Greetings All... I am the Original ID_10_T.... I know nothing about everything. So with that said I have a lot of questions... First just to let you know I have watched all the videos (several times) and read most of the guides (several times) and everything I can on the forums. I don't even know if this is the right place to post this. So lets get started.... I have got the launcher set up, and following the video I have the autologin working. I also have the EQBCS also up and running. Made a three toon group and ready to begin... Now the question: Do you have to do /mac kissassist every time you log-in? Reading one of the guides on kissassist it show several ways to use it as in example: /mac Kissassist assist Bob, also /mac kissassist assist Bob|98 (I take it that's his health level when the party begins to help), and /mac kissassist assist BobTank. Now is Bob the tank? Am I setting Bob to be the tank? Has Bob changed his Name to BobTank?
The Videos say to target who ever is to be the MA. I take it that means Main Assist. But when I set the roles I have a Tank role and a Main Assist role. So what does MA mean?
The Video show how to edit the ini file for the role so does this override target Char's role or does setting the roles override the one in the ini file?
Do you have to start every plugin each time you play? In the macro folder their are so many .mac files do you have to turn them all on like Kissassist or just when you need them and what do they do?
You all have done so much great work and their is a lot of information, so much so that a lot of it is confusing. Examples are done but not really explained well. (see above). Terminology is not there. Examples: mqp I finally found in the forums that gives a clue as to what this is (I take it that this pauses a macro on/off depending on the switch.)
In trying to make some of the in-game macro socials you have !{Me.something} what does Me mean? Do I add some kind of text or name in it or do I put it in the macro and pray for the best? Dose Me mean Me as in char name or something else? Do I just put everything in the macro social example into the in-game social window as is or do I need to change some part of it to something specific?
Please excuse me for not understanding some of the things here where it looks like most folks have a basic understand of what you are all talking about... Remember I know nothing about this stuff and I am trying real hard to understand it.
You all have my highest praise and congratulations for what you have done and what you are doing.
You could have kiss run automatically when you login but it is better to just make a hotkey on your main character that starts and stops kiss for you. So you login, press the button, and off you go. Say your tank is called Frank, you could make a hotkey like this:
/bcaa //target Frank
/pause 20
/bcaa //mac kissassist
That is all you need. You can have extra rules after the kissassist part but you don't need to do that. If you just do it like I wrote above, it will use whatever the rules are that you setup in the character's ini file. So once you set that up, it will always work the same way. So that first line tells everyone to target Frank, then pause 2 seconds, and then everyone will run the kissassist macro while they are targeting Frank. This will make Frank set himself as the Tank (and Main Assist), and all the others will play as 'Assists'. You can do it without having them target the tank first, by doing
/mac kissassist assist Frank but the tank already needs to target himself so I like to just have everyone target the tank and then run kiss. The bit which says /bcaa is telling every character on your computer using macroquest. And after that it does
/target Frank which is just an EQ command. Because of the broadcasting software you need an extra /
MA means Main Assist, and usually people have this as the tank because it is much easier that way. In the tank's ini file it should say Role=Tank at the top. His role is tank, but he is also the main assist. Everyone will assist him and attack whatever he is attacking.
The other macros in the folder are not needed, kiss will do everything. Some of them might be useful to you like the one that does fishing for you etc. But they are not essential. You can get a lot more than just those ones too in the Resources section.
The documentation is really hard to make because it is complex software, but just take your time and search the forum for anything you don't know and you will become pro in time. If you can't find something just ask and people are really good on the forum. There is also a discord chat. I have a
guide which might help somewhat. And another one with
more commands.
Most stuff just works without having to do any code. Like a typical usage of kiss would be to change DPS1=NULL to DPS1=Flame Strike. So it is quite simple. But if you want to do more advanced things then sometimes you need to use code, but there is tons of the code all over this site so you can just copy other peoples code. It takes some time to understand how the code needs to look though but you can learn that in time. In your example the Me part is referring to your character, and the part after the dot can be a lot of different things for it to check. So for example ${Me.PctHPs} will check what percentage your health is. Or ${Me.Aura] will check what aura spell you have active. ${Me.Feigning} will check to see if you are currently feigned. There are tons of these and you can find them as you need them. But that is more advanced and you don't need to do any of it if you just copy someone elses ini file which has all that done already.
