, relog, then cancel said missions and take your pick of those that weren't there before. Solution: a shuffle button, or something more elegant. 2. Posting items at the Nar Shadaa auction, then buying them out with an alt character from the other faction. This is counter-intuitive to having a legacy (with all your characters, regardless of faction, having the same last name and having the same family tree). If they wanted to make this better, just put an extra mailing fee on items between legacy characters *of different factions*, rather than having us engage in strange log in/out behaviors. 3. Mailing sets of items, such as trade materials, companion gifts, etc to other characters because of lack of bagspace. A fully maxed out character will fill their banks quickly with trade good materials, so the mailboxes of many people fill up with crap. Solutions: make tradegoods stack to 999. Make mission items and gifts stackable, also to 999. 4. Logging back and forth from character to character to queue missions. Solutions: let us queue more missions, or the same missions repeated X number of times. Make queues longer for crafted items (10-20 items a shot, particularly when stacking to r/e). 5. Limiting the number of characters per server to 8. This is my personal pet issue; I'd love to play more characters and differing combinations, particularly when they update the Legacy system. Solution: more character slots please! It's a great game and I want to play it a lot. Anything that takes you out of the game, either by relogging, or something you need to research via a website (like what companions like what gifts) is a break in immersion and a suspension of the time where you're supposed to be playing and having fun. 6. Vendoring schematics. Instead of having a wild overload of schematics, mostly duplicates that get vendored or repeatedly tossed up at the auction, allow us to use the schematic with the possibility of learning another item/schematic of the same tier/level. 7. Multiple auction characters. Solution: let us post more than 50 items (instead, maybe 1000 ) at the auction, preferably with longer durations, such as a week. Also, having a "wish-list" board - somewhere where you can post what you'd like, at a certain price, and people can fulfill the postings - would be awesome. What are "strange/weird" behaviors you engage in that could be improved by the developers as quality of life changes? Remember: No exploits. Edit: With a title like this, I'm assuming this thread will be heavily moderated. Devs- please don't kill the thread because of people misusing it; just delete the posts that do. This is a thread made with the best of intentions.

Freudian slip, WoW style?

Dude- just get to level 10. You'll get a companion that you can send out on Underworld Trading metal missions or Slicing missions. You can send them out and pick up the mats to sell when you sell other stuff. It's worth it.

Pretty sure this was an intentional implementation (how could it be otherwise?) but here it is: Purple crystals Empire side run 125k from vendor and cyan crystals run 250k. Purple crystals Republic side run 250k from vendor and cyan crystals run 125k. Buy, transfer, sell for less than vendor (200k? 225k?). Profit. This, if anything, will get people tired of the Nar Shadaa load times.

Another tip to make sure you get a good refresh (i.e. the quests you want to see): Send all your companions out on missions for the tier that you want a refresh on. Log in/out or zone somewhere. Cancel the missions, then pick and chose the ones you actually want them out on. Works wonder when you want to send them out on "Rich" missions.

I would have preferred English, however vulgar. >.> <.<

1 purple lightsaber crystal. Please! Also - may we have more character slots per server? Thank you!!

All I know is - if they put new race/class combos in the game, I'd like more character slots on my home server.

Someone's grumpy. Perhaps if you stopped treating a game like a sport, you'd have more fun?

If I were going to remote login to my desktop, I'd use http://www.logmein.com for a free service. I use it on all my work computers. No need for the "Pro" version.

After having dealt with 6.5 years of WoW's crappy water movement/attack/visualization, I'm ready to not ever see it in a game again.

No level requirements; just requirements to use the items you craft. I made 7 level 10 alts and had them all slicing up until it was nerfed; then I changed most of them to Underworld Trading and sold lots of metal. You can make bank doing missions for UT and Diplomacy/BioAnalysis - make a TON of cash, then turn it around, along with some of the mats you've saved, and put it into some crafting professions. Money is really very easy to make in this game.

Generally, orange/custom crafted item schematics will come from Underworld Trading. A good place to hunt for it is the local auction house. I see 2 of them up on Vrook Lamar, right this very second.

Yeah, time-consuming and just a pain. I'd be happy to pay a Hutt Cartel mail tax to send things to my other characters, but a shared storage area would be even nicer. I mean - we're going to transfer crap anyway. Why not make playing alts less of a pain and more fun/convenient?

I think I'd have to go ahead and delete the sound files for the ship droids. Yeah. It'd save me the trouble of hitting ctrl-s every time one comes back from a mission.

I'd love to be able to mail items and use trade goods between my Empire and Republic characters. I mean - they all have the same last name after all. One big happy family.

Basic materials used for Cybertech are acquired via Scavenging. The "special" materials needed for the better items are acquired via Underworld Trading. The most effective way to get materials is from running missions using the mission items under "Crafting Missions", particularly when it comes to Underworld Trading goods. Scavenging you can do anywhere, but Scavenging mission item quests are extremely cost effective. Even if you don't have immediate use for Underworld Trading metals, keep your companions running the missions for metals. You can sell your excess and make bank. Something else to consider would be to make an alternate character a Slicer/Underworld Trader/Scavenger. You can use excess materials from that character to supplement your main. Also, only run lockbox missions with your Slicer; the boxes will generally cover the cost of the mission, and you can get mission items that you can use yourself or sell for large amounts of credits.

Seriously though, there are people that would pay rather more for it. He's not looking for a lowballer who's trying to be a downer on something cool that happened for him. Go troll elsewhere.

Uh yeah - I'm currently using an augmented crafted lightsaber I bought at the auction for 150k. (Score!) OP - personally, if I didn't keep it for myself, I'd post it at the auction for 2.5 to 3 million credits. You'll get it.

Ya know, the developers already said the process isn't working as intended, and that the message for already knowing the schematic is a bug. Ya know.