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Ok, I need a macro that will target the nearest creature, attack it, harvest it, pause for 1 min and then repeat. How do I do this and how do I implement it into the game?

Thanks

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Coreena Telios
Master Dancer
Starsider Galaxy

Chumley W'Rner & Matsumunai - Rebel layabouts

Chumley W'Rner & Matsumunai - Rebel layabouts

I will provide my answer to the original question, then give my opinion -

Macro Name: AFKranged

/ui action targetSelf;

/ui action cycleTargetOutward;

/attack;

/pause 60; (you may want to adjust this number - this is 60 seconds which is a long time)

/loot;

/harvest hide; (or meat or bone - your choice)

/macro AFKranged;

I'd prefer two macros so that you don't waste time -

Macro Name: AFKranged2

/ui action targetSelf;

/ui action cycleTargetOutward;

/attack;

/macro AFKlootandharvest;

/pause 10; (no worries - if it's not dead in 10 seconds, the macro will loop and continue to attack the same thing)

/macro AFKranged2;

Macro Name: AFKlootandharvest

/loot;

/harvest hide; (or meat or bone)

/macro AFKlootandharvest;

You'll get flooded with system messages that say you can't harvest or loot till its dead, but that doesn't matter since you are AFK.

I don't use this myself, soI don't know if it works - you may need to make some tweaks here and there - but it's from my pistoleer notes (yes, I keep lots of notes on everthing I find on these boards and elsewhere) so I thought I'd share it. If it's xp and resources you want, it's a whole lot faster (and more fun) to solo-group, get a doctor buff and some brandy, and head to Endor or Dantooine for three hours.

About AFK macros, as far as I know you can do it. The devs are very good about not letting you take too much advantage of the macro system (i.e. you can't AFK crafting without a third-party program to double-click for you - which IS expressly forbidden), however, if you can come up with a macro using SWG and only SWG to accomplish what you want to do - have fun! I don't understand the point, but hey it's your life.

Warning: certain others do not like AFK players and will kite large, aggressive creatures to you in order to kill you. I have seen it done.

why would you ask that here? and why would you only harvest once per min?

Cause he is planning to harvest a static spawn AFK lol...

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Yeah... and that has what to do with pistoleer?

Now maybe the scout or ranger board would make more sence.

If he were doing it for pistol xp he could just go to a static NPC spawn that he has poor faction to and let them attack him and run a simple macro /loot repeating with a /pause 5 /ui action unselect (or whatever the line is, something like that) macro. No hides come out of that but you get pistol xp (related to the pistoleer boards) and you get money/junk/locked containers/maybe a crystal or something else decent.

who needs a third party program to click? I bet if you try hard enough you can find a mouse with a "turbo" option on it that will make it click constantly as long as the button is held down or something of that matter. Then just tape down the button.

but then again I have no proof one exists, I was just figuring there would be one somewhere. I don't believe any kind of hardware could be considered illegal.

Chumley W'Rner & Matsumunai - Rebel layabouts

I mentioned third-party software that performs AFK double-clicking in regards to crafting macros, not the ranged macro above.

I agree, if you use the game to play the game, cool (even if you are AFK in my book, though I still don't see the point). If you use any other programs to make the game easier, you are cheating.