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Release MQ2AutoLoot

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I've been working with dreamflux on solving this issue for a couple weeks now, our latest test indicates we may have solved it... he looted 2078 items and every single one went to the right person.. This update should have a bunch of small fixes which should eliminate a 5 or 6 bugs related to looting portion of this plugin.
 
Redbot updated MQ2AutoLoot with a new update entry:

Greed before need patch - plure

  1. MQ2Autoloot will now use greed instead of need.
  2. Non-ML characters will now check how many items have been selected need/greed and will pause checking boxes when that is equal to their free inventory number. Before they went through the whole list as long as they had one open slot. This should fix the issue with non-ML characters getting items stuck on their cursors.
  3. Fixed a bug with passing out loot that would cause the wrong item to be distributed.
  4. Fixed a bug that...
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I just wanted to say thanks to @dreamflux . A lot of these changes were due to him helping me with tracing down the root cause of these issues, he spent lots of time helping me run down these bugs.
 
Definitely my pleasure. This is such an important plugin for the community. I'm just glad to have a dev that actually cares to make things perfect!
 
still seems to be some bugs in the plugin. here is an example while running mq2farm

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as you can see it looted 2 tainted planar essences and left 2 on the corpse previously, even though set to keep.
 
Update for 2/20

1. Made it so /autoloot sell/buy/deposit/barter will still work when the plugin's looting functionality has been turned off
 
I included the file dates in the screenshot to show. I patched yesterday before starting up EQ and received the file dated 2/15. I went and tested again after I posted. Because I was like, am I crazy? I certainly don't want to submit a false report. Ran it for about an hour after making that post using MQ2farm while solo and had multiple incidents as shown above. Left EQ running with character logged in (not doing anything), and went to play Anthem for a while. Farmed for about 3 hours in EQ after that and did not notice any incidents again. Obviously could not do any testing today yet. But plan to test and try to find if I can reproduce it again.
 
If your still having the issue post patch, let me know and I can send you a version that will log which of the checks failed causing you to not loot the item. My guess is dreamflux has hit the nail on the head, It may be that the delay needs to be increased after you /destroy the item to keep that from happening.
 
For gear drops that are All|All, do you have to put Gear|classes|(All classes)|# or can you do Gear|classes|all|#

Also, how would you do tradeskill drops that are specific class only but you want to loot infinite number?
Quest|classes|rog
 
Thanks Sumon, Its's working..
Is there anyway to prioritize who get's loot drops first? (E.G. I want to gear my clr, war, bard, rog, dru) in that order. Lets say in Cohorts, so I want the clr to get all the pieces first.
 
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Weird problem over the last few days. I had 3 common tradeskill items in TBL which would not seem to be handled at all by the autoloot plugin. Began the process of verifying settings. Eventually I found that the EQ filters for those items had to be deleted even though the check mark for Apply Filters in the Advanced Loot window was totally NOT checked. Sometimes What You See Is NOT What You Get! (Heh, a play on the old WYSIWYG meme!)
 
Any fixes to the known problems with MQ2Autoloot? At least I think they're known... I was getting random crashes trying to use it in GMM.
 
Well, as an update to myself, I guess... I've been using mq2autoloot for the last few hours in GMM without any crashes. #jackpot
 
Not sure how widespread this is, but it seems that if i have a dead character, and keep running around a zone killing things, it will interrupt the successful operation of the plugin, and items will pile up in the loot window until I manually re-direct, or rez the character. Could it be modded to skip that character in the loot distribution and go to the next available one in the list so that doesn't happen please?
 
Sum1 said:
Any fixes to the known problems with MQ2Autoloot? At least I think they're known... I was getting random crashes trying to use it in GMM.
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I also kept crashing in GMM had to turn it off.
 
crs399 said:
I also kept crashing in GMM had to turn it off.
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Set "Pod of Water=Destroy" in your loot.ini file (inside your macro folder).
Make sure all the toons using MQ2autoloot have "DoLoot=0" in their kissassist "character_server.ini" file.
If you were online when all that happened, log everyone out and log them back in again.

That fixed my issues.
 
toadwart said:
Not sure how widespread this is, but it seems that if i have a dead character, and keep running around a zone killing things, it will interrupt the successful operation of the plugin, and items will pile up in the loot window until I manually re-direct, or rez the character. Could it be modded to skip that character in the loot distribution and go to the next available one in the list so that doesn't happen please?
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It was originally designed to skip handing out loot to dead characters and move forward to the next toon on the list. I'll take a look to see if that functionality needs to be fixed.
 
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Do items in the loot.ini file really need to be put under their letter designation? I wanted to make lists of quest items by expansion all under one encompassing loot.ini file instead of using separate ones.
 
Wink- said:
Do items in the loot.ini file really need to be put under their letter designation? I wanted to make lists of quest items by expansion all under one encompassing loot.ini file instead of using separate ones.
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I've never tested it, but my gut feeling is that it only reads the first "a" section if you put multiple "a" sections in.

You could delineate your single "a" section if you wanted though, again I've never tasted it but my gut says it should work.
 
the sections would be to minimise unnecessary file access i imagine.. why scan A through X for an item starting with Z?

So accessing an ini by section means the first value which is true, the rest will never be seen. Same for item/item names. If you have duplications of items and the first one is set to ignore and the second is for loot... it'll still never loot it because it never gets to that key.

That being said, anything that start with A could be put in the A section in any order and you could make a comment line to separate the expansion specific stuff within that section by using a semicolon ; at the start of the line, or making sure the line doesn't have an = in it. Better to use the semicolon as i think something in mq2 means it will skip it completely as other have used this for ini quick alterations

You can test this by adding some lines into you A section of the loot ini and doing an /echo ${Loot[loot.ini,A]}

;test
test1=
test2

and you will see test1 only
 
I have a question about the Global section. I've never actually used it for anything, I put all loot items alphabetically sorted. What is the purpose of [Global] and how does it differ than other sorting criteria? I ask this because I've been looking at some other folks ini's and I see some people have items in the Global section.
 
toadwart said:
I have a question about the Global section. I've never actually used it for anything, I put all loot items alphabetically sorted. What is the purpose of [Global] and how does it differ than other sorting criteria? I ask this because I've been looking at some other folks ini's and I see some people have items in the Global section.
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Global section has never been implemented in the plugin. It is a hold over from the ninjadvloot. I left the section in new loot.ini files for backwards compatibility.
 
VorpalChicken said:
any idea why my rogue is getting the loot, when...

Code: 
Amorphous Selrach's Wristguard=Gear|Classes|SHM|NumberToLoot|2|

is set in the loot.ini?
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Does the rogue perhaps not have autoloot turned on? If a toon doesn't check any flags the master looter will try to give the item to that toon.
 
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