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Gameplay => Wish list => Topic started by: Araye on November 21, 2005, 06:44:57 pm

Title: Stow weapons command
Post by: Araye on November 21, 2005, 06:44:57 pm

I\'d like to be able to type /stow and have the character /dequip both hands and then a /draw command to /equip both hands with last known items in those hands.

Araye

p.s.  Yes I searched the forum before making the request.  Appologies if this has been recommended before.

p.s.s.  The commands don\'t have to be /stow and /draw.

p.s.s.s.  Appologies if there is a macro for this.  Don\'t know how to setup macros yet.

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Post by: stfrn on November 21, 2005, 06:55:25 pm

You can make shortcuts for this- right click on a shortcut to edit it. And you can remove from a place now, something like:

/me stows their weapons
/dequip lefthand
/dequip righthand

should work. Drawing on the other hand, you would have to specify the weapons ahead of time.

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Post by: Godfrey on November 21, 2005, 08:08:08 pm

It\'s handy to include a /dequip of both hands at the beginning of a \"draw\" shortcut.  This is helpful if, say, you\'re mining and a grendol approaches; you just have to click the one shortcut (or, optimally, hit the key that\'s bound to it) in order to put away the rock pick and equip your weapons.

Though in that particular case I find it much more useful to run away instead, since grendols are a lot nastier nowadays than they were a couple of weeks ago when they\'d just stand there and let you hack them into pieces.

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Post by: Araye on November 21, 2005, 10:11:08 pm

Thank you for the advice.  It works very well.

Araye

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Post by: Gentar on November 21, 2005, 10:20:43 pm

Im sure this would be on the bottom of the priority list but it would be great, if there was an animation for this and if the weapons ended up on your side or back. That would just be cool you know.

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Post by: Araye on November 21, 2005, 11:10:39 pm

Yeah, that\'s what I was thinking Gentar.  I was having trouble putting my weapons away in social situations and then drawing them again for combat.  In the game it seems rude to stand around talking with others fully armed.

Araye

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Post by: Dregan Tepis on November 24, 2005, 01:54:48 pm

I like that stfrn. But how would you write the shortcut for drawing weapons. I\'ve tried a couple of times, and it isn\'t working. Mabey I\'m naming my weapons wrong or something. Can you put in an example for us with a multi-segment named weapon? Like, fire broad sword? If nothing else so I can find my stupidity?

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Post by: Bereror on November 24, 2005, 02:36:36 pm

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Originally posted by Dregan Tepis
I like that stfrn. But how would you write the shortcut for drawing weapons. I\'ve tried a couple of times, and it isn\'t working. Mabey I\'m naming my weapons wrong or something. Can you put in an example for us with a multi-segment named weapon? Like, fire broad sword? If nothing else so I can find my stupidity?

Should be like this:

Code: [Select]

/equip 1 fire broad sword
Try in the chat window first and then change the shortcut.

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Post by: Dregan Tepis on November 24, 2005, 02:54:02 pm

Thanks Bereror! I will try that when I get home.

One question, willl that work with two weapons of diffrent names?

/me draws his weapons
/equip 1 fire broad sword
/equip 1 dark broad sword

If I get home and find out before this is replied to, I will edit to confirm.

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Post by: apis on November 24, 2005, 03:35:23 pm

Yes that will work, most of the time. Some times I have found that commands are done out of order when there is some lag.

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Post by: Araye on November 24, 2005, 06:00:35 pm

Dregan, that\'s how I do it too.  Too address the lag issue, is there a delay command?  Like:

/me draws his weapons!
/equip 1 XXX
/delay 250 ms (or /wait time, or something)
/equip 1 YYY

That would take care of the lag issue.

Also note that I took Godfrey\'s advice and /dequip both hands prior to drawing.  So if I\'m mining, the pick is returned to inventory before the draw...

Araye

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Post by: Dregan Tepis on November 25, 2005, 03:27:42 pm

Thanks everyone! It sems to work. Haven\'t fought with it to much though...

*edit* please ignor the sad face, something went wrong with my post, and I can\'t delete it.

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Post by: JohnB on April 16, 2006, 11:30:56 am

Is there a list somewhere of keywords used in the game?  I suppose it might be considered a spoiler since it might give clues about what items there were out there, but could be useful.

I ask because I was about to post a similar request in the wish list, but found this in a search first.

I was going to suggest allowing \'/dequip left hand\' and \'/dequip right hand\' as a way of stowing your weapons, since these don\'t work in the game, but having tried it without the space, that\'s exactly what I want.

If there was a list of keywords with \'lefthand\' and \'righthand\' on it, I\'d probably have worked that out myself a long time ago.


A second point:  would it be possible/easy to make commands such as /equip work with only partial item names, ie. if I did \'/equip sword\' it would equip the first sword found in my inventory, while \'/equip short sword\'  would equip the first short sword found and /equip iron short sword\' would equip my Iron short sword.  At the moment, the last form, with the full item name, is the only one which works.

I suppose one problem might be that if I had a standard short sword as well as a \'fancy\' one, and wanted to equip the standard one (eg. if one of my stats didn\'t allow me to wield the fancy one), it might pick up the wrong one.  Might be best to work so that if there was an item name that matched exactly it used that one, before using any partial matches as above.

Extending the idea, if you could do \'/equip first sword\' or /equip last sword\' which told it to use either the first or last sword found in your inventory boxes, that could be useful, especially if you could also do something like \'/dequip lefthand [to] last\' or /dequip lefthand [to] first\' to dequip an item to the last or first free box in the inventory.