Project guildrez

scivias · 09-02-2006, 03:33 AM

Me and a friend of mine had an idea for fun, and tried it out. In the end it didn't work exactly as hoped, but I thought I share it with you guys.The idea was to make a macro, that would try to cast both our incombat rez on every member of our guild simultaneously, as a mean of fire & forget rezzing and see what happens.Well, we tried it, dumbed every 70 char of our guild in alphabetical order into a txt file, added some /target and some /useability and it was done .. time to test it out .. 3 gildies met in SiSa (one from the beginning of the alphabet, one from the end), 2 died horribly under my attacks (assisted by one of the local nscs), I pressed the button, first one was rezzed.. second one was in queue for the second rez.And there was much rejoicing SMILEY

We made several different versions for the different classes, uploaded them and told people to test it out.. next day was raid .. and the macro .. did nothing :/It took some time to figure out what went wrong, but it turned out that the macro works, as long as there are no more then 3-4 people nearby that actually get targeted by the macro .. 5-24 .. it ends up doing nothing at all :smileysad:Still, its quiet useful for grouping, so I keep it in the hotbar for now.. in case you guys want to fool around with it, it's just a inqrez.txt file including: ; target Name1 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soul: ; target Name2 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soul...: ; target Name998 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soul: ; target Name999 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soulsave that file in your UI folder, and make a macro ingame that says /do_file_commands UI/inqrez.txtEnjoy SMILEY

Ragefighter87 · 09-02-2006, 10:28 AM

good idea. ill have to mess around with it tomorrow see how it works. would be nice if it worked. just click a botton and whoevers dead gets the rez. So for the target Name 1 2 3 4 ect... do you put the charcters names in? like just add all the members of your guild or raid force into the file and it will find the one thats dead? or does it work differently ~Ragefighter

jago quicksilver · 09-02-2006, 12:01 PM

we all know that there are a few certain people that indulge in dirtnaps far more than others on raids, so it would work very well if you just put those specific people in the macro, and save another hotkey for your other guildies that die a little less.

EQAditu · 09-04-2006, 12:22 AM

I've heard, but not tested, that /do_file_commands restricts itself to 16 commands per file. Not 16 lines, but 16 commands. So using your system you would only get through about 5 players before EQ2 stopped interpreting the macro file. Reading up on the EQ2Interface forums, it seems like there is absolutely no way around this.Your best bet is to either make sets of macro files and use each one individually on a hotbar key until you res someone, or map macro files to a slash command using "/alias replaceWithSlashCommand:do_file_commands c:/one.txt" and use the macros as very short slash commands of your choosing.

scivias · 09-04-2006, 12:31 AM

EQAditu wrote:
I've heard, but not tested, that /do_file_commands restricts itself to 16 commands per file. Not 16 lines, but 16 commands. So using your system you would only get through about 5 players before EQ2 stopped interpreting the macro file. Reading up on the EQ2Interface forums, it seems like there is absolutely no way around this.

No it doesn't work that way, we thought so too, in the beginning, so no biggy SMILEY

Our guild hat 78 lvl 70 chars. The macro, when tested, consisted of roughly 240 commands in a single file.. starting with rez for people that start with an A and ending with people that start with a Z.Both, for example, "Aarath and Zackala" will be given rezzes by a single use of this macro, no problem. In case there is a hardcap on the number of commands you can use this way, it's at least above 240ish.Although I admit this scenario here may be out of the line .. since most of the commands are not really meant to do something, like target someone that isn't nearby.. seems more like it that the /do_file_commands is limited in its actual commands to be followed, than in the commands to be listed.

Ragefighter87 · 09-17-2006, 11:40 AM

Could it be possable to make 6+ txt files and make a macro with 6 commands (each txt file containing 5 names)? or will that turn out the same way as just 1 big list. anyway i don't really end up using my rez's in raids too often....the dirge/pallys are always doing them so us healers can continue healing and doing other stuff. would be a nice macro for a dirge/pally to use though.

menelaus109 · 09-17-2006, 01:08 PM

Im not great with macros, but is there a way of macroing a command to target next group member?I know you cant do it with the ingame macros but could you use a text file one to do itEDIT:I know about the Target_group_member 0 (and so on)Target next npc Target nearest pcand most of the other /Target commands but i cant find a way of macroing a command to target next group member

Message Edited by menelaus109 on 09-17-2006 02:44 AM

09-02-2006, 03:33 AM	#1
scivias Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 475	Me and a friend of mine had an idea for fun, and tried it out. In the end it didn't work exactly as hoped, but I thought I share it with you guys.The idea was to make a macro, that would try to cast both our incombat rez on every member of our guild simultaneously, as a mean of fire & forget rezzing and see what happens.Well, we tried it, dumbed every 70 char of our guild in alphabetical order into a txt file, added some /target and some /useability and it was done .. time to test it out .. 3 gildies met in SiSa (one from the beginning of the alphabet, one from the end), 2 died horribly under my attacks (assisted by one of the local nscs), I pressed the button, first one was rezzed.. second one was in queue for the second rez.And there was much rejoicing We made several different versions for the different classes, uploaded them and told people to test it out.. next day was raid .. and the macro .. did nothing :/It took some time to figure out what went wrong, but it turned out that the macro works, as long as there are no more then 3-4 people nearby that actually get targeted by the macro .. 5-24 .. it ends up doing nothing at all :smileysad:Still, its quiet useful for grouping, so I keep it in the hotbar for now.. in case you guys want to fool around with it, it's just a inqrez.txt file including: ; target Name1 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soul: ; target Name2 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soul...: ; target Name998 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soul: ; target Name999 ; usea Conversion of the Soul ; usea Reforming Soulsave that file in your UI folder, and make a macro ingame that says /do_file_commands UI/inqrez.txtEnjoy __________________

09-02-2006, 10:28 AM	#2
Ragefighter87 Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 71	good idea. ill have to mess around with it tomorrow see how it works. would be nice if it worked. just click a botton and whoevers dead gets the rez. So for the target Name 1 2 3 4 ect... do you put the charcters names in? like just add all the members of your guild or raid force into the file and it will find the one thats dead? or does it work differently ~Ragefighter __________________ Ragefighter - Imperium

09-04-2006, 12:22 AM	#4
EQAditu Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 308	I've heard, but not tested, that /do_file_commands restricts itself to 16 commands per file. Not 16 lines, but 16 commands. So using your system you would only get through about 5 players before EQ2 stopped interpreting the macro file. Reading up on the EQ2Interface forums, it seems like there is absolutely no way around this.Your best bet is to either make sets of macro files and use each one individually on a hotbar key until you res someone, or map macro files to a slash command using "/alias replaceWithSlashCommand:do_file_commands c:/one.txt" and use the macros as very short slash commands of your choosing. __________________ (EQ2) Aditu -- Templar of Nektulos(Lavastorm)->Permafrost (EQ1) Aditu Sa`onserei -- Cleric of The Tribunal My parsing project:

09-04-2006, 12:31 AM	#5
scivias Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 475	EQAditu wrote: I've heard, but not tested, that /do_file_commands restricts itself to 16 commands per file. Not 16 lines, but 16 commands. So using your system you would only get through about 5 players before EQ2 stopped interpreting the macro file. Reading up on the EQ2Interface forums, it seems like there is absolutely no way around this. No it doesn't work that way, we thought so too, in the beginning, so no biggy Our guild hat 78 lvl 70 chars. The macro, when tested, consisted of roughly 240 commands in a single file.. starting with rez for people that start with an A and ending with people that start with a Z.Both, for example, "Aarath and Zackala" will be given rezzes by a single use of this macro, no problem. In case there is a hardcap on the number of commands you can use this way, it's at least above 240ish.Although I admit this scenario here may be out of the line .. since most of the commands are not really meant to do something, like target someone that isn't nearby.. seems more like it that the /do_file_commands is limited in its actual commands to be followed, than in the commands to be listed. __________________

09-17-2006, 11:40 AM	#6
Ragefighter87 Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 71	Could it be possable to make 6+ txt files and make a macro with 6 commands (each txt file containing 5 names)? or will that turn out the same way as just 1 big list. anyway i don't really end up using my rez's in raids too often....the dirge/pallys are always doing them so us healers can continue healing and doing other stuff. would be a nice macro for a dirge/pally to use though. __________________ Ragefighter - Imperium

09-02-2006, 12:01 PM	#3
jago quicksilver Lord Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 306	we all know that there are a few certain people that indulge in dirtnaps far more than others on raids, so it would work very well if you just put those specific people in the macro, and save another hotkey for your other guildies that die a little less.

09-17-2006, 01:08 PM	#7
menelaus109 Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 182	Im not great with macros, but is there a way of macroing a command to target next group member?I know you cant do it with the ingame macros but could you use a text file one to do itEDIT:I know about the Target_group_member 0 (and so on)Target next npc Target nearest pcand most of the other /Target commands but i cant find a way of macroing a command to target next group member Message Edited by menelaus109 on 09-17-2006 02:44 AM