Find new friends and take on the galaxy together! In Chapter 10, improved search functionality in the Community window allows you to search for players across the galaxy by level, profession, faction, heroic encounter, and more.

Show Your Character

The Character tab in the Community window allows you to tell others about yourself and make yourself searchable based on your favorite activities. Use this window to select your interests so other players can find you in their own searches.

The right side of the window displays the new options you can choose for your character. You can specify general activities, combat activities, heroic instances, and social activities.

General and Combat Activities

General activities include the existing choices for declaring yourself as looking for a group, a newbie helper, or a role-player. These activities are displayed over your character's head.

Combat activities are further defined by your preferred group role, planet, purpose, and space content. Group roles include Brick Wall (tanking), Killing Machine (dealing damage), and Support (healer or buffer).

Next, if you have a preferred planet or moon of choice, you can select it in the Planet list.

The Purpose list allows you to choose your favorite activities, such as completing collections, earning credits, exploring dungeons, gaining levels, completing missions, and testing your mettle in Player vs. Player (PvP) combat.

You can also let other players know if you enjoy swooping across the stars, and specify if you prefer taking part in Player vs. Environment battles in space, PvP combat in space, or both.

If you enjoy the challenges of heroic encounters, use the Heroic Instance list to select your preferred group role and the specific instances you are ready to take on.

Social Activities

Traders and entertainers will find many of their interests in the Social Activities section. If combat or heroic encounters aren't your thing, or if you're looking for some relaxation, select your choice of Social Activities at the end of the list.

Choose Cantina Crawl if you enjoy traveling from cantina to cantina across the galaxy. Traders can select their specialty (domestics, munitions, engineering, and structures) to make themselves known to potential customers. Players who enjoy fishing and harvesting can also select those interests.

If you have preferred planets or moons of choice for these social activities, you can select them in the Planet list.

Finally, if you enjoy throwing or participating in role-playing events, use the check boxes to let your fellow role-players know that you like taking part in combat and non-combat events.

Join the Search

You must make your character searchable if you wish to be found by other players who are looking for your interests. Use the /anon command or the checkbox at the bottom of the Character tab to add or remove yourself from the search.

If you have a price on your head, you can choose to remove your location from your search results to remain safe from the prying eyes of a bounty hunter.

Find a Friend

So now that you have set your "interests" in the Character tab so that other players can find you, you can search for other players with the Search tab in the Community window.

In the Character Data list, you can set search criteria including faction, character gender, and minimum and maximum levels. You can also click the Friend checkbox to search for your online friends who match the criteria you selected.

You can also search by profession if you're looking for a particular character to round out your group, if you need an entertainer to buff you, or a trader to make that item you've been longing for. Looking for a Wookiee for a Life Day role-playing event? You can search for characters by species as well.

Next, use the General Activities and Combat Activities list to find players who are interested in the same game activities. Similar to the interests you chose in the Character tab, you can specify general activities, combat activities, heroic instances, and social activities.

Click the Save button if you'd like to save your search preferences. The search is saved in a plain text file so can be shared between players. The search is not tied to a specific character or account, so anyone using the PC can load it and save or overwrite it.

Get Results

Once you have made your selections, click the Search button at the top of the window and the system will return up to 32 players who have marked themselves as searchable and match the criteria you selected. The search order is random and you can search again to get a different set of 32 matches.

Only online players will display; link-dead or offline players are not included.

The search results show the name, level, faction, profession, and location (if the player chooses) of the characters who match the selections you made on the left. The location includes the player city the character is in, if applicable.

If the character is grouped, it displays a green G. If the character is a group leader, it displays a red L. The number next to the G and L indicates the size of the group.

A matching character's biography will be displayed by selecting the character, and the biography field in the search results window will display the matching character's biography.

If you hover the mouse over a matching character, the tooltip contains the following additional information: species, guild name and guild abbreviation (if applicable), and the name, level, and profession of group members, including pets and droids. An anonymous or not connected group member is displayed with "(anonymous)" as the name.

Click the player's name in the list, enter a message in the Tell Message field, and click Send Tell to contact the player. You can also invite an ungrouped player to a group directly from the search results.

Find your friends and make new allies quickly with this improved searching system in Chapter 10, and take on the galaxy together!