Tips and Tricks

[gonger]

Dear friends,

This thread is meant to share valuable information that might be useful but unknown.
For example, I recently witnessed that some very experienced players did not know about the /study feature in crafting books.

So here are a few a few useful tips and tricks from me:

• There is free storage space available. In Hydlaa, Harnquist will store things for you. In every city or major settlement is at least one storage spot. The tria shown are not storage fee, but give an indication of the value of the item in question.
• Fast fill the forge (and other crafting space): Instead of moving things one-by-one from your inventory to the forge, Ctrl-Click a whole stack and drop it into an empty spot in the forge. Then use Shift-Click to fill other fields with single items from the stack.
• /study: Right-click a crafting book, then type /study in the Main chat screen. A small window will appear that allows you to enter a search string. Very useful when your crafting book has many pages. There are several that have 60+ pages.

Please add your tips and tricks. You have a great macro that helps to save time while crafting? You know something about armour that is unknown to many others? You know some trivial but funny facts?
Share. Strengthen the community. Contribute to PlaneShift.

Happy New Year, everybody.

Gonger

[Emaline]

I love this!

[Uadjet]

No tip thread can be complete without a link to the pswiki!

http://planeshift.top-ix.org/pswiki/index.php/Main_Page

The information goes well beyond what is available on the main site.

Want to learn the Klyros language and help develop it and other languages?

Want to learn about combat maneuvers both implemented and planned?

Want to read up on the places in game and places only planned? (Seriously, check out Delving's entry.)

Want a list of every command in game, that even GM's reference?

[Migg]

Another very useful feature of the game is the shortcut bar. Some shortcuts are already assigned by default, and can also be activated using the number keys from 1 to 0. You can right-click on any empty shortcut slot to set its icon, assign a shortcut key (including mouse keys! a bonus if you have a gaming mouse) and enter a set of commands to be executed when you press the shortcut button.

All commands you can use in the chat window can also be used as part of a shortcut. You can find information on all commands available in PS from the help icon in the game. Two forum threads with ideas for shortcuts to create are here and here, I am sure people can reply with more ideas or links.

[gonger]

A small follow-up from myself with player-related commands...

* The /buddy command (or the default key b) will open the buddy list. Add players that for some reason are important to you, and you will be notified when they enter or leave the game. Once a name is on the list, you can use the Edit function to add a comment to the name.
* If a player annoys you, you can use the /ignore command - The Sound of Silence (from that player).
* If you really feel offended by somebody, you can also use /report PLAYER_NAME. This will log both the previous and coming five minutes of the player's actions.

With some luck you will never need the last two commands, but it is good to know them, just in case.

I still hope more people will share tips and tricks. I know that some of you out there use a lot of macros, for example. Why not share them, and help everybody a bit?

Greetings,

Gonger

[Uadjet]

You can speed up the pterosaur travel transactions a bit by using the /tellnpc command. You can target the pterosaur handler (not the pterosaur) and use '/tellnpc cityname' and the NPC will respond with the price of the trip. You can then give the NPC the tria manually. It's a bit faster than going through the dialogues, if you're quick.

Where this really shines is travel between Hydlaa and Amdeneir. That trip is free, due to the distinct lack of map between the two cities. You can't get there by foot, so the trip doesn't cost anything. All you have to do to travel between the two is to use '/tellnpc Hydlaa' or '/tellnpc Amdeneir' on the pterosaur handler and you'll be teleported to the other city.

Oh, and don't forget that you can use /tellnpc to ask NPCs questions! '/tellnpc About you' is a great start, and sometimes the response gives you other things you can ask about. Like the Sunshine and Shadow Squadrons, and the three departments each one is split into.

[Eonwind]

Here's my list of tip-and-tricks coming from the online Player's Guide:
http://planeshift.top-ix.org/pswiki/index.php/Players_Guide#Strategy_Advice

[MishkaL1138]

If you have a mouse with 5 buttons, you can bind the DragDropOne, DragDropAll and DragDropAmount to various keys, like PgUp, PgDn and Scroll.

You can just write a command that uses different arguments (like /drop) to see a list of arguments you can use: /drop all noguard <item>, for example.

[Damola]

All nice tips. Thank you.