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Thread: surveying from a vehicle IS possible... heres how
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Salporin_Wookie
Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:38 am
#1
This is a method I use while tracking down the highest concentration of a certain resource...
setup...
open the survey tool
select thematerial you are looking for
target your speeder
hit macro key
drive to highest concentration wp
heres the macro...
/dismount;
/pause 1;
/survey;
/pause 1;
/mount;
and thats it! The whole macro takes 2 seconds. I have used this macro in the middle of an agro spawn and still mounted and drove off before I was hit! It saves me a huge amount of time.
tips...
**keep you bike targetted! If you don't you won't remount.
**keep your survey window open so you can see the concentration as you drive
**make a macro key for mask scent if you have it. The one second pause is short, but you can remask after you dismount if you time it right.
scoutmasterDiamond
Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:41 am
#2
also checking extractors and stuff is possible, i didnt realise this until last night. very useful for a quick collection sweep.
stryfex03
Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:48 am
#3
This works as long as you don't get warped when you dismount.If that happens it'll break the macro since you'd be too far to mount the speeder again.. you'd have to run back to your speeder.
duncje
Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:26 am
#4
Technically, if you get off the vehicle, you're not surveying from it, are you? 
Good info, though.
Salporin_Wookie
Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:10 am
#5
you're right, I didn't mention the warping, but if you come to a complete stop before hitting the macro, you should not warp. The only time I've warped was when I was still moving when I hit it.
Yeah sure, if you want to get technical, it's not surveying "on" the vehicle, but this simple macro makes surveying MUCH easier and faster, and until the day they let us survey while riding, it works well enough.
ABStash
Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:19 am
#6
If you add "/target speeder" (without the quotes, obviously) before your /mount command you'll automatically target your bike if it's not already your focus. This works for both bikes, and I believe this should work with landspeeders as well, but you'd likely have to change the "speeder" to "landspeeder".
stryfex03
Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:22 am
#7
Not necessarily. I've come to a complete stop before and was still warped.. not that far, only about 6-10m, but still far enough so that I can't mount the speeder again from where I was.
OrionsByte
Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:09 am
#8
ABStash wrote:
If you add "/target speeder" (without the quotes, obviously) before your /mount command you'll automatically target your bike if it's not already your focus. This works for both bikes, and I believe this should work with landspeeders as well, but you'd likely have to change the "speeder" to "landspeeder".
You can also just use /mount speeder or /mount landspeeder directly without using /target. I have a macro that includes a /mount speeder, /mount landspeeder, and /mount (Tornado) just to make sure I mount whatever happens to be pulled out... 
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