Request - Simple Easy Farming Macro - Looking for Input

[Slade the Magician]

I have mentioned before here that I am currently playing on the TLP servers, recently hit 50 on a group of toons, and as much fun as it all was... I am looking for another way to level my future alts and such. I've always been a fan of just farming and killing stuff with a max level toon. ANYWHO, not to sidetrack my own thread, I have decided while I am messing with youtube and playing things on Steam I would farm bonechips. Since there are no vendors currently that sell that (to my knowledge) the best way to get them is to farm them from a quick respawning area. I made a very rough macro to just have my mage kill skeletons at a spawn, but wonder if it could be handled a little more elegantly. I am by no means an expert with creating complex macros, and would appreciate a little input if anyone knows of a better way. Thank you in advance! Also, I am posting it here so anywho who would like it is welcome to use it as well. Nothing special at all, but maybe it'll help.

Sub Main
	:loop
		/pet attack a_decaying
		/pet attack a_decaying
		/pet attack a_decaying
		/pet attack a_decaying
		/pet attack noclin's pet
	/goto :loop
/return

Edit: I was looking at the bonechip turn in macros currently on the macro list and they appear to be all inclusive, which is great for most/ all live servers. I may be grasping for straws, but does anyone know of a barebones just turn in snippet? If one isn't already floating around Ill try my best to just cut out the portion I would need to turn these in to the NPC, and credit the original author.

 

[hoosierbilly]

Attached is an old turn-in macro that is still lingering in my macro folder. It probable still works but I haven't used it in long time. I believe you can simple hold something on your cursor, target the npc to receive the item and start the macro. I doubt very much it will turn in stacks.

 

[Razkle]

| tradin.mac, by amml
| modified by tms


Sub Main


| *** Increase the destroydelay ONE by ONE until every item on your cursor gets destroyed.
/declare destroydelay int local 1


/declare chips int local
/declare done int local 0


/target Gunlok Jure
/delay 5
/face fast
/echo Opening Bags
/keypress OPEN_INV_BAGS
/delay 5


/if ( ${Me.Grouped}) {
    /echo You are grouped - Disbanding
    /keypress ctrl+d
}






:Loop
/if (!${FindItem[=Bone Chips].InvSlot}) {
  /echo backpacks empty go get more stuff
  /goto :EmptyBags
}


/if (!${FindItem[=Bone Chips].InvSlot}) /goto :EmptyBags


/echo Handing in Chips.
/for chips 1 to 4
/shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Bone Chips].InvSlot} leftmouseup
/delay 5
/click left target
/click left target
/delay 5
/next chips


/delay 8
/notify GiveWnd GVW_Give_Button leftmouseup
/delay 2s


/echo Clearing Cursor
:cursorclear
/if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) {
    /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
    /goto :cursorclear
}


/if (!${FindItem[=Bone Chips].InvSlot}) /goto :EmptyBags


/goto :Loop


:EmptyBags


/if (!${done}) { 
    /varset done 1
    /goto :cursorclear
}


/echo Clearing up your bags, this will take a moment.


/delay 8
/while (${FindItem[=Rusty Axe].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Rusty Axe].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Rusty Broad Sword].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Rusty Broad Sword].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Rusty Mace].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Rusty Mace].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Rusty Short Sword].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Rusty Short Sword].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Rusty Two Handed Sword].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Rusty Two Handed Sword].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Small Lantern].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Small Lantern].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}
    
/while (${FindItem[=Small Tattered Gloves].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Small Tattered Gloves].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}
    
/while (${FindItem[=Torch].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Torch].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Small Patchwork Tunic].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Small Patchwork Tunic].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Small Tattered Skullcap].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Small Tattered Skullcap].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Small Patchwork Sleeves].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Small Patchwork Sleeves].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}


/while (${FindItem[=Small Patchwork Pants].InvSlot}) {
    /shift /itemnotify ${FindItem[=Small Patchwork Pants].InvSlot} leftmouseup
    /delay 5
    /if (${Cursor.ID} && ${Cursor.ID} != 13073) /destroy
    /delay ${destroydelay}
}




:Done
/delay 8 
/notify GiveWnd GVW_Give_Button leftmouseup
/delay 8
/echo Closing Bags
/keypress CLOSE_INV_BAGS
/echo Done .. Have fun.. 
/endmacro

This one is tested and works GREAT!

 

[playj]

Btw, there is nothing wrong with your macro, but be aware that the bone chip farming mages are the object of much interest on Daybreak TLP forums, so you are painting a big target on your back.

Not sure why people are so annoyed but some even post twitch streams hoping that GMs come and take a look.

The funny thing is that you can do bonechip farming even without MQ2 just use a programmable keyboard (or autofire joystick doesnt matter) and use /advancedloot.

 

[Slade the Magician]

This may or may not help the cause, but been sitting here watching Naruto while farming Bonechips. A Guide has appeared and started chatting with me. I am here, but running everything still. Comments that he just wanted to make sure I wasn't AFK and what not. So beware, as playj eluded to, the staff appear to be watching and ready to pounce if you're AFK macroing. On the TLP servers, you should always be at the keys.

If anything happens ill be sure to let people know, but he left shortly after ensuring I wasn't AFK. Nothing should come of this as long as I am here.

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Just used the turn in macro today. Worked incredibly well. It was turning in whole stacks of bonechips. I didnt think it would/ would work but it sure did. Cleaned everything up too. 10/10 script, thank you.

 

[BlankStare]

As previously posted it's pretty easy to manually farm the bonechips in Paineel with just the F8 button, and turning in bonechips I never understood why that would ever need a macro; you don't have access to port to a Wizard's bind spot and there's no vendor to buy them, so /shrug
All I did on a new char was use a macro to automate the selling of the torches, rusties, leather armor etc to get a few plat, which is worthwhile to have on TLP - plus the vendor is like 8.2 feet away.

 

[Slade the Magician]

I thought that the bonechips needed to be turned in 4 at a time, so I was just preparing for the 30k+ bonechips to turn in. I was pleasantly surprised when it was all done in a snap.

 

[etherealmist]

They check everyone in the area, actually. I was literally sitting around on my low level, right at the gate/respawn point for new characters, and the guide tried to AFK check me. I was on a brand new account.

Sidenote about this 'senior guide'. I've been AFK checked at least 6-7 times. I've been afk checked just standing literally afk in commonlands tunnel during the middle of the night while sleeping.

Once I was buffing on one character and he accused me of buffing on 6 (two characters aren't even classes with spells...) characters at the same time. My favorite was when I was standing at a wizard spire in the commonlands afk for like 3-4 hours while messing around on an alt, and he whispered me 'camp check'. I whispered him back "Shady", and he proceeded to tell me the GMs will be banning me real soon. So of course I got into it with him, and told him to go bother someone else, and he kicked my character to server select. Real awesome guy. Doesn't powertrip at all.

I mean, yeah, I DO use MQ2, obviously, but nothing I'm doing would suggest it, considering, at most, I only use it for the map and /stick. I don't even use KISS that often except for my mage and wizard if I'm doing some higher end content. Which is funny because he's never came around and bothered me then. Hell, 90% of the time I only bring 6 characters just to scare off KSers while I'm tabbing waiting for respawns.

 

[Slade the Magician]

What server are you on etherealmist? LJ or RF? That whole situation sounds terrible

 

[LurkMcGurk]

That does sound terrible. i've been using mq2 for a couple months now and have never been afk checked (i box multiple toons which some would consider a larger box team). I've also lvled multiple groups of 6 mostly automated w kiss and never had a problem. I've found what i consider to be a solid path to 33 when toons can then group with 50's but it is by no means off the beaten path so to speak. I've kind of been waiting for a gm to say something at some point but they never have. What are you guys who have been harassed doing with mq2 and where do you find you've been noticed? I have seen on these forums and others that people talk frequently about gm's asking them questions and afk checking them but besides things that obviously make you look like a bot ie. facemobon, medcombat on when healer takes aggro etc, what are some red flags people have noticed the gm's look for? Maybe i've just been lucky, or maybe there is something in particular that the gm's look for?

fyi I currently play on LJ but was on RF for the first two months.

 

[etherealmist]

I was on RF. I don't really do anything other than occasionally sitting in guk. Most instances of a guide coming to talk to me has been in guk, where I just assume every random person reports boxers.

I've leveled 18+ accounts or so to 50 with no issue, and only 1 group has ever been reported. I have a feeling what happened was, some random guy came into one of my camps, didn't say a word for about 5 minutes. So I said, "hello", and he replied with "mage army, macroquest, now reporting you botting". I remember it specifically, because of the way he typed it. So I replied with "one mage is a mage army?", and next, he said in a chat channel I was also in that he was going to train me. So I told him to bring as many mobs as he could (knowing full well my enchanter would have no issues mezzing any amount he could survive bringing, he was a monk). Everyone in the chat channel said he was retarded. So the guy came back and was like "you buffing 6 characters at once", and again, that particular group has 2 classes that don't even cast spells, and one is a wizard. So many buffs a wizard needs to cast. So anyways, after about 2 hours, that's when I first had a guide come talk to me, and he basically tried to tell me exactly the same thing that this retarded monk was saying. He then went a step further and told me I had told multiple people that I was going afk for an hour. Which, first off, I don't even talk to anyone that would need to know that, and secondly, anyone who would, would be on voice comms with me. And finally, I would never even say something like that. I actually don't want people knowing if I'm there or not, and just to assume I'm always there.

The guide tried to move my characters and none of them returned, as I have return to camp disabled (the reason I've been posting so often that this is a must on TLPs!), then he proceeded to tell me that 'this time I'm okay, but next time I'll be getting a ban'. That's kinda when I got pissed at this guy and was like, look, first off you don't even announce that you're a guide or anything, so why should I even talk to you. If you have a real reason to be bothering me, let me know. So for around 2-3 weeks after that he constantly harassed me.

I should note that I haven't been contacted or anything in over 3 weeks since the last time. I must also reiterate that again, he was just a guide, not a GM.

Also, which is funny, I take 18+ characters into hate/fear all the time, and have never had an issue with anyone, much less get reported.

 

[Slade the Magician]

Wow, sounds like that guide has completely overstepped himself. I would (personally) have reported him. Harassing you after passing his little tests is outrageous.

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I am 100% in favor of Guides and staffers monitoring the more sinister/devious of things people do on these games, but when they go to far they need to be hammered.

 

[etherealmist]

Wow, sounds like that guide has completely overstepped himself. I would (personally) have reported him. Harassing you after passing his little tests is outrageous.

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I am 100% in favor of Guides and staffers monitoring the more sinister/devious of things people do on these games, but when they go to far they need to be hammered.

Yeah I'm fine with GMs and what not. I've never had an issue with any of them. I've been checked out a bunch of times. I've been reported tons of times (although not recently, in the past on live servers), and have never been banned. I always pass their tests and typically make sure I'm not being disruptive when I box/kiss. Basically trying to never draw any attention to myself. It's a little harder on the TLPs when everyone is up in arms vs boxes (when in reality, tons of people box now a days). It seems to have died down a bit until someone hits 46 and enters PoHate (less so in Fear), then you see a post on the official forums bitching about boxing. But, back like a little more than month ago, you'd see people screaming bloody murder if there was a box crew in guk, and forget boxing in the main pick, you'd get every idiot and their mother (literally had this happen once) CCing every 5 seconds or walking into your camp and crying about boxing.