Would UO assist really be that useful with SA ?
Yes. Several of the "agents" in UO Assist have not been cloned. The ones I use most often are:
- Organize - This agent lets you specify a particular container in your backpack to hold specific items. You assign a particular keystroke to the function of moving the specified items into the selected container. I use this function every time I buy a big batch of runes for a rune marking expedition to automatically move them into a bag in my backpack.
- Sell - This agent lets you specify a particular container in your backpack to hold items that you want to automatically sell to NPCs. I use this agent when I train certain crafting characters, such as a carpenter. I make the shields in the container associated with the sell agent and then I approach the carpenter NPC and use the Sell function on its context menu. All the shields in the bag are automatically sold to the carpenter in one action.
- Vendor - I rarely use this agent. However, it lets you pre-assign a price to items that you routinely put on a vendor so that they are automatically priced for you as you place them on a vendor. You can assign a specific price to a specific item or indicate that the price should be a particular multiple of the price the game normally uses as a default price for the item.
In addition, UOAssist lets you build more complicated macros than the Enhanced client does. For example, you cannot create a macro in the Enhanced client to use a specific type of ninjitsu animal form. The closest you can get is to bring up the animal form gump. As another example, with UO Assist you can make a two-step macro to track a particular form (e.g., animals or NPCs). With the Enhanced client, the best you can do is bring up the first tracking gump and you have to pick a form from there. The same is true of any other skill or spell that has two gumps to it...the Enhanced client can only get you to the first gump, but UOAssist can go further than that.
Some other nice features of UO Assist that are perhaps not as nifty but are noticeably absent from the Enhanced client are the ability to surpress certain sounds (e.g., horses neighing, cats meowing, dogs barking, sheep baahing); see yourself in a particular form while a ghost (e.g., as a chicken, which means your screen shots aren't monochromatic and therefore more interesting to others); pick a default color to display other characters' text (no more squinting to read that impossible default yellow); automatically surpress the gump that notifies you of vet rewards, keep track of skill gains since you logged on; and display in your journal and on the screen a count of items in a container when you open the container.
And last but not least, UO Assist works with UO Automap. The Enhanced client has a nice map and atlas feature and hopefully someone can mod it to make the atlas resizable. What it lacks and what will probably always prevent its wide acceptance is the ability to have individuals log in to a secure server so they show up on the map/atlas to other individuals also logged into the same server. The Enhanced client has some "group" tracking abilities, but they are very limited (e.g., have to be partied and only shows characters in the same vicinity).
