Looking for some help

dawnoffatex · Post by **dawnoffatex** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 8:25 pm

Hey, odd request I know, but I want more then just to come here and download a script, basically, I have almost no clue how these things work, I 6 box manually, and this would be SUCH a welcome addition. One of you pros out there, if you'd be interested in custom tailoring some scripts for me, based on my needs, and "holding my hand" so to speak in regards to getting things setup, ill donate for your time : ) only fair I think? I basically need a set up for a shaman/cleric/ranger and maybe some other minor things explained to me, if you know your stuff and are interested, email me at dawnoffatex@hotmail.com , thanks ; )

ThatOtherGuy · Post by **ThatOtherGuy** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 11:50 pm

I'll give ya soem free advice

Download a buncha macros. Read em through. Have the MQ manual up ina window and see what it's doing at each step.
Download grimjack's genbot macros
customize em with what ya leanred, and ask for help on specific parts... The free help on these forums pwn'z anything you can pay for

If you come here with a concept of what ya wanna do, almost every time someone can give you an outline to start with if not the code

The Generic Bot macro pwn's for any class

dawnoffatex · Post by **dawnoffatex** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 6:10 pm

Well, dont know where to begin

Need simple stuff

Ranger ranged attack auto loop... basically have it set up (6 box) so when "Inc < < - - %t - - > > " Is called by char_01 , it triggers ranger to stand, assist, and hit with bow, maybe throw in a nuke or two.

Cleric basically scan hp, MT below 50% triggers a CH, others below 65% or so triggers a supernal light or something along those lines..

Wizard some kind of simple nuke set up, if above 50 mana and mob is below 50 life, chain nuke, or perhaps a nuke on command.

Bard triple song twist and melee attack ( not sure how difficult this would be)

Shaman is the only semi complex one, basically canni if below 90 mana and above 90 life, if 1 is true but 2 isnt, torpor self. On assist call, malo/slow/epic dot/send pet.

Im sure there are things im missing, but seeing as how I do things manually, even small things are a huge upgrade , obviously room for lots of little add on's, some of which im sure im not even aware of (one that comes to mind is char_01 follow me - all bots stand and follow ) I was speaking to someone, and they came up with some tidbits, but at the moment, these are what comes to mind

dawnoffatex · Post by **dawnoffatex** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 6:55 pm

Oh, the reason i want to pay people, is becuase 1 : show my appreciation 2: I think ill get more quality that way 3 : I ask alot of questions, which = their time, and i think this is something that takes a certain amount of know how, and skill, as such I feel people should be compensated.

If someone is willing to set things up for me, tweak around, make sure it works, and stick around for any updates i need, id donate 100$ for their effort

dawnoffatex · Post by **dawnoffatex** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 10:08 am

cmon guys, wheres the love ;\

I went through this stuff today, looked at the ranger archery script, opened up the readme, starting toying with the $commands, but it keeps telling me "You are not in a group" read something about a telnet server, and couldnt figure out where to paste the mac or how to load it or anything heh :)

EqMule · Post by **EqMule** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 12:08 pm

well what you are asking is help to make 6 players successfully play eq with no or little interaction... Im telling you, I have a hard time getting just 2 of my chars interact with each other and play the game, You are asking too much. And even if you get someone to make 6 macros for you that operate successfully, it will be hell for you to try to debug if something goes wrong. Anyway the best thing is to take this 1 step at a time, try this for a start:

go to a zone with ONE of your characters, find something that you are not kos to and just target it. then type /macro follow and press enter

you can end the following any time by typing /endmacro.

There, you have succesfully run a macro. Now step 2 is to understand how that was done, go look in your macros directory, there is a file called follow.mac, that was the file you just run... Step 3 open it in notepad and try to understand how it works, when you do, you can start looking at more advanced scripts, and the manual for MQ...

dawnoffatex · Post by **dawnoffatex** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:25 pm

I see, I didnt think it would be that big a deal in terms of creating those macroes above, generally, 3 of them i would assume would be under 10 lines and easily copy pasted from "generic macroes" that I see everyone speaking about. I see the ranger auto attack on here, and the bard melee/twist, I see the cleric "Super bot" macro, i havent seen a shammy one, the wizard one is a commodity at best, and i intend to play my SK, which is the "core" so to speak.

There is minimal "interaction" between all, if any - unless im missing something?

And your reply taught me how they work (I Think?) So there is a directory, i would create the macro using notepad, and to begin the macro i would type /macro (insert macro name here), knowing this, I can begin to haphazardly experiment with what i've seen here, so thank you for that :)

EqMule · Post by **EqMule** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:46 am

dawnoffatex wrote:I can begin to haphazardly experiment with what i've seen here, so thank you for that :)

Well I must say Im happy that you came to that conclusion. Dont give up on MQ, it takes time, I know... but it is SO worth it. I lurked the boards for a good 6 months, then finally joined, and lurked another 4 months, getting ready for contributing, and writing my first macros. We want to help, but as you will see now that you start playing around with it, the learning process, needs individual tuning, that is, you need to do alot yourself in order to understand how it works and how to get things working.

fryfrog · Post by **fryfrog** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:14 am

Pop over to Xylobot.com and check out the MCS (master control script). It is already written and will accomplish everything you need from the Casters. Shaman, cleric and wizard. You could then write some fairly short scripts for the melee classes, bard would be longest most likely. The ranger is probably going to be the easiest.

Xylobot is $20 a pop, and quite different from MQ (both languge and its abilities). Good luck :)

Imperfect · Post by **Imperfect** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:54 pm

The Problem comes in is that you have to write a lot of events that would be queued from chat. And frankly most people here despite having written some fairly complex macros have probably not written stuffs of that complexity

dawnoffatex · Post by **dawnoffatex** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:38 pm

What needs to be defined from chat?

The only thing i need is things that never end, ive been expirementing with grimjacks cleric.mac, trying to figure it out - same thing as that, only for other classes, it does its job, and i can /tell it if i need anything else.
The only chat interaction that I can think of, would be an $Event (look at me im learning =P) which would be my inc message, which in turn would trigger shaman slow, archery for ranger, wizard nuke etc, all linked to that one event, on the phone right now, but correct me where im wrong i want to learn

Imperfect · Post by **Imperfect** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:22 pm

Well if you were going to have one person as the master controller. Then the other people would have to be able to accept commands. You would being using chat events. You should be able to find the info in other macros. Else I can give you some examples but, I like people that research.

Ravena666 · Post by **Ravena666** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 3:25 am

say it with us:

research... good

transvestiaul mummies from space ... bad

research... good

dawnoffatex · Post by **dawnoffatex** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 5:40 pm

well, they dont really need to accept chat commands, just need to permform basic functions on their own, if i need them to do something "special" i can just manually take over, after all im going to be sitting there anyway.

Imperfect · Post by **Imperfect** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:16 am

In that case most of the time there are macros here still like shaman macros and stuff. Some things would still need to be queued from events though. I.e. You have buff wear off. Odds are if you are 6 boxing you might miss that. And you could easily add some commands in their scripts to rebuff and such. But, as I said look around and see what is around. Then take what you see modify it and it will work.

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