Release Explore.Mac - An Explorer / Traveler Achievement Macro 1.3.1

[Jax]

I don't know much about this stuff yet returning so I will definitely look into those boots now. Thanks.

 

[charles]

getting the "unable to add macro line" error.

I put the folder and explore.mac in the macro folder.
Did I screw something else up? Same error all my dudes.

 

[Jax]

Does this knock out the scout part of the rallos zek earring?

Never mind ... google figured me out that this is just zoning into ToV zones.

 

[BlankStare]

How well does this handle LDoN? (more of a question to people who have purchased / run / completed traveler achievements)

 

[psatty82]

@BlankStare - as long as you’re in a group, it handles it fantastic. Sucks if you’re worried about the statistics, as it will “get” a task, find out it’s the wrong one, and drop it, which is a failure on the LDoN leader boards. Alas, it’s a small price to pay for the /ach

 

[BlankStare]

Help!

Just purchased, and it won't start.



These files/folders were not included.

 

[Sic]

Help!

Just purchased, and it won't start.

View attachment 23306

These files/folders were not included.

https://www.redguides.com/community/resources/denecore.1632/watch

you need to download the DeneCore

 

[BlankStare]

https://www.redguides.com/community/resources/denecore.1632/watch

you need to download the DeneCore

Thanks Sic. I was watching this macro, but wasn't aware the other. It was not in the instructions, and I missed it on the top of the Overview "requirements" section.

Now I just gotta fix my Guild Lobby mesh so that I can nav out of there, some time a month or so ago it broke, to where I can nav to the guild halls but not to PoK. Replacing my current mesh with Dene's and relogging didn't fix it. Half the PoK stones don't function either for me. #MQ2NavMeshLife



Edit: I fixed my NQ2Nav problem, and my character is streaking first-person through Faydwer zones.

 

[BlankStare]

One small invis problem: Larrikan's Mask requires a target to cast, which means needing to target yourself before using one of its charges. The program happily used my Tutorial invis potions, and cloudy potions, so when I ran the mac again, it added the mask to my invisClickie- spot.
This is probably included in the "ensure you monitor the macro" part.
When I got into SolB, it used my shrink ring which required targeting myself, so then using the mask was easier and done automatically.

Also, I love the internal commentary.

 

[BlankStare]

Another issue here:



I didn't have Throne or Stein available, so I hit Origin and ran. Then unpaused the macro. I tried zoning out and back into PoK, still no dice.
It looks like a fail on the CotF run at this point.

 

[BlankStare]

Why do we purchase levitation potions as a class who has an AA levitation, such as Enchanter?
It is not configurable within the DenCore_server_Character.ini file.

[General]
invisClickie=
invisClickie2=
ivuClickie=
shrinkClickie=Ring of the Ancients
levClickie=
minimumInvisPots=0 (I set this to 0)
minimumShrinkPots=0 (I set this to 0)
maxPlatPerPotion=500

 

[fesler]

My Ini keeps reverting back to Philter of Ants instead of staying with Human Reductionizer. Anyway to fix this?

 

[spotever]

Since the patch on the 20th Aug, my toons are consistently crashing when accessing the portal shard vendor in the guild hall.
Changed UI to default, issue continues.
Is occurring on the RoF run, I haven't test other runs.

 

[Denethor]

Since the patch on the 20th Aug, my toons are consistently crashing when accessing the portal shard vendor in the guild hall.
Changed UI to default, issue continues.
Is occurring on the RoF run, I haven't test other runs.

Historically, crashes have been caused by plugins and not the macro specifically. So, please understand if my troubleshooting doesn't focus on the macro just yet. I haven't logged in since last patch, but will tonight after work to verify functionality. In the mean time, can you do a `/plugin list` and post the plugins that are loaded?

 

[victoriansense]

Good evening! I just picked up this macro and am having some odd issues with it. On one character I tried to send it off to PoP and it stopped to buy something off a merchant in PoK. It gets the merch window open and then crashes the game.

Also, on another character who is in the Guild Lobby when I start any path it says its is going to PoK and then it pops the let's get dangerous message which I have been told by others who have this macro is the message for combat. The character this is happening on is in the GL or PoK (tried from both zones) and definitely does not have any aggro. With this it doesn't crash but it just sits and does nothing.

 

[Sic]

Good evening! I just picked up this macro and am having some odd issues with it. On one character I tried to send it off to PoP and it stopped to buy something off a merchant in PoK. It gets the merch window open and then crashes the game.

Also, on another character who is in the Guild Lobby when I start any path it says its is going to PoK and then it pops the let's get dangerous message which I have been told by others who have this macro is the message for combat. The character this is happening on is in the GL or PoK (tried from both zones) and definitely does not have any aggro. With this it doesn't crash but it just sits and does nothing.

there was an issue with yesterday's mq2 patch with the merchant window struct/class/offset/whatever which is *probably* causing this crash/issue.

MQ2 devs have fixed it and are testing it, and we will hopefully get a new VV build after that

 

[victoriansense]

there was an issue with yesterday's mq2 patch with the merchant window struct/class/offset/whatever which is *probably* causing this crash/issue.

MQ2 devs have fixed it and are testing it, and we will hopefully get a new VV build after that

Sweet, thanks Sic.

Now to just figure out why my zerker always things she is in combat lol

 

[Denethor]

Do you have XTar 1 set to something other than Auto?

 

[victoriansense]

Do you have XTar 1 set to something other than Auto?

Nope. But I did have 2 at the bottom set to raid mark 1 and raid assist 1. I just swapped them both to auto and its working fine now. LOL

 

[spotever]

Understood.
Here is the error I get.


mq2cleric
mq2cwtnbuffs
mq2log
mq2cursor
mq2aaspend
mq2linkdb
mq2advpath
mq2autoforage
mq2posse
mq2damageparser
mq2xassist
mq2spawns
mq2targetinfo
mq2portalsetter
mq2rez
mq2nav
mq2moveutils
mq2melee
mq2map
mq2labels
mq2hud
mq2exchange
mq2eqbc
mq2eqbugfix
mq2debuffs
mq2custombinds
mq2cpuload
mq2chatwnd
mq2bzsrch
mq2itemdisplay
mq2autoaccept
mq2autologin
mq2ic

I can use the portal vendor manually without crashing.
X-Targets are all set to auto.

 

[Sic]

Understood.
Here is the error I get.
View attachment 23832

mq2cleric
mq2cwtnbuffs
mq2log
mq2cursor
mq2aaspend
mq2linkdb
mq2advpath
mq2autoforage
mq2posse
mq2damageparser
mq2xassist
mq2spawns
mq2targetinfo
mq2portalsetter
mq2rez
mq2nav
mq2moveutils
mq2melee
mq2map
mq2labels
mq2hud
mq2exchange
mq2eqbc
mq2eqbugfix
mq2debuffs
mq2custombinds
mq2cpuload
mq2chatwnd
mq2bzsrch
mq2itemdisplay
mq2autoaccept
mq2autologin
mq2ic

I can use the portal vendor manually without crashing.
X-Targets are all set to auto.

as noted in a couple replies between then and now - there was an mq2 core issue with vendors - which should be fixed now if you patch.

 

[spotever]

All working well again.
Thanks for the assist.

 

[Denethor]

Nope. But I did have 2 at the bottom set to raid mark 1 and raid assist 1. I just swapped them both to auto and its working fine now. LOL

Yeah, my combat routine is SUPER simple. Sorry. I'm not a combat-macro guy. I'm good with moving from Point A to Point B. Hence why I wrote that macro. :P

as noted in a couple replies between then and now - there was an mq2 core issue with vendors - which should be fixed now if you patch.

Sic, as always, thank you for your contributions and assistance.

All working well again.
Thanks for the assist.

Glad it got sorted out. Happy Exploring!

 

[stregg01]

Ok I truly love this mac. Saves a lot of time. Here are some "oops" and "oh craps" about it. Some times my rogue (MQ2 rogue unloaded) gets stuck zoning back and forth between greehills and greenhills village. He will zone into the village. run 5 feet the opposite way he has to go and zone back into greenhills. Then he will do it again after going 5 feet and then hide sneak turn around and zone again. Watched him do this for an hour. Had unload the mac and restart it and 2 out of 3 times he would go it again.

Another issue is clicking the floor to zone into another zone. In an LDON zone. Loast the paper I wrotet the zone name down on. Again intermittently this would happen. Overall though it is a great macro.

Oh, one other thing...when the mac gets the toon to buy the lev pots and the shrink pots...he will go to the parcel vendor and then just sit there with the parcel vendor window open and not take the things he purchased to put in his inventory. I usually buy the stuff before I run that mac.

And 1 last thing. I know you all put in a lot of hours and hard work...But 1 suggestion is this...Is there a way for the mac to check which zones have been completed. that way they can run to the next zone that has not been done during the route....For example..if for some reason during say, the attunement test in shard's landing, and the computer goes link dead, or your computer crashes, or LD....Instead of starting the whole thing all over again, it would just go to the next attunement that had not been completed or try to do the whole thing over (attunement quest) again. Specifically , where the toon has to run through the zones (not the language part (although that was awesome, saved a bunch of time and thank you so much.)

Other than thos issues above... Awesome macro.

 

[Denethor]

Ok I truly love this mac. Saves a lot of time. Here are some "oops" and "oh craps" about it. Some times my rogue (MQ2 rogue unloaded) gets stuck zoning back and forth between greehills and greenhills village. He will zone into the village. run 5 feet the opposite way he has to go and zone back into greenhills. Then he will do it again after going 5 feet and then hide sneak turn around and zone again. Watched him do this for an hour. Had unload the mac and restart it and 2 out of 3 times he would go it again.

Another issue is clicking the floor to zone into another zone. In an LDON zone. Loast the paper I wrotet the zone name down on. Again intermittently this would happen. Overall though it is a great macro.

Oh, one other thing...when the mac gets the toon to buy the lev pots and the shrink pots...he will go to the parcel vendor and then just sit there with the parcel vendor window open and not take the things he purchased to put in his inventory. I usually buy the stuff before I run that mac.

And 1 last thing. I know you all put in a lot of hours and hard work...But 1 suggestion is this...Is there a way for the mac to check which zones have been completed. that way they can run to the next zone that has not been done during the route....For example..if for some reason during say, the attunement test in shard's landing, and the computer goes link dead, or your computer crashes, or LD....Instead of starting the whole thing all over again, it would just go to the next attunement that had not been completed or try to do the whole thing over (attunement quest) again. Specifically , where the toon has to run through the zones (not the language part (although that was awesome, saved a bunch of time and thank you so much.)

Other than thos issues above... Awesome macro.

Your greenhill problem sounds like a mesh issue. Try updating the corresponding meshes with the ones at https://github.com/BDeakins/DeneCore-Meshes.

As for the LDoN issue, I'd need a better description of the problem. The above doesn't paint a clear enough picture.

The Parcel vendor thing may (depending on when you were testing it) may have been an issue MQ2 was having with vendors. Retest and let me know.

Finally, on your last point, I'll quote myself from earlier in this thread:

To do as you (and several others) have asked would mean defining a path for EVERY COMBINATION of zone-in to zone-out for EVERY zone in the game. For Plane of Knowledge alone we'd need 600 or more functions. That's JUST for nav'ing inside Knowledge. Tranquility means another ~600. So, 1200 discreet functions and we're at 2 zones of 516. Then it would need a zone-connection database (what connects to what), and path-finding tool. Basically, we'll have recreated the in-game zone guide, and like it, there are lots of travel options that we couldn't program in (ports, clickies, magus's, etc) and zones that cause problem. Example- Echo caverns in Luclin has two sections that don't interconnect. You can't nav from certain zone-ins to certain exits. (You have to zone out to Shadowhaven and zone into Echo via a different entrance.)

Jumping to a zone in the middle of a route causes the same issue as above because we have to be able to determine how we get from our start-zone to that mid-route zone without running the full route. On the good side, the macro will let you start it mid-way along a route if you're IN a zone within the route. Problem here is if it's a route we go through multiple times, it has to assume we're on pass-through #0. (Best way to handle this is restart the macro inside a zone that is only gone through once.)

Please understand, I'm not meaning to be rude or dismissive. Just trying to give you and many others an idea of the complications around certain ideas such as this. It sounds easy in our heads, but is a very different reality when put into a computer program. I tried to make the best compromise I could by basing things on routes and using PoK as a 'fixed' point of origin.

 

[deathlock]

is there a way to turn off using invis potions for the lower level zones?

 

[Denethor]

is there a way to turn off using invis potions for the lower level zones?

Yeah. Use an Invis AA instead. :P

(No, you can't disable the use of invis while travelling)

 

[BlankStare]

is there a way to turn off using invis potions for the lower level zones?

Literally spend tens of thousands of platinum for no real reason. Teleporting from the Guild Lobby Magus to Nedaria's Landing (no reason to when you have LDoN quests completed to port anywhere else) -- but when you hit Nedaria's, you use an invis potion, run like 8 feet, pop invis, and hail the Magus there as well. It's insane how many invis potions are used unnecessarily. ;p

 

[BlankStare]

Yeah. Use an Invis AA instead. :P

(No, you can't disable the use of invis while travelling)

I'll let me 115 max AA raid-geared tank know to be a caster next time.

You can't disable invis, but you can use IVU to trick the program, or fade, etc.

 

[Many_Whelps]

I'll let me 115 max AA raid-geared tank know to be a caster next time.

You can't disable invis, but you can use IVU to trick the program, or fade, etc.

the macro will use clicky items instead of potions, if you have one. I used Incarnadine Breastplate for my warrior to run this, never used a single potion.

 

[Denethor]

Literally spend tens of thousands of platinum for no real reason. Teleporting from the Guild Lobby Magus to Nedaria's Landing (no reason to when you have LDoN quests completed to port anywhere else) -- but when you hit Nedaria's, you use an invis potion, run like 8 feet, pop invis, and hail the Magus there as well. It's insane how many invis potions are used unnecessarily. ;p

The LDoN thing is because I wanted to make sure the macro was usable regardless of whether or not you had done the LDoN Adv. Stone quest. Having a consistent route was more important to the code than the extra time spent looping through Nedaria's.

As for the Invis pots, as mentioned, it supports use of two invis clickies. I even did two so that I could allow for cooldown timers. You don't even have to specify them, it'll search your inventory for them. Sorry if you're unhappy with the macro.

 

[Sum1]

Literally spend tens of thousands of platinum for no real reason. Teleporting from the Guild Lobby Magus to Nedaria's Landing (no reason to when you have LDoN quests completed to port anywhere else) -- but when you hit Nedaria's, you use an invis potion, run like 8 feet, pop invis, and hail the Magus there as well. It's insane how many invis potions are used unnecessarily. ;p

Is "thousands of plat" a significant amount these days? Especially given what this macro does for you? lol

 

[zuesizgod]

I might sound like a dick saying this but it's this simple -
If you don't want to spend plat on invis pots, go farm a couple of invis clickies. If you don't want to do that or spend the money on invis pots then don't run the macro.

 

[BlankStare]

[09/06/2020 16:10:56] Missing INI Entry for Miraguls_Menagerie, Boss: , Adventure Text: "It's a cold and strange world in the halls of Miragul's Menagerie. We are looking for good folk to help us learn more about the place. Before you ask if you can assist us, be sure you are of strong mind. The ways of the menagerie are enough to make you mad."
[09/06/2020 16:12:05] Missing INI Entry for Miraguls_Menagerie, Boss: , Adventure Text: "Your last Adventure request has not expired."

 

[Denethor]

Thanks for the log, BlankStare.

I have that message there to capture any possible Zone/Boss combo's that are not accounted for in the INI. Unfortunately, this isn't one such occurrence. Just an adventure that failed to drop which the code reasonably handles.

 

[BlankStare]

Thanks for the log, BlankStare.

I have that message there to capture any possible Zone/Boss combo's that are not accounted for in the INI. Unfortunately, this isn't one such occurrence. Just an adventure that failed to drop which the code reasonably handles.

Interesting. Thanks for the reply!

 

[Allurex]

so not sure if im starting this wrong or what.. just bought it.. hit watch went to redguide launcher installed from there went ingame run /mac explore.. give me's long red line of text stating file location then does macro end give me red line.. unable to add macro line... please help is there a install u need to do first or what other then just installing on launcher ???

 

[zuesizgod]

Did you install Denecore as well?

Software Requirements:
MQ2Nav
MQ2AutoLoot
MQ2Easyfind
DeneCore (https://www.redguides.com/community/resources/denecore.1632/watch)

 

[Denethor]

What @zuesizgod said... Sounds like you don't have DeneCore installed.

 

[dontsayhate]

Was running the Explore macro on a 115 necro today and it did not recognize the Dead Man Floating AA. This is because you have the AA listed as Perfected Dead Man Floating rather than the new name Dead Man Floating.