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I discovered the following instructions to making a Wilderness Survival XP Camp Macro. The creator claims it works. I created it and let it go. When I checked in on it hours later I had only gone through two or three camps and a few XP granted. The way I see it, the macro depends on the camps to auto-disband every so often, however, it seems the camps last a long long long time, meaning only a few camps are made in a many hour session.

I figured to try changing the pause from 300 to 600 and added /disband camp afterwards, however, it seems that command doesn't work anymore.

Can someone look at the macro and see what should be done to make the camp disband every 10-15 minutes, making the macro actually productive?

NOTE:
The following is an exact copy of the way the macro was presented on the site I got it from, someone on that site mentioned that there shouldn't be a space between the /ui action toolbarSlot and the 01; (All the way down) So when I made the macro, I made it like:

/ui action toolbarSlot01;

It seemed to do what it was supposed to, except the problem of the camps lasting way to long. Here is the macro as originally written:

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Let me begin by stating for the record that I believe using a macro is NOT an exploit. Anything that CAN be macro'd using this simple of a macro language, SHOULD be macro'd. Why do I believe this? I play this game to PLAY the game, not to be a monkey double-clicking a camp every half hour. They have a positively fantastic game here, but unfortunately there are parts I still find dull *cough* double-clicking camp kits *cough*.


STEP 1: Make 23 Camp kits. If I could macro this, I would
STEP 2: Make a new macro with the following text (I called it Campmaster ):

/ui action toolbarSlot 01; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 02; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 03; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 04; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 05; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 06; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 07; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 08; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 09; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 10; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 11; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 12; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 13; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 14; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 15; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 16; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 17; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 18; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 19; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 20; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 21; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 22; /pause 5;
/ui action toolbarSlot 23; /pause 5;
/pause 300;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;

STEP 3: In an empty, two-row toolbar menu, place the Campmaster in the upper left slot.
STEP 4: Place a camp in each each of the 23 remaining slots.
STEP 5: Click the macro when you are ready to go!
STEP 6: Read, chat with your friends, spec out your dream character, whatever. Just don't leave your computer for an extended period because that is technically against the rules (even though I don't agree with it). I personally am reading Dracula and chatting with friends in-game (not to mention writing this post).
STEP 7: Every so often (at least every 23 hours) come back and fill up your slots with more camp kits. No need to restart the macro.

Added benefits:

If you want to stop the macro, just remove the macro icon from the slot. No waiting necessary.

If your camp times out and auto-disbands early (some huge group decided to come hang out and heal). You have at most only a couple of minutes before a new camp is up!

The macro will never end unless you stop it (it is recursive), and it has not timed out my session yet (I think it is the ui actions).
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Ok, so, any ideas on how to tweak this useful macro?

That's what I figured DeltaXi65, thanks. I thought that maybe since the changes someone had found a way to make it somewhat useful. I understand your concerns about "afk" anything, and I'm not terribly comfortable with it myself, but for goodness sake, with a new character on a new server, I know very few people to group with or do the assist artisan thing.

I went on a group hunt on Dantooine and we had a scout/ranger who had far superior camps. No body wanted my pathetic two person camp, so I gained zilch in wilderness xp.

I'll make do, and grind away.

Gib,

There's no way to tweak it.

This was posted a while back - say two or three months ago - in the forums, and I'm presuming you got it from the guide on allakhazam. A version of it was adapted by me for the trap macro I wrote about in the most recent version of my From Novice to Master Scout guide.

I won't go into the AFK camping thing and it being a violation of the EULA, because no one seems to care about that.

But the main reason why it doesn't work that good is that the Devs have added enough things to make it less than attractive. Camps autodisband at around 55 minutes. This means you'll only get a camp an hour. So in the time you leave it up during the average work day or night's sleep, you'll only get as much XP as in an hour of just sitting there and actively checking it while reading a book.

In the end, the quickest way toget your survival up is to get agroup and camp, or get an artisan and camp and heal them, oruse the tumbling to prone method I've outlined inmy Ranger guide. Those will get you more XP faster - much more and much faster than thismacro.

B

There are ways of getting Wilderness Survival XP besides macro-camping. Whenever you craft a trap or camp, you get the xp. In practice mode, you get 5% more xp.

So step 1 would be to go to a high-spawn low-level creature area and collect a boatload of bone and hide.

Step 2 is to set up a camp somewhere and grind camps, but in practice mode. This macro might come in handy:

/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;

Put that in your toolbar and, after you've filled in the bone and hide requirements for your camp, just hit that hotkey. It'll automatically jump through all the steps necessary to craft the item in practice mode. The third /nextCraftingStage; can be removed if you're not near a public/private crafting station.

Now you're camping for xp, crafting for xp, and not violating any EULA.