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Thread: Grinding with a macro??
Get up the engineering tree by crafting any of the tool shcematics, structure, general, food & chem etc.
Keep doing this until you are high enough up the tree to get wind generators,. At this time, switch to them wind babies and never look back!
I use 5 tools. I placed them on the second row of buttons starting at Shift-F2 (toolbarSlot13). I have a master macro inF1that calls each secondary macro in turn. The secondary macros I placed above the tools they call starting inF2 and going to F7.Finally, my last secondary macro in F7 calls the master macro again.
So my first macro looks like this:
/ui action toolbarSlot01;
/pause 10;
/ui action toolbarSlot02;
/pause 10;
/ui action toobarSlot03;
etc.....
In slot 01, 02, 03 I have the secondary macros. They look like this:
/ui action toolbarSlot13;
/selectDraftSchematic 160;
/pause 7;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
On the last macro as mentioned above, I also have the lines:
/pause 7;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;
The numbers 7 and 10 are flexible. I found they gave me enough time to click the ingredients to add them in. Some folks have them very much lower like 2 & 6. That was too fast for me. Find your own comfort zone by experimentation.
The number 160 refers to the schematic number of the item you wish to craft. I'm sure you have read around enough here to know how to find that. A little macro to test if you have found the right number once you've counted through your datapad might be:
/ui action toolbarSlot13;
/sel 20;
This will start a tool and call the schematic.
Finally, to stop the macro you can type /dump at the control line and it will finish. You could tuck it up onto a macro of it's own but I didn't really find this to be worth the bother.
Good luck and don't let grinding become the main focus of what you do. A little each night between playing, chatting, hanging out or just enjoying the actual game is much better than 12 hours of solid macro grinding!
Io-Accar Witteb
WOW Beladan, i don't post much but i read the boards nearly every day and i have to say this is quite simply one of the most useful and informative posts i have EVER had the pleasure of reading.
THANK YOU very much for sharing your information and your macros with us.
NeoEcks
If you mean grinding into an elite profession I used powerups to get Novice Tailor. I had 3 crafting tools going and i was sampling for whatever resource i needed for the powerup while i crafted. Worked very well and i grinded it out with little to no problems. Hope this helps
Daschal - Bounty Hunter (0(1) 2 2 2) - Gorath
Daschal - Tailor (0 2 0 1) - Naritus
Daschal - Doctor (3 3 0 1) - Scylla
that goes double for me, I have never seen another post better than this one on Macroing crafting
But I do wish you had included the "how to find the schematic number" info....lol
I don't really understand how to do this, Could you explain for one crafting station?
Simple it up!
errgon wrote:
that goes double for me, I have never seen another post better than this one on Macroing crafting
But I do wish you had included the "how to find the schematic number" info....lol
finding the schematic number is pretty easy, count from the first schematic number over then down until you get to the one you want...say it's #34, them subtract 1 cuz the system starts counting at 0. That would make it schematic #33. Then to test boot your crafting tool/station and type in the command
/selectdraftSchematic 33
This will boot schematic 33 into the tool/station, which should be the right one, if not then look to see how close it is and adjust from there.
Hope that helps...
Tornado1 wrote:
I don't really understand how to do this, Could you explain for one crafting station?
Simple it up!
The following is the macro I setup for 1 crafting station, with the macro in slot 1 and the crafting tool in slot 2.
/ui action toolbarSlot01 (boots crafting tool)
/pause 5 (pauses to allow crafting tool to load)
/selectdraftschematic 09 (selects the item to craft)
/pause 15 (pause to allow loading of resources)
/nextcraftingstage (move to next crafting screen)
/nextcraftingstage (move to next crafting screen)
/nextcraftingstage (move to next crafting screen)
/createPrototype practice no item (accepts creation of selected item)
/createPrototype practice no item (yes, you need both lines)
/pause 25 (pause to let crafting tool reset)
/ui action toolbarSlot00 (restart crafting session)
Obviously the macro loops, if you don't want it to then just omit the last 2 lines. I hope this is informative for you. The macro works really well, if you have all your resources you can grind XP in a hurry, I ground over 15k of xp with this macro in under 2 hours! 
If you still don't understand Tornado let me know exactly what you don't get and I'll be happy to go into more detail.
I have a problem with this also. I have the macro as follows:
/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/selectdraftSchematic 39;
/pause 8;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
And it starts the crafting tool, selects the proper schematic, goes to the part where I add my components, I add them, wait a moment, then... the window closes and I get a "Crafting Session Ended" message. Every time. Same thing happens to my sister when she tries it. Any idea what the *censored* is going on?
i have used this macro for a very long time. it's the best!! if you want the selectdraft line (or whatever it is) can be shortened to "sel" and then the number. but i have a question for all macro writers... i heard rumor of a command that will allow you to use the previous resources over without having to click away. I am a BE and all i can really do is macro for over 170k xp for 3 lines at only 105xp per item. needless to say that is hours of clicking and clicking and clicking... so if anyone knows it i would be a greatfull man indeed.
Benja
Master CH
Bio-Engineer
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