Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Superior AFK Sampling Macro
Page 1 of 2
MajorXP
Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:55 pm
#1
Hey all..
I did bio-engineer as a holo profession and liked it - so I kept it for a few months. I HATED the sampling line. I did the first box manually with a /follow;/sample macro, and it was like having my teeth grinded. Sooo...being able to write a few lines of macro code came up over time with this perfect macro for sampling.
All you have to do is come to the computer every few hours and craft or delete using the samples so your inventory does not fill up.
First, get a pet that has the group and stay commands. Find a spot that has lots of NEWBIEanimals like the one south of theed. I say newbie in caps because if they do attack you (and they will) you want to be able to kill them with ease. You don't really need the maskscent part, but I needed the xp and even if you don't you can sell the appxp later or give it to a guildie.
Ok...now that you have found your spot, take your pet out and group him and have him stay in the center of the animals. Then press CONTROL-SHIFT-S. This will spin you around so you can see all of them around you. This might make you a bit dizzy feeling if you have never seen this before...then run the macro below. You will end up running to the closest animal, sample him twice (if you can) and then run back to your pet (so you dont end up halfway across the server). Then you will repeat that over and over.
/ui action targetGroup0;
/ui action cycleTargetOutward;
/follow;
/pause 7;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/harvest meat;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/harvest meat;
/ui action targetGroup0;
/follow;
/pause 5;
/ui action cycleTargetOutward;
/pause 5;
/maskscent;
/ui action toolbarSlot12;
I hope this is useful for someone and hope that I don't get one starred for helping people afk game.
Message Edited by MajorXP on 07-03-2004 09:56 PM
NZSithSniper
Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:07 am
#2
MajorXP wrote:
Hey all..
I did bio-engineer as a holo profession and liked it - so I kept it for a few months. I HATED the sampling line. I did the first box manually with a /follow;/sample macro, and it was like having my teeth grinded. Sooo...being able to write a few lines of macro code came up over time with this perfect macro for sampling.
All you have to do is come to the computer every few hours and craft or delete using the samples so your inventory does not fill up.
First, get a pet that has the group and stay commands. Find a spot that has lots of NEWBIEanimals like the one south of theed. I say newbie in caps because if they do attack you (and they will) you want to be able to kill them with ease. You don't really need the maskscent part, but I needed the xp and even if you don't you can sell the appxp later or give it to a guildie.
Ok...now that you have found your spot, take your pet out and group him and have him stay in the center of the animals. Then press CONTROL-SHIFT-S. This will spin you around so you can see all of them around you. This might make you a bit dizzy feeling if you have never seen this before...then run the macro below. You will end up running to the closest animal, sample him twice (if you can) and then run back to your pet (so you dont end up halfway across the server). Then you will repeat that over and over.
/ui action targetGroup0;
/ui action cycleTargetOutward;
/follow;
/pause 7;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/harvest meat;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/harvest meat;
/ui action targetGroup0;
/follow;
/pause 5;
/ui action cycleTargetOutward;
/pause 5;
/maskscent;
/ui action toolbarSlot12;
I hope this is useful for someone and hope that I don't get one starred for helping people afk game.
Message Edited by MajorXP on 07-03-2004 09:56 PM
Hey, although I do not agree with AFK gaming so much, this is a blooody good idea, I have seen and tried others based like this for Unarmed XP (Just cos i dont agree with it doesnt mean i wont try it 
).
Only thing I never thought of was grouping a pet and continually running back to it, that part is genius...
Kudos to you my friend...the BE grind truly isa B1tch...
Aynianu
Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:25 am
#3
Very nice macro 
altho i just finished doing the DNA on farstar now, and doing the awfull crafting part
altho i just finished doing the DNA on farstar now, and doing the awfull crafting partanyway, can you harvest DNA sampled creatures? ive never been able to and assumed you cant. Or is this just incase you kill a creature on it agro'ing?
OteTwilek
Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:26 pm
#4
The harvest meat is just in case they attack you and you kill it.
O'te
MadKrillian
Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:37 pm
#5
VERY good macro, I used it when I did bio-engineer as my 30th profession and unlocked.
MajorXP
Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:50 am
#6
shameless bump since i saw a post about how to do the sample line
Ethmo
Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:14 am
#7
hey, i was just wondering, i havent started BE yet, but can you craft while sampling and in turn, running that macro?
MajorXP
Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:34 am
#8
Ethmo wrote:
hey, i was just wondering, i havent started BE yet, but can you craft while sampling and in turn, running that macro?
yes...with one exception... sampling leads to being attacked and if you engage in combat, it will break any crafting attempts being made..
zeropulse86
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:51 pm
#10
great macro. the only problem i found with this is that it keeps selecting my own pet to sample, which it doesn't let you do. anyway around this (the pet's grouped).
droid327
Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:51 pm
#11
you sure this seems right? the logic flow doesnt sound exactly on...shouldnt it be something a little more like this?
/ui action cycleTargetOutward;
/follow;
/pause 7;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/harvest meat;
/ui action targetGroup0;
/follow;
/pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot12;
/follow;
/pause 7;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/sampleDNA;
/pause 11;
/harvest meat;
/ui action targetGroup0;
/follow;
/pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot12;
This just seems a little more streamlined...starting with your pet targeted, target out, follow, pause to arrive. Sample, wait, sample again, wait, then harvest meat.Having it harvest 11s after you first sample isnt going to collect you any meat - it takes 10s to do the sample, and I doubt you'd kill it in 1s since it lags a bit usually between aggro and killshot even for yardtrash. You'd just end up getting a lot of "You cannot harvest XXX in your current state". After samples are gotten and/or meat is collected, target pet, return to it, and repeat from beginning. There's less lines too, which may be important when they remove recursive macros =)
oh and forgot, took out the maskscent line...dont really need it for sampling yard trash, as theres places like behind Eisley starport where all the yard trash is nonaggro. Besides, /masking while /masked just unmasks you, so you'd only be masked for every other creature you sample =) Better, if you really want the maskscent going, to time how long it takes to run out given your +maskscent bonus and have a second looping macro keeping your scent up, a la center-of-being macros for brawler types.
Message Edited by droid327 on 08-06-2004 06:54 PM
Madturk_Kilborn
Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:24 am
#12
Great macro, still we lack a spot to use it. There must me some sort of low lvl animal cave , with lots of things to sample.
MajorXP
Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:36 am
#13
Madturk_Kilborn wrote:
Great macro, still we lack a spot to use it. There must me some sort of low lvl animal cave , with lots of things to sample.
South of theed is a great spot...I don't have the wp, but it is relatively easy to find. There is a great spot in cnet near the back of the starport and in Tyrenia there is a good spot too (but i don't remember where).
Pretty much anywhere with 6 or more creatures will work fine.
zeropulse86 wrote:
great macro. the only problem i found with this is that it keeps selecting my own pet to sample, which it doesn't let you do. anyway around this (the pet's grouped).
no way around it... If there are no creatures in the area, it won't have something to target, so your pet gets sampled.
droid327 wrote:
you sure this seems right? the logic flow doesnt sound exactly on...shouldnt it be something a little more like this?
................
This just seems a little more streamlined...starting with your pet targeted, target out, follow, pause to arrive. Sample, wait, sample again, wait, then harvest meat.Having it harvest 11s after you first sample isnt going to collect you any meat - it takes 10s to do the sample, and I doubt you'd kill it in 1s since it lags a bit usually between aggro and killshot even for yardtrash. You'd just end up getting a lot of "You cannot harvest XXX in your current state". After samples are gotten and/or meat is collected, target pet, return to it, and repeat from beginning. There's less lines too, which may be important when they remove recursive macros =)
oh and forgot, took out the maskscent line...dont really need it for sampling yard trash, as theres places like behind Eisley starport where all the yard trash is nonaggro. Besides, /masking while /masked just unmasks you, so you'd only be masked for every other creature you sample =) Better, if you really want the maskscent going, to time how long it takes to run out given your +maskscent bonus and have a second looping macro keeping your scent up, a la center-of-being macros for brawler types.
Message Edited by droid327 on 08-06-2004 06:54 PM
The sampling and the maskscent were to get xp, not meat. I should have been clear on that. It will give you xp that you can either use or give/sell as appxp. I like to try and maximize the xp I get on any activity. I was not trying to actually maskscent from yard trash.
I am not saying you would kill the yard trash in 1 second. I'm saying that if you fail the sample, which happens, the creature will aggro you. You will not be able to sample again until you have won in combat (regardless of time). So once you finish fighting, you can sample the creature and get some xp. Depending on your other skills, if you have any combat skills, you will kill the yard trash in one hit so this WILL work, but if you don't have combat skills, it won't.
Nobody knows how the recursive thing will happen....I have asked several times exactly how it will be implemented with no response. This macro works well with what we have today....I will most likely have to change with the new system....once it is in place.
Message Edited by MajorXP on 08-09-2004 09:39 AM
Page 1 of 2