The Star Wars Galaxies chat command language is not the most powerful available in the universe of MMORPGs, but it still has a lot of useful tricks.  One of the more obscure tricks is the /alias command.

The Star Wars Galaxies chat command language is not the most powerful available in the universe of MMORPGs, but it still has a lot of useful tricks.  One of the more obscure tricks is the /alias command.

The /alias command allows you to make new personalized chat line commands.  Its basic form is:

/alias [commandname] [commands]

Where [commandname] is the name of your new command (without any leading forward slash) and [commands] is the list of commands you want executed when you run the new command.  Each command in [commands] excepting the last one must end with a semicolon (;).

To list all aliases that you have created, enter /alias with nothing after it.

To delete an alias, enter this:

/unalias [commandname]

For an example of how this works, you can make an alias to list everyone currently in guildchat, a handy way of seeing which of your guildmates are online.  It takes the form of:

/alias gwho /chatRoom who guild.[guildnumber].GuildChat

However, the /chatRoom who does not work until you do a /chatRoom query command and a short pause works around this bug, thus:

/alias gwho /chatRoom query guild.[guildnumber].GuildChat; /pause 2; /chatRoom who guild.[guildnumber].GuildChat

For example, if your guild number is 96003, then to create the /gwho alias, you would enter:

/alias gwho /chatRoom query guild.96003.GuildChat; /pause 2; /chatRoom who guild.96003.GuildChat

Then, whenever you enter /gwho, you get a list of everyone in your guild who is online.  This list always includes a "system" entry.  That is not an actual member, but a system chat bot of some sort.

If you are on different servers with different guilds, you will need a different /alias for each guild.

To find your guild number, double-click one of your chat tabs, click on the Join Channels button (under the Available Channels list).  The Channel Browser will appear.  On the channel tree on right side, find Guild and double-click it.  (You may have to click the solid squares to open up the tree list.)  The number that appears is your guild number.