tradertesla
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I was member of RedGuides for a couple years, but then quit EQ due to domestic faction. I haven't played for about a year, and don't know when I ever will... But I wanna!
So, to help assuage my (hidden from my spouse) continuing EQ addiction, I thought I might try to get a little access to the old Redguides EQ forums and see what's going on these days.
My submission was pulled sort of at random by browsing my old macro directory to see what I might have that was totally self-generated. I came up with a snippit of code I used in a modified farm.mac. For those who haven't uset it, Farm was a greenie (now grey, I guess ;-) ) automated AFK farming macro.
No, I am not trying to push yet another tweaked farming macro on you. This is a subroutine (or two) that I added, that you can add, to your own macros.
Each language was generated through one of those free translation web sites, and each says a different message in a different language. The Cyrillic and Greek fonts used to work, but I see now in my current notepad that there are some "?"'s over some of the text. No worries, I expect that you will want to make up your own messages anyway and will replace the languages with your own selections.
Now comes the disclaimer. I can't say for sure if this was my working version or some intermediate development version, and naturally MQ2 has probably changed a lot over the last year or so and the same code might not work anyway. I don't even have EQ or MQ installed these days, and probably won't anytime in the near future. Therefore, I can't call this working code because I can't verify it. Sorry. (I think I had a series of IF statements in the final version, but this was from a CD backup and I am way too rusty on macro writing to realistically tackle code right now).
So... take this as a "concept" that was certainly original back when I played EQ. For all I know someone has already done it and posted it by now, though I hope this is still an original idea worthy of some free access. My reasoning is that if a GM is not really sure you are AFK macroing, they would be a bit less likely to tackle the language barrier to harass you. If you are totally busted, then I suppose they would just ban you with no conversation. My theory is that this might just made you too much of a pain in the a$$ to bother with. /shrug Or maybe it would put off another player enough to not petition you.
Couldn't hurt.
Well, if it isn't accepted, somebody please give Armysoldier a red cent for me. Those TS macros used to be one of my favorites.
So, to help assuage my (hidden from my spouse) continuing EQ addiction, I thought I might try to get a little access to the old Redguides EQ forums and see what's going on these days.
My submission was pulled sort of at random by browsing my old macro directory to see what I might have that was totally self-generated. I came up with a snippit of code I used in a modified farm.mac. For those who haven't uset it, Farm was a greenie (now grey, I guess ;-) ) automated AFK farming macro.
No, I am not trying to push yet another tweaked farming macro on you. This is a subroutine (or two) that I added, that you can add, to your own macros.
Each language was generated through one of those free translation web sites, and each says a different message in a different language. The Cyrillic and Greek fonts used to work, but I see now in my current notepad that there are some "?"'s over some of the text. No worries, I expect that you will want to make up your own messages anyway and will replace the languages with your own selections.
Now comes the disclaimer. I can't say for sure if this was my working version or some intermediate development version, and naturally MQ2 has probably changed a lot over the last year or so and the same code might not work anyway. I don't even have EQ or MQ installed these days, and probably won't anytime in the near future. Therefore, I can't call this working code because I can't verify it. Sorry. (I think I had a series of IF statements in the final version, but this was from a CD backup and I am way too rusty on macro writing to realistically tackle code right now).
So... take this as a "concept" that was certainly original back when I played EQ. For all I know someone has already done it and posted it by now, though I hope this is still an original idea worthy of some free access. My reasoning is that if a GM is not really sure you are AFK macroing, they would be a bit less likely to tackle the language barrier to harass you. If you are totally busted, then I suppose they would just ban you with no conversation. My theory is that this might just made you too much of a pain in the a$$ to bother with. /shrug Or maybe it would put off another player enough to not petition you.
Couldn't hurt.
Rich (BB code):
|---------------
| AFK.mac
| Purposes: This is a subroutine you can add to your existing macros
|
#turbo
Sub Main
/call DefineOuters
/call SetVariables
:MainLoop
/if (${GameState.Equal[CHARSELECT]}) /endmacro
/call CheckForIntruders
/goto :MainLoop
/return
| ------------------------------------------------
Sub DefineOuters
/declare PCMsg string outer
/return
| ------------------------------------------------
Sub SetVariables
|-- Valid Language settings are: English, Russian, Portugese, Spanish,
| Dutch, French, German, Greek, and Italian
|--You might want to set your own AFK message, since for all you know
| I might be saying, "Utilizo las hazañas, los cortes, y las macros
| de Everquest. Prohíba mi cuenta, por favor." Translated as, "I use
| Everquest exploits, hacks, and macros. Ban my account, please."
|-- You never know when a GM will know, or find someone who does know,
| any given language.
/varset Language French
/varset PCMsg ?????????? ?? ????????? ???. ? ?? ??????? ?????????? ????. ??????? ???????????? ? ??? (Russian)
/varset PCMsg Por favor não me incomode. Eu não compreendo o inglês. Caça boa a você (Portugese)
/varset PCMsg No me incomode por favor. No entiendo inglés. Buena caza a usted. (Spanish)
/varset PCMsg Gelieve te hinderen me niet. Ik begrijp het geen Engels. De goede jacht aan u. (Dutch)
/varset PCMsg Veuillez ne pas me tracasser. Je ne comprends pas l'anglais. Bonne chasse à vous. (French)
/varset PCMsg Bitte stören Sie mich nicht. Ich verstehe nicht Englisch. Gute Jagd zu Ihnen. (German)
/varset PCMsg pa?a?a?? µ?? µe e?????ste. ?e? ?ata?aßa??? ta a??????. ?a?? ?????? se sa? (Greek)
/varset PCMsg Nonlo importuni prego. Non capisco l'inglese. Buona caccia a voi. (Italian)
/varset PCMsg Please do not bother me. I do not understand english. Good hunting to you.
/return
| -------------------------------------------------
Sub CheckForIntruders
/if (!${Spawn[gm].ID} || (${SpawnCount[pc radius 300 loc ${Ground.Y} ${Ground.X}]}=1)) /return
/beep
/beep
/beep
/echo Entering Intruder Mode...
/delay 1s
/afk ${PCMsg}
:waitabit
/delay 5m
/if (${Spawn[gm].ID} || (${SpawnCount[pc radius 300 loc ${Ground.Y} ${Ground.X}]}>1)) /goto :waitabit
/afk off
/delay 1s
/return
| -------------------------------------------------Well, if it isn't accepted, somebody please give Armysoldier a red cent for me. Those TS macros used to be one of my favorites.
