Says who?
With this post, I am not encouraging you to cheat. You're old enough to decide what's right or wrong, what's morally acceptable and what makes you feel like throwing up. In case you're not old enough to decide, then stop reading. Anyway, it's not a guide to build an atomic bomb, just some hints on how to macro a game... The worst thing that could happen to you if they got you macroing, would be to ban you from EL... Imagine how much time you would have to play better games!!
Here is the fact: Eternal Lands is a game that's specially prone to being macroed (and other cheats of the kind). I know well established players who multiplay (discreetly) from time to time. With the new rules they try to implement, as they squeeze their brains to try to get some bucks from the players (guild storages, bots, p2p races, and so on and so forth), the player base moves a step forward.
Macroing consists, basically, on having your computer doing things for you. Macroing could be extended to almost any game, and any circumstance, but it has to be done wisely!
My point of view, is that if I can use my computer to save me from getting arthritis in my finger after so much clicking-mixing, then that's fine. So today, I am going to show you how to use a macro to do simple things in Eternal Lands. If you want to move on to more complicated stuff, do your own research. If they get you macroing, don't accuse me! You probably weren't swift enough.
The 1st step: You need a program to macro with! There are some FREE programs available, such as AutoHotkey, which is the one I'll use for this example (it's not necessarily the best one, NOT EVEN the one I use).
There are MANY more, some of which you have to pay for. I think Autohotkey is rather easy to use for non experienced macroers. If you have any other suggestions, leave a comment!
When you download Autohotkey (it's a very light download), you'll download these programs along with it:-Autoit3 Window Spy, which gives information about screen and the position of your cursor in it.
-AutoScriptwriter, which is a handy tool, in case you don't want to learn the scripting language used by Autohotkey. It will simply record your movements and translate them into Autohotkey orders, so that you don't have to write the scripts manually.
In order to create a script, DIY style, do these two things:
-Open your text editor.
-Open Autoit3 Window Spy.
-Get your EL open.
-Try to put your food, and the mixing window, always in the same position, so that you don't have to readjust the scripts all the time.
Allright, here is how a very simple macroing script for EL could look like in your text editor:
#f::
click 290,767
click 350,886
sleep, delay 18270
click 350,886
Let's translate it:
A) TRIGGER THE SCRIPT
#f::
This order would trigger this script if, and only if, you pressed
+ the "f" key. This is; it wouldn't bugger you if you were doing other things while playing.
B) EAT!
click 290,767
This order would place the mouse in that position, and click (in this example, this would be where you could happen to have your food
) .C) MIX!
click 350,886
sleep, delay 18270
click 350,886
This batch would drive your mouse to the click 350,886 position and click on it. Of course, this could represent where you have your mix button.
The sleep, delay order, would separate the time between clicks in the amount of time specified (in this example, 18270). This would give EL time to stop mixing (either because of critical fails, or for completion of the task) before restarting the task.
Some other things I want to make clear:
This is a very simple guide, and a very badly explained one at it. Fortunately for you, any macroing software you download (including Autohotkey) comes with very handy step-by-step tutorials. Invest a little bit of your time in them, 'cause this will enable you to save time afterwards.You can macro to do everything you dream of: You could move your character around (by using the map), without having to watch it pleasantly walking thru tiles you've seen a thousand times.Harvesting events were done to prevent people from macroing... In principle. As long as you have the map of the place where you are (or a blank one), even teleport nexuses won't prevent you from anything.Well, levelling this wayALL THE TIME in a MMORPG makes it pointless. But you can use it while you're cooking, or while you have to study, or while you're chatting with a nice EL player (there are many of those).Feedback, comments, and insults, welcome.
15 comments:
hello, im a EL player, what can you say about Macro Harvesting?
Hi there....excellent post... I was always curious how to create a macro...
My question is this.... what Macro Editor do you use?
The one you have in the example is pretty simple. If I'm going to get into this, I'd like to have more control...
(ie: Figure out if a Harveting Event has occured, and then start harvesting again)
Thanks again for this site, and all the help you give!
This guide really got me into macroing, and it's awesome! it saves you so much time and it feels really rewarding (well for me anyway) to go off doing something more worthwhile then come back hours later and realise you have just made thousands of gold and exp.
I'm using autohotkey, and it's mainly for harvesting. The problems i found were making a script that clicked on a certain coordinate on the screen to harvest on a plant or ore was only effective when the area was quiet. When it gets crowded with other people, lets say you just came back from the flower shop (sold your flowers) and clicked on the map to get to the flowers. If someone is standing in that spot that you are meant to be in, you will move to a spot around him. now the script moves the mouse to the coords you used to click on the flowers, but your position moved, so therefore the flowers on the screen moved. Instead of harvesting the flowers, you miss. Also this could happen repeatedly if that guy sits in that same spot.
Ways i tried to get around this - the program also has a "get pixelcolor" feature. It can search for a pixel of a certain color and click on that. This seemed to be perfect in theory. Yet now that I put it to the test, it sometimes finds the pixel color i asked for and sometimes doesnt. I have also tried it for the health bar, if it doesn't see that certain colour red near the end of my health bar, i have configured it to log out (avoid dieing from a random event), yet once again it misses those red colours in the health bar...
if anyone has any ideas as to what is going on, i would really appreciate some feedback :)
STOP CHEATING! You will be caught. EL admins have tools to catch macroers usually within 15 seconds.
Well it seems they do NOT have the tools to detect macro-ers in 15 seconds, since one guy above has apparently been doing it a while without detection....
But still, I am guessing it would be very easy to see who is mapwalking to the same co-ords over and over again, or who harvests from the exact same deposit over and over again. Who waits exactly the same time before walking to storage, and does so whether they have full inventory or not, and who stops harvesting and then sits there when they get an event, before walking to storage with 2 red roses.
I also know for sure that when they see something curious like this, they get very suspicious about peple who do not respond to their red spam, and yet continue to harvest and walk about.
It would be a very nice macro editor that can avoid detection by one of the above methods. Of course it is a nice trick to get away with, but if you get caught it will all be for nothing.
Make a worthless character, have him endlessly mine, walk to house,drop bag, repeat 1,000 times
As long as the bag is being refreshed every 10 min, it will just fill up and up and up.
Come back a few days later, log the robot off, log on as your real account , and go into the house and start grabbing the goods.
I've heard on many occasions that lots of high level characters MACRO in secret.
"Make a worthless character, have him endlessly mine, walk to house,drop bag, repeat 1,000 times
As long as the bag is being refreshed every 10 min, it will just fill up and up and up.
Come back a few days later, log the robot off, log on as your real account , and go into the house and start grabbing the goods.
I've heard on many occasions that lots of high level characters MACRO in secret."
That is a sure way to get caught. They keep track of your ip. They will see that you "robot" has the same ip as you pc. Not only will you get nailed on macroing but also same ip interaction.
The largest macro-er is Learner! He has his own character macroed and his Antz...they are everywhere and harvest a lot but always in tiny amounts...watch them
I have been trying to create a macro for harvesting lupine in portland and then selling it and I cannot figure it out. I have read your instructions carefully and the ones that come with hotkey and it doesn't ever work. I took a C++ class in college, so I understand the language somewhat. Can abyone help me?
Here in the UK our ISP's refresh the router IP every few minutes. Use a MACRO and then befor you log in with your propoer character. Just force it to refresh the IP address and voila!!!
hey cheaters,
if you are interested in learning a better way than this mouse-click-macroing .. ask me
There is a way (someof you might know), to interact between the server and the client, and if you are a bit skilled you can prog your own transfer logger :)
my email: davidjablonski@web.de
please no spam, when there are more than 10 requests, i will write a tutorial :)
Hi, i don't want to say my name or ill get caught anyway, i have a really good macro tool while i leave on and come back 1-2 hours to find you have A LOT of experiance/essences and its really nice. All you ahve to do is click F10 it records your mouse then F11 to stop it and then click F9 to play it back. Works really nice and saves stacks of time :P. Also works with harvesting.
DOWNLOAD THE MACRO HERE: http://www.download.com/Auto-Macro-Recorder/3000-2094_4-10073153.html?hhTest=1&part=dl-AutoMacro&subj=dl&tag=button&cdlPid=10503235
This program is completly free
Hi, the number one thing to macroing successfully is DO NOT TELL ANYONE YOU DO IT! My name is cycrosism, and i was banned becuase i told PaulB and he kicked me from BO$$. 6 months later, the word spread around and PaulB (Being a snitch) Told the mods everything.
Read my post: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=48130
Yeah listen to cycrocism, the number 1 rule is to never tell anyone on EL about it.
I've come to perfect harvesting with my macro (I am the same person that commented on 1/12/2007 11:06 PM). If you have already tried macroing but found limitations such as people standing in your spot or harvesting events screwing you up and then you take a dozen lupines to the store, well, I'm just going to tell you now that the more advanced scripts can deal with ALL of these issues and more.
It took much effort on my behalf but it was all worth it in the end. Some things my macro can do that I have worked on to perfect:
1) As soon as a harvesting event stops you, it can restart harvesting pretty much instantly
2) teleport nexus is no problem. the macro notices the teleport and makes you walk back to the bush then start again
3) people standing in your spot? no problem! the macro makes you walk to random positions around the bush each and every time. And it can still click the right spots to harvest from anywhere (even walk closer if too far away).
4) lag fucks everything up? it takes this into account and can keep trying to (say, walk into a house) repeatedly. i.e. my macro only continues to do the next task once it realizes its in the correct spot (in the house)
5) you keep dying because of harvest events? While I purposely took the faster regeneration nexus and power saving just for this, I used to be able to either stop everything and log out when my health got too low, or, if there are HE's available, heal myself.
And hey, if you think that's decent, my most favourable accomplishment is my alchemy macro. The only thing I have found so far that can screw it up is either a server update, or a power shortage. And really, the odds of those happening are slim to none.
If you like the idea of going to sleep at night and waking up to find another 50k gold on your character, send me an email at:
ELmacro123@hotmail.com
(this email was made purposely for this, I too need to keep my identity secret, just like everyone else here)
This is no scam/hack or whatever. I'm not asking you to drop your guard, but just keep in mind that I would like to help someone else begin a fulfilling adventure in EL macroing :)
Hey its cycrosism here. I tried to get my account back but radu was not cooperative (like, at all).
[PM from radu: you fuckign lyeing piece of shit]
[PM from radu: I hoep you get cancer and die]
[PM from radu: you stupid dumbfuck, you even posted your macroign code on forums]
[PM from radu: and you come to me and lie to me about not amcroing???]
I think he has dyslexia
Anyway, I am still in the macroing buisiness, I have been playing on multiple accounts using proxies and VPN's and if anyone here wants some good advice on how to macro and not get caught add my msn i.am.legion@live.com (I didn't get caught for macroing, I get caught because someone told the mods I was macroing) so don't listen to the bullshit that admins spread saying they ban macroers very fast.
You have to be sneaky and do it so good that they cannot tell the difference between humans and bots.
Also a message for you radu (if you are even bothering to read this), you should treat your players better. I might have macroing on an online game, but that means I should get cancer and die IRL? Yeah sure, I may have lied to you, BUT THAT MEANS I SHOULD GET CANCER AND DIE IRL?
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