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AFK Taskmaster

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You can acquire the task as a 65 or below shroud, but if you choose, you can drop the shroud and still retain/complete the task. Doesn't help much with short tasks, but opens up the choices if you choose to do medium or long. What is difficult at 55/60/65 is usually trivial at 67-70.
 
Mochila said:
But see, it wasnt because GM's started cracking down, it was some fagget on a "crusade against hackers".
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ROFL....HAHAHA....

Guess some folks are bored in game...hope all works out for ya lol. :)
 
Yep, turned out to be only a week suspension....SOE has their priorities really backwards. Over 1000 Warps per day, chain zoning , /gate , not to mention Over 500 aa's 200kpp and 3 levels I got . A GM saw me do all of this (AFK Macro in Public Zones, just to be retarded). And a week suspension.......Other people....1 no drop item transfer, perma-ban....

Thats really messed up what SOE did, I'm sure they'll retract the bannings...
 
Mochila said:
Yep, turned out to be only a week suspension....SOE has their priorities really backwards. Over 1000 Warps per day, chain zoning , /gate , not to mention Over 500 aa's 200kpp and 3 levels I got . A GM saw me do all of this (AFK Macro in Public Zones, just to be retarded). And a week suspension.......Other people....1 no drop item transfer, perma-ban....

Thats really messed up what SOE did, I'm sure they'll retract the bannings...
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Welcome back!
 
Can someone post a version of this without the /gate after the druid rings? It works up until that point but then leaves part of the task undone because it expects to /gate back somewhere. Anyway the FV portion remains undone do to me not being a gating class. Please help.
 
Be careful with this one. I got suspended, and not banned. Which is nice since I can get my account back in a few days. Not sure if I'm gonna do this again tough. Anyone notice GM's watching dreadlands?
 
Was a player not a GM that ruined me, and thanks for the welcome Warr ~. If you are a non gating class you can replace gate with
Rich (BB code): 
/target Marana 
/warp target
 
I was looking over the code and it looks like /call cast Gate is in there 4 times. So I would replace it with /target marana /warp target in all 4 places? I have /gate...as I'm doing this on my druid, but he's too high. So I'm having to shroud down to take advantage of the task. Sooo...could someone just make this a macro without any warping for those who are having to shroud down?
 
The original is warp-free, and works very well really...if you get it to do all 3 or 4 tasks that share a similiar page.
 
Well, I would ask that you read my request...as I'm using the "original." But it's obviously intended for a gating class that is level 66 and below. If you shroud, you don't get gate, hence my request.
 
I just got done rerunning the task manually ... good thing I finaly got run5. I will be posting in the update in a couple of minutes ... maybe a hour ... depends on how long the Guiness lasts .. might have to go get more before posting :D
 
Drozes said:
Well, I would ask that you read my request...as I'm using the "original." But it's obviously intended for a gating class that is level 66 and below. If you shroud, you don't get gate, hence my request.
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You could buy a load of gate potions, or get an item with gate or something.
 
AFK Taskmaster Update

Ok I finally posted it.

Go the first post and download AdvTask20051101.zip. It contains both AdvTaskCaster.mac and AdvTaskRunner.mac. I have ran the AdvTaskRunner with my caster and all was smooth, execpt with some aggro issues (that will be for the next update, AdvTaskMonster).

I have include all the files needed for the mac's. Additionally, since it looked like everyone wanted the Exp_Tracking taken out, I went ahead and took it out also. If any one wants it back let me know.

Please post any issues/suggestions and I'll update the initial post!

Alatyami
 
Thanks Alatyami, I'll try this when I get home from work. Gah, RL gets in the way of my leveling!
 
I've had an issue with the warp macro ever since the newest EQ patch. I can do a few fine, but then it gets hung up. What seems to happen is that my toon keeps doing the same mission over and over, even without Dreadflats giving me a new mission. If I look inside my HUD, it is showing that Dreadflats is giving me a mission, and I warp around to do it, but, I was given no miss, so I don't get any credit. It is almost like an infinite loop. Has anyone else had this happen, or know how to fix it. If so please reply, or send me a pst. Thanks guys
 
I've had the happen a couple times. Usually when I first start up the mac. I restart the mac and it works fine from then on and doesn't "hang up" anymore.
 
When I did the original version of my macro, it had it using warps, and sometimes this would happen. The logic in the task selection is GUI driven and the variables are not dropped until the task is completed. Thus, it will run the same task over and over because when your toon asks for another task you will get the "You are already assigned a task" error. One way to eliminate this is to add some delay after you warp to the task objective. If there is any lag you might warp/zone before it has a chance to register.
 
Alatyami said:
...One way to eliminate this is to add some delay after you warp to the task objective...
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I needed to add /delay 2s to get the update to register. Anything less produced inconsistent results.
 
Where exactly in the macro do you place the delay, i am kinda new to this and have been messing with it, but dont see where u are talking about adding he delay after warping to task objective. I keep having this infinite loop problem too.
 
pretty much anywhere in the macro where you see /warp [loc] you can add a line after if for /delay 2s and it should work.

IIRC you might only have to do it after the /warp after all of the /zone karnor and /zone dreadlands ones tho.
 
Grishnar said:
Where exactly in the macro do you place the delay...
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After any /warp loc that takes you to a "recognition" location, the ones that need to be recorded for the task step to be successful. Any other /warp loc is pure transportation.

If you're not sure which locations are "recognition", walk through the process manually, issuing each of the commands yourself and watching for the telltale "Task Stage Completed". Be prepared to run for it if you dawdle during your walk-through and you get agro.
 
Hi Alatyami,

I tried running this macro last night. I ran it in shroud form, 65 fairy. I found some pathing issues. I would get hung up going through the Tunnels coming back from the Druid rings & also zoning back into Dreadlands. The playback would stop & i was short of the zone line. Any ideas on this. I Did not have too much time to test it but i ran 3 missions & they all would not complete themselves. I will do more testing this weekend & i can let you know exactly where the hang ups were. Any suggestions or Ideas? Awesome Macro btw. Big props

Thanks
 
After the it gets to the zone line to DL add this:

Rich (BB code): 
/kepress forward hold

as for the pathing through the tunnel, looks like you'll need to create a new path file for that area.

to make a new path file, use the advpath.mac.
Start Recording = /startrec yourpathname
End Recording = /stoprec

Then replace the playfile name in the mac.
 
just for info.........
curiousity got the best of me so I ran this some earlier today (runner)
2 problems
The pathing playback stops halfway back thru the ice caves so you have to manually run to FV zone line then macro picks back up again
Also after doing final hail, running back to Dreadlands works fine, but as soon as you zone in to DL the macro ends and goes back to asking for a task while you are still sitting at the FV zl in DL.
Made me a bit paranoid when it happened since there were 3 people in a group sitting there and I am asking for a task.........had to play it off as "sorry hit wrong damn hotbutton again..." LOL
 
More important than the fact that GM's have caught on to this, players eithr have or are starting to. My mother used to tell me before she passed away "When you get greedy, you get caught". I used this, had fun, I'm done with it and anyone who would like to keep their accounts should be also in my opinion. It would seem to me that since it's obvious folks have been banned for this, SOE is aware of it. Even if there isn't a GM sitting in Dreadlands at the time you start, that only means they don't have GM's camped out on every server at the npc. Don't allow yourself to fall into a false sense of security thinking that it's unlikely that a GM will not pop over from another server and just pop over to see if there is any "activity" on your server with this macro. I'd say at this point it's about a 50/50 shot at being banned each time you do this...it's like playing russian roulette at this point. Just my 2cp.

Kraze
 
Techincally you'd have to figure total # of Gm's online + number of servers to get probablity 50% is a bit high, but yes it's retarded to run a public posted macro nowadays.
 
True enough...and by the same logic, if there just happened to be a GM on your server every single time you started this macro and if by chance the GM was on your server looking for folks who are running macros like this...the odds of being caught would parhaps jump much higher than 50%. But I think the "50/50" odds I expressed was a sufficient way to explain that it's totally unpredictable and could go either way if you use this macro...that you aren't more safe than not in using this macro. Just my 2cp.

Kraze
 
There are better things to mac and not get caught anyways ! I was more or less giving you crap about the 50% keke.
 
Just the reason I took all of the warp and zoning out. the newer version is much better for afk'ing although, tone is right, I'm sure that there are better mac's to get a better ROI while you are afk.
 
Tone said:
There are better things to mac and not get caught anyways !
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Such as what? LOL. I agree with comments, it's too risky to pursue this one any further. Was good while it lasted though, I'm unaware of any other macs that give you this much exp while AFK, esp if you're a caster class and not a bard, anyway.
 
OK....using my 66 warrior with this as well as my 67 cleric rogue shrouded to 65. I fixed all the pathing issues and the /hold keypress and I still can't get one of the recorded paths to "play". Tried new paths, new names, everything I can think of. The second I zone into DL from FV, it attempts to run the path (DL2Marana) but it instantly stops and then starts saying "task" msg at FV/DL zone line.....not good for the ole account in good standing status. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
DB
 
Here's the trick I found out with the Runner version. you have to have a /doevents after every /playfile yourpathname

Else, the macro will jsut hang there. I am working out the kinks right now as we speak. If you have any tricks you would like added let me know.

I am going though all the posts to make sure I catch all the deffects, I don't want to be like SOE ... patching the macro every day :D But will if it is needed.
 
i have a lvl 52 ranger that ran the task 1 time and now wont run them again any help would be nice
no problem with prog just task wont come back up ??????
Thanks
 
Need to do all the tasks on 1 page for them to begin to refresh....And I thought you had to be 60+ to get this to work correctly.
 
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