Auto ForageFollow

Did they do away with the auto forage feature? I can't remember where I saw this, but I was reading about everquest somewhere and they mentioned /autoforage. I tried it in-game, and it said that it was not valid. Any suggestions?

Autoforaging is done by programming a hot key using a short macro.

There are threads on this site that will teach you how, as well as threads on http://www.interealms.com/ranger and http://www.eqrangers.com/

Here is a thread on Alla that teaches you to set it up also:
Auto inventory forage?


No, it is not in violation of the EULA.

There is a discussion found at http://www.eqrangers.com/ under the thread called "General Discussion", there is a thread named "Autoforage".

Edited because link didn't work.



Edited, Sat Jan 15 22:21:26 2005 by Dlagyd

My ranger uses the EQ-legal self-made hotkey.

You have to stop for it to recycle so you can't "run all night" and fill your bags.

Yes it's legal.

Yes you will make a lot of money doing this.

See my post near the bottom of this link:

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1&mid=1096085629117598295&num=33

Good luck and have fun!

I took it a step further...

A macro is set up as follows...
/attack off
/Do 5 (which is beg)
/do 6 (which is set as forage)
/attack on

I also have a hot key set up as /autoinventory

In the middle of battle i can beg from the mob, forage from the ground, and keep swinging away. I havent noticed much of an effect, since it is usually used when the mob is turned to run ( this is on my 55 druid...who does not melee)

Mine is:

/pause 620, doability 5
/autoinventory
/pause 620, doability 5
/autoinventory

The pause duration has to be adjusted for your system, but the macro will do the ability, then pause the time alottment and then if you foraged anything it will inventory it from your cursor.

Then it will do it all again.

Then make yourself a hotbutton and put it on hotbutton 1-12 (i think, not being at home now).

Then go to options/keyboard and assign the macro to one of your direction keys.

It will forage for you anytime you turn left or right as long as the action has timed out.

If you use these methods that involve tieing it to a key stroke or social macro, no, it won't work, since you still have to hit a button to get the action to work, you're just tieing it to a button that you use often (like left arrow or something) and/or making a series of commands with one keystroke using a social macro (ingame macros). This are legal, but you have to physically hit the button... now, you could just have one of those bobbing bird things hit the button over and over while you were /afk, but if a GM sends you a tell and you don't respond within a reasonable amount of time, they will remove you from the world and possibly threaten you with a banning.

This brings up the differences between "allowed" and "not allowed" macros. For the longest time, SOE said no macros other then social macros were allowed, especially no 3rd party software. Then, they decided it was ok for bards and rangers to use 3rd party software (primarly linked to gamepads like the Nostromo and Gravis) to allow them to do the repetitive motions of twisting and shooting arrows, since there was no /melody or auto ranged attack functions at the time. The caveat was that you had to be present at the keyboard still. No AFK macroing. They got into the habit of sending people (especially bards that were kiting a little "too" perfectly) a tell, just asking how they were doing. If you didn't answer after a couple of tells but kept doing your actions, they would assume you were afk macroing and "take action".

So this brings up the question on 3rd party software for "non-afk" actions (like twisting and ranged attack, amongst other things) since bards now have /melody and all classes can use auto ranged attack... I personally haven't seen any official word that gamepads aren't allowed anymore, and I don't forsee them announcing that either. Gamepads have become a large part of many people's playstyles, and it would only be detrimental to the player population to go back on that policy now.

The moral of the story is: if you're going to do anything very repetitive (practicing casting, foraging, begging, etc) it would behoove you to not to do it while /afk, and to answer any GM's tells ASAP. The two exceptions to this seems to be bard /afk instrument training and swimming. As long as you're not spamming people with AE DoTs, they tend to not care about that.

Edited, Tue Jan 18 14:04:53 2005 by Jiggidyjay

They nerfed swimming into a corner for skill ups.

:(

When did they do this? I did it within the last two months.

By the way I only use pause 3 before I autoinventory.

I took my alt up during dinner one night to her max, swimming in a corner in Halas. If you look at it from outside, she seemed to be jumping in and out of the water, but the wall was too high to get out there.

I have skilled all my alts up here-always worked.



Edited, Tue Jan 18 22:16:05 2005 by Kelti

SO *that's* how it works! Thanks Jiggidy.

This used to work for me, but after a big patch released around OoW, my client disconnects if I try swimming against a wall--no client crash message, no lock-up, screen just freezes adn I boot into server select screen. Tried different zones--Shadowhaven, pond by Hole, Halas, etc. Wish I'd known how to auto-circle about 150 skill-ups ago. =)

FYI: Posted: Jan 19th 2005 at 11:32pm CET