Creature Handler Archive

About the /tellpet thing...Truer words have never been spoken Before it was even put in, I felt badly about spamming the chat with, "ThingI attack", "ThingI follow", etc. and was very happy to be able to get rid of that annoyance. And I think that "a" and "f" crap is really silly as well, unless you're doing a tame-train-release strategy of leveling

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raw_messiah wrote:

I understand where your coming from but.....

... I am also a rifleman as well as a CH. In my 24 slots I have:

4 rifles (yes they are all necessary and used in different situations)

Attack

Kneel

Stand

Prone

7X Rifle special attacks

Pack of Stim B's

First Aid - Heal Bleed

2 X Traps

Wookie Roar

Burstrun

Tame (ok so I could drop this one.....)

Maskscent Macro

Peace Macro

Which means I dont have space for my CH commands in my toolbar. Therefore I use A/F/S so that in the heat of the moment it is like hitting a toolbar button. Sorry for cluttering the spacial, i know it can be a pain, but it's the best solution I have open to me.

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No offense pal but.. BS. I'm a rifleman too and have my entire toolbar filled with rifleman hotkeys, so you know what I did? I set up all the pet macros on my second toolbar ( hit the arrow keys next to the toolbar) it's easy as pie to switch between the two after you get used to it and it spares a ll the spamming.

Oh and another thing, not only am I rifleman, but my pet commands are spelled out aswell (my attack command is "sic'em!" and my follow command is "c'mon" etc,etc. and when I don't feel like switch tool bars I just type them out. it honestly does NOT save you that much time If you need your hands free to move then just go into third person turn yourself away from your opponent and hit numlock, easiest way to kite.

All you have to do to get me to do this is have SOE fix tellpet so it works reliably. lol I will never understand people. If you look at the originator's sig he is probably a merchant class. Yeah, right bud, my a aa in the middle of no where is much more annoying than your spamming 20 line shouts every 15 seconds at the starport. lol

Another solution is to /alias a command.

Do this to set it up:
/alias tpatt /tellpet attack

Then next time you want your pet to attack:
/tpatt

Even better would be to remove your CH macros from your toolbar.

If you have a macro named "att" that attacks:
/macro att

I'd rather use spatial for RP purposes. That said, I use /tellpet for some commands like group that kinda make no sense RP wise.

Actually I agree with the one-letter commands. That's just annoying.

screw making macros. Some people just do not have the space to put a macro in their 2hotbars.

You have weapons / attack specials / medic specials / non combat ( sit kneel stand mask scent )

I have all my regularly used combat and creature skills on what I call my "combat" toolbar. If you can't squeeze all your regular combat and pet stuff into 24 slots, chances are you've got stuff you aren't really using. I've divided all my skillsup like this, 1 bar for crafting, one for combat, one for emotes, one for every day stuff (surveying, vehicle, ad spamming and extra). Switching back and forth via the Ctrl+~ and Ctrl+Tab is so fast, it makes organizing macros and commands so much better.

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MrHawat wrote:
All you have to do to get me to do this is have SOE fix tellpet so it works reliably. lol I will never understand people. If you look at the originator's sig he is probably a merchant class. Yeah, right bud, my a aa in the middle of no where is much more annoying than your spamming 20 line shouts every 15 seconds at the starport. lol

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