Sample Macro

[Orad]

Hey guys.. The restarts really have hampered me as far as getting my grind resources to get going because I am constantly getting logged off.

I have been messing with my sample macro trying to get my toon to log back in and continue sampling when the server comes back up. I have the log back in part up and running and then I have placed the survey tool in my toolbar and get that to fire.. the problem is that it wants me to physically open my inventory before I open my survey tool.

Does anyone know a command to do this? I found the other commands I needed no problem.. but can't find any mention of a way to do this. I didn't use any macro's that would log me back in on live so I can't say if this needing to open your inventory is a bug or as intended. I do remember being able to fire my tools from my toolbars no problem.. but I am pretty sure I had already opened my inventory at some point before I ever used something like that before.

[Maldred]

Hey old friend,

Here is the autolog macro I use. Make sure the toon you want to autolog is at the top of your character list.

/pause .5;
/ui action gameMenuActivate;
/ui action defaultButton;
/pause 300;
/ui action defaultButton;

This logs me every 5 minutes. That is usually enough time for restarts.

[Orad]

Thanks! I will try it!

Ok.. so it looks like that gamuMenuActivate command is an actual logging command.

/ui action defaultButton; will log you back in by itself.. I use it as a line in my sample macro.

Right now my sample macro looks like this..

/sample;
/pause 1;
/ui action defaultButton;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/pause 30;
/macro sample;

This macro will log me back in and fire my first toolbar slot.. but it actually bugs my tool and makes me have to delete it and craft a new one. I'm sure I messed up somewhere or I am missing a command.. either that or I need to open my inventory every time I log in. Not sure which it is.

[Orad]

Since this has been here for a month and no one has came in with a solution I am just going to assume it isn't possible to do this..

Oh well.

[LamaLeif]

There is no solution afaik, you still have to manually use the survey tool on a resource once after reset before a sample macro will work.

[Orad]

Thanks for the reply.

[billynilly]

There is no solution afaik, you still have to manually use the survey tool on a resource once after reset before a sample macro will work.

I have managed to figure out a way around the "have to use the tool once" issue.

NOTE: You still TECHNICALLY have to use the tool once, but if you are going to log in to start a macro on your artisan, you can take 15 seconds to press a button on your bar with the tool inside, select a mineral/chemical/whatever and survey. After you do this, as long as the softlog macro runs properly(see below) then all you need to do is open the tool window. The previously selected material will still be selected. Again, this is a minor semantic that isn't a big deal IMO.

I make two macros - one is the generic softlog macro that you can find using a google search. The other one is my sample macro, which looks similar to this:

/ui action toolbarSlot14; \\this line presses the button on my toolbar in which I have placed my survey tool, causing it to appear.
/pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot14; \\closes the survey window
/pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot15; \\this is where I have the icon for the sample action
/pause 360; \\6 mins is the time it currently takes my newb artisan to use up his action
/sit;
/pause 180; \\3 mins to regenerate action
/stand;
/pause 5; \\a 'just in case' lag buffer, can't sample whilst sitting....

start over from top, copy paste etc etc

This will loop for however long you like, but with the server restarts every 2.5 hrs, it gets a bit tricky. When the character select window appears on a NORMAL logout(i.e while the server is still running), the /ui action defaultButton command will allow you to log back in.

This remains true as long as the server status doesn't change to OFFLINE. If the status reads offline you have to go back an additional screen and completely log back out and in again.

Finally, call your softlog macro at the end of the desired cycle time. My guy softlogs every 47 minutes. The overlap will allow for a relog once, maybe twice - I haven't done the math.

I have managed to get my macro system working once - it actually went for 5 hours and survived a server restart. By sheer luck I managed to get the times to overlap in such a way that the status never changed, so I could log back in using the /ui action defaultButton thing.

By the way, that command is NOT a logon command. It simply tells the UI to press the default button, which is the enter key. The enter key will select the topmost highlighted character on your list, so make sure your artisan is at the top (re-sort by name).

It takes a bit of experimentation, but it can be done even with the server restarts. 5 hours of macro time is better than 2.5, which is STILL better than sitting at the KB while maxing surveying. It sucks!