As I understand it, Wookies have Shryywookie Comprehension, Shryywookie Speech, and Common Comprehension.

Thus, they are able to understand everyone else, but are unable to communicate with them unless the other character has trained in Shryywookie Comprehension.

If you would like to help out the Wookies, try to learn their language so that you may act as a translator. I don't believe that any of the other races have the ability to perform Shryywookie Speech but that shouldn't matter as they [Wookies] can understand Common.

Artisan tips:

The specific resources you can survey are different on each server (Galaxy). That was my experience from making 2 Artisans on 2 different servere. This will make it impossible to make a listing of resources, and to say what makes the best what.

If you use "better" materials for making your items, you will get increased "results", whether it's damage, range, etc. Each resource has a certain list of stats, and a number next to that stat. This number is how "good" the resource is in that area. When you look at your schematics in your datapad (or just by using the crafting tool), you will note that there's a list of modifiers under a heading of "Experiment XXXXX". That list will tell you what resource stats are used to create a better item in that category.

For example, when you look at the CDEF Rifle schematic, it will say something to the effect of:
Experiment Damage
Conductivity 50%
Overall Quality 50%

This means that you should look for resources that have high Conductivity, and high Overall Quality. In fact, from my understanding, to compare 2 materials for making this item, take 50% of its Conductivity value, and add 50% of its Overall Quality value...whichever resource results in the higher value is probably the best resource to use.

From personal experience, Copper is probably the best metal to use for making blasters (very high Conductivity).

I still don't know if different resources in the different "pieces" of each item make an impact on the weapon (for example, using your best copper on just "part A" of the gun, then using some steel on "parb B" of the gun, and end up with a high damage weapon with high durability).

I also don't know what the various "Ranged weapon power-up" items do. I have not been able to use them. My theory is that they have something to do with the Weapon Upgrade kit that Weaponsmiths get...any Weaponsmiths out there that can comment, please do.

Another tip I can give is for surveying. Open up your Surveying tool. Hit Survey. You'll notice that the numbers in the little map will be larger in some areas than others. To find a spot with high concentration of a resource, keep running in the direction that the numbers increase in, and re-survey every so often to refresh. Eventually, you could go from a spot with 17% resources to a spot with 70% if you just follow the upward climb. I personally have a "special spot" not too far from the city, 100% safe, where I get very high quality materials (Incidentally, I also make the best weapons in the Bazaar, from what I've been able to see...I make CDEF Rifles, Carbines and Pistols with 25-50+ damage...imagine how easily I blow up stuff.)

Peace,
D'Tox (from the N something server)

I think i will make A medic brawler scout or medic scout markmen..... which would be better

Its just because the servers are down, mine are the same way.

srry to pests ya agian is there a chat room that im not finding for this game?

according to the SW storyline, wookie voiceboxes are unable to produce the sounds required to speak nearly every other language there is.

also other races' voiceboxes are incapable of creating the sounds required to speak shryiwook (sp?).

Bam
Eclipse

BIG HUGE HINT FOR ANYONE USING *ANY* RANGED WEAPON!!!! always attack your traget from as far away as possible, and make sure you are lying down before you attack, especially if you are in grass, it makes the mob waist 2-4 shots worth of time trying to find your location, to come over to hit/shot you... FREE hits! Try it! I can most of the time kill any white conning mob before they get to me... or at least get them down to almost nothing...

I was hoping there would be a language barrier for the sake of immersion.

It would be okay to learn some languages, but not have skills enough to learn them all. However, Lekku (headtail, whatever) would be strictly race restricted.

I think that each character should start off with basic and their native language. Others should be carefully selected and then aquired. You don't have the capicity to learn them all. Unless that is where all your skills went and you become a translator (new class?).

Is this how it is in the game?

Do you have to spend skill points on them or simply be trained?

If not, please tell me how it works.

just a small tid-bit. if you want to make stim paks, learn novice medic. sounds obvious i know, but was asked further up. i found out that starting off as an artisan, and leanrning marksman and scout first was a good way of getting balanced skills. when you have 200 creds learn brawler and medic. this way you can make everything a noob needs (power-ups are cool), survey and harvest, as well as heal (hey i know only slighlty but it helps). the one vital point i must stress is you may ONLY have 250 skill points ever in SWG, but you start with them. so it seesm a waste to no to use them. gain as amny skills as you can, especially if someone is willing to train them to you free. if you get to the stage that you have no skill points left to train in something you need, just get rid of the skills you no longer need. simple. by doing this, you may discover something you enjoy doing, but never really considered it. i did with crafting...

You don't have to pay a DIME to be taught! Thats only in town. The folk out in the desert teach for free, since out there you have to stick together. If you ever need to be taught, just go out into the desert until you find somone with your skill, and they will definitely teach you for free (since apprenticeship points should be enough payment).

Did some messing around yesterday and came up with an idea - Train Novice in everything. As an artisan I was able to survey while enroute to destroy missions. Blew up durni lairs as a marksman. Got enough materials to make my own gun cuz I'm an artisan. Got some hides and built a camp as a scout. Still trying to figure out how to make my own meds. The times I got incapped were close range combats, so I'll do brawler next.

When I run out of training points and want to become a bounty hunter, I'll delete the artisan and most of the medic stuff. This will take longer than a focused effort at the elite profession, but it's a serious learning experience.

A nice combat exp spot - There was a shuttleport on Corellia, forget which city, that had a Swoop invasion. 1-3 swoops right there at the shuttle landing. The local constabulary would fight them. For the heck of it I lobbed a couple shots at em when they were weakened. Got a really nice amount of exp in carbine and combat with very little risk. Got incapped twice by brawler swoops, out of 15 fights.

On the downside - Couldn't board the shuttle while on the aggro list of the swoop. Even if the swoop was fighting someone else. Is there any way to exit combat besides quitting the game?

How do the numbers work in comparison as you get your skills up, is there a comparison for the difficulty numbers?

For fights, the consider system makes it relatively easy to find stuff you can kill, but since the difficulty uses numbers, and there are no levels, how do you compare later on?

If you need to make money, the quickest way is to go to a Travel Terminal, find two missions that go to roughly the same city, and them buy a Shuttle Port ticket there. I have made 1500 in mission on a 110 credit ticket mission on Tatooine.

Illia wrote:
"Wookies: one of the drawbacks for starting with a stat pool of 6100 vs 5400 is that noone can understand you, and you can't speak basic. first chance you get, group with someone who can teach you basic. Unless of course you like to be completely unintelligable."

Incorrect. Wookiees cannot learn Basic. Everyone else has to learn Shyriiwook Comprehension to understand them.