Prioritizing Spawns

DrMadd · Post by **DrMadd** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:34 pm

Do any of those hunter macros prioritize spawns? For instance when I was macroing Quillmane, If an escaped gnoll and quillmane both were up at the same time, whatever was closest got killed first.

I don't think it would be any harder than just an If / then statement....

But I'm not much for code any more...

MaDd

Zelker · Post by **Zelker** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 1:45 pm

Takin from
http://macroquest2.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... 3&start=15

Zelker wrote:
I've notice that there might not be a priority set with the mobs you specify. For example if the "widows" in your script stop re-popping then it will target the "wolves". However if the wolves are a PH for the widows, after a wolf is killed and a widow pops, the script continues going after the wolves. Anyone else notice this? Or is the priority by distance and the wolves just happen to be cloaser? Is there a way to set mob priority?

Aside from that it seems to work great. Thanks for putting it together. I did have to get rid of the titlebar in the Inventory and the Loot menus but that was easy enough.

Thanks,
Z
It picks what type of mob it wants to target based using random number generations every loop. If it fails to get a target then it picks another random number and tries again. It will not pick a target that has a PC near it as well.
-Grimjack

To get more of a weighted list (if you wana try to target owlbears more frequently then the ph for example you can add more entries into the array,, like 5 owlbear entries and 1 wolf would make it 5-1 odds that it will target the owlbear fisrt.

-qwazaa

This worked pretty good for my situation. Its not quite a prioritized system but more of an odds workaround.
Good luck,
Z

somemage · Post by **somemage** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 1:56 pm

God I hate that horse.

Anyway, if you're using hunter.mac changing GetTarget to this should work:

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sub GetTarget
   /target nopcnear $KSRadius npc "Quillmane"
   /if $target()!="False" /goto :GotMob

   :Aquire
   /target nopcnear $KSRadius npc "$a(2,$rand($MobArraySize))"
   /if n $target(id)==0 /goto :Aquire
   /if $target()=="False" /goto :Aquire

   :GotMob
   /varset MyTarget $target(id)
   /varset TargetDead 0   
   /varset HasTarget 1
/return

btw, what mobs are you looking for? I can never get that damn thing to spawn.

DrMadd · Post by **DrMadd** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 5:25 pm

Using the hunter script... I set alerts for the following

quillmane
escaped
undead

When script ran and all were cleared it sat at

There are no "" in zone for a long time... say close to 30 min. Maybe that is the spawn time. But then when the started spawning I got 2 quillmanes at once!!! Then very shortly after a 3rd quillmane.

1 cloak and 2 pants that time.

Total I have gotten 3 cloaks and countless pants.