Can I PLEASE have a Raster macro?

Lizzydude · Post by **Lizzydude** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 12:28 am

Can someone piecemail a macro for me please.

I am a 49 Monk in need of Raster but have no patients for a 300hr camp. I would go to the mino camp and FD 1 foot from Rasters spawn point. What I want out of macro is one that targets raster every 15minutes to see if he's up..if he's up, Stand, Attack on with a Flying kick in there, follow him attacking when he's low life, hit mend when 25% of HP, FD when at 20% life or loot corpse if he's dead (ie. Idol) and FD ..oh yeah and just incase of FD fails...it needs a check to makesure FD worked.

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anyway to do an automatic /ooc Raster Camped if someone else /shout or /ooc with the keyword "camp" or "check"? as to not alert anyone of covert playing tactics /grin

That would save alot of monks, a week out of there life to surf the web and not look at a firepot for hours on end.

Thanks

Ariain · Post by **Ariain** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 3:12 am

wouldnt you want to be killing his ph on the cycle?

Lizzydude · Post by **Lizzydude** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 10:52 am

ARRRF

Lizzydude · Post by **Lizzydude** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 11:12 am

ARRRF

Macro_Explorer · Post by **Macro_Explorer** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 1:50 pm

Arian. For the raster spawn there is no need to kill a place holder. The raster will spawn randomly and replace the placeholder if it exists. Each EQ day two checks are made. If the check passes then raster will appear. If you keep the placeholder cleared, then 3 checks are made in one EQ day instead of two, but you have to have the place holder cleared at certain times, and it has to be alive at certain times. It will greatly complex the macro to include that logic. It has been almost two years since I researched the raster camp, and I am probably wrong, but that is the general idea.

M_E

Lizzydude · Post by **Lizzydude** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 11:59 pm

Aye, I appreciate you taking the post seriously Macro_Explorer, I am sure the amount of code to do it properly would be huge. I was just checking the feasability of such a macro by my request as that is one of the MOST dreaded camps in the game.

Ariain · Post by **Ariain** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:57 am

Hes just saying that making a macro to do the cycle would be a pain in the ass just checking for and killing raster would be really easy. If I get bored today I might do it.

Lizzydude · Post by **Lizzydude** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:38 am

This might help:
Rasters PH is a 72 min spawn/despawn, but the rest of Lower Guk is on a 28 minute spawn, so the best way to maximize the amount of PH you get is as follows. (Times are obviously EQ times.)

5am - Spawn. Leave this one to despawn, unless it is Raster obviously.
8am - Despawn.
10am - Respawn. Kill this PH
7 to 8pm - Spawn. Also kill this PH

This method ensures 3 PH's per EQ day.

Also:
It has been noted that the PH is 85% likely to be a Mino, 10% to be a Froglok, and 5% to be Raster, but I am sure some veteran 200+ hour campers will say more like 0.5%.....

As mentioned by the M_E, Raster is on a spawn cycle, killing the 10am and 7pm only ensure that you have 3 chances to get Raster to spawn and not 2. Making a macro that kills PH's only ensure's more success, but is not neccesary in the long run. The probobility for Raster to spawn is the same with each spawn, you only increases your chances of a successful check being made by 33.3%.

Macro_Explorer · Post by **Macro_Explorer** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 10:57 am

Wouldnt this spot be heavily watched, by GM's and players alike since it is one of the most heavily camped spawns? Would you want to use a macro in an area that has the attention of a good part of the player community?

Lizzydude · Post by **Lizzydude** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 12:48 pm

I't would allow you to run a macro for bio, smoke, get a beer, take a break, etc. On my server, 50%+ of all chars are lvl 50+ and a line here is never seen

SingleServing · Post by **SingleServing** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 10:14 pm

Lizzydude wrote:Aye, I appreciate you taking the post seriously Macro_Explorer, I am sure the amount of code to do it properly would be huge. I was just checking the feasability of such a macro by my request as that is one of the MOST dreaded camps in the game.

Yah its pretty hard to after your "ARRF" posts.

As a 49 monk I doubt you would be able to kill Raster and loot idol before Raster runs into the FULL spawn of mino's waiting to kick your a$$.

(Might be wrong been a while since I've been 49)

if you can do that, ez macro =)

Ariain · Post by **Ariain** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 12:37 am

you can do it at 49 without to much mess

CodeNewbie · Post by **CodeNewbie** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:30 am

Spent 3 straight days at this camp during a 96'. Got him on the 80th hour while I was passed out on the couch and the roomate was keeping an eye out for him. Never figured I'd need him, just get the guild to drop Brother Z for me, then came the "first" monk nerf. /sigh.

As a former guide, I can tell you that the only reason the Raster camp is watched so much is because of all the contestation that comes with it. /petition "I was at this camp for 200 hours and soandso came in and KS'd raster from me!" or even better - /petition "This other monk is just sitting here by me and making me nervous!" So I'm supposed to camp Raster with you? /sigh yet again. On the other hand, I always swung by there on my shift to hook up the guy camping it with some sandwiches and beer

If you did find a macro for this, better hope it's got some tell reply capability when you have to answer the 200 other people that will visit the camp and say "How long have you been here?", "When are you leaving?" or even more common /ooc Who's camping Raster? ect, ect, ect...

CN

Can I PLEASE have a Raster macro?

Can I PLEASE have a Raster macro?

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