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- Oct 10, 2019
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Hello everyone,
I am a long time EQ player and have been multiboxing since the dialup days (☎). I enjoy the flexibility of having multiple characters to play, especially since it helps fill in those times when everyone else is offline. I have grown to 4 boxxing (actively managing them myself) and sometimes augment with filler to grab raids and such (thank you EQ for F2P, works great for these one offs). Boxxing that many definitely takes its toll on you, so I have been looking into ways to make it a bit less stressful (even setting up awesome buttons does only so much to alleviate some of it). I began looking for ideas to help with that. Eventually, I ran across RedGuides while reading various guides (including Almar's) and it is intriguing. I have been a bit trepid about it, given the dark history of MQ. Granted, that is more an issue of people misusing the software to do stupid things.
Currently, I have several computers running EQ and many monitors. My main has a ton of monitors (different aspect ratios). I use ISBoxer for window management on this one, but it is restricted to the monitor groups of the same resolution because the UI gets all jacked up. I really like being able to view full screen to see what is going on with all of the toons. The instant window swapping is great too and the mouse over to focus window (this one is a little buggy). I tried to do some hot keys in ISBoxer, but I never could really get going at it. I watched some great videos, including the unlimited virtualization + / commands, + ATGs etc which sounds great, if you could get it working (they provided a template, but something was not quite working). Even if I could get it working, you had to come up with ways of key combos (or click buttons) to activate sequences of actions (and of course, EQ, Windows, and other programs have many key shortcuts you have to work around). I love the window management aspect (mostly, sometimes Windows shifts something a few pixels and ) of ISBoxer, it just needs a macro system with some logic (as useful as products such as Nostromo n52 and other macro pads/programmable keys are, they are "dumb").
I watched the Multiboxing EverQuest: The Red Guide playlist and have read the Newbie Guide for MQ2 [ Meghnad ] and it looks great. I also ran across interesting videos by Doctor Nachoz. At this point, I looking into what this could do to help me. Some questions I am trying to figure the answers to:
Any other good videos or threads that I should take a look at?
Some of my goals: auto follow that works (mesh), automate overseer (what a pain in the ass on multiple accounts every day), let me focus on 1 or 2 characters, flexibility with one or multiple computers, increase boxxing to a full group because mercs suck , make quest getting and finishing less clunky, other QoL stuff....
Thank you in advance for your input and help!
P.S. Let's get some more emojis!!
I am a long time EQ player and have been multiboxing since the dialup days (☎). I enjoy the flexibility of having multiple characters to play, especially since it helps fill in those times when everyone else is offline. I have grown to 4 boxxing (actively managing them myself) and sometimes augment with filler to grab raids and such (thank you EQ for F2P, works great for these one offs). Boxxing that many definitely takes its toll on you, so I have been looking into ways to make it a bit less stressful (even setting up awesome buttons does only so much to alleviate some of it). I began looking for ideas to help with that. Eventually, I ran across RedGuides while reading various guides (including Almar's) and it is intriguing. I have been a bit trepid about it, given the dark history of MQ. Granted, that is more an issue of people misusing the software to do stupid things.
Currently, I have several computers running EQ and many monitors. My main has a ton of monitors (different aspect ratios). I use ISBoxer for window management on this one, but it is restricted to the monitor groups of the same resolution because the UI gets all jacked up. I really like being able to view full screen to see what is going on with all of the toons. The instant window swapping is great too and the mouse over to focus window (this one is a little buggy). I tried to do some hot keys in ISBoxer, but I never could really get going at it. I watched some great videos, including the unlimited virtualization + / commands, + ATGs etc which sounds great, if you could get it working (they provided a template, but something was not quite working). Even if I could get it working, you had to come up with ways of key combos (or click buttons) to activate sequences of actions (and of course, EQ, Windows, and other programs have many key shortcuts you have to work around). I love the window management aspect (mostly, sometimes Windows shifts something a few pixels and ) of ISBoxer, it just needs a macro system with some logic (as useful as products such as Nostromo n52 and other macro pads/programmable keys are, they are "dumb").
I watched the Multiboxing EverQuest: The Red Guide playlist and have read the Newbie Guide for MQ2 [ Meghnad ] and it looks great. I also ran across interesting videos by Doctor Nachoz. At this point, I looking into what this could do to help me. Some questions I am trying to figure the answers to:
- MQBC server appears to work with multiple computers (configurable IP address)?
- How well does MQ2/Red Guides work with multiple monitors (with and without ISBoxer)? (not interested in the mini viewer for all boxes)?
- KissAssist/EQMule look like they are pretty configurable with the heal/debuff/damage etc priorities. Is there a way to manually say execute burn mode and have it go through whatever is configured for burn for each?
- EQMule has a drag and drop button feature, does that include any custom hot keys you created? Or do they need to be raw EQ defined ones because hot keys can contain a variety of actions and pauses?
- Extendibility of KissAssist/EQMule with "plugins" (not sure if that is the correct term, but addons for these existing macros)?
Any other good videos or threads that I should take a look at?
Some of my goals: auto follow that works (mesh), automate overseer (what a pain in the ass on multiple accounts every day), let me focus on 1 or 2 characters, flexibility with one or multiple computers, increase boxxing to a full group because mercs suck , make quest getting and finishing less clunky, other QoL stuff....
Thank you in advance for your input and help!
P.S. Let's get some more emojis!!