SE add more macro slots/bars!

We need more macro slots or bars ,

With the changes of jobs , you can use / cant use certain skills like sentinel cure etc depending on your job. . . Most people are going to make a bar for Solo and group play per class now. I already have a set of alt/ctrl per class and still dont ahve enough :p

So please add more slots/bars I know it would be really helpful to alot of people especially with how many jobs/class combos we have available. I'm sure community will agree

Everyone agree or else the kitty gets it.

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Heya!

To be honest, no problem here. If I could do more with macros I wouldn't need to make one macro after another as in Part1 and Part2 of like... equipping gear.

What's needed is a little more of management, additional macro slots aren't required, but it sure is a problem that we can only write 10 rows of things. It would be great to give even more functions to macros.

See ya!

Actually I mostly use the eaction bar, only really using macros for class changes and gear swaps. It wont affect me all that much.
I hear its harder on mage classes though, so for sure, lets have more macro slots :)

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Originally Posted by Renshi

If I could do more with macros I wouldn't need to make one macro after another as in Part1 and Part2 of like... equipping gear.

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^^^ This would be nice to see, to be able to call out a macro within a macro would help me and anyone finding that 10 lines isnt enough.
I hate making FFXI references, but that had something similar with the macro book system.

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

^^^ This would be nice to see, to be able to call out a macro within a macro would help me and anyone finding that 10 lines isnt enough.
I hate making FFXI references, but that had something similar with the macro book system.

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Well... calling a macro with a macro can induce into botting, because you can call a macro with a macro that calls the macro you called, creating a loop and doing actions repeatedly infinitely, but yeah, just... 10 rows are kind of a limitation =)

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Originally Posted by Renshi

Well... calling a macro with a macro can induce into botting

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May be I'm overlooking something, but I cant think of an instance how we could bot with a macro in macro command.
SE keeps a tight handle of what commands make it into the text command hall of fame, partly for this reason I'd guess.

Perhaps I chose my wording poorly, but you have to cater for the lowest common denominator in these forums :P

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

May be I'm overlooking something, but I cant think of an instance how we could bot with a macro in macro command.
SE keeps a tight handle of what commands make it into the text command hall of fame, partly for this reason I'd guess.

Perhaps I chose my wording poorly, but you have to cater for the lowest common denominator in these forums :P

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Simple, you just have to do 2 macros that call each other. Something like:

Macro 1
- do act 1
- do act n
....
- Call macro 2

Macro 2
- do act 1
- do act n
....
- Call macro 1


This way you have and infinite loop. By using some command to target and attack you can make your character kill monster for the loot.

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

May be I'm overlooking something, but I cant think of an instance how we could bot with a macro in macro command.
SE keeps a tight handle of what commands make it into the text command hall of fame, partly for this reason I'd guess.

Perhaps I chose my wording poorly, but you have to cater for the lowest common denominator in these forums :P

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It was more about the future, maybe they are gonna give us commands we can use to ease our targeting and such.
Let's see... You know that with normal attacks you kill a specific monster within 35 seconds.

Macro1:
/targetnpc //Target the nearest NPC or Enemy
/ac "Provoke" <t> // Casts the Marauder skill Provoke to the target
/wait 35 // Wait 35 seconds for the next action
/mcall Macro2

Macro2:
/targetnpc
/ac "Flash" <t> // Casts the Gladiator skill Flash to the target
/wait 35
/mcall Macro1

Like this (of course in a perfect case) in a zone full of monsters you wanna farm you can activate one of these macros and leave the computer alone while you do something else.

But it also depends on how they're gonna let the player decide with the commands and such, what to permit and whatnot. Depending on that they'll make it possible or not.

That's one example =)

lol ok sure, whatever you say.

Im not arguing that you cant make a loop, I think even my 3 year old son could understand that principle. I was saying i cant think of an application.
You cant craft or gather with macros alone. The only potential for abuse is xp, but then u cant move your character with a macro.
You would need pretty exceptional and repeatable set of circumstances to occur to be able to bot with macros alone.

And anyway, you are the one that suggested it would be nice to follow 1 macro with another, so why are you even poo pooing it?

/derail topic off

Walk > Press R (to autorun) > Then macro. Auto bot that move and kill. :)

wow.....just.....wow!
Have i really wasted 10 minutes of my life with this?
Thats time i will never get back, alas.

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

And anyway, you are the one that suggested it would be nice to follow 1 macro with another, so why are you even poo pooing it?

/derail topic off

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I uh... didn't? ^^;
What I said is that it would be nice to give more instructions to macros, so you don't have to make Part1 and Part2 of macros, giving more macro management. Maybe you confused that =)

We dont need to activate macros within macros, just give us more lines, this was a common complaint in FFXI and is why people used scrips and spellcast.

While its not as big a problem here as in FFXI because you can't gear swap in battle, there are people that have eaction macros for different circumstances and gear swap macros, where 10 lines is not enough.

Classes have 14 actions native, and 10 cross class actions at level 50 and throw/refill, therefore we could have 25 lines which would be enough for eactions and a second one for gear swaps, many more and people could exploit it, so keep the eactions and gear swaps seperate.

Take a MRD for example, they could use 1 gear set for tanking and one for dps, they would also have different actions set, thereofore we would go from the 5/7 macros for eaction and gear swaps (might beable to fit gear swaps into one, cant think off the top of my head) to 4, tanking gear and actions and dps tanking and actions, 35 lines would consolidate them even more, but people could take advantage of it.

You got me, fair and square... I misread, looks like were both guilty of that though.

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

You cant craft or gather with macros alone. The only potential for abuse is xp, but then u cant move your character with a macro.

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Originally Posted by Signy

Walk > Press R (to autorun) > Then macro. Auto bot that move and kill. :)

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Proof^^^

More lines in the marco would be helpful.

SE need to change the way macros are sent to the server, ie send the whole macro in one go and not line by line, this would allow for almost instant changes instead of a blinking character for 10 seconds and lines being missed out due to latency.

I imagine that addons will address some of these issues if they aren't addressed by SE specifically.

Won't we have class specific macros bars in 2.0 (or earlier)? That will solve some macro space issue for sure.

My real purpose for posting though... what do you guys do with all those macros? o_O;
I can barely fill 2 bars of them.

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Originally Posted by Nakiamiie

Won't we have class specific macros bars in 2.0 (or earlier)? That will solve some macro space issue for sure.

My real purpose for posting though... what do you guys do with all those macros? o_O;
I can barely fill 2 bars of them.

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Personally , I use a naga epic mouse and g510 keyboard I macro all abilities i ahve and map the keys on my mouse/keyboard to cast them with 1 touch rather having to hold down alt+7 i just hit g15 on keyboard to cast cura

I have a ctrl/alt macro bar for THM , Con, archer, glad, and MRD

Only other option is to allow mapping of keys to action bars which wotn be an option til 2.0 i believe easy fix would be to just let us make more macro bars since they are saved on our side