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Does anyone know if the experience earned before you get automatically disconnected gets saved? This has happened to me on a few occasions and I was just hoping that it would, even though your camp is disbanded when you log back on and there are no messages regarding experience.

Although I've never fully tested this out, basic observations and assumptions on my part point to "no". Hopefully I'm wrong, though.

Almost 100% sure you don't get the xp. I've got kicked a few times while camping (or gone afk too long and came back to be logged out) and I didn't see an xp increase. Btw, can someone post and tell how to disable the auto-logout? I can't find it under CTRL-O anywhere.

Wow! Something I actually know about, woot!

No, you don't get xp from your camp if it times you out. I did a test of this. Wrote down my xp number and ate dinner. Came back and had one point less than I started when I logged back in. Insult to injury I guess.

Ok, I've had 95% success with these changesso far and feel it's worth sharing. First, I change the timeout from 10 minutes to 30, and THEN uncheck it. Can't change it while it's unchecked. Probably doesn't make a difference but it's habit now and I don't change a formula that works. The camping macro I -don't- use :::cough::: has more than just setting up camps. I have /forage typed in and the occasionalodd commentto confuse passers-by. /forage;/say Shoot! I lost another contact. Don't step here please.;/pause 10;/say Oooh, worms!

Come back later and it's time to make more camps and, if you're lucky, train.

Yep, you can't really avoid disconnecting by an option setting.

You have to fool them into thinking you are still on by doing what was mentioned... add /say or /sit or /stand and that sort of thing into your macro.

As far as I know at least.

Even with /sit, /stand, /wank, or whatever, I was getting booted. I think /say is the key.

sheer genius. thank you gents.

can we get a line or two of your disconnectresistant macro?

type /afk when going afk instead of letting it auto-afk. It's a lot nicer to people trying to send you tells and it seems to regularly prevent auto-disconnect unelss they changed this. The difference seems to be that your afk status is intentionally set.

also, /sit then /logout instead of /quit... it's a lot safer for you as /quit still leaves your "body" ingame and can get agroed.

heh I wonder if /yawn will work just as well as /say

The intentional AFK is a good idea. I'll have to start using that. I had to create a separate window for /tells so that I could tell who sent me a message while I was afk. That would solve a lot of confusion. As for a line from my macro, it's fairly cut and dry.

/ui toolbarSlotXX(you know the drill);/forage;/say Darn it! I dropped my keys again...

For those of you new to the Ranger ranks here's the camping macro that will work and not get you disconnected because of inactivity. The key here is the frequent calls to /ui action toolbarSlotXX. This programmatically presses your hotkeys for you and prevents disconnect. Funny /says can be added along with the pauses if desired but are not mandatory.

Please note the 5 second pauses. At first glance this may appear silly since you know that your camps aren't going to auto-disband in 5 seconds. But that's not how we are using this. We are counting on the fact that when we attempt to start Camp 2 after having Camp 1 already in place, the system will tell us, in so many words, "Hey stupid, you already have a camp up." and then move on. It doesn't hurt anything to start a camp with one already in place so the macro just moves on. Until, that is, our camp auto disbands (approximately 48 minutes for a High Quality camp). Once we actually do not have a camp in place, the macro starts another one up for us automatically. Thus the short delay as we don't need to sit there "campless" for a long time.

First, make 23 Camp kits, your choice.
Next, make a new macro with the following text ( its all one line, I just formatted it for easy reading):

/ui action toolbarSlot01; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot02; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot03; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot04; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot05; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot06; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot07; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot08; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot09; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot10; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot11; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot12; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot13; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot14; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot15; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot16; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot17; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot18; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot19; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot20; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot21; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot22; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot23; /pause 5;
/pause 300;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;

Note the final call to the first slot. This is what makes the macro recursive and able to run non-stop as long as you have camp kits to start.

Next, in an empty, two-row toolbar menu, place themacro in the upper left slot, i.e. the very first one, i.e. slot00.
Next, place a camp in each each of the 23 remaining slots.
Next,click the macro to start.

That should keep you going for almost 24 hours at which time or sooner you will either have to add more camps to the now-empty toolbar slots or you can stop the macro at anytime by just removing the macro icon from the first toolbar slot.

Just FYI and to avoid incoming flames, I could care less if Rangers macro camping especially as of the new patch where the xp requirement is lessened and the new ways to earn survival experience. Use if you want to or don't if you don't.

Whoops! Forgot to put the word 'action' in my post. Thank you for clarifying the bits I didn't go into. I had to add the /say line to keep me from timing out. Do you set yourself manually to /AFK for this? If it turns out that /say isn't necessary at all when manually set to /AFK, that would save us all a lot of confusion.