Jamba - Follow Strobe issue

[zanthor]

When strobing follow and mounted you try to follow yourself over and over as the master, causing a nice lefthand spin.

[Jafula]

Pretend you are a Diablo 2 Barbarian and get your swords out. Whirlwind FTW.

I'll have a look tonight and patch it up; should have a fixed version out within 15 hours or so...

[zanthor]

Pretend you are a Diablo 2 Barbarian and get your swords out. Whirlwind FTW.

I'll have a look tonight and patch it up; should have a fixed version out within 15 hours or so...

I was going to look at the code tomorrow if you had not responded... raid tonight so won't be boxing and want to cram down a boatload of quests this weekend... being able to do vehicle quests will be so nice.

[Molt]

I've had problems with Jamba's following recently when changing master.

For example character A is the default master, I switch to B to do a gathering quest and then back to A. I now press my follow button and everyone runs to follow A as they should, apart from A who runs to meet B. I do know that the master macro has fired on A too as they proudly announced they had control on the party chat.

On a related note is it possible to disable the strobe follow entirely? I tend to end up wanting to be able to move my slaves away manually to gather resources and so forth without needing to guide the entire squad there and at the moment if the follow strobes when I'm doing it they give up looting and wander back to the main group. I have tried setting the strobe time to a very high number but this didn't seem to work, and now use the '/jamba-follow strobeoff all' command to disable it but this only seems to work on a per-sessions basis. Any chance of a checkbox to disable the strobe following off entirely so they'll follow when I press my follow macro? I know this'll mean I'll be leaving more shamans scattered through the countryside than otherwise but to be honest with my style of play I'd still prefer it.

I don't want to disable the entire workings of jamba-follow though, giving us the ability to switch which party member I'm following without using up our precious focus slots was a work of genius and I don't want to lose that! :D

[Greythan]

Any chance of a checkbox to disable the strobe following off entirely so they'll follow when I press my follow macro?

PLEASE!

To be candid, I find strobe follow to be horribly annoying and highly situational. Much more common (for me) is to want to move my main (tank) independently of my healer/DPS group to engage mobs a distance away from the group.

[zanthor]

Um...

If you want strobe OFF permanently

Don't
Turn
it
on...

It requires a command to start strobing, if you don't issue that command it wont strobe...

/jamba-follow strobeonme all

Or am I misunderstanding something?

[Molt]

If you want strobe OFF permanently

Don't
Turn
it
on...

It requires a command to start strobing, if you don't issue that command it wont strobe...

/jamba-follow strobeonme all

Or am I misunderstanding something?

I didn't turn it on, it seemed to be on by default. The only reason I know of the command to turn it on is from Googling for how to turn it off, my follow macro is essentially just a '/jamba-follow master all' (if I remember the syntax correctly). I know I could modify this macro to turn off strobe before I do the follow but that does sound rather clunky to me compared with the nicity of the rest of Jamba's configuration.

Also if I do turn it off with the '/jamba-follow strobeoff all' command it appears to be reset when I next log in (..or possibly when I change leader, not sure which as I don't change leader often) which suggests it's not being persisted unlike the settings in the configuration window.

[Jafula]

The only reason I know of the command to turn it on is from Googling for how to turn it off, my follow macro is essentially just a '/jamba-follow

Follow strobing is most definitely not on by default. I personally don't use follow strobing. The only way to turn it on is to issue a /jamba-follow strobe* command. Check your macro's to make sure you don't have a /jamba-follow strobe* command in them.

For non-strobing situations, you should use /jamba-follow master which I see you are doing. If either of you are struggling to get normal follow (not strobing) working, I'll be glad to help you out.

Also, please do ask questions; I frequent dual-boxing at least twice and day and will do my best to answer any questions people post either in the forums or via a PM. I am actively developing the next version of Jamba and open to suggestions.

[Jafula]

For example character A is the default master, I switch to B to do a gathering quest and then back to A. I now press my follow button and everyone runs to follow A as they should, apart from A who runs to meet B. I do know that the master macro has fired on A too as they proudly announced they had control on the party chat.

This could be a bug; I'll have a look at the code when I'm fixing the follow strobe issue.

[Jafula]

[quote='zanthor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=16952 2#post169522]When strobing follow and mounted you try to follow yourself over and over as the master, causing a nice lefthand spin.[/quote]So normal mounts don't have this problem as far as I can tell. I've recently done a vehicle quest in Dragonblight; so I cannot use that quest to test for this follow strobing problem. [s]Anyone know if there is a vehicle quest in Grizzly Hills? I'm having a look on wowhead, but if someone reads this and can help before I find one myself, I'd be grateful[/s]. Ah, found [url='http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12244']one[/url] and can reproduce the issue; how annoying...