Auto-foraging

[Richard Lawson]

Yes, yes, I know I can bind forage to a movement key or something like that,
but that's not what I want. =)

Anyone know of a way by which I can have my druid forage (/doability 3), bag
whatever he gets (/autoinventory), and repeat ad nauseum?

Ideally what I'd like to do is fire up my druid in a separate window, and
start him on the task of foraging whilst I raid or group on Monual.
Currently I have to switch windows to forage, and it may be some long
minutes before I can find the time to do - either I get too busy or I just
plain forget.

I've experimented with hotkeys, but they fail because you can't call one
hotkey from another hotkey. That's probably on purpose because otherwise
you could automate a whole bunch of stuff and SOE wants players behind
keyboards controlling characters. I can understand and appreciate the
philosophy, even if it makes things terribly inconvenient for me in this
instance. =)

Still, maybe there's something I'm overlooking. Anyone know of a way to
automate foraging and autoinventorying that would allow that to happen
automatically without my having to keep that window in the foreground?

Thanks.
--
-Richard

Monual Lifegiver
Archon of Rodcet Nife
Silent Tempest

Marrtuk
Knight of Mithaniel Marr

Drinal server

[Graeme Faelban]

Post by Richard Lawson
Yes, yes, I know I can bind forage to a movement key or something like
that, but that's not what I want. =)
Anyone know of a way by which I can have my druid forage (/doability
3), bag whatever he gets (/autoinventory), and repeat ad nauseum?
Ideally what I'd like to do is fire up my druid in a separate window,
and start him on the task of foraging whilst I raid or group on
Monual. Currently I have to switch windows to forage, and it may be
some long minutes before I can find the time to do - either I get too
busy or I just plain forget.
I've experimented with hotkeys, but they fail because you can't call
one hotkey from another hotkey. That's probably on purpose because
otherwise you could automate a whole bunch of stuff and SOE wants
players behind keyboards controlling characters. I can understand and
appreciate the philosophy, even if it makes things terribly
inconvenient for me in this instance. =)
Still, maybe there's something I'm overlooking. Anyone know of a way
to automate foraging and autoinventorying that would allow that to
happen automatically without my having to keep that window in the
foreground?

...

You'd have to use either macroing, or something like the nostromo keypad.
EQ does not support a means of doing what you want in and as of itself.

[Lady_Of_Old]

Post by Richard Lawson
Yes, yes, I know I can bind forage to a movement key or something like that,
but that's not what I want. =)
Anyone know of a way by which I can have my druid forage (/doability 3), bag
whatever he gets (/autoinventory), and repeat ad nauseum?
Snip<

Only one way. Run the toon on a different computer with nostromo keypad.
Been there Done that, this is the only way it works.


Stay Safe but not at the expense of fun!
Lady_of_Old
Remember: Families are like fudge, all really sweet with a few nuts thrown
in.

[anonymousy]

Post by Lady_Of_Old

Post by Richard Lawson
Yes, yes, I know I can bind forage to a movement key or something like

that,

Post by Richard Lawson
but that's not what I want. =)
Anyone know of a way by which I can have my druid forage (/doability 3),

bag

Post by Richard Lawson
whatever he gets (/autoinventory), and repeat ad nauseum?
Snip<

Only one way. Run the toon on a different computer with nostromo keypad.
Been there Done that, this is the only way it works.
Stay Safe but not at the expense of fun!
Lady_of_Old
Remember: Families are like fudge, all really sweet with a few nuts thrown
in.

...

How do you get the macr to loop? There's doesn't seem to be an option for
it, only the option to repeat as long as the key is depressed.

[Empty]

Post by Richard Lawson
Still, maybe there's something I'm overlooking. Anyone know of a way to
automate foraging and autoinventorying that would allow that to happen
automatically without my having to keep that window in the foreground?

This may sound stupid, but you could loan him out to PLing friends with the
provision that they keep foraging while they do it. Maybe set up a few INI
files (for spells and hotkeys, etc) with built in /doability #forage and
/autoinv after every heal/ds macro is run...

~Empty

[anonymousy]

Post by Richard Lawson
Yes, yes, I know I can bind forage to a movement key or something like that,
but that's not what I want. =)
Anyone know of a way by which I can have my druid forage (/doability 3), bag
whatever he gets (/autoinventory), and repeat ad nauseum?
<snip>
Thanks.
--
-Richard
Monual Lifegiver
Archon of Rodcet Nife
Silent Tempest
Marrtuk
Knight of Mithaniel Marr
Drinal server

I have heard there is a controller (NS 52??) from Belkin which could be used
for this purpose but I have asked around here and noone locally sells it. I
prefer the SWG harvesters and macro-foraging to the EQ method, but otherwise
I'm aware of no method that'll forage and autoinv while you're afk. I am
confident that people use either macroing s'ware or controllers to macro.
Theres a guy on rodcet nife with hundreds of planar oaks he's foraged, and
that's really beyond a joke if he was supposedly there foraging.

At least if macroing was built into EQ, it would be a level playing field;
as things stand, non macroers can't compete in the bazaar against macroers.

[Devon Bleak]

Post by Richard Lawson
Yes, yes, I know I can bind forage to a movement key or something like
that, but that's not what I want. =)
Anyone know of a way by which I can have my druid forage (/doability
3), bag whatever he gets (/autoinventory), and repeat ad nauseum?
Ideally what I'd like to do is fire up my druid in a separate window,
and start him on the task of foraging whilst I raid or group on
Monual. Currently I have to switch windows to forage, and it may be
some long minutes before I can find the time to do - either I get too
busy or I just plain forget.
I've experimented with hotkeys, but they fail because you can't call
one hotkey from another hotkey. That's probably on purpose because
otherwise you could automate a whole bunch of stuff and SOE wants
players behind keyboards controlling characters. I can understand and
appreciate the philosophy, even if it makes things terribly
inconvenient for me in this instance. =)
Still, maybe there's something I'm overlooking. Anyone know of a way
to automate foraging and autoinventorying that would allow that to
happen automatically without my having to keep that window in the
foreground?
Thanks.

...

Only way I can think of offhand is maybe MacroQuest. Most applicable
solutions I've seen (an autofire program or a gamepad) just emulate
keyboard input, which requires that you keep the program you want to
receive the input in the foreground. MacroQuest may be able to deliver the
commands to a backgrounded window (I really don't know, never used it, and
only suggest it here because it's the only solution I can think of).

I do know it's a trivial task to set it up if you have a second computer to
run the bot on, but that doesn't sound like the case here.

Another solution to consider might be making a hotkey like:
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/t monual i need my hotkey refreshed!

and another hotkey with just /autoinventory a bunch of times to save
yourself some clicking. Would mean you'd have to switch back to that
window every 10 minutes or so (anybody know what the actual refresh timer
is on forage? Never bothered timing it), but would probably be within the
confines of the EULA.

[Richard Lawson]

Post by Devon Bleak
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/t monual i need my hotkey refreshed!

Hey, that'd work... I didn't think about sending myself a tell to remind
myself to run the hotkey again. And you're right, I could just
auto-inventory four times quick, then click the hotkey again.

Thanks Devon, I'll give that a try. =)
--
-Richard

Monual Lifegiver
Archon of Rodcet Nife
Silent Tempest

Marrtuk
Knight of Mithaniel Marr

Drinal server

[bcarshaman]

Post by Richard Lawson

Post by Devon Bleak
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/t monual i need my hotkey refreshed!

Hey, that'd work... I didn't think about sending myself a tell to remind
myself to run the hotkey again. And you're right, I could just
auto-inventory four times quick, then click the hotkey again.

Can you hold multiple foraged items on the cursor at one time? I know that
when I tradeskill items. I can get 2 items (ie the combine plus the
returned item) but was not aware that forage would allow that. I assumed
it would give you the "you can't hold another item" message.

Very interesting idea, and sounds like it may work.

Bcarshaman
The Nameless

[Mykll]

Post by bcarshaman

Post by Richard Lawson

Post by Devon Bleak
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/pause timer, /doability 3
/t monual i need my hotkey refreshed!

Hey, that'd work... I didn't think about sending myself a tell to remind
myself to run the hotkey again. And you're right, I could just
auto-inventory four times quick, then click the hotkey again.

Can you hold multiple foraged items on the cursor at one time? I know that
when I tradeskill items. I can get 2 items (ie the combine plus the
returned item) but was not aware that forage would allow that. I assumed
it would give you the "you can't hold another item" message.
Very interesting idea, and sounds like it may work.
Bcarshaman
The Nameless

...

Yep you can have more than one while foraging. Because of the way I have my
bard set up for kiting, I forage at the same time. When I am done I drop
anything that is foraged up. Uncommon with my crappy forage skill, but
there are times when I will auto-inv two foraged items.

[SuperTech]

Post by Richard Lawson
Yes, yes, I know I can bind forage to a movement key or something like that,
but that's not what I want. =)
--
-Richard
Monual Lifegiver
Archon of Rodcet Nife
Silent Tempest
Marrtuk
Knight of Mithaniel Marr
Drinal server

Send me a tell in game goob! I will let you know how to do it. I have it
setup on my druid on the other account.

Ttony
Feral Lord
Silent Tempest

Drinal Server
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