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Thread: Survey XP the bane of my life
HalasterTheBlack wrote:
macro name: sampleForever
/kneel;
/pause 5;
/sample;
/pause 5;
/stand;
/pause 5;
/kneel;
/pause 15;
/dump; <------------add this line to the macro to keep you from havingmultiple loopingmacros running at once, that might be the problem
/m sampleForever;
Find a good concentration and do that. Overnight.
Keeper32 wrote:
So what do you do about the popups? (300 action for larger sample, or new wp) Just ignore them?
You can also break sampling by sitting between sampling. This has two effects - first, you heal slightly faster while sitting, so you can speed up your sampling a bit (assuming you aren't speeding it up already with food buffs). Second, sitting cancels sampling. So if you have a popup box, it will simply ignore it and the next sample cycle will start fresh. When you come back to keyboard, you will have lots of boxes to clear. No big deal.
The only downside I am aware of to a stand, pause, sample, pause, sit, and repeat macro is that the sit/stand cycles will cause you to drift very slowly. You can stop this by parking yourself in front of a building or heavy harvester or just let it happen (though you will slowly drift out of your sampling area and potentially into red lairs).
Giamai wrote:
HalasterTheBlack wrote:
macro name: sampleForever
/kneel;
/pause 5;
/sample;
/pause 5;
/stand;
/pause 5;
/kneel;
/pause 15;
/dump; <------------add this line to the macro to keep you from havingmultiple loopingmacros running at once, that might be the problem
/m sampleForever;
Find a good concentration and do that. Overnight.
wouldn't adding the /dump kill the macro, thus never calling the next line? Just wondering. I'm at work at the moment and can't go home to check this.
unkleted wrote:
Giamai wrote:
HalasterTheBlack wrote:
macro name: sampleForever
/kneel;
/pause 5;
/sample;
/pause 5;
/stand;
/pause 5;
/kneel;
/pause 15;
/dump; <------------add this line to the macro to keep you from havingmultiple loopingmacros running at once, that might be the problem
/m sampleForever;
Find a good concentration and do that. Overnight.
wouldn't adding the /dump kill the macro, thus never calling the next line? Just wondering. I'm at work at the moment and can't go home to check this.
yeah i see your point but all my entertainer macros work for some reason /shrug. i have a survey macro i can take a look at it later, i did the same thing in that one. what /dump does is stop paused macros so maybe it works because the next line is to call the macro up again, there is no puase going. anyways i'm at work too but i'll look, i did all of survey overnight with it.
what i do know is that without it, you get multiple looping macros and that eventually freezes you.