Release Overseer Automation 1.9

[BayouGator]

Dangabbit. I test, I really do. Not sure how that slipped past.

Updating the macro officially now but until then - change one line:

[QuestPriority]
Priorities=Levels|Types|Durations|Rarities

That did the trick. Everything's running fine again. Thanks for the quick response and thanks for creating this macro. It is such a time saver.

 

[Gnits]

I am guessing you are using a custom UI for Overseer? @jande had put one together a while ago:
https://www.redguides.com/community/resources/overseer-window-also-known-as-dumpster-fire-3.1524/

I'm guessing it didn't get a field added which DBG pushed at a later date.

The errors can be ignored - they just mean the script isn't enforcing the 10/10 cap.
I can look to add logic to ignore if it doesn't exist.


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Yes, i am using a custom UI. I will look at the error for that screen and put it in.

 

[B_I_G__D_A_D_D_Y]

Just ran 1.14 on a character. It never unpacked my merc before claiming 4 Exp rewards. I know it worked yesterday! Earlier today I reinstalled MQ2 from the launcher and reinstalled all my 'watched' macros. The character was in a group with 2 other PC but there was 3 open slots left in the group. The character was not the group leader. Here is my current INI file.

Edit to ADD: I logged in another character and using the same overseer.mac and overseer.ini it worked perfectly except that the character was solo and not in a group.

I forgot to update this!

I think I might have caused my own problem by frequent loading and unloading the MQ2 system that day. I was having a problem getting MQ2Nav to work in PoK so I had unloaded all of MQ2 and then reloaded it while my characters were all running. I had previously found that I have many fewer problems if I launch MQ2 and then launch Innerspace which actually then loads my EQ sessions.

So I suspect I caused my own issues with lots of weird artifacts left in memory.

 

[GoldenFrog]

So I suspect I caused my own issues with lots of weird artifacts left in memory.

That would be good if that's all it was. I wasn't able to make much headway on that issue. Hopefully yer all resolved, then.

 

[jande]

Test
- Removed the membership requirements for Collection, tradeskill, and ornament rewards.

Surprising.

Up next month.... collection items are once again tradeable. Place your bets !
Up in next year... collection items now grant current expansion. Bzzz Never going to happen

- - Added a chat message when you try to open the reward window without having any pending rewards.

Can be useful to catch this message and not try and claim rewards.

 

[Jgil316]

What a macro!!!!!

I haven't failed a mission since running these

Now - I need to figure out how to spend the coins - lol

 

[BlankStare]

Now - I need to figure out how to spend the coins - lol

There's a shadowy mob outside of the PoK library on one of the sides, "a mysterious presence" or something, which sells you ornamentations and other things. It's on Find (CTRL+F).

 

[Smokeybear72]

I can't really answer that. For all my work on the macro, I haven't studied the optimal. There are several threads on everquest.com Forums but I haven't really read them.

I have been trying to track the rewards as I see them (and I'm bored). Personally my main is after coin. All others after exp/merc AA. Here's what I have for you to think what's best for you.

Level	Rarity	Type	Easy?	Duration	Experience	Coin	Merc Exp	Coin/Hr
1	Common	Crafting		6	0.28	275		45.8
1	Common	Diplomacy		12	0.5	500		41.7
1	Common	Exploration		12	0.5	500		41.7
1	Common	Harvesting		6	0.28	275		45.8
1	Common	Military		12	0.5	500	12.5	41.7
1	Common	Plunder		6	0.28	275	6.88	45.8
1	Common	Research		24	0.9	900		37.5
1	Common	Stealth		12	0.5	500	12.5	41.7
1	Common	Trade		12	0.5	500		41.7
1	Rare	Trade		12	0.83	833		69.4
1	Uncommon	Diplomacy		12	0.83	833		69.4
1	Uncommon	Military		12	0.67	667		55.6
1	Uncommon	Plunder		6	0.37	367		61.2
1	Uncommon	Trade		12	0.67	667		55.6
2	Common	Crafting		6	0.34	344		57.3
2	Common	Diplomacy		12	0.63	625		52.1
2	Common	Exploration		12	0.63	625		52.1
2	Common	Harvesting		6	0.34	344		57.3
2	Common	Military	Easy	12	0.63	625	15.63	52.1
2	Common	Military		12	0.63	625	15.63	52.1
2	Common	Plunder	Easy	6	0.34	344	8.59	57.3
2	Common	Plunder		6	0.34	344	8.59	57.3
2	Common	Research		24	1.13	1125		46.9
2	Common	Stealth		12	0.63	625	15.63	24.8
2	Common	Trade	Easy	12	0.63	625		52.1
2	Common	Trade		12	0.63	625		52.1
2	Elite	Exploration		12	1.25	1250		104.2
2	Elite	Trade		24	1.25	1250		52.1
2	Uncommon	Military		12	0.83	833	20.83	69.4
2	Uncommon	Research		24	1.5	1500		62.5
2	Uncommon	Stealth		12	0.83	833	20.83	69.4
3	Common	Crafting		6	0.41	413		68.8
3	Common	Harvesting		6	0.41	413		68.8
3	Common	Military		12	0.75	750		62.5
3	Common	Plunder		6	0.41	413	10.31	68.8
3	Common	Stealth		12	0.75	750	18.75	62.5
3	Uncommon	Plunder		6	0.55	550	13.75	91.7
4	Common	Diplomacy		12	0.88	875		72.9
4	Uncommon	Diplomacy		12	1.17	1167		97.3
5	Common	Research		24	1.8	1800		75.0
5	Uncommon	Research		24	2.4	2400		100.0

Can this get stickied int the Overview section?

 

[BlankStare]

I would like to auto-claim Collection fragments #1, and Overseer Tetras #2. Is there a way to configure that for now? I have been manually claiming my rewards.

Any thought into claiming regular experience if character's experience is below ##%? Such as, trying to keep the level 115s capped, if my level 115 exp is below 90%, then claim experience to keep me near cap. Just an idea.

 

[GoldenFrog]

I would like to auto-claim Collection fragments #1, and Overseer Tetras #2. Is there a way to configure that for now? I have been manually claiming my rewards.

Any thought into claiming regular experience if character's experience is below ##%? Such as, trying to keep the level 115s capped, if my level 115 exp is below 90%, then claim experience to keep me near cap. Just an idea.

Now that's an awesome suggestion on the exp if < 90% kind of thing. Worth a look.

For your first comment - I'm not fully clear what you are asking for. Are you saying only collect 1 fragment a day and tetras the rest kinda thing?

 

[BlankStare]

For your first comment - I'm not fully clear what you are asking for. Are you saying only collect 1 fragment a day and tetras the rest kinda thing?

[Rewards]
index=0
1=Overseer Tetradrachm
2=Character Experience
3=Mercenary Experience

Is it possible to place Collection fragments as the first option? And if no collection items as reward options, then take overseer tetras? Or, choosing tradeskill items as a reward option? I know folks who choose the TS items, although I don't.
Does this option work if I change claimReward=1 and index=3? The Overview page for this resource indicates that it is not currently working.


I had originally thought that using Overseer for exp was an awesome way to keep capped at your level (whether your level cap is 115 or 110), so hence my idea for character experience. Although if you're at 99% exp already, claiming experience as a reward is pointless.

 

[jande]

[Rewards]
index=3
1=Overseer Tetradrachm
2=Character Experience
3=Mercenary Experience

Is it possible to place Collection fragments as the first option? And if no collection items as reward options, then take overseer tetras? Or, choosing tradeskill items as a reward option? I know folks who choose the TS items, although I don't.
Does this option work if I change claimReward=1 and index=3? The Overview page for this resource indicates that it is not currently working.


I had originally thought that using Overseer for exp was an awesome way to keep capped at your level (whether your level cap is 115 or 110), so hence my idea for character experience. Although if you're at 99% exp already, claiming experience as a reward is pointless.

You have the correct idea.

index=3 (how many options you want to try)
then your order is correct.
So what will happen is if there is a coin claim, it if not try second option, etc .

Claiming works correctly IF you do not have other rewards outstanding. e.g overseer claim hast to start on the first tab in reward window.

claimRewards=1
index=3
1=Collection Item Dispenser
2=Mercenary Experience
3=Overseer Tetradrachm

My options that I use.

 

[jande]

This is not making much sense to me, is it counting duplicates or are there agents the macro does not know about ?
Look at uncommon iconic / uncommon / common


Okay see what is going on the status Exhausted etc is also in the name so causing macro to count them as a unique agent

In Sub OutputAgentCounts added line 4 - 6

    /varset agentName ${${agentNode}.Child[OW_OM_MinionEntry].Text}


    /if (${agentName.Find[:]}) {
        /varset agentName ${agentName.Arg[1,:]}
    }

    /if (!${agentName.Equal[${previousAgentName}]}) {

Have my doubts about buying agent packs from the vendor. Bought about 60 on one account now have 162 unique agents, other account that I never bought any on is at 167 unique ones. Guessing it is just random messing with me it sure feels like the packs did not help.

 

[drawthow]

Love the mac runs great. Not sure how hard it would be to add but, one nice feature I would like to see if the ability the Drunken Stine mac has, to cycle through all toons you have, and run this mac would be a great thing to run just before going to bed.

 

[BlankStare]

Love the mac runs great. Not sure how hard it would be to add but, one nice feature I would like to see if the ability the Drunken Stine mac has, to cycle through all toons you have, and run this mac would be a great thing to run just before going to bed.

It really isn't hard to log on your level 85+ characters, run the macro for a few minutes, and then log them off. Sure, automation would be cool, but that's a ton of effort for very little savings, imo.
The drunkard's stein macro was designed with a dual-purpose in mind: obtaining the task, and then adding others to it to help automate their moving multiple zones and dropping in the song lyrics. I used that macro for just the moving portion, for chain-acquiring the stein every few minutes.

 

[GoldenFrog]

This is not making much sense to me, is it counting duplicates or are there agents the macro does not know about ?

    /declare agentNode string Window[OverseerWnd].Child[OW_OM_MinionList].FirstChild
    /declare index int
:nextAgent
    /varset agentName ${${agentNode}.Child[OW_OM_MinionEntry].Text}
    /varset index ${agentName.Find[Status]}
    /varset agentName ${agentName.Left[${index}]}

I have one thing that did count duplicates. This happened if you had two agents of the same name, but in different states (one was "Available", the other was "Questing", for example).

Added the above code but hadn't pushed live yet. The index and agentName lines. Busy but will try to push this shortly.

 

[GoldenFrog]

GoldenFrog updated Overseer Automation with a new update entry:

1.16

• Corrected issue that could count duplicate agents twice under "/mac overseer countAgents"

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[GoldenFrog]

Love the mac runs great. Not sure how hard it would be to add but, one nice feature I would like to see if the ability the Drunken Stine mac has, to cycle through all toons you have, and run this mac would be a great thing to run just before going to bed.

So I was curious about this and wrote the functionality. It'll do every 85+ char or specified ones (i.e. "Char1|Char3"). Then I tested and ... had never done a different char on same account, apparently.

Tell me if I'm seeing something different from you, but all characters on an account use the same quests. So running 5 quests on char #1 is the same as char #2. This "Run on all chars" has no benefit.


(Unless I misunderstood the request).

 

[Robban]

So I was curious about this and wrote the functionality. It'll do every 85+ char or specified ones (i.e. "Char1|Char3"). Then I tested and ... had never done a different char on same account, apparently.

Tell me if I'm seeing something different from you, but all characters on an account use the same quests. So running 5 quests on char #1 is the same as char #2. This "Run on all chars" has no benefit.


(Unless I misunderstood the request).

Yeah, they share Overseer

 

[drawthow]

So I was curious about this and wrote the functionality. It'll do every 85+ char or specified ones (i.e. "Char1|Char3"). Then I tested and ... had never done a different char on same account, apparently.

Tell me if I'm seeing something different from you, but all characters on an account use the same quests. So running 5 quests on char #1 is the same as char #2. This "Run on all chars" has no benefit.


(Unless I misunderstood the request).

Oh, I didn't realize they all use the same quest. Have been logging toons and running the macro and walking away never really paid attention to what they are doing. Thanks for the info.

 

[Magnuss]

Normal XP missions give more Merc XP than Merc XP missions.
Is it possible to pop a T1 apprentice before take reward and remove the merc after ?

 

[GoldenFrog]

Normal XP missions give more Merc XP than Merc XP missions.
Is it possible to pop a T1 apprentice before take reward and remove the merc after ?

The script is coded to do exactly this. If it isn't working for you, say so. But that has been working for me from the start.

 

[wymranar]

Ive been running overseer manually and finally gave this mac a try. @GoldenFrog you're the man!

 

[drawthow]

Getting a Yes/No popup on almost every mission. And the macro seems to timeout if I'm not watching and click yes.

 

[TVCChiver]

Cancel this, I did not know there was a max completed daily that you cannot pass.....lame.

 

[GoldenFrog]

Getting a Yes/No popup on almost every mission. And the macro seems to timeout if I'm not watching and click yes.

View attachment 22344

There is a known bug between MQ2/EQ that gets in this situation. There are apparently two message boxes, etc...

The only solution I've found is to /camp out and back in. I wish I had more details for you right now.

I'll raise the flag again to see if there has been any movement on this. The

 

[Magnuss]

In a task, you can not put more than 1 time the same Agent.

 

[drawthow]

There is a known bug between MQ2/EQ that gets in this situation. There are apparently two message boxes, etc...

The only solution I've found is to /camp out and back in. I wish I had more details for you right now.

I'll raise the flag again to see if there has been any movement on this. The

Thanks for the info, I didn't realize this was that same problem. I was thinking with the extra test in the yes/no box it was a different issue.

 

[GoldenFrog]

In a task, you can not put more than 1 time the same Agent.

You are correct, but it's actually some rule preventing it in some cases, not all. Someone can clarify that rule, I always forget.

 

[Smokeybear72]

There is a known bug between MQ2/EQ that gets in this situation. There are apparently two message boxes, etc...

The only solution I've found is to /camp out and back in. I wish I had more details for you right now.

I'll raise the flag again to see if there has been any movement on this. The

I erased all my older INI's for overseer and had macro re-build all new ones. /mac overseer

It fixed the alts that were doing this.

 

[Isayhooah]

Really appreciate your work on this! Thank you!

 

[Magnuss]

After today patch, they changed the reward Experience by Experience (No AA Exp).
So IF you use auto reward, the macro select the Oversee Tetradrachm.

 

[GoldenFrog]

After today patch, they changed the reward Experience by Experience (No AA Exp).
So IF you use auto reward, the macro select the Oversee Tetradrachm.

The reward name is still "Character Experience". The change was to an option line-item which isn't used in the quest determination.

The scripts appear to work for me still (and logically should). Are you seeing it get the coin alternative?

 

[krawdad]

Awesome macro!
One issue, it doesn't start new quests when you are at max completed quests (10/10).
Max completed doesn't keep you from starting new quests, just keeps you from claiming finished ones.
Keep up the great work!

 

[great1]

New conversion problems: Now seeing up to 55 second duration on the conversion quests which is causing failures for claiming them.

 

[GoldenFrog]

Awesome macro!
One issue, it doesn't start new quests when you are at max completed quests (10/10).
Max completed doesn't keep you from starting new quests, just keeps you from claiming finished ones.
Keep up the great work!

Thank you, krawdad. I admit to never fully undersatnding that 10-max completed limit.

So when it says 10/10 we can continue to start quests up to the 5-at-a-time limit. But not [Finish] any.

(I know I may have just repeated what you said but mentally translating that into the script).

 

[GoldenFrog]

New conversion problems: Now seeing up to 55 second duration on the conversion quests which is causing failures for claiming them.

Well that's disappointing. I'll bump the cap. We don't NEED a cap, just didn't want the script hanging up forever there if some bug occurred. Thanks, great1.

 

[GoldenFrog]

GoldenFrog updated Overseer Automation with a new update entry:

1.17

• Corrected minor issue where script would kick off processing more often than necessary
• Extended duration to allow Conversion quests to complete from 45 seconds to 2 minutes.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[BlankStare]

Extended duration to allow Conversion quests to complete from 45 seconds to 2 minutes.

Does this mean it's sitting at the conversion page for 2 minutes? They're like 6 second quests.
If they are taking longer, then it's because your computer clock is wrong -- which is a different discussion itself, complained about on the official EQ Forums numerous times.

 

[GoldenFrog]

Does this mean it's sitting at the conversion page for 2 minutes? They're like 6 second quests.
If they are taking longer, then it's because your computer clock is wrong -- which is a different discussion itself, complained about on the official EQ Forums numerous times.

No this means it will ALLOW a quest to take that long to complete without erroring out.

As of the last patch (I think), the time is now advertised as 10s on all conversions for me, at least.


But if you watch, at times it's 10s, 20s, I've personally seen 30s but others seen longer. And that happens in sequential runs.

I hadn't seen those forum discussions but my computer clock is good - sync'd and all.