noob help

[orkko]

I am brand new to multiboxing, and I just got everything set for a team of five. But when I have them on follow and try to fly from place to place, follow is broken by multiple toons in a matter of seconds. I have graphics way down on all instances, and my computer isnt the best but not the worst. (ryzen 7 3ghz radeon 580 8gb and 16 gb ram using ssd also) I tried this once before in WOD and didn't have this same issue. Is there something i can do besides lowering graphics to help? I had fps set to 60 foreground and 60 background, and also tried 60 fore and 30 back. I am using hotkeynet to broadcast and a hotkey script for spamming macros. Sorry if this is handled somewhere else

[WOWBOX40]

Well if you use a main like a dk or paladin and the others arent, chances are they dont have the passive 20 prosent speed increase. This will make the slaves loose follow after like 10 secs or so.

If this is the case i would advise to switch your main or get other slaves.

Way back i tried to lower my slaves to under 20 fps background, but that seemed to make them loose follow even faster. Havent had issues when 25-30.

Also make sure they have bought the same flight speed from the trainer.

[orkko]

thanks :) I'm using a combo of mages and warlocks. The only racially different one is the leader who is human, the rest are gnomes.

[WOWBOX40]

Maybe you have gear with the speed stat on, or a talent on your main that makes it walk / fly faster. I belive the addon named advanced interface options allow you to view how much of every stat you have when you go to the character screen. So you atleast can troubleshoot that.

Also in warlord of draenor there is a stone you can talk to..that gives a buff. Go to the garrison and check the buff of all the toons. Read the tooltips. Maybe some of them have it.

Does this also happen if you enter a 5man or old raid btw, where you have very high fps? (I assume). If you enter new dalaran and quickly try to fly around when its busy.. very few setups wont break follow usually. Just have to take it a bit slowly if thats the case.

[MiRai]

follow is broken by multiple toons in a matter of seconds.
The only assumption I can make from this statement is that you're broadcasting your movement keys to every game client, which you should not be doing.

[orkko]

unfortunately no, no movement keys. This is while flying with the mouse using /follow

[Wubsie]

Are your other clients experiencing short freezes when this happens perhaps? Doesn't sound like there is anything that you're doing particularly wrong, but it does seem odd that they would break so easily when you're just flying in a straight line not involving going over phase lines and not sending anything to the non-focused game windows.

I guess we could take a look at your HKN script, but I'm not sure what we could hope to find.

[MiRai]

unfortunately no, no movement keys. This is while flying with the mouse using /follow
I guess I missed that part in your original post. So, then...

Are you trying to fly through an area that is heavily phased?
Do all of your characters have the same flight license?

[orkko]

yes everybody is the same, it happens no matter where i fly..ive even tried to double up on two seaters and they still fall behind

[Crum1515]

yes everybody is the same, it happens no matter where i fly..ive even tried to double up on two seaters and they still fall behind

What kind of latency are you getting?

[omegared]

maybe your internet speed cant handle it?

[WOWBOX40]

Last resort i guess would be:

Start of all your 5 games.
Create a macro on toon 2-5: /follow nameoftoonnumber1

If you mount up and then press the button, can you fly around using toon nr 1 without them breaking follow then?

[orkko]

30/30 ms

[orkko]

i have 100mb ethernet connection it should be enough i think...i did this a little bit in WOD on an older computer and slower connection and didn't have this problem

[Lance]

One other thing that I can think of is there a guild perk that gives mounted speed increase.

[Radical Redemption]

I had the same issue when my toons didn't have the last riding skill (master riding), but my master toon had it, so the master was moving a bit faster than the rest of them and that was breaking the follow pretty often. So, make sure you've got that on all your toons.

[orkko]

Thanks I checked and I do have it all. I Wonder if it would help if instead of having them all follow the master, if i had one follow master and next one follow him and so on.

[WOWBOX40]

If your team follow works without issues when you are walking and running, and they only loose follow when you try to speed away on your ground and or flying mount, and it still doesnt work after all the above suggestions, then im clueless right now.

[Radical Redemption]

Thanks I checked and I do have it all. I Wonder if it would help if instead of having them all follow the master, if i had one follow master and next one follow him and so on.

This would break the follow even easier. I think you are having latency between the toons. When some of my toons are lagging, i simply use serverhop to phase between realms and sometimes that helps a lot.

[MadMilitia]

The game has some garbage phasing breakpoints in places like Dalaran where you temp phase on several toons thus losing sight and follow. It's actually the most annoying thing in WoW for multiboxing and why so many of us are clamoring for 5 man mounts (passenger mounts historically have fixed this issue for us).

You really can't do anything other than knowing where the phase breakpoints are, stopping for a moment and then hit the follow button again. If that's your problem then I sympathize. Otherwise it's probably latency.

[Jabberie]

if you know there is a phase line, send your main in first, wait a few seconds and then follow again. The reason they go ape shit is because they are all phasing across at almost the same time.

It's why there is a delay now in Jamba for taking flight points.

[DualZilla]

Dunno how much this may help...as you may have already tried all these

but a few addon suggestions to help like

Jamba... and make sure team is set to follow under team ....and always strobe on master under team options follow...and hit the push settings button to all toons
monkey speed to see each toon speed max

Video on screen usage(non addon)
Riva Tuner/MSI afterburner...for Nvidia cards

My killer network app shows only 5% of my PC traffic is WoW

Can also check your router to make sure your PC is getting the highest priority and the WoW port traffic is set to best QoS quality of service...especially if there are others sharing network in house and streaming/downloading frequently while you are playing

That said crossing zone lines cause follow to fail and taking off flying from the ground and from water still cause issues with 5 toons on one PC for me...

The toons followed better when they flew slower...ie with just the first agonizing slow flight license speed

I have much better luck splitting them 3 and 2 and using 2 PCs...running them at a 3 setting generally pushing 80-90% video on main

Some people have 10 toons on 1 PC...so I've read so your mileage may vary...but I am using SLI dual video with a SSD and a killer network card meant for gaming on my main and stopped running 5 on it...just my main 3 when using mixed tank/healer/DPS and other 2 dps on laptop

[Radical Redemption]

Are your 5 toons on the same realm? As far as i know, some ppl make their toons on different realms (usually for farming purposes) and that might be the problem here.

[Ritley]

Characters on different realms shouldn't cause issues. After all the team will all be on the same CRZ once they are grouped anyway.

[Radical Redemption]

Characters on different realms shouldn't cause issues. After all the team will all be on the same CRZ once they are grouped anyway.

Actually, there is a latency that is different depending which 2 realms are crossed. I am getting those issues pretty often, since im farming a lot and on many different realms.

[Ritley]

Well I suppose that is true and probably more pronounced in EU. In US there is very little latency difference for whether I am on an East Coast server (where I live) or a West Coast Server. Latency is definitely an issue when I'm playing my main and get CRZd to an Oceanic server so I can see your point.

[Jabberie]

I've found there to be 20 to 70ms difference between coasts. Servers in Europe are much closer together.

[orkko]

Update: I am an idiot. (flying license issue I thought I didn't have. Turned out i did. :/ ) Thanks for all the help!

[WOWBOX40]

Update: I am an idiot. (flying license issue I thought I didn't have. Turned out i did. :/ ) Thanks for all the help!

No worries we all make mistakes :)
I just realized that instead of visiting the flighttrainer, its possible to mount up and then hover the mousecursor over the mountbuff. Should state which speed it has. So you can compare vs your main character if need be.

[Ritley]

Can also use an addon like DejaCharacterStats to show your movement speed which will also include things like Paladin/DK mount buffs, guild perk, etc.