Problem - BurnText, Why won't it work off of group chat

[beastdaddy]

For some reason the burn engage won't work off anything for me other than an echo, but when your group is being played by 5 different people who all go afk at random times that isn't exactly helpful. What we are looking for is to use the Burntext in group chat to make everyone go balls out when the puller or tank calls for it. It also doesn't seem to want to pick up in BC, right now the only thing I can do is to get the 2 toons im boxing to go off of one with a /bca //echo Burn Now (what I changed the text too, tried decepticons attack and it didn't go off either when using in group chat).

Did they change it so burntext doesn't work off of group chat because too many stupid people were getting caught saying decepticons attack with randoms?

 

[Maskoi]

It has never worked in group chat. It was always /echo in the mq2 window. Kiss does not work or communicate in any way in game.

/bca //echo BurnPhrase

 

[ctaylor22]

If your all running Kiss and using the same burnphrase, which you should.

/bca //echo ${BurnText}

 

[beastdaddy]

So basically you guys didn't read my issue and are telling me to do it the way that I already said I can get it to work but doesn't work for my/our situation, so what you're telling me is kissassist doesn't have the functionality for the puller to control when the group burns unless I'm boxing the full group.

How about something like a holyshit or downshit that reads group chat and echoes to themselves off of group text?

 

[TheEld3r]

What you need is everyone connected to same eqbc server. And I understand everyone is on different machines but it can be done and if they go afk as long as they have it setup on their side you can send commands threw eqbc. But like it was said mq2 won't work off group text or any game text

 

[Warl0ck45]

But like it was said mq2 won't work off group text or any game text

MQ can work off it, KA is set up not to. The folks who wrote KA specifically set it up to not work off of ingame chat.

Can communicate with folks not on your network (and outside of EQ) through either EQBC or IRC plugins. What is being suggested is setting up the other folks to be able to interact with your EQBC server, and using commands through it to trigger what you want.

Many folks who use MQ do this, if nothing else to be able to "talk shop" while playing, and not chance SOE/DBG picking up on the chatter. Especially doable with RG's "group" channel I would imagine, though I have never taken to using channels before =)

 

[ctaylor22]

So basically you guys didn't read my issue and are telling me to do it the way that I already said I can get it to work but doesn't work for my/our situation, so what you're telling me is kissassist doesn't have the functionality for the puller to control when the group burns unless I'm boxing the full group.

How about something like a holyshit or downshit that reads group chat and echoes to themselves off of group text?

We understand what you are wanting to do, but it is not recommended to use any other channels than the MQ2 channel. But if you really want to take that route then just change this line to suite what you want to trigger the burn.

#Event Burn              "[MQ2] |${BurnText}|"

to something like

#Event Burn              "#*# |${BurnText}|"

You may want to have it do a detailed check or you may find yourself doing burns when you least expect it. In the old days it was always fun to run by bot groups and just /say Decepticons Attack and watch the group go crazy. Even doing /ooc Decepticons Attack would catch a few bot armies off guard.

 

[TheEld3r]

MQ can work off it, KA is set up not to. The folks who wrote KA specifically set it up to not work off of ingame chat.

Can communicate with folks not on your network (and outside of EQ) through either EQBC or IRC plugins. What is being suggested is setting up the other folks to be able to interact with your EQBC server, and using commands through it to trigger what you want.

Many folks who use MQ do this, if nothing else to be able to "talk shop" while playing, and not chance SOE/DBG picking up on the chatter. Especially doable with RG's "group" channel I would imagine, though I have never taken to using channels before =)

Ty for the knowledge.

 

[beastdaddy]

Thanks for the help, I switched that line in the kissassist macro but it is still only picking it up off of echo, maybe I need to relog everyone first or something

 

[ctaylor22]

Thanks for the help, I switched that line in the kissassist macro but it is still only picking it up off of echo, maybe I need to relog everyone first or something

Just make sure you are putting the changes in the correct macro. I can't remember the number of times I have made changes to the wrong macro to remember all my toons are using /mac kissassistA.mac and I was editing KissassistB.mac or editing kissassist.mac in my downloads directory and not the one in my macros directory. Better yet, make the changes and forget to click the save button.

 

[beastdaddy]

hrmm I only have the one kissassist.mac, aside from the kissassist_toon.ini files

 

[MaxD]

If you have everyone join the same eqbcs server then you could also do stuff like change camps and so on while that person is afk and you could restart the macro if it hangs or pause their macro have them load teleport and have them move you somewhere.

 

[beastdaddy]

Ok you guys really don't seem to understand this, picture usually 5 people, I'm pretty much always playing at least 2, but sometimes theres only 4 of us on, so I box a 3rd, sometimes only 3 of us so I box 4. All my keys are set up for /bca because of this, I really don't feel like setting up a whole other hotbar with just bcts for every possible set up toons I might end up playing, I would have hotbars all over my screen to set it up for different combos of toons so that my usual control buttons can still be used with bcts instead of bcas.

If everyone joined my boxchat then every time I made my guys stop kissassist or follow me, or something like that it would do the same to everyone else and would just be a major annoyance when people are playing their toons.

I want it to work off of group chat so we don't have to worry about this.

 

[xalpus]

that exactly what there saying if you host a eqbc server and you all log into it you will be able to do just that think of it as a private chat server (which i think is what it actually is) if everyone is on the same server you can just /bca and yours and there toons will respond. its actually the same thing as using group chat just more secure and less prone to accidental mistells

 

[ctaylor22]

beastdady,

You need to maybe make a few adjustments to the

#Event Burn              "#*# |${BurnText}|"

maybe try

#Event Burn              "#*# |${BurnText}|'"

Maybe even change the message part of the event to exactly what is being seen by each character.

#Event Burn              "#*# tells the group, '|${BurnText}|'"

There may not be a space between the group, and the '. Just play around with it a bit.

check here for more information: http://www.macroquest2.com/wiki/index.php/Custom_Events

 

[beastdaddy]

you can just /bca and yours and there toons will respond

this is exactly what I don't want and I think I have explained that multiple times yet people seem to think it is what I want and this is where my hostility is coming from

Thank you again ctaylor I will play around with it.

- - - Updated - - -

Thank you again Ctaylor that worked and I can burn off group chat now

 

[TreeHuginDruid]

Just my two cents..

If you are going to trigger burns with group chat... make sure you aren't using the stock value of "Decepticons attack"...

I personally think its not a great idea to trigger anything related to MQ2 in any window but MQ2Chat ... but that's just me.