FTL Follow issues

[crowdx]

When I try to use the follow command on my main, instead of the macro keybind being ignored on the main window, it still activates the macro in that window. Also, even though I have copied (as far as I can tell) the FTL follow guide as written, it does not work on my 5 man team, it does however work on a 2 man team I have.
Below is the macro I have on all 5 characters, the macro itself also does not work?? All help more than welcome. Also on the macro below, if it was working correctly, is there a limit for the number of toons set to each keybind? i.e. could I assign extra toons to the same keybing for when i swap out toons from other teams?

targetexact [shift] Masterblasterz
targetexact [alt] Divinelace
targetexact [ctrl] Divinehunter
targetexact [shift] [alt] Healingways
targetexact [ctrl] [shift] Holyhands
follow
targetlasttarget

[Bettysue]

Keeping in mind the character limit present in the standard interface you may have to modify the macro below:

/targetexact [mod:shift,nomod:ctrl/alt,exists] Masterblasterz 
/targetexact [mod:shift,nomod:ctrl/alt,exists] AlternateToonName 
/targetexact [mod:alt,nomod:ctrl/shift] Divinelace
/targetexact [mod:ctrl,nomod:shift/alt] Divinehunter
/targetexact [mod:shiftalt,nomod:ctrl] Healingways
/targetexact [mod:ctrlshift,nomod:alt] Holyhands
/follow
/targetlasttarget

The mod set demonstrates how to apply an alternate option.
The above macro uses your extremely long method of accomplishing this task. You may have a reason not presented in this inquiry, however, it would use far fewer characters to use the following:

/follow [mod:shift, nomod:ctrl/alt, target=Masterblasterz][mod:alt,nomod:ctrl/shift,target=Divinelace][mod:ctrl,nomod:shift/alt,target=Divinehunter][mod:shiftalt,nomod:ctrl,target=Healingways][mod:ctrlshift,nomod:alt,target=Holyhands]

Since you can't follow yourself the main character would ignore the follow command and would never change targets.

[crowdx]

So unfortunately this issue is in Rift, the original macro supplied was from the FTL guide Lax provided here:
http://isboxer.com/index.php/guides/...iboxing-macros

[MiRai]

Lax gave you an answer on your ISBoxer forum thread:

http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1715

[crowdx]

Lax's response does not seem to address that the macro itself does not seem to be working as I think it is supposed to. My thought on the above macro is that no matter which character is selected, the other characters will follow, the above macro does not result in that behaviour for me

[Krago]

When I try to use the follow command on my main, instead of the macro keybind being ignored on the main window, it still activates the macro in that window. Also, even though I have copied (as far as I can tell) the FTL follow guide as written, it does not work on my 5 man team, it does however work on a 2 man team I have.
Below is the macro I have on all 5 characters, the macro itself also does not work?? All help more than welcome. Also on the macro below, if it was working correctly, is there a limit for the number of toons set to each keybind? i.e. could I assign extra toons to the same keybing for when i swap out toons from other teams?

targetexact [shift] Masterblasterz
targetexact [alt] Divinelace
targetexact [ctrl] Divinehunter
targetexact [shift] [alt] Healingways
targetexact [ctrl] [shift] Holyhands
follow
targetlasttarget

This is the same macro I am using for my 5 man team.

The only issue I had was the I put the [shift] [alt] as the first entry as it was assigned to my 1st toon and that doesn't work.

It will always trigger the [alt] one instead, which caused follow problems that to a bit to solve but it works now.

[Smedbox]

Lax's response does not seem to address that the macro itself does not seem to be working as I think it is supposed to. My thought on the above macro is that no matter which character is selected, the other characters will follow, the above macro does not result in that behaviour for me

I think Lax's response explains everything. That exact macro works fine for me in all my teams (2, 3 or 5 man).

It's possible to have all your characters in a single macro, even the ones not on your team. You can have both "targetexact [shift] MyHealer" and "targetexact [shift] MyOtherHealer" in the same macro. Characters that aren't online will be ignored.

But what BettySue wrote about "nomod" and just using the "/follow" command seems very interesting. I'll definitely try that out later.

[crowdx]

So I restarted ISBoxer with a clean config and now this works. lax pointing out that there was WoW toons (which i have not played in months) in the config made me think a fresh config would be a good idea

[Norrin]

It's possible to have all your characters in a single macro, even the ones not on your team. You can have both "targetexact [shift] MyHealer" and "targetexact [shift] MyOtherHealer" in the same macro. Characters that aren't online will be ignored.

I just started doing this as well. I have a 5 man team, and the Main account I like to swap in and out my Rogue and Cleric.
Works great so far.

[crowdx]

So basically have each slot modifier with the multiple characters? Order does not matter?
i.e.
targetexact [shift] Masterblasterz
targetexact [shit] Mage2
and so on?