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/harvest bone

/harvest meat

/harvest hide

I usually make a seperate macro for each one and include the /loot all command. For example:

/loot all;
/harvest hide;

Would be my hide macro. I use these macros both to harvest and to loot NPCs. /evil

Edit: I just read JB's reply.... I've never had that problem strangely. I will have to try it out more.

Message Edited by Vorpaks on 12-15-2004 01:10 PM

oh, yes--thx for adding the loot command, forgot about that one. I learned that sometime ago and added it to all my harvest macros.

/tar corpse <<--how does this work in the macro? does it target nearest corpse for you in coase you have moved on to another target?

anyone know if there is a way to use a macro to direct a harvest droid on what to harvest, as opposed to having to setting it in the programing options? it would be nice for those times you are hunting differnt resources, like avain meat and wooly hides, but the chances of both being of high quality on same planet is pretty rare.

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Paks wrote:
I usually make a seperate macro for each one and include the /loot all command. For example:

/loot all;
/harvest hide;

Would be my hide macro. I use these macros both to harvest and to loot NPCs. /evil

Edit: I just read JB's reply.... I've never had that problem strangely. I will have to try it out more.

Message Edited by Vorpaks on 12-15-2004 01:10 PM

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JBMat wrote:

Add /lootall to that just in case the creatures do have something worth looting.

Do not use the harvesting macro on people as a shortcut to looting. It somehow messes the macro up and it won't harvest after that.

JB

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very interesting... I didn't know this. I always use my harvesting macro for looting NPCs. However, yesterday after the new publish (11.5) my harvesting macros didnt' work at all. I'm going to fix them tonight when I'm on hopefully, but I had no idea what the problem was. It was quite bizzar and made harvesting a big pain the a$$. Thanks for this tidbit of insight!

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Cosra13 wrote:

The best one that i know of is...

/tar corpse

/harvest XXX

/tar "insert character name"

/macro harvest

Cosra Gea'fey

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I've never seen the macro written this way. Can someone please elaborate on how the 'target corpse' and 'tar "insert char name" work. These are new to me and I'm confused

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Cryos_Merovingian wrote:

I've never seen the macro written this way. Can someone please elaborate on how the 'target corpse' and 'tar "insert char name" work. These are new to me and I'm confused

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That is easy to explain. This is a recursive macro, as such has to return to a status-quo before looping to behave predictable at all times.
That is why /tar "insert char name" is there, so that you always have you self targeted when the macro loops.
/tar is of cause the short version of /target, "insert char name" is the to choose the target... /tar self should work as well.

/tar corpse will target the closest object that start with 'corpse', weather it have been harvested and looted before, or if it is something named 'corpse******'

So the macro will do the following.
1) Target the closes object starting with 'corpse'.
2) harvest attempt to harvest the resource XXX from it.
3) Target the player.
4) Repeat from 1

Not this macro would be the type use while being afk, with out a /pause it would be impossible to target anything else, and a /dump would have to be issued before you resume combat with you next target.

Oh man, that's fantastic. Thank you very much for open my eyes to this. As a swordsman, I often clear our a big lair of crap and then have a pile of corpses that I have to try and target manually and I'm sure I miss a rancor in the pile here and there. Largely, I didn't know that you could /tar corpse. Again, thanks!

I noticed that I use a lot of shortcuts in this game typing-wise because it makes it a lot quicker when you're in the heat of combat (IE. /dm aliased for /dismount).

I was harvesting the regular way by waiting for the radial menu to pop up while having a critter selected and holding down the mouse button and picking 'harvest' from there. I thought this to be somewhat slow and wanted to compare the speed with a macro binded to an alias and this is what I have come up with:


MACRO 1
name: harvest_bone
macro text:
/harvest bone;
/loot;

MACRO 2
name: harvest_hide
macro text:
/harvest hide;
/loot;

MACRO 3
name: harvest_meat
macro text:
/harvest meat;
/loot;

Now, this is somewhat easy and common, but what I did next was bind them to an alias, so for MACRO 1 I did: "/alias hb /macro harvest_bone" for MACRO 2 I did: "/alias hh /macro harvest_hide" and for MACRO 3 I did: "/alias hm /macro harvest_meat" ... What this allows me to do is walk up to a target after it has been killed and then while it is selected, I just type in /hh if I want to harvest the hide and incase there is any loot, it will loot the critter. I've been using this for a while and it works great IMO. If you want, try it out and see how it works for you. I've been wanting to share this with other Scouts / Rangers but figured it might have been thought of before (: