Something I have noticed is that people do not pay attention to class quests. What I mean is when you enter a story area with a group only one person of that class may enter. The game flashes a message when you enter about this but most people seem to miss it. So if you are grouping and doing class quests keep this in mind, only one of the class may enter.

Originally posted by renaldare

 Something I have noticed is that people do not pay attention to class quests. What I mean is when you enter a story area with a group only one person of that class may enter. The game flashes a message when you enter about this but most people seem to miss it. So if you are grouping and doing class quests keep this in mind, only one of the class may enter.

You can change this in your user options to allow more than one person of the same class into your story area. However, their own story won't progress in there if they haven't completed that part yet.

Also, stickied the thread. It's quite helpful.

Originally posted by Amana

Originally posted by renaldare

 Something I have noticed is that people do not pay attention to class quests. What I mean is when you enter a story area with a group only one person of that class may enter. The game flashes a message when you enter about this but most people seem to miss it. So if you are grouping and doing class quests keep this in mind, only one of the class may enter.

You can change this in your user options to allow more than one person of the same class into your story area. However, their own story won't progress in there if they haven't completed that part yet.

 

Also, stickied the thread. It's quite helpful.

Thank you so much!

Updated OP. Great contributions guys. Really didn't know some of them; like resetting quests from elocke. Good one.

"If it's lying dead and too close to mobs you can simply call another companion (if you have one) and after that call the killed one. [me]"

Isn't it easier to dismiss and resummon them if they died and you're out of combat? That's what I do.

You don't need to have crafting (crew skill) materials and components in your inventory, you can keep it in your ship storage and it is usable (since the crafting is in fact made by your crew members). [from Fext]

Cargo Hold, in general. People read "your ship storage" and they'll think that you have to get on your ship to store your stuff in there else they won't be able to craft when in fact it doesn't matter where you stored it, as long as it's in your Cargo Hold.

Originally posted by nblitz

"If it's lying dead and too close to mobs you can simply call another companion (if you have one) and after that call the killed one. [me]"

Isn't it easier to dismiss and resummon them if they died and you're out of combat? That's what I do.

 

You don't need to have crafting (crew skill) materials and components in your inventory, you can keep it in your ship storage and it is usable (since the crafting is in fact made by your crew members). [from Fext]

Cargo Hold, in general. People read "your ship storage" and they'll think that you have to get on your ship to store your stuff in there else they won't be able to craft when in fact it doesn't matter where you stored it, as long as it's in your Cargo Hold.

Points noted :) Updating OP.

Originally posted by DarkPony

Being a completionist puts you 5 levels over content.
In SWTOR, you should not feel obligated to complete all the quests. Experience comes easily.

I don't want to step on toes here; but that's not entirely the case. Experience doesn't come very easily. If you want to do all the class quests, and nothing else, you will be under-leveled on every planet after Act I. 

Completionist will be over content, like you said.

Also; Note: Crafting Components DO NOT STACK AUTOMATICALLY in your cargo hold, you must stack them manually.

Originally posted by Sora2810

Originally posted by DarkPony

Being a completionist puts you 5 levels over content.
In SWTOR, you should not feel obligated to complete all the quests. Experience comes easily.

I don't want to step on toes here; but that's not entirely the case. Experience doesn't come very easily. If you want to do all the class quests, and nothing else, you will be under-leveled on every planet after Act I. 

Completionist will be over content, like you said.

Sorry to say, but the plethora of lvl 50s during early access begs to differ. Lvling up is easy and while (after a while) focusing only on class quests will put you underlvled, it is not the only way (by far) to gain exp. HEROICs, Flashpoints, PvP, Space Combat, and random grind quests all yeild more exp than you'll ever need.

I personally focus mainly on the storyline quests, and only do a couple here and there that are convenient, and (surprise!) I am almost always at the same lvl, or slightly above what I need to be in order to do my storyline quests. It got a bit closer after lvl 30, but it still remains to be the case.

Can only think of a couple not covered - Reverse engineering a stack of items (stims/medpacks for example) will RE the whole stack.

To split a stack shift-left click and drag the stack - and choose how many you want to split off, then drop into a free slot in your inventory. Because shift-click also links items in chat, you'll need to delete the random appearance of the item names in the chat window (I hope they fix this!)

If you run out of credits or are short for your speeder training- run space missions or warzones to make some credits quickly. Neither come with repair bills, so they're a nice safe way to increase your credits balance. There are daily space and WZ missions (space ones on your ship, WZs at the Fleet) that give nice rewards too.

Thanks for the points, OP updated!

The med pack that heals your pet and you will also resurect a dead pet+heal in combat.

Originally posted by coldcut333

The med pack that heals your pet and you will also resurect a dead pet+heal in combat.

Seriously?

Can you in-combat res companions with medpacks? Wow ... great one. I'm gonna test that.

Originally posted by DarkPony

Originally posted by coldcut333

The med pack that heals your pet and you will also resurect a dead pet+heal in combat.

Seriously?

Can you in-combat res companions with medpacks? Wow ... great one. I'm gonna test that.

 

Yes, this is true, probably a bug, but it works none the less.

Found this usefull pet guide last night,got charts on what pets like which gifts,contains spoilers so will just post link.

http://www.flesheatingzipper.com/games/2011/12/star-wars-the-old-republic-guide-companions-and-affection-warning-spoilers/

The second Tier (mission levels 17-24) of Underworld Trading opens when you hit skill level 65.  It took me 2 days and over 9.000 (Thousand) credits to find this out, going from skill level 11 to 65.

UT mission Companion Gifts do not gain affection with JK droid companion.

I can't wait for a Companion Affection guide, that explains what type of dialog responses and gifts gain affection for each Companion.  At First I used to abuse the Esc and explore the dialog tree looking for positive affection.  But I stoped doing that.

awesome post pony

and about knocking npc enemies off ledges, you need to be careful because not all enemies die.  some humanoids can have jet packs and fly back up to you.  found several on alderaan that did this

Originally posted by Konfess

The second Tier (mission levels 17-24) of Underworld Trading opens when you hit skill level 65.  It took me 2 days and over 9.000 (Thousand) credits to find this out, going from skill level 11 to 65.

UT mission Companion Gifts do not gain affection with JK droid companion.

I can't wait for a Companion Affection guide, that explains what type of dialog responses and gifts gain affection for each Companion.  At First I used to abuse the Esc and explore the dialog tree looking for positive affection.  But I stoped doing that.

I found this quite useful after getting +0 affection from several gifts: http://www.swtor-spy.com/companions/

Good work guys, updated!