/fallen macro

[Sunblaze]

I've been making a /fallen macro. I like any suggestions in making this macro. [:)]

I just type "/fallen Jack whosp" to get "/think Jack is fallen west of the South Forest Hospital. Need help here please." I use capital letters to make sure to get people's attention better, because there are times that no one pays attention to ss messages.:rolleyes: I've been thinking about moving the location and exile name to have more names on it like "/fallen whosp Jack Jill" to get "/think Jack and Jill are fallen west of the South Forest Hospital. Need help here please."

And here's all the Acronyms that work with it now:

kb - kitty beach
nbcse - New Bear Cave, Southeast chamber
nwb - Northern West Beaches
mirror - Mirror Sn'ell at South Forest
whigh - West Highlands
ehigh - East Highlands
whosp - west of the South Forest Hospital

There is also an else statement, so you can type something like "/fallen Jack Zerkwood" to get "/think Jack is fallen in Zerkwood." [:)]

If there is another fallen macro out there, then I don't really care. I want to make my own. [:D]

[Drablak]

Originally posted by Sunblaze
If there is another fallen macro out there, then I don't really care. I want to make my own. [:D]
I am not sure what you are asking exactly. Most answers will point to another way of making this macro, or to other equivalent macros that already exist (Kiriel has a nice collection of rescue macros on her page). If you don't care for other people's macros, what is it you want? If you want to make your own, that's all well and good, but the best way IMO is simply to look at other macro that exist and to get ideas from them.

Drablak

[Sunblaze]

The whole point of this macro is that less key strokes are needed and very quick, because things can go wrong fast. I also like to make this macro universal as possible.

Besides, I've seen Kiriel's fallen macro and I like to have one that can list multiple people and give out a better location by using a few letters as possible. I experience times that "kb" can really confuse some people on the location which costs extra seconds of rescue time. Also, I'm a healer that gets chased a lot while trying to raise someone.

[Drablak]

If you use substitution macros for usual locations you can type very few letters and get the same result you're looking for without having to make an extensive IF ELSE list. For example:

'sfh' "south forest hospital"
'wo' "west of "
'eo' "east of "
'no' "north of "
'so' "south of "

Will replace sfh wherever you type it by south forest hospital, so the trigger for a fallen could look like this:

enh wo sfh exileA exileB

after typing this in the text input window it would look like this

enh west of south forest hospital exileA exileB

then when you hit return the macro is activated.

Drablak

[Althus]

Even if you don't care, here's the obligatory already-done-and-fairly-complete fallen macro.

http://cheacrets.puddleby.info/clord/macros/Falling.txt

[Sunblaze]

Originally posted by Drablak
If you use substitution macros for usual locations you can type very few letters and get the same result you're looking ofr without having to make an extensive IF ELSE list. For example:

'sfh' "south forest hospital"
'wo' "west of "
'eo' "east of "
'no' "north of "
'so' "south of "

Will replace kb wherever you type it by kitty beach, so the trigger for a fallen could look like this:

enh wo sfh exileA exileB

after typing this in the text input window it would look like this

enh west of south forest hospital exileA exileB

then when you hit return the macro is activated.

Drablak

The problem here is that "no" and "so" can be used in conversation. [:(] Also, I don't like these types of macros, because a typo can end up popping one up. I tried to put them in the macro to keep them from popping up accidently in a conversation with no luck. [:(]

[Sunblaze]

Originally posted by Althus
Even if you don't care, here's the obligatory already-done-and-fairly-complete fallen macro.

http://cheacrets.puddleby.info/clord/macros/Falling.txt

Actually, I prefer making my own version. Because, I would know it more than using someone's elses. Besides, I just want to make one that works for me.[:)]

[Drablak]

Originally posted by Sunblaze
The problem here is that "no" and "so" can be used in conversation. [:(]
First: don't quote the whole message [:)]

Second: you're right about the 'no', I wrote that in a hurry, but you can use something else that works for you.

Third: you're on your own from now on buddy, good luck [;)]

Drablak