Newbie question about routines.mac

[sisyphus]

I was reading routines.mac and ran across somehting odd...

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 /delay $rand(3) 

This appears in the BuyItems, SellItems, GotoLoc and GotoTarg subroutrines.

I can understand the need for delays, but random delays?

Is this an attempt to hide MQ by using random delays?

[Ghost]

My guess would be yes it is an attempt to hide the use of a macro. I haven't made any macros yet, but after reading SO MANY posts and warnings associated with em, I plan on using random delays.

Also, I think that using delays that allow at least a fifth of a sec between commands might help. I can't see someone being so mouse proficient that they can accomplish more than 5 actions/sec.

But I know nothing bout MQ still.

However I am pluggin away at this forum... Must......read....more..........posts...

[SingleServing]

I was reading routines.mac and ran across somehting odd...

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 /delay $rand(3) 

This appears in the BuyItems, SellItems, GotoLoc and GotoTarg subroutrines.

I can understand the need for delays, but random delays?

Is this an attempt to hide MQ by using random delays?

Yes but I have found some bugs with random applications

ie. The use of it in the #routines gotoloc command has a random accuracy
when that number is extremly small it causes the character to run in circles attempting to reach that exact location. So if you do plan on doing something like this do something like 2+$rand(3) to make sure you don't get crazy things happening =)

You can imagine how funny it looks watching a char run in circles like the ingame autofollow command and how it fucks up so often...

[Ghost]

Wow. Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the info Single! :)

[L124RD]

Salutations,
I never use routines.mac, I just write them myself as I go...

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sub gotoloc
  /varset l0 $rand(3)+2
  :gotolocloop
    /face loc $p0
    /delay 0
    /if n $distance($p0)>$p0 /goto :gotolocloop
 /return