SWG is not the most new-player-friendly or intuitive game you’ve ever played, but the rewards are great if you take the time to learn what it has to offer.  The single most important thing you can remember is – ask questions! We’re all here because we love the game and we are happy to help clarify or simplify!

Character creation:

• Different species have different benefits and drawbacks.  You can get a little bit of an idea here. Keep in mind that on Tarkin, buffs are not as robust, so managing your stats is key.

• Don’t worry too much about character appearance customization in the creation window – many more options are available after you pick up Image Designer and /imagedesign your own character. You can also adjust your base stats at any time with Image Designer, so it is a smart thing to train and costs 0 skill points!

• Picking a starting class – this is not set in stone, but if you have an idea of what you’d like to do, it’s a good time to grab it. The game automatically gives some items to you based on what you’ve picked. Marksman/Brawler gets starter weapons, Artisan some survey & crafting tools, Entertainer just gets the most ridiculous looking pants imaginable. Scout or Medic don’t have anything exciting on them at the start.  

• You can train multiple starting classes and/or drop them as needed, just look for the Marksman, Artisan, Medic, Scout, Brawler & Entertainer trainers – usually near the Starport, Cantina or Medical Center. It only costs 100cr to train these starting boxes. I usually pick up a combat class (brawler/marksman), scout and medic to start, no matter what. The ability to heal a bit more with “Stim Bs” as a medic is nice, and you may as well have the ability to harvest meat/bone/hide while you level. You can surrender skills at any time.

• Please choose your name carefully, as it cannot be changed.

• You can create a new character every hour. There are four characters allowed on Tarkin, three can be logged on simultaneously. Dual/triple logging requires a user.cfg file in your game directory with the following:

[SwgClient]
allowMultipleInstances=true

• Play through the tutorial after you create your character.  If you didn't do it with your main character you can always create another character on another server and make sure [ x ] View New Player Tutorial is checked before you finish creating the character.

General items of note:

• Bazaar terminals are convenient places to sell items for those who haven’t yet decided to put up vendors, or do not want to have a merchant character. From a Bazaar terminal you can search not only the items on offer on the bazaar near you, but planet or galaxy wide – and/or search vendors who have turned on the search functionality!

• Banking terminals allow you to deposit more of your credits into the bank or withdraw your funds to your character as cash.  Cash can be traded or tipped to other nearby players. Cash in the bank can be tipped to players (near or far) for a 10% fee.  The bank also has a safety deposit box into which you can place items. You must join the planetary bank to access this function and you can only retrieve your items from the terminals on that planet.

• Certain items you have equipped or are carrying with you when you will decay when you die and clone – including weapons, armor, and clothing. Uninsured items lose 5% on clone, insured items lose 1% on clone. You must re-insure your items after each death.  You’ll find the terminals in cloning centers. You cannot sell an item with decay on a vendor.

• Storing your cloning data at a nearby facility will allow you to respawn there, without wounds, if you die on that planet.

• Anyone can do exploration (recon tab) and regular missions (delivery tab) for cash, even without combat or crafting skills. Grab them from the terminals arrayed throughout cities (there are always a few by the starport and using the planetary map will help you pinpoint them if you use the menu to the right).

• When picking up missions, grab them in the same direction even if you have to refresh a few times. It’ll save time in the long run. You can pick up three missions at a time.

• Characters each have 20 lots upon which they can put harvesters, factories and houses. These structures will have a lot cost associated with their size (e.g. larger homes take up multiple lots but have more item storage).

• You must pay maintenance on homes or structures you own, and both harvesters and factories also require power (radioactive/solar or wind.)

• You do not have to eat or drink, but chef foods/beverage and those gathered from scout’s /forage command can alter your stats/abilities in amazing ways! And smugglers offer spice (drugs) to give short term boosts.

User Interface/UI:

• The reticule can be converted to a pointer by tapping alt.

• There are several preloaded keymaps that will help customize your playstyle – how you move, what shortcut keys are associated with commands, etc.  Experiment a little.

• If you hover over the menu keys – it will show you the keyboard shortcut for that particular window.

• Click the checkbox on your mini-map to show Con – this will show you your combat level relation to the creature you see on the map.  Red=Very Difficult > Yellow=Difficult > White=Even > Dark Blue=Less Difficult > Light Blue=Easy > Green=Very Easy

• Put your pointer at the bottom of the toolbar at the top of the screen until it changes to an up and down symbol and then hold the mouse button and drag downward until you get a second row of toolbars.  You can put skills and items in those toolbar action slots. The first row of the toolbar is utilized by pressing the corresponding number key (or in some keymaps – function key), and the second row (Shift+F1 through Shift+F12 / Shift+1 through Shift+12 – again this depends on which keymap you use!)

• You can resize almost any window in the game by putting your mouse cursor on the edge and holding the mouse button and dragging the window bigger or smaller.

• You can move most windows where you want them by dragging them when the mouse cursor looks like a cross ╬

• You can see further in your radar if you click the little + or - buttons next to it.  The default range is 64 meters.

• Go to the Options menu ( . or CTRL+O) and under the Misc section, check the option:   [ X ] Show Onscreen Waypoint Monitor

• That way you'll have a list of active waypoints with the distance to each one listed.  You can drag it to wherever you want it on your screen.

• An overhead/overlay map is available by tapping M / Control+M – you will be able to see an overhead view of structures, NPCs, creatures, other players, etc. in the area you currently inhabit.

• A planetary map can be accessed via tapping V / Control+V – it will show the cities and your waypoints. Clicking on the items in the sidebar can help locate other items of interest (terminals/trainers/points of interest/shuttleports/etc.) You can right click on any waypoint on the map to add it to your list of waypoints.

• You can sort your inventory or backpacks by clicking on "Change View" at the bottom of the window and then clicking on the column at the top that you would like to sort them by.  Example: If you click on "Item Name" it will sort the items alphabetically by the name and then if you click "Item Type" it will sort by what kind of items they are. Then click on "Change View" again to switch back to the regular view.  This makes it much easier to keep everything organized.

• Click the little symbol that looks like two arrowheads with a circle between in the top left hand corner of your inventory window.  It will bring up an examine pane that will show the stats for whatever you have selected so you can examine items in your inventory without using the radial to examine on each item. The same symbol on the right hand side will show an image of your character.

• K or Control+S will bring up the skills menu – in addition to being able to see your professions, you can also view all the professions, how much and what type of experience each box requires, the attributes or abilities granted. Knowing what will make your leveling easier will go a long way toward informing your choices of what line or box to train next.

• Macros are your friend! There are a million different ways to use macros to enhance your gameplay. You can find bunches of information online about setting up macros for combat, gather resources, entertainment, etc. Other players are usually happy to share theirs with you, as well!

Training:

• You have 250 skill points to spend on profession skills.

• On Tarkin, crafting skills & boxes are granted by the Skill Trainer. We found the ‘grind’ to get to master level crafting onerous and took away some of the fun. We’d rather you be crafting items to use or sell to your fellow players than burning through millions of resources just to get to the last box.

• You can also pick up Entertainer, Musician, Dancer and Image Designer at the skills trainer with zero skill point cost and zero experience earned.  

• You can always train with a trainer in one of the cities. First Tier trainers are present in EVERY city with a star/spaceport.  Brawler, Marksman, Scout, Medic, Entertainer.

• Master level trainers are available in select cities. All trainers are currently available in Mos Entha.

• Other players with the skill box you need can train you for any class or profession – the only exception is the Novice box of any profession, which must be trained by an NPC.

Combat:

• Use the mission terminals (kill missions) and start with lower payout/CL (Creature Level) missions. When you find you’re surviving well or they feel ‘easy’ – go up a CL or two! Missions scale up with you as you level.  You can also use a radial menu on the mission terminal to select a different level range, if you want something easier or harder than the terminal offers you by default.

• There are exploration (hunting/recon) missions that will help with starting cash and experience.

• You can target by pressing tab or clicking on the target.

• The number next to a target is your chance to hit or accuracy - the higher the better.

• Melee classes – Teras Kasi (Unarmed), Fencer (One-hand weapons), Swordsman (Two-hand weapons) and Pikeman (Polearms) tend to have higher defenses than ranged classes.

• Ranged classes – Pistols, Rifles, Carbines tend to do more damage but are less capable of taking sustained damage.

• Utility classes – Commando, Bounty Hunter, Squad Leader, Creature Handler, Ranger, Smuggler, Doctor, Combat Medic all bring their own special touch to a group or combat situation, either through damage, resource gathering, the ability to apply states to enemies, remove states from the group, heal, buff stats, resurrect dead players, etc.

• Building your own combat template by utilizing a little of one profession and a bit of another is one of the things that makes SWG such a unique game.  Examples of mixed and stacked templates can be found all over the internet.

• If you kneel or lay down you raise your accuracy, but you will take more damage.

• Do not attack NPCs for no reason.  Just because the default action is attack does not mean you should attack them, for many there are faction concerns. (i.e. you kill a thug and raise faction with townspeople, but lower with criminals…over time all criminal NPCs might start attacking you.)

• The red, green and blue bars are referred to as HAM (Health - Action - Mind).

• There are nine different attributes.  The second and third attribute of each category are usually called secondary stats. The second of each type determines how much using specials will cost from the main bar.  The third determines how fast the main bar will regenerate. (Red are Health – Strength, Constitution; Green are Action – Quickness, Stamina; Blue are Mind – Focus, Willpower)

• Every bar of your HAM will regenerate faster if you sit down.

• Using special moves with weapons costs HAM points.  Examining your weapon will show how much each attack will cost.  Keeping your secondary stats above 1500 (after adding in buffs from foods or doctors, and subtracting armor encumbrance) is how you keep your weapon from doing damage to your HAM when you use special attacks.

• Armor has something called encumbrance which is based on how heavy the armor is and how much it slows you down. The encumbrance is the amount that is subtracted from the second and third attribute of each category of HAM when you are wearing the armor. After a fight, your HAM bars will regenerate faster if you take off your armor.

• The black area on your HAM bars indicate wounds, which can only be healed by a medic or the medical services terminal.

• Mind wounds can only be healed by an entertainer in a cantina or a camp, or by using the medical services terminal. To receive mind healing, click on an entertainer that is dancing or playing music and select Listen or Watch. You can Listen to one person and Watch another at the same time.

• It’s considered courteous to tip if someone heals your wounds or entertains you to heal your mind wounds.

• On Tarkin, you will start with enough credits (currency) to buy a starter weapon and some ‘grind’ armor.  

• You do not need a full suit of armor but one piece to cover each of the four sections of your body (Head + Chest + Arms/Hands + Legs/Feet) these are called mini suits and help with armor encumbrance. Those four pieces will decay slightly faster as they will individually take more hits rather than it being spread out among all the pieces.

• Weapons also decay with use, power-ups (aka Pups) are crafted items that increase damage or speed of your weapon, will increase that rate of decay. You can apply them directly to your weapon by dragging.

• Anyone can repair a weapon or armor with the appropriate crafted repair kit. But the highest success rate is determined by a number of things – being a master crafter of that type (Weapon/Armor), using a high quality repair kit, standing by a high quality crafting station, having no wounds or battle fatigue are all parts of the equation. You should always repair at or before your item reaches ¼ of its total condition to keep from losing item stats.

Crafting & Resources:

SWG has a complex and rewarding crafting system – many say it’s the best a game has ever had!  

• Doing Artisan missions from the terminals is a good way to pick up some extra starting cash without too much risk.

• To find resources used to craft things you need the Novice Artisan skill and survey tools. You can usually find them for sale on the Bazaar in major cities, or you can ask an Artisan to make one for you.  There are a handful of resource types with tools to help locate the highest density – Mineral, Chemical, Gas, Flora, Solar, Water, and Wind.

• First use the survey tool to select which resource you'd like to find and click survey.  You will get a map of what percent of that resource is located around you. You can walk/drive toward the highest % and click survey again until you find the spot with the highest concentration of the resource.

• Once you find a pretty high % of a resource you can click Sample and you will take a sample of the resource. You can examine it in your inventory to check its stats.

• Using the survey tool to survey drains your Mind bar, and taking samples of resources drains your Action bar. Your character will sample again every 30 seconds.

• You can collect any type of resource by hand in this fashion – though doing so with radioactive material will wound your character over time. Putting down harvesters (personal or medium) of the type you’d like to collect allows you to play your character while resources are being gathered.

• Each crafting profession has certain resources it relies upon and certain stats on that resource.  There are thousands of profession guides online that will help you, as well as using the SWGCraft.org or GalaxyHarvester.net websites.

• Always experiment when you are crafting items.  It can make any item have at least double the stats.

• If you utilize Skill Enhancing Attachments (SEAs) – either Clothing Attachments (CAs) or Armor Attachments (AAs) you can increase the number of experimentation points you have to spend or your % of an amazing success on assembly.

• In order to experiment you must have an item specific crafting tool (not the generic crafting tool) and you must stand next to a crafting station of the same type.  You can find every type of crafting station in most big cities, usually near the starport. Example: Use a Food and Chemical Crafting Tool while standing next to a Food and Chemical Crafting Station in order to experiment on a stimpack.

• City crafting stations are considered “public” crafting stations and will not give you access to all the schematics at your disposal. Private crafting stations or droids with private crafting station modules will help you access all of your schematics.

• Artisans utilize Weapon, Droid and General crafting tools/stations and architects use Structure and Furniture. Medic/Doctor/Combat Medic/Chef/Smuggler/Bio Engineer utilize Food and Chemical to create medicine, food and spices.  Armorsmith and Tailor use Clothing and Armor tools/stations. Shipwrights use Starship crafting tools/stations.

• In addition to crafting by hand, if you are next to a private crafting station you can produce a manufacturing schematic and put it and the necessary items in a factory for mass production. Many items require identical sub-components from factory crates.

1) Be a decent human being.  That pretty much goes without saying.  We don't want to police player behavior, so just don't be a jerk.  Griefing, harassment, hate speech, training MOBs on other players, kill-stealing, and excessive spamming all fall under this rule.

2) One account per player, and we're required to insist that each player has their own copy of the SWG discs.  Players who have another household member who also wants to play can be manually whitelisted by filing a support ticket using the support link at the top of the forums.  One player using multiple accounts is a bannable offense. (And yes, we check.)

3) Do not exploit bugs.  If you find something you suspect is a bug, file a support ticket using the support link at the top of the forums.  Exploiting bugs for gain is also a bannable offense.

4) Do not create and delete characters for the purposes of generating credits for your main character(s).  We log this activity, and will ban players found to be abusing this.

5) Do not use our server, discord, or forums to recruit for other servers.

6) Do not use any third party software that alters the game in such a way as to provide a benefit other players do not have.  This will be considered an exploit.

7) No fight clubbing, or intentionally allowing another player to kill you for any type of gain.

8 ) Staff reserves the right to add to or clarify these rules in the future, should need arise.

Some things to note:
You can manually change your password by clicking the register link at the top of the forums, logging in with your username and password, and going through the process there to change it.  You are responsible for your own account information.  Staff will not be responsible for anything that happens to your account if you share your information with someone who abuses it.  If you FORGET your password, contact an admin by filing a support ticket, and we can reset it for you.

You get five characters on Tarkin's Revenge, 20 lots per character.

Since solo grouping is no longer necessary to get higher level missions, individual XP rate has been raised to 2x and there is no bonus for grouping up.  You can if you like, but the mechanics of a solo group are no longer necessary for gameplay.

Mayors of NPC cities are pretty much the rulers of their domains.  They decide if zoning is open or closed, they decide their own city layout, tax rates, specializations, and citybans.  If you disagree with their policy - run for mayor!  This office is open to any politician citizen who can get the votes. We will not be reviewing things like individual city bans, but if a mayor is significantly impacting gameplay of the community and/or perpetrating abuses upon the community, staff will reserve the right to remove the mayor.  See rule #1.
 

The link is here: http://galaxyharvester.net/ghHome.py

Please keep in mind that your screen may look different than mine depending on your site settings.

After you sign in, make sure to go to the upper right and from the drop down select: Tarkins Revenge:

The best way to find something is to (follow along with PICTURE 1 below):

1.  Click the find button.

2. Do not use this unless you want to be specifically someplace.

3. From the Res Group, Res Type, or both select what you are looking for

4. Be sure to check the Only Available box to see only what is... well available! 

5. Click on search, just above #2.

This is PICTURE 1

Below is an example using:

1. Any planet

2. Res Group: Fiberplast

3. Check the "Only Available" box

Now once the search is done, clicking on the name of a resource will provide you with information on that resource as seen on PICTURE 2. In this case resource Stapohe, a Corellian Fiberplant is used by Droid Engineer for various things.

This is PICTURE 2

On the bottom right you will find an area with links (I'll only touch on Schematics, Survey, & Creature Harvesting: 

The Schematics one is useful

On the left you can select a product you wish to see affected by a material, and on the right, you select what material you wish to see more information on.

Selecting the Survey link will allow you to see what can be harvested with what specific tool, just select the tool and on the right it'll show you exactly what you can get.

On the Creature Harvesting area you can select from the left column what you wish to get and on the right you'll get a detailed list of creatures that may have the resource (note, I understand that Tarkins Revenge code allows for other creatures to have materials otherwise not listed in Galaxy Harvester, .

On the upper right, there is a helpful button, triangle with exclamation mark in it called: Alert Filters Page which allows you to select a Profession and once you place a star on that profession (I selected combat medic as seen on PICTURE 3 for this example.

This is PICTURE 3

Once you select the profession, when the Galaxy Harvester server updates and you return to the page, you will see the right side of the page populated with Combat Medic resources if there are any spawns recently.

See you in-game.

1) Buy or otherwise acquire a shellfish harvesting tool.

2) Put the shellfish harvesting tool in your toolbar.

3) Go stand (not swim) in water, and use the following WildXP macro, adjusting the toolbar slot specified as appropriate:

/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/pause 9;
/macro WildXP

You will gather both wilderness XP and a bunch of mollusk and crustacean meat as a result.

Then you will need to click on  the "Launcher" link which will download a zip of the launcher. Due to how new the launcher most browsers may prompt you with a warning that looks like this. 

To keep the launcher you will need to do the following.

Click the ^ and click keep, you'll now find it in your downloads folder.

After this, you will need navigate to your downloads folder and you will be presented with a file named "tarkinlauncher.zip", I moved this to a folder I created specifically for Tarkin, you can name this whatever you like. For this I named it "Demo Install"

After you've extracted it you should see a file named "tarkin's Revenge Launcher" double click that and you will be presented with this pop up. Use this to select the folder you created specifically for Tarkin.

Once you've done that, you'll see the following screen. Once you do, just hit the update button as instructed in the status bar on the bottom and it will update and pull down the files for you.

Once it has done the download, it will prompt you to edit your settings first to ensure you've setup your screen resolution as it needs to be updated for the first time you launch the game, it will look like this.

Click the Settings Button and configure your game settings, or just click the settings button at the top and click  the Game Settings option to pop up the swgemu_setup

After that, hit the big Play button and get to gaming.

Tarkin’s Revenge FAQ and Info

Below, we’ve compiled some of the most relevant information for new players to our server: account info, XP rates, Jedi information and some other important notes about cities and guilds.

Q. Are my forum and game accounts the same?
A: No, they are two separate accounts.  We would have liked to keep them together, but the integration systems we had available exposed user passwords as plaintext which was untenable for us. So the two types of accounts are separate and our users' data is secure.

Q. How many characters can I have?
A: 4 characters per account, one character per hour. Attempting to create or delete a character resets the timer. All characters have 20 lots. 3 characters can be logged in at the same time.

Q. What if my husband/wife/child/housemate/dog wants to play?
A:  It’s a no to the dog, but if you have someone else living in the same house who also wants to play on Tarkin’s Revenge, they may request permission for a dual account household via the Support link on our forums.  We will need to know both of the account names in your support ticket.

Q. What are the XP rates?
A:. 2x XP Solo | 2x XP Grouped, you are no longer enslaved to a solo group to get good XP.

Q. Do I still need solo groups to get good missions?
A: No, Lia has made a system that allows you to adjust the CL of available missions so you don’t have to do any skill box dropping or pulling a million AT-ST’s just to get rancors or low level mobs for rangers.

Q. What did you do to my buffs?!?!?
A: We have GREATLY decreased buffs, so you will need to stay on top of stat migration, use foods/drinks, and look for armor with low encumbrance and weapons with low HAM cost.
If your secondary stats are below the 'magic number' of 1500, you WILL do damage to yourself when using special attacks with your weapon.
Buffs are available via doctors (though 'C' and 'D' buffs have been disabled, and Janta bloods have been greatly reduced), and are also available from Medical Services terminals.  Doctor buffs last much longer, and can be crafted better than the terminals provide.

Q. Do I have to grind my crafter again?
A: No, all crafting professions are no-grind and can be found from a skill trainer NPC.

Q. Why can’t my BH/Pistoleer pop lock 2?
A: He can! Entertainer professions are no-grind, are available from a Skill Trainer NPC, and do NOT require skill points.  Everyone can pick up the Entertainer professions (including Image Designer) for free.

Q. How long are Village Phases?
A: 4 week phases, you can find more information about Jedi in our thread here.

Q. What changes have you made to Jedi?
A: Visibility required to get on the terminals has been greatly decreased.  Other Jedi do not generate visibility, but non-Jedi players and NPCs do. Additionally, Saber Block is ineffective while knocked down, and likelihood of saber blocking has been reduced by 50% while intimidated.

Q. Why can’t I get a heavy harvester?
A:. Heavy harvesters are disabled, but Smalls and Mediums have greatly increased BER and hopper size, and the benefit of a smaller footprint.

Q. Where do I live now?
A: You can put your house in NPC cities, if the mayor of the city has granted zoning/open zoning.  Currently, Mos Entha, Coronet, and Theed function as Player Cities.
To start a Player City, you must first master Politician by running for mayor of an NPC city.  Once mastered, you may request a City Hall on the forums. Additional NPC cities can also be opened for settlement if a master Politician has ten players willing to settle in their city.

Q. How do I get a Guild Hall?
A: Guild Halls are not craftable, and are only available by request for players starting an active guild.  (They are not freely available as residences.) See our forums for more information.

Community Forums: www.tarkinswg.com
Tarkin's Revenge Discord Server: https://discord.gg/3bGJvm4
Open Source Repository: https://github.com/TarkinII/Tarkins-Revenge
Support : https://support.tarkinswg.com/
Game Account Registration : https://register.tarkinswg.com/login.php

To get started:

Register Here
Download the Launcher (Link coming Soon!)
Read the Rules
Guide to Getting Started in SWG
Check out our Patch Notes for a list of Tarkin's Revenge custom features
Gameplay Guides also has a lot more in-depth information about some of our custom features