I've been lurking for a decently long time then I created an account here a year or so ago but never did anything with it. Nice to meet you all and finally say hi. I type too much so my apologies in advance for the wall o text.
I discovered this community when I decided to get back into EQ after something like a 10 year or so sabbatical. I played on Torvonnilous way back when, that server eventually became CT where I play now. I deleted all my characters on my main account and started fresh since the game was so different than it used to be. That one silver account quickly became one silver and 3 F2P with two more F2P accounts likely on the way. I am currently an alt tabber. I have set up some basic 5 line macros that I can alt tab to and fire off to keep things moving. Its awkward and clumsy at times but as long as i keep it to just 2-3 characters at once, its manageable... most of the time. I have various combinations of characters and their mercs that I run and its generally a good time.
I have two machines I play on. One is an older Mac Mini boot camped with Win10 hooked up to my TV and I flip back and forth between MacOS and Win10. It handles multiple instances of EQ surprisingly well but the room is in a man cave kinda configuration and I am 40 so my eyesight isn't what it used to be. Within 45 min I usually have a headache from squinting trying to see the buttons from the couch. The other machine I play on is my work laptop and I prefer playing EQ on it. This laptop is pretty nice and has way more horsepower than the Mac Mini BUT as you guys who work in IT are probably aware, playing games on company equipment is generally frowned upon... if caught.
This brings me to my question. I've searched these forums for the answer and maybe its tucked away somewhere that I can't see at my level so I apologize if this has been asked before. With EQ on its own, I can copy the entire install directory from Win10 on my Mac to a USB drive which I can then use to drop the EQ directory into C:\temp on my work laptop for the evening. Once I am done playing, I copy the directory back to the usb drive to update any changes made to hotbuttons or spell bars, clean up C:\temp and the couple remnants it will leave in the registry, and the guys at work never see it. EQ doesn't need admin to run this way. Could I do a similar thing with the launcher and MQ2? Can I install MQ2 on my personal machine, then copy the directories expecting it to work?
Sort of a weird one I know... thanks for taking the time to consider it.
I discovered this community when I decided to get back into EQ after something like a 10 year or so sabbatical. I played on Torvonnilous way back when, that server eventually became CT where I play now. I deleted all my characters on my main account and started fresh since the game was so different than it used to be. That one silver account quickly became one silver and 3 F2P with two more F2P accounts likely on the way. I am currently an alt tabber. I have set up some basic 5 line macros that I can alt tab to and fire off to keep things moving. Its awkward and clumsy at times but as long as i keep it to just 2-3 characters at once, its manageable... most of the time. I have various combinations of characters and their mercs that I run and its generally a good time.
I have two machines I play on. One is an older Mac Mini boot camped with Win10 hooked up to my TV and I flip back and forth between MacOS and Win10. It handles multiple instances of EQ surprisingly well but the room is in a man cave kinda configuration and I am 40 so my eyesight isn't what it used to be. Within 45 min I usually have a headache from squinting trying to see the buttons from the couch. The other machine I play on is my work laptop and I prefer playing EQ on it. This laptop is pretty nice and has way more horsepower than the Mac Mini BUT as you guys who work in IT are probably aware, playing games on company equipment is generally frowned upon... if caught.
This brings me to my question. I've searched these forums for the answer and maybe its tucked away somewhere that I can't see at my level so I apologize if this has been asked before. With EQ on its own, I can copy the entire install directory from Win10 on my Mac to a USB drive which I can then use to drop the EQ directory into C:\temp on my work laptop for the evening. Once I am done playing, I copy the directory back to the usb drive to update any changes made to hotbuttons or spell bars, clean up C:\temp and the couple remnants it will leave in the registry, and the guys at work never see it. EQ doesn't need admin to run this way. Could I do a similar thing with the launcher and MQ2? Can I install MQ2 on my personal machine, then copy the directories expecting it to work?
Sort of a weird one I know... thanks for taking the time to consider it.
