Party1 Death recovery thoughts and questions

[maxel]

Anyone know if it's possible to script the promotion of a party member to party leader after the death of a leader? Essentially, I'm looking to create a macro that does the following:

- I'm the party leader and I die, I mash the promote macro.
- The macro cycles through my list of other characters and finds the first non dead one for it's target
- The button then promotes that target to party leader

The purpose of this would be to allow me to still use my /assist party1 /cast macros and shuffle my party leader without having to re-target or waste the valuable macro characters with ong /target logic. I would set this button up on each account and if my "main" dies, I would hit it and immediately switch to the next account if they die, the same thing occurs.

Does what I'm looking to do make sense or is it even possible?

Thanks!
Max

[Naysayer]

The command to promote leader is

/pr

I don't know how you'd get it to pick between dead or alive. Maybe with


/clearfocus
/focus [target=main, exists, nodead][target=slave1, exists,
nodead][target=slave2, exists, nodead][target=slave3, exists, nodead]
/pr focus

or

/target [target=main, exists, nodead][target=slave1, exists,
nodead][target=slave2, exists, nodead][target=slave3, exists, nodead]
/pr target


or something like that.

[BobGnarly]

I run a "party1" targeting system. I don't think you want it to just pick the next "alive" toon, because it's going to be hard for you to figure out which it picked in a pinch.

What I do is have a static way of mapping my screens to keys (F1-F5). That way when my main dies, I look at the other windows, figure out which is still alive, hit a key, and it's the main now.

Let me lay it out so it makes more sense:

I run two monitors. First monitor is my main, second monitor is quartered with 1 client in each quadrant.

F1 = main
F2 = slave1 (top left of second monitor)
F3 = slave2 (bottom left of second monitor)
F4 = slave3 (top right of second monitor)
F5 = slave4 (bottom right of second monitor).

So, say my main dies...I look at the second monitor and see which are still alive. Usually I try to go to top-left first, since that's the quickest for me to see. If she's still up, I hit F2 which not only PiPs in that region (i use keyclone), but it also promotes that slave to master. So one key press and I'm gtg. You want a deterministic method of doing this, or there is no way you'll be able to do it seamlessly when in the heat of battle. It took me a bit to memorize the pattern->key mapping, but once I did, it works pretty well.

That's what I'm doing, anyway, hope it helps.

P.S. I use a self-written multiboxing mod to "promote" my toons in a single keypress that way. Basically it works by having the toon that wants to be promoted issuing a "/p" command which each other party member sees, and the one that is currently the leader (dead in this case) will promote the sender of the message as a result. Works great.

[maxel]

/target [target=main, exists, nodead][target=slave1, exists,
nodead][target=slave2, exists, nodead][target=slave3, exists, nodead]
/pr target

This is what I was looking for, I think I'll give it a try and see what I can come up with. By ordering the slaves' ranking in the targeting, I can select who would be promoted based on group priority in target assignment. I would obviously want to assign my healing priest to leader last for instance.

[Simulacra]

[quote='maxel',index.php?page=Thread&postID=103569# post103569]

[quote]/target [target=main, exists, nodead][target=slave1, exists,
nodead][target=slave2, exists, nodead][target=slave3, exists, nodead]
/pr target
[/quote]

This is what I was looking for, I think I'll give it a try and see what I can come up with. By ordering the slaves' ranking in the targeting, I can select who would be promoted based on group priority in target assignment. I would obviously want to assign my healing priest to leader last for instance.[/quote]if you use use targettarget instead you won't need to promote. Here's a post I made from last week on what to do if your main is sheeped. I agree with BobGnarly that using a failover macro is way too random. Thinking on "Main Sheeped, alt does nothing" post further I don't see why the names in the macros couldnt be replaced with party number which would be nicer for different group setups.
[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=99120&highlight=#post 99120']Main sheeped, alt does nothing :S[/url]

[wetstreet]

...
P.S. I use a self-written multiboxing mod to "promote" my toons in a single keypress that way. Basically it works by having the toon that wants to be promoted issuing a "/p" command which each other party member sees, and the one that is currently the leader (dead in this case) will promote the sender of the message as a result. Works great.

I'm looking to do something like this myself. Does target=party1 switch to the new leader when you do this? If it does then I just saved a bunch in car insurance (not to mention macro space)!