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/harvest bone; /loot

/harvest hide; /loot

/harvest meat; /loot

saves time having these 3 diff macros hotkeyed

And the one I use:

Most people have some kind of loot-macro, which looks something like this:

/deathblow;/harvest;/loot;/maskscent

With this macro you end up harvesting whatever the system gives for this critter. But some people do want to control what they harvest. For example, I do never want to harvest meat, if I can harvest bone or hide from that critter. So I would end up having two or three macros in my hotbar:

/deathblow;/harvest bone;/loot;/maskscent
/deathblow;/harvest hide;/loot;/maskscent
/deathblow;/harvest meat;/loot;/maskscent

But well... using two or three slots of my small 24-positions hotbar buggs me somehow. So I thought of how to write one macro which samples only bone or hide from a critter. I end up with a nice macro (imho ).

So I changed the macro on my hotbar to following:

/deathblow;/harvestswitch;/loot;/maskscent

As you see, the command /harvestswitch is not a usual command, it's an alias wich is described below, but before it works, you must make some more changes. Logout of the game, open your aliases.txt in your SWG folder and insert following lines:

doharvestbone /harvest bone;/alias harvestswitch /doharvesthide
doharvesthide /harvest hide;/alias harvestswitch /doharvestbone
harvestswitch /doharvestbone

or if you don't want to logout from game, type in following lines in game:

/alias doharvestbone /harvest bone;/alias harvestswitch /doharvesthide
/alias doharvesthide /harvest hide;/alias harvestswitch /doharvestbone
/alias harvestswitch /doharvestbone

Now you're ready to go. You are not a programmer and cannot read what these line do? Ask someone else. It's effect is that you switch between bone and hide after each klick on your hotbar which is bound tomy main macro (the green one). For example: After I kill 10 harbivore type critters, I harvest them and 5 of them will give bone and 5 will give hide.

So you understand that, and now you complain that it's not enough for you, you want to have more control over harvesting without using the slow radial-interface and such? You complain that some critters have no hide/bone at all and they have only meat - using that macro would cause the meat to vanish. Well, I have some more aliases for you. Insert the following lines to your aliases.txt:

hl /alias harvestswitch /harvestlast
hs /alias harvestswitch /doharvestbone
harvestlast /harvest meat
hb /alias harvestlast /harvest bone
hh /alias harvestlast /harvest hide
hm /alias harvestlast /harvest meat
hlm /hm;/hl
hlh /hh;/hl
hlb /hb;/hl

or if you don't want to logout from game, type in following lines in game:

/alias hl /alias harvestswitch /harvestlast
/alias hs /alias harvestswitch /doharvestbone
/alias harvestlast /harvest meat
/alias hb /alias harvestlast /harvest bone
/alias hh /alias harvestlast /harvest hide
/alias hm /alias harvestlast /harvest meat
/alias hlm /hm;/hl
/alias hlh /hh;/hl
/alias hlb /hb;/hl

So now I describe a scenario, where I would use one of above commands: There is a lair with harbivores (which drop hide, bone and meat) and right behind it is a lair with some spiders (which drop only meat). I attack one of the harbivores and the bad bad spiders try to killsteal my critter from me. I end up slaughtering all harbivores and spiders. Well the tough work is done, but now comes harvesting:

I type in '/hlm' and begin harvesting meat from all spiders (with my loot-macro on my hotbar). After I'veharvested all spiders, Igo onto harvest hide and bone from the harbivores, so I type in '/hs', and harvest bone and hide from the corpses.

Another scenario: There are two lairs with harbivores. One droppes good quality bones and the other one droppes good quality hide. I kill all critters and than I type '/hlh' and begin harvesting all critters with good quality hides, after that I type '/hb' and harvest all critters with good quality bones. After I'm finished with the both lairs, I type '/hs' to turn my loot commando to my preferred way of looting - the 'autoswitch' between hide and bone.

But when you have no problem with using 2 or 3 slots on your hotbar for loot macros, than the whole post isn't usefull for you.

Spectacular . . .I have a similar set of macro's/alias' set up.

Especially, when I walk away for the night.

LOL - could you make this any more complicated? :-) No, seriously. Since hides are usefull, bones are somewhat useful, and meat is almost useless I use the following macro.


/harvest hide
/harvest bone
/harvest meat
/loot
/maskscent


Then after a few k hides, I switch the first two and primarily harvest bone for a little while and then switch back again. Has worked well for me and the PA crafters... :-)

ouch, say I as my brain liquifies and begins to seep from my ears and down my neck...