EQBC - multiple grps, toon swapping, channel assignment in KA, changing on the fly

[Incognito]

Ok, here is what this snippet solves:

Say you are running 4 groups. I have different EQBC channels for each one. Usually something like /bccmd channels zoneabbreviation. If multiple grps in same zone then /bccmd channels shortzone1/2/3/4 etc.

Then I have in the KA.ini:
EQBCOn=2|zoneabbreviation

Now I have noticed the more toons I run, and the more groups I run, there are times I pop & swap toons in and out of different groups and the channels no longer makes sense. I have the bard reporting to the group in DH while he himself is in another group/zone. Wasn't a big deal at first until I started gathering an army...

This is a bit of a hack, sorry Maskoi!

This one line can reset all that shit in one fell swoop for the whole group. This is a KA thing as AFNuke2 doesn't honor channels (yet, I might write that) and AutoCleric just dumps all it's messages to the EQBC server without channels (that too I might write).

Hotkey:

/multiline ; /bcga //bccmd channels channame ; /bcga //varset EQBCSay bct channame

Make sure you use lower cases in your channames because EQBC honors caps but KA doesn't so they wont match and you will get the 'channel doesn't exist' msg.

This will alter where your pulling messages, tanking messages, mezzing messages, all of it, go. No need to alter KA.ini and no stopping and restarting KA.

Now AFNuke2 and AutoCleric will complain about the var EQBCSay not existing, no harm no foul. It does however set those toon's channels tho, so if like me, you like to issue commands at the channel level, you can and it will only affect the toons you want by virtue of the right toons are in the right channel.

 

[TheFiddler]

I'm not quite there, yet, eventually perhaps, but I love this idea.
Sorry, out of RC still!

~TheFiddler~

 

[Sum1]

Why not just make all commands in group with /bcg or /bcga? That will send those commands to only the group that issued them.

 

[Incognito]

Why not just make all commands in group with /bcg or /bcga? That will send those commands to only the group that issued them.

I do. This was more about the pulling, mezzing, and tanking (etc) messages filtering to the right grp on the fly. Otherwise I might have to switch windows to see msgs. I usually have GL on each monitor so at a glance I can see status and progress for 3 grps provided the right msgs are going to the right GL.

I still have some older hotkeys that send cmds via /bct channel too. Yeah I could rewrite them to use /bcg, and the one's I use often I have, but I only fix stuff that's broken. This works for me.

 

[Tone]

If I'm running multiple groups on the same computer I just run multiple MQ2EQBCS on separate ports.
In my startup script when I launch a group it copies the appropriate values into MQ2EQBC.ini, so the groups auto connect to their correct server.


#1 Launches MQ2EQBCS -p Whatever
#2 Writes Ini file values
#3 Launches Groups