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Jonathan Baron
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I've been doing things manually since I returned to UO a couple of months back after a ten year absence - familiar tale I know.
I'm using the contemporary client rather than the outdated one.
I can grasp some of its functionality but to use the more advanced features, such as Honor Macros, or most any kind of combat macro, it all begins with understanding what people mean when they use the word, Target.
Sounds like a dumb question. Well, if it's not been branded into your brain it's the most obtuse concept of the interface.
I can bring up a spinning golden wheel, encircling creatures. I can cycle this spinning wheel from nearest creature to more distant ones.
What have I done? Have I....Cursored them? It certainly has the feel of a cursory appraisal more than it feels like an action, per se. Have I targeted them? What, exactly, have I done?
If I double click on a bad guy I get two things. I get the spinning wheel surrounding the bandit, plus a red health bar at roughly the same level as the spinning wheel.
Has this action turned the bandit from cursored to targetted?
Why do some bandits magically appear with both the spinning wheel and the "it's on!" red bar of combat both switched on? I've done nothing yet there they are, all ready for battle.
If the parameters for this sort of auto-militancy are bad guy + distance, why in blazes do I sometimes, after killing a member of a pressed in against me mob, have to select the next guy and initiate the red bar of combat and sometimes it too happens automatically?
Without understanding these basic concepts any sort of advanced targeting macro is simply impossible. Wait for Next? Next what? Next guy who's hula hoop had dropped around his feet, or next guy with the combat red bar appearing inside his hulu hoop?
Target last. I'm a tamer. Target last what? If a target is the spinning hulu hoop + red bar, you won't be doing much successful taming. My targets for taming have spinning hulu hoops alone. I plead for love and eternal servitude from the creature the spinning hoop is spinning around, not the previous thing it was spinning around.
I know you've got all this in your heads. I've not seen it written down anywhere but I know you must know.
Tell me....please....I beg of you...I plead with you....What does target mean?
Thank you. I'll take a pill now.
Jonathan
I'm using the contemporary client rather than the outdated one.
I can grasp some of its functionality but to use the more advanced features, such as Honor Macros, or most any kind of combat macro, it all begins with understanding what people mean when they use the word, Target.
Sounds like a dumb question. Well, if it's not been branded into your brain it's the most obtuse concept of the interface.
I can bring up a spinning golden wheel, encircling creatures. I can cycle this spinning wheel from nearest creature to more distant ones.
What have I done? Have I....Cursored them? It certainly has the feel of a cursory appraisal more than it feels like an action, per se. Have I targeted them? What, exactly, have I done?
If I double click on a bad guy I get two things. I get the spinning wheel surrounding the bandit, plus a red health bar at roughly the same level as the spinning wheel.
Has this action turned the bandit from cursored to targetted?
Why do some bandits magically appear with both the spinning wheel and the "it's on!" red bar of combat both switched on? I've done nothing yet there they are, all ready for battle.
If the parameters for this sort of auto-militancy are bad guy + distance, why in blazes do I sometimes, after killing a member of a pressed in against me mob, have to select the next guy and initiate the red bar of combat and sometimes it too happens automatically?
Without understanding these basic concepts any sort of advanced targeting macro is simply impossible. Wait for Next? Next what? Next guy who's hula hoop had dropped around his feet, or next guy with the combat red bar appearing inside his hulu hoop?
Target last. I'm a tamer. Target last what? If a target is the spinning hulu hoop + red bar, you won't be doing much successful taming. My targets for taming have spinning hulu hoops alone. I plead for love and eternal servitude from the creature the spinning hoop is spinning around, not the previous thing it was spinning around.
I know you've got all this in your heads. I've not seen it written down anywhere but I know you must know.
Tell me....please....I beg of you...I plead with you....What does target mean?
Thank you. I'll take a pill now.
Jonathan