Fast Character Switching

[Valdacil]

I was wondering if there was any way to perform character switching faster. While I'm sure there isn't here is what I envisioned. A UI window which would have your current characters in it. You select the one you want, and when you click for it to go, it camps your current character (don't mind the 20 s wait to prevent the 10 minute LD problem) then instead of showing the character select screen, just automatically starts loading your selected character after camping the one you were on. I have a station account and this would make bank swapping between characters go so much faster. Thanks for your input.

[Tarrant]

Do a /feedback in game and have your friends do the same.

I /feedback the current bloated and unnecessarily long loading character select system at least once a month just to see if we'll get another option like the one you suggest.

[dc_roenfanz]

Mook Login

You hafta go in and edit it a little yourself, and it bypasses the patcher (you need to run EverQuest2.exe)

[Magus]

You can also do this with macros.

If all of your characters are on the same server, and you've used autoplay before, you can use these 3 lines:

/camp
/cl_autoplay_allowed 1
/cl_autoplay_char charactername

If you have characters on different servers, you must manually do /camp, then click a macro with these lines:

/cl_autoplay_allowed 1
/cl_autoplay_world servername
/cl_autoplay_char charactername

[Valdacil]

That is such an excellent find Magus. This is exactly what I wanted to be able to do. I tested it yesterday and it's perfect, exactly what I had in mind. Now the question stands, can Magus' camp to character thing be made into an interface window? Or will I have to make macros on each of my characters for each of my characters? (That's 9 macros on 10 characters = 90 macros to write)

[Deathbane27]

Originally Posted by Valdacil

That is such an excellent find Magus. This is exactly what I wanted to be able to do. I tested it yesterday and it's perfect, exactly what I had in mind. Now the question stands, can Magus' camp to character thing be made into an interface window? Or will I have to make macros on each of my characters for each of my characters? (That's 9 macros on 10 characters = 90 macros to write)

Simple enough. You'll have to do a pre-setup similar to the Mook Login, but I can reuse the code from it so it'll have basically the same readme.

Should have it ready (though untested) in an hour or so.

[Deathbane27]

Test run.

*Pre-setup*

Open the file in Notepad or another text editor. You will see 12 lines beginning with

<Button LocalText="Character" LocalTooltip="Server" Location="...

(They will have 3 lines of script code between each of them. Don't touch that.)

Replace Character with a character's name, and Server with the name of the server that character is on.


*Useage*

-Go to the camp ("Shutdown") window via the EQII button.
-Click the name of the character to switch to (server will show in button tooltip). Should automatically camp and switch to that character. (Won't work cross-account, naturally.)


If you encounter any bugs, post them here. I'll be relying on you to test the thing since I don't have an active account.

Edit: Grab one from NEXT post.

[Deathbane27]

Kill previous one, it'll cause the stupid "tellchannel useage" thing.

[Magus]

I think it might be possible to do cross-account also, try changing cl_username and cl_password

I can't test, as I have 1 account.

[Valdacil]

This is absolutely great and exactly what i was looking for. I edited it for my characters and tested it and it works like a charm. I really appreciate the fast answers and turn around. You guys are great.

[DBurgdorf]

Originally Posted by Magus

I think it might be possible to do cross-account also, try changing cl_username and cl_password I can't test, as I have 1 account.

Either it doesn't work, or I'm just missing something. I tried setting each button as follows, adding the two extra variables:

<Button LocalText="Character" LocalTooltip="Server" LocalUsername="Username" LocalPassword="Password" Location="-1,27" Name="Preset_Button" OnPress="camp

'cl_autoplay_allowed 1'=' ' 'cl_autoplay_allowed 1'=' '

cl_autoplay_world=(LocalTooltip) cl_autoplay_world=(LocalTooltip)

cl_username=(LocalUsername) cl_username=(LocalUsername)

cl_password=(LocalPassword) cl_password=(LocalPassword)

cl_autoplay_char=(LocalText) cl_autoplay_char=(LocalText)" ScrollExtent="120,30" Size="120,30" Style="/ButtonStyles.text_button_default"></Button>

The changes don't seem to have broken anything; you're still able to jump quickly from one character to another on a single account. Unfortunately, though, if you try to jump from a character on account A to a character on account B, you actually just end up at the character select screen for account A.

-- Darryl

[Deathbane27]

Doesn't look like cl_password is an option then. I'll wait a day and see if anyone comes up with anything before releasing to downloads section.