For those who colonize with macro's. What do you find the be the fastest possible way to do it.

Heres what ive tried

coloing with colors off....pretty quick
coloing with colors on, but using double spaces to abort alot of garbage on the screen....even quicker

Ive tried but can't use both methods...if colors are off then the double spaces wont do there job.

Any suggestions?

Set C-N-9 to All keys, its much faster then using spaces...

Alexio is 100% correct there. It's so fast you won't believe it. If your fingers can keep up with the function keys...

Alexio Please explain the C-N-9.. I must have missed that all this time?

it halts the display on a key press so you dont get all that **** scrolling across the screen when you colo

C-N-9 halts display on any keystroke effectively shutting off any display message. works great with macros since the keystrokes are sent to the server with no message scrollback. It is also very fast.

Just keep in mind if your not receiving the display messages most colos scripts will not work since they will not be receiving any input messages. You can either set up a macro to run X amount of times and keep pushing it .. or set up a "macro" script that send the keystrokes repetitivly up to a preset X amount or an X amount you request then displays the planet to check on statis.

shagnasti

quote:Originally posted by shagnasti

C-N-9 halts display on any keystroke effectively shutting off any display message. works great with macros since the keystrokes are sent to the server with no message scrollback. It is also very fast.

Just keep in mind if your not receiving the display messages most colos scripts will not work since they will not be receiving any input messages. You can either set up a macro to run X amount of times and keep pushing it .. or set up a "macro" script that send the keystrokes repetitivly up to a preset X amount or an X amount you request then displays the planet to check on statis.

shagnasti

It doesn't disable all display, only a lot of useless stuff. Most of the prompts still show up. If you make your scripts correctly, you can play with cn9 always set to all keys.

thanks for the info .. ill have to see about changing some scripts

I did try cn9 to do ewarp coloing a few sectors away from terra. The result was that the macro did not complete, after it landed on terra the rest of the macro cancelled itself out somehow.

heh, I had problems with that too phx. You have to add the sectors into the macro. If your in 5001 2 hops from terra and say sector 5 is the middle sector your macro would look something "q5^m1^ml^m^m5^m5001^ml10^msnl1^m". This is still Darn fast even with the delay you get when moving from sector to sector (1/4 sec i think).

I see....ill try that next time....but hey...all keys is kickass for twarp coloing.

I use a program called zmud to col with and to move stuff from planet to planet. this program lets you make an alias, so in a nut shell I make an alias and call it (doit) this has the col macro in it (just a macro) that I made, then I can make this run as many times as I want to by just typing (Doit 100 for example) at the zmud command prompt (burst like) and it runs the macro 100 times.

That would work, but it only takes me a matter of 20 seconds to make up a 1000 line macro in wordpad.