Mouse Macros

[zebano]

So I'm playing RoM and the gathering system is extremely dull and tedious. I would like to craft in spite of this, so I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good macro program that would help me automate the gathering.

Basically I don't mind running around, finding the resources, but most of them can be gathered 5 times which takes around 10 seconds. I'm looking to turn one of the extra keys on my MS (?) mouse into a hotkey to kickoff a macro to gather all possible resources (or even just click exactly where I did every .5 seconds for the next 10 seconds.

 

[zebano]

http://download.cnet.com/AutoH...0279446.html?tag=mncol

Autohotkey looks to be sufficient but not ideal. It would be nice if I had some way to screen scrape and determine if the resource was still there, but that might be a little advanced.

 

[pontifex]

is that allowed in RoM?

 

[RallyMaster]

http://www.highrez.co.uk/downl...MouseButtonControl.htm maybe?

 

[zebano]

Probably not allowed, but it's enough of a gray area that I'm ok with the risk. Is clicking once instead of 5x really going to make me an uber awesome gatherer?

 

[zebano]

Thanks for the link Rally. Autohotkey seems to work somewhat but it's not getting the job done... the loop quits way too early.

 

[Jinru]

Macro Express has a 30 day free trial. Very handy and easy to use since the script commands are already coded, your just inserting them into a sequence.

 

[katank]

If you are mechanically inclined, build a LEGO bot. Saw a pretty cool Everquest Fishing bot waaaaay back. That kind of thing would be totally undetectable also.

 

[JoshGuru7]

Auto-It and Aldo's Macro Recorder are the two most common MMO related macro programs that I've encountered. The people I know who do the most AFK-farming/leveling mostly use Auto-It (http://read-only.autoitscript.com/index.shtml) and you can probably even find a script for what you're looking to do if the MMO is popular enough.

I'm not aware of any MMO's that sanction the use of Auto-It, but it's impossible to detect server-side if you make use of the random events on your timings. Some MMO's could look for it client-side of course and detect you that way.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

There's a forum for addons and macros on the RoM site, seeing as you can write your own macro in LUA.

 

[zebano]

The macro I was using was clearly not flexible enough since when you start gathering there is anywhere between 1-6 mats to gather from that node having to not move the mouse at all was also tedious. I'll look into LUA as I get a chance.

Goals of the interface I want to create
1. macro / interface change to click once and gather all mats from a single node.
2. Larger mini-map so I can see nodes which are farther away.
3. arrow (like the NPC follow option) pointing to the nearest node of a given type (i.e. bitterleaf).

I did notice that curse has a RoM section so when I'm not at work I'll check to see if anyone has done this for me.