Chaos' RoM log

Day 1 - July 12, 2009

So, just installed it and made a copy of the installation. Works like a charm, got the installs on seperate hard drives. Wow, this game uses up a ton of resources compared to WoW. I'm using about 60% or more of my CPU at all times with 2 open and nearly 2.5GB of memory w/ Firefox open and playing stuff on WMP. Even all 3 WoWs with that are barely 2.5GB.

This makes me sad.

So, I've got my two characters - Knight and Mage for now. If I can figure out a way to cut down the numbers a bit, I'll try to add a 3rd character. Now researching and working on macros. This game's system for that is CRAZY. It's like friggin' programming w/ XML and Java. I haven't done this in years (since I graduated), so this is all fun stuff.

Will be reporting back in as I get stuff done, probably.

Day 1 (cont.)

Keyclone working perfectly, no issues at all with it.

Okay, so I got my first basic macros down and I've been playing. Currently level 7 Knight and a level 7 Priest on the pvp server - Katatonia and Lullacry are the names. I've ran into my first other boxer a few minutes ago. 3-boxing, names were Ath-something (I think).

Macros are similar setup to WoWs, just nothing like them in terms of the "language" to do it. I still have my alt target and follow my main, then assist it for attacking. Works flawlessly thus far. Don't have any AoE attacks or anything weird.

Anyway, hungry, so may play more later.

PS: TOO MANY DAMN COLLECTION QUESTS

Just had someone PM me and ask about my macros and setup I was using...

So, here are my basic macros so far.

Follow - follows "party1", or the first person on your party list under yourself. This is generally in alphabetical order. If you have more than 2 characters, you'll want to figure out which party member you'll need to follow (up to party5, if I'm not mistaken). I, personally, made a second action bar above the normal one (called the Upper bar in the Interface options), and placed this macro on it (along with any other universal (aka "not character specific") macros). I then bound this key to "F" for Follow.

Quote:

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/script FollowUnit( "party1" );
/script AssistUnit("party1");

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I made this for my mage. This will Assist me (hence targeting the main's target), and cast the spell (in this case Plasma Arrow). At this point, you are already targeting the correct thing, so you probably don't have to Assist on every spell, but it doesn't hurt. So, this would be for all your attacks.

Quote:

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/script AssistUnit("party1");
/script CastSpellByName("Plasma Arrow")

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It's really that simple. For class abilities or things that won't be cast on both toons, you'll just make sure you don't have a spell bound to that key (1 through = on keyboard generally). Just like WoW, except for the "language" used in the macros.

I don't have anything complicated made yet, since I only got to level 7, but I'll update my thread as I get into it.

Thanks for posing your log but I need help with launching more than one client. On Wow I can do it real ez but with Runes of Magic they only allow you to use one launcher at a time. How did you get around this issue? Thanks.

Start -> Run -> C:\Program Files\Runes of Magic\client.exe NoCheckVersion