Purchase Ticket Alias - EiF

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The /purchaseticket command in SWG provides the opportunity to vastly improve the time-efficiency of traveling. By using travel aliases, you can buy all the tickets of a multiple-leg journey. As an example, if I'm currently at New Destalon, Naboo and wish to travel to Dark Coven, Dathomir for AM, I stand at the shuttleport and type:

 /des2kaa; /kaa2sci; /sci2cov

I'll now have the three tickets in my inventory. I then run the board macro (posted below) to automatically move to the ticket collector and board the shuttles. Effectively I'll depart New Destalon and appear to arrive instantly at Dark Coven (a caveat being, the auto-follow doesn't work at certain starports that have new starship models so you then have to move your character closer to the ticket collector manually, still significantly improved over walking to each ticket terminal).

All these above slash commands are defined as aliases in your alias.txt file (V2.0 attached to this post). To demonstrate, this is how kaa2sci is defined within alias.txt:

kaa2sci /purchaseticket naboo Kaadara_Starport dathomir Science_Outpost single;

The easiest way to add these being, close all your SWG clients, open your alias.txt file within your EiF directory (or create it if file doesn't exist) and copy the contents of the attached travel_aliases-2.0.txt.

Initially, I felt like this was a large adjustment to adapt to how I traveled. But once you use the aliases and incorporate them into your daily usage, this method becomes seamless. A better explanation can be found at this video (please note this video does contain some swearing) and from the SWGEmu guide. The original concept for this was posted on the live forums in 2004.

This EiF customised version of the travel aliases was initially created (V1.0) by Isty and posted on the old forums in 2018. I have updated this original file (changelog below). Thanks go out to them for the initial significant effort!

 

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Macro to follow and board. Call it boardLoop:

/follow transport;
/pause 1;
/bo;
/m boardLoop;

Then set this macro as an alias so you can simply type /bd to start the boardLoop macro:

/alias bd /m boardLoop

Similarly I set another alias to dump and stop following:

/alias !bd /stopf;/dump

Once I've purchased the tickets as shown in post one, type /bd. Once arrived at destination type /!bd to stop follow and dump the boardLoop macro.

 

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Updated from original 'Ticket Buying Alias, redone for EiF' posted by Isty 31 Oct 2017 (V1.0). Thanks very much go to Isty for the original efforts!

Please note: this does not contain every possible permutation of start and end destination. The majority of planet routes were based off vanilla SWG where you couldn't travel to any planet from anywhere (if you recall, you'd typically travel to Corellia to then goto Dathomir, etc). My goal for V3.0 of this would be to improve on this and make better use of the EiF's lower-cost routes based of distance between worlds. A future effort.

Changelog V2.0 (2022-12-04):
Adjusted dantooine Imperial_Outpost to Military_Outpost and corrected all others to new Dantooine outpost naming structure
Fixed talus Imperial_Outpost to Military_Outpost
Fixed rori Rebel_Outpost to Hutt_Outpost
Fixed dathomir Coven to Dark_Coven
Corrected to new Yavin 4 outposts naming structure
Player Cities: Added Eventide Trading Post, Dant (etc), Agathon, Dant (aga) Ranger's Retreat, Taanab (ran), Nevermore, Ror (nev), Jade, Kuat (jad) & New Destalon, Naboo (des). 
Added a variety of new common routes to support Sith Shrine (coru2col), AM (coru2sci, sci2cov) and PMF (ker2kers, des2kers and zel2kers)
Fixed typos and missing spaces from original alias.txt
Fixed The_Lake_Retreat to The_Lake_Retreat_Shuttleport
Added route to KDY and return for Imp Councillors travelling to ISD