Focusless, targetless, 'leaderless' (FTL) setup.

[olipcs]

well i'm not as good in explaining it with good graphics and visualizations like Araketh, but a little bit of wikiing exists, and calling it undetailed.. ..well, if you want to improve it, feel more than welcome!

btw: The link to the wiki is also on the first page of this thread, as the first entry ....

[Saevio]

The Wiki page has a ton of information in it, coupled with all the info in this thread, we should pretty much cover everything now

[jeffz0rz]

I wrote up an article about my multiboxing setup, including some details on how I got the focusless, targetless, leaderless setup to work.

You can read it here: http://whatisearchfor.blogspot.com/2...ing-setup.html

Thank you neodon, this is a great writeup (of course, thanks to the original authors of the idea, you guys rock, Neodon just made it easier to implement, for me anyways)

If your having trouble trying to get setup with this FTL'ess jargon, check out Neodons write up, use his files. I was able to get 4 out of my 5 characters working properly, and for some reason just could not troubleshoot the last toon, ended up finding his writeup, I downloaded his keymap files, and now all 5 of my toons are effectly FTL'less!

perhaps in the writeup though, you should add what modifiers are used for each keymap/toon, I was able to figure it out, but for the people far more lazy than I, or the ones who just don't get it, it may help if they want to put in additional keymaps.

for the record, the modifiers are(as used in Neodons files)
toon1 = shift+control+key
toon2 = ctrl+alt+key
toon3 = shift+alt+key
toon4 = shift+ctrl+alt+key
toon5 = ctrl+key

my apologies if someone has already stated this, but I relly didn't feel like sifting through 16 pages of replies to find out if it had been said already :P

Happy Boxing!

PS
I did modify the macros a little for myself though. So I'm not really targetless. I like seeing what my slaves are attacking, but I am Leaderless ad focusless

[bhec7715]

This is the greatest of all forum posts. You guys are my heroes.

Sorry to say it was undetailed. I was looking at the FTL setup on 'getting started' part of the wiki.

Also: Does each toon have separate keymaps for each button or do you simply add them to the keymap?

I can't get this to work without a slave key.

[Reglar]

So, I followed the wiki (well done), got the FTL setup working right off, and so good to go. Only, I noticed in my slave windows that both the slave/keystring AND the original master key both show pressed.

Details:
Master - I am using 2 for LB
Slaves - I am using i for the FTL LB

When I press 2 on the master, I see the I button firing on the slaves, but also the 2 button on the slaves is animating like its pressed.

I opened a /say on all the slaves, and when I press 2 on the master only i's come out, so clearly the slaves aren't really seeing 2.

Some of you will say "its working, so why worry". Well, I just hate not being able to understand the dynamics.

Anyone any insight? If it matters, I'm running 5 symbolic linked directories, one per window.

[olipcs]

When I press 2 on the master, I see the I button firing on the slaves, but also the 2 button on the slaves is animating like its pressed.

sounds wired! does the 'animating like its pressed' also appear when you put two different actions on it (preferably one tat doesn't even trigger gcd) ?

[Reglar]

When I press 2 on the master, I see the I button firing on the slaves, but also the 2 button on the slaves is animating like its pressed.

sounds wired! does the 'animating like its pressed' also appear when you put two different actions on it (preferably one tat doesn't even trigger gcd) ?

Well, it would help if I actually replaced my original target based macro spells with plain jane spells out of the book.

The slaves were reacting to the alt's and ctrls and showing the other spells I had setup in my 2 slot using mod:alt etc.

Everything works fine when I actually do things 100% like the wiki, funny how that is

[blast3r]

Just want to say thanks to everyone who has contributed to this FTL setup. This is really a great setup for boxing. I find the enemy in BGs end up looking lost after they stun my current main and I just switch to another and chew their faces off. Anyone who depends on a single main should think about using this. In an instance some bosses/mobs put your main to sleep and you are done for. I do wish it was easier to drop other toons in to the mix on the fly but maybe that will come later as this method grows. My old system with just a single main was easy. Simply change the lead toon's name in the follow macros and go kill things. Can't do it with this setup (at least that I am aware of).

[olipcs]

I do wish it was easier to drop other toons in to the mix on the fly but maybe that will come later as this method grows. My old system with just a single main was easy. Simply change the lead toon's name in the follow macros and go kill things. Can't do it with this setup (at least that I am aware of).

well honestly this is always a problem with the ftl, the best method for simplifying group-changes currently known is using the "/click Method " which leads in only 1-2 macros to change. Other than that, i put my hope very much in Freedy (of HKN) to give us the tool for realy simple keybinding ftl-setups, fingers are crossed...

On the macro-side, i put my hope in jamba. Because when Jafula implements the ability of tag-based-macro writing, teamchanges should be a no brainer...

[DgtlSorcrs]

I'm pretty late to this thread, but I too like the "masterless" approach. I was thinking that KeyClone might be able to do remapping, but never took the time to look that far into it. I can't wait to get home and try this out.

I'm going to shamelessly plug here: If you like to go "masterless", you may like my addon, MultiTool, for this as I specifically made it to just silently make stuff work (quest gossip, auto accept escort quests, auto accept summons, auto accept group invites [white-list-enabled], auto follow taxi) without the traditional "master/ slave" relationship.