Thanks a lot for the reply, ChatWithThisName !
I tried to do some research regards AHK / other possibilities, and it seems a bit more difficult than I thought to use it as I want. Your solution sounds very nice.
Given that means I have to get MQ2 to use it, does it seem stupid to use it like I ask, rather than say, just go with
KissAssist /
MQ2Melee which should cover most my needs in regards to spamming most buttons really?
I do apologise for the stupid questions...
Best regards,
-Sphaera
This my friend is a loaded question. As I do know my way around the scripting language of MQ2 pretty well and have a coding background all things MQ2 related are pretty trivial to me with the caveat of some things I don't use.
KA is one of those things that I don't use. Not because I have some aversion to it. But rather, because I'm usually coding some utility to use for myself, and subsequently release to the community for giggles (And the donations of course).
Preference from one thing to the next is pretty much just that. A preference. I assumed by coming to RG's you were interested in MQ2 and hadn't even considered you might be asking a community of RG users for only a non-mq2 response. Clearly my response was geared towards an MQ2 User.
Should you get MQ2. The resounding answer for that question is yes. Even if you have no plans to use KA or EQBC or EasyFind, or
MQ2Nav, or any of the other programs that instantly make your everquest experience 10000x better. Why? Well, because we have ice cream! But no seriously. Because it really just makes your life so much easier in regards to boxing characters, hitting hotkeys, performing trivial time consuming tasks, navigating from one location to the next, automatically buying and scribing all the spells/tomes for your characters, automatically keeping your bazaar toon the cheapest in all of Norrath and beyond. The price point for a monthly sub to this service is actually quite low considering all the perks that come with ownership. I mean hell I didn't use MQ2 for anything but the map and superwho for like 3 years after I first started using it.
KA will play your class for you once you get a solid INI setup. Which that does take time. If you're toons are still leveling it will be getting changed a lot. But that's honestly no different from anything you're doing now changing your existing hotkeys to memorizing new spells. Just a matter of typing it in and setting it at what you want and turning on KA.
EQBC is a garbage in garbage out system. You don't feed it garbage and it can't output your garbage. So if I make a hotkey that makes a toon target me and then issue the stick command
/stick loose 10 uw; for example. I would also have to make a hotkey that make him stop sticking to me. So you'll have to make hotkeys for all your little interactions with your characters. Being that you can pass any command, MQ2 or EQ base game, with it, that makes it a very very powerful tool. So should you use EQBC or KA is kinda a short sighted answer. The real question is why wouldn't you use them both? KA for typical group killing content/hunting and then EQBC for your everyday silly things such as
/bcaa //end which will end the macro on all running toons. You can do multiple lines in a social
/bcaa //end
/bcaa /
/target id ${Me.ID}
/bcaa /
/stick loose uw 10
/bcaa /
/bc Ok I'm following you now.
or
/bct shaman /
/nav id ${Spawn[the guy with my spells].ID}
/bct warrior /
/nav id ${Spawn[the guy with my tomes].ID}
/bct bard /
/nav id ${Spawn[the guy with my songs].ID}
while "the guy with my ___" wasn't a valid thing, I mean if you knew their name in advance you could setup a hotkey for when all your characters are in POK you can just smash that hotkey and off they go to their respective vendors in the library.....I mean....or you could move each one there using follow up that windy ass "stair/ramp" up to library and then to their individual spell/tome vendor
Then once you're there open the vendor
/bcaa /
/target npc
/bcaa /
/invoke ${Target.RightClick}
/bcaa //mac scribe
Then it will target the nearest npc (should be your spell/tome vendor) and issue the command to start the macro scribe.mac to automatically buy all your spells/tomes and memorize them from that vendor.
all your toons have a hotkey that does something different setup on them, but it is the same key for everyone to do something different?
/bcaa /
/keypress 1-10
want all your toons to sit when they are all standing?
/bca /
/sit
want a hotkey that presses another hotkey that presses the first hotkey and they do that infinitely forever and ever?
Hotkey1
/bct ${Me.Name} /
/keypress 2
Hotkey2
/bct ${Me.Name} /
/casting "Bolt of Flaming Dog Poo"
/bct ${Me.Name} /
/keypress 1
and then let KA do the other stuff. Get on your puller and get ready to fight
/bca /
/mac kissassist
Then go to town manually pulling. Or setup a toon to pull in the INI and use
/bcaa /
/mac kissassist and then you can get that earfull from your wife about how you play games to much while still getting exp.
~Chat