Handy little plugin to keep you online ........

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:11 am

...so you can build up your "240 Hours Online" Loyalty Bonus while being at school, work,....

If you do not want to bother messing around with ElTank, TradeBot or other complex plugins just to keep your toon online, you have another possibility - a tiny plugin even without any configuration :

Real Estate

It issues a /house available every 5 minutes.
Its primary use is to help if you are waiting for a villa/cottage to become available.
But even if not - at least it keeps your toon busy and therefore online.

Just park your toon in the house, mansion or another safe spot and type /real on to activate the plugin.
It filters all house types that have 0 available and Apartments.
So on Solclaim usually you will not get any output at all, but the toon remains busy

Type /real off to pause the plugin when you start to play and are not looking for a house.
This way you do not even have to check/uncheck it in Decal.

Please be aware that being online unattended for hours means that any buffs will drop after some time, including those important Leadership/Loyalty/Willpower buffs you might need to maintain the pass-through rate of 93.75%.

When you have Leadership trained/spec'd to 163 (including base and Direct Vassal Bonus, but no buffs) and Loyalty trained/spec'd to 200 (including base and Loyalty Bonus, but no buffs), you do not need any buffs to maintain the maximum pass-through rate.
Then this plugin is for you.

If you need buffs to reach 163/200, you will have to use ElTank or some other self-buffing plugin anyway, so this plugin won't help you.

acaddict · Post by **acaddict** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:34 am

Thanx a million for this post!!

Flanker · Post by **Flanker** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:35 am

Whoot alright Trek this will be a nice little tool

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:42 am

It works.

I have logged Trekman on my server (as I will turn off my PC when going to bed) and activated the plugin. He has been sitting on his Evil Couch for almost 3 hours now

But I also noticed a little effect :
Once you pause the plugin with /real off it still suppresses the output of a manual /house available for "0 available" and Apartments.
So if you want the full output of the manual command you will have to uncheck the plugin in Decal and relog the toon.

Well then - good night for now...

Post by **Panzerfaust** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 3:26 am

make sure ur base loyal and leader can afford the buffs to drop

Oof · Post by **Oof** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 3:33 am

Thanks Trekman for a great suggestion.

I've been running tank, but this will be much easier. Panzer made a good point folks, it would really stink to run this to build the loyalty bonus, only to find out your leadership/loyalty isn't high enough to max the passthrough rate without having buffs on.

It could cost you many millions of extra XP you need to earn if you don't have high enough leadership and loyalty.

Llwyd · Post by **Llwyd** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:35 pm

Errrr, guess I'm a newb, what is this loyalty bonus of which you speak?

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 2:12 pm

Llwyd wrote:Errrr, guess I'm a newb, what is this loyalty bonus of which you speak?

The idea behind the Loyalty Bonus is to reward you

for staying with your patron, hence being *loyal*

In fact the patron is rewarded

by getting more XP from you while you do not see a direct benefit (besides passing quota easier in an XP chain which is the reason why we talk about it here).

Anyway - this is done by adding an invisible bonus to the Loyalty skill you can raise with XP.
When you swear to a patron an internal sum-counter is reset to 0. Then your online hours are summed up as long as you remain sworn to that patron. As the sum grows certain percentages are added to your Loyalty skill in the formula that calculates the passup of self-hunted XP.
But those percentages are invisible, so you do not recognize them when checking your Loyalty skill (similar to the Direct Vassal Bonus to Leadership).

The maximum percentage added is 100% which is reached after 240 ingame hours.
So once you have been playing 240 hours under the same patron your Loyalty skill is internally and invisibly doubled which results in a higher passup rate.
Note that "only" the Loyalty skill is doubled, not the passup rate itself.
Even though passup is only raised by a certain percentage due to the doubled Loyalty in the formula, this raise can help you significantly in hunting the quota XP.

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 2:30 pm

Panzerfaust wrote:make sure ur base loyal and leader can afford the buffs to drop

Definitely

When you have Leadership trained to 163 (including base and Direct Vassal Bonus, but no buffs) and Loyalty to base 200 (including base and Loyalty Bonus, but no buffs), you do not need any buffs to maintain the maximum pass-through rate.
Then this plugin is for you.

If you need buffs to reach 163/200, you will have to use ElTank or some other self-buffing plugin.

Edit : modified the original post and added this important topic

Post by **Panzerfaust** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 3:13 pm

hehe -- i remember doing this with a tool called acmacro -- OLD -- it just sent one keystroke however often you told it to. So, I went in and out of peace mode for a few days. Then I remembered the buff thing. Spent 24 hours hunting to recoup. Much easier now tho.

Pee-Wee · Post by **Pee-Wee** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 3:23 pm

I don't mean to burst a bubble or sound stupid either, but...

Can't you accomplish the same thing, by parking your toon in a corner of your dwelling and pressing the "Q" or Auto Run key?

I never seem to be kicked when I do this waiting for the PK Kill penalty to expire.

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 12:10 am

Pee-Wee wrote:ICan't you accomplish the same thing, by parking your toon in a corner of your dwelling and pressing the "Q" or Auto Run key?

I tried that with my trademule in Marketplace fellowship while Trekman hunted on AL for him. Fact was that the mule was running against the wall for several minutes, then logged out. Repeatedly.

I would understand if it does not work

The client logs out (or gets logged out by the server) after a few minutes of *client inactivity*, which means that although the client receives data from the server (like what to draw or which sound to play) it does not send something actively to the server.
After pressing Autorun no more action is done on the client, the running is done on the server. So while the client draws the toon running into the wall it does not actively send something to the server, hence being officially inactive.

Do you have some plugin activated that does something in the background communicating with the server ? Like ElTank or another plugin that IDs yourself for some status ? That would explain why you do not get logged out...

Post by **Panzerfaust** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 12:07 pm

I know that doesn't work. I tried it a very very long time ago with my first character. We were meeting for some quest in some tower. I didn't want them to think I wasn't going to be there, so I did pressed Q in a corner. When I came back, I was logged out. I tried it a couple times just to make sure.

Like Trek said, there server is looking for activity from the client.

If anyone is interested in the AcMacro thing, I think I can still find it. It doesn't require decal. You just alt-tab, run it, pick which key and how oftern and click go and alt-tab back, then walk away.

DL · Post by DL » Sat Jul 05, 2003 1:33 pm

Panz....will the ACtool one keep you buffed?

My Loyalty is plenty high but my leader is dependant upon 12 vassal...I untrained my leader quite some time ago...I can't afford to stay logged on without my leader buffed for long periods.

Post by **Panzerfaust** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 1:57 pm

what is your leader untrained DL?

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Handy little plugin to keep you online ........

Handy little plugin to keep you online ........

Just what i was looking for!