Hi DRG,

Also, I saw on youtube a MQ2-movie where they showed that you can have an inventory of every single char on the same screen and a second movie where you can have in interesting map with different utils.  So a lot to discover... 

Nice chatting to you DRG.

Bye,
ALRAZOR
 

That's one of the Gold Plugins, but I don't believe that it is Legit on the server.

Great Job on making your first macro! It's the start of things much more complicated and easier to use.

On your first question MQ2 shouldn't automatically group your characters. You will probably need to re-invite them each time, I have had to at least in the past. You are correct on the follow command however, using the MQ2 /stick command is much more effective and better to get your toons to follow your main person. I personally like to use /stick loose since it seems to work better in tight spaces and around corners. You could set up a command to have your characters do a /loot all on the mob, but you can't just have MQ2 automate the process no.

On your second question you may have to rephrase this, I haven't had any issues with targeting using MQ2, I mean you are limited to what EQ sees for mobs rather than taking your mouse and clicking on it from afar, but if you use your main character smart you shouldn't be walking into a horde of bees. Did you change your settings like your clip plane down when you installed MQ2 that could be the only change I would think of, but there's no need for it. MQ2 only effects how you can input commands and does nothing for sight and such in EQ.

Well on the Stormhaven server I run a SK/SHM/MNK setup, right now though I'm working on a SK/PAL/BER setup for this server. Depends on preference honestly. MQ2 works well as long as you aren't constantly having to do something with that character (unless you feel like really coding it up).

Hah it works without taking down the graphics, I think that was just a suggestion. I personally box with my graphics turned up all the way for all 3 instances for EQ, but then I have the background windows set to 0 processing (as long as they are in the background). No issues to report.

If you want to play both characters on one screen w/o setting up macros I suggest going to Lavish Software and paying a subscription there, they have some boxing software that sounds like it is what you want. Otherwise you are going to learn how to set up Macro's using MQ I can give you a few websites to get started, but ultimately you will need to do a bit of searching to either find out or create what you need to set up to do what you want.(If that makes any sense)

An example of a macro from would be this: You are playing Character one War and want to tell your second character Mage to send their pet in and cast Firebolt so first you would go into the folder you have MQ installed in and create a Macros folder and then in a plain text pad enter

Code:

Sub Main
/bct Mage //assist War
/delay 1s
/bct Mage //pet attack
/delay 1s
/bct Mage //casting "Firebolt" gem1 -maxtries|3

/return

Now that it is written you would save it by going to Save As- then All types and writing Firebolt.mac. Then in game while playing War you would type /mac Firebolt and here's what would happen.

Line 1 - his command is a targeted command using the EQBCS which tells a certain toon to do an action (Alternatives are /bca (Everyone but me) and /bcaa (Everyone Including me) In this case it tells Mage to assist War and thus gain his/her target.

Line 2 - Is a delay and the macro will wait 1 second before moving on

Line 3- Again this sends the Mage a command using the EQBCS chatbox telling him/her to send their pet against the target.

Line 4 - Is a delay and the macro will wait 1 second before moving on

Line 5 - Tells Mage to start to cast their Firebolt spell which is in Gem1 with a max retry of 3.This means the macro will attempt to cast the spell 3 times (so if it Fizzles or gets Resisted it will be re casted. If it succeeds on the first try it will only cast once). If the spell is not memorized then it will memorize it in Gem 1 before casting.

Line 6 - /return Ends the macro.

Here's a post from a player on the Stormhaven server going over some basic things.
http://dragonscaleguild.forumotion.com/t23-macroquest2-what-can-it-do-for-you

And here's a post on the MQEmulator forums (which I suggest reading through to see if you can find more info)
http://mqemulator.net/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=588

I can also answer some questions if you PM me or find me in game on Blame or Uvorc I'm still relatively new to it myself, but I learned everything from reading those two sites and trial and failure. It can be a very powerful tool if used correctly, but if you are looking for a quicker set up then look at the Lavishsoft website. Find the ISBoxer
http://www.lavishsoft.com/joomla/

A few things that might help you.

1) Make sure your tank is making the mob face away from the pet, often they might do an AoE or the like, but should lesson that effect some...

2) Get the pet affinity AA then go grab a Pally Epic 1.0 and make it one handed, voila your pet will now heal itself and the group whenever it procs for about 500ish points.

3) Make sure the Pally is buffing up the pet when you can so that it can have the extra life.

1) Leave that Line there
2) You have to start up each EQ instance separately, MQ only allows you to channel commands from one screen to another.
3) You need to start up the EQBCServer.exe that's why you are getting that message, you really only need to do this if you are boxing and have more than one character running that you want to control using MQ2. If you are only running 1 or enjoy switching between the screens just ignore that message.