Tri-boxing for a week now. Two problems.

[acohen2007]

Hey all! I've got to admit this is one hell of an awesome community! I
never thought I'd find so much helpful info in one location!

I've been tri-boxing shaman for about a wek now and I've only leveled
them to 12 because I've been playing around with macros and scripts
trying to get past some issues.



1) The first issue is regarding my clones ability to follow at a decent
pace. Whenever I have the clones window up it runs at the correct
speed. As soon as it is minimized it begins to fall behind and
eventually stop following. Is there a program that allows all 3 screens
to remain maximized? How about a program that would keep my clones
window in PIP mode? If not, anyone have any ideas?



2) I've looked around and I've noticed that a lot of people have the
obvious problem of accepting/turning in quests and whatnot on their
clones. I've got a mod that auto accepts everything but the problem is
getting my toons to right-click on the NPC i'm trying to interact with.
I used autoscriptwriter to record the various mouse-button clicks and
have been successful in creating a hotkey to activate those clicks.
However, unlike my 1-9, 0, -, = hotkeys, it wont get a response from my
clones. I also undersatdn that in order for this to work all my toons
have to be in first-person which is not much of a problem because I can
move them around a bit each time before hitting my hotkey so as to get
all 3 to accept. Any suggestions?



That's pretty much it! With issue#1 out of the way I will be able to
progress much faster and the answers to issue #2 will also be utilized
for looting corpses so that I can go ahead with collection quests.
Thanks to everybody in advance!

[Drizzit]

1) I use keyclone (there are others out there) and i think it is great. it has a nice pip in it. Another good thing is that it has the ability to switch screens easily.
2) Keyclone has a nice feature that when you mouse over one of your pip wow screen it gets focus. Using this i get all my guys next the the quest person and then click on him on all the windows.

[acohen2007]

Wow what a fast response! Thank you! I'm going to give keyclone a shot and see how it works for me!

[keyclone]

howdy acohen and welcome to the forums!

if you have any questions on setting up, please feel free to drop me a note.
there are a few posts that are fairly helpful... but this one is pretty useful (post #16)
link: Keyclone!!!

talk to you soon,

Rob

[Drizzit]

Keyclone isn't free though $20 per pc, but it is for life and the Rob (the guy that made it) is always on the forums and is every helpful.

You lucked out, today someone wrote a really good write up on Octopus (i believe it is free) which is another option that you have.
Multi-boxing Part 1: Getting Started

I went keyclone and i think it was the best $20 i spent, but then again i never used the others. The others might have a little more programing and setting up to do. With clone i was up in 10 minutes.

Just a little hint, if you have trouble setting it something up (send Rob, keyclone, a pm if you are using keyclone) please read the wiki and sticky that are here and do a couple of searches. Cause people tend to get a little mad when the same question is asked for the 100th time.

[-silencer-]

1) KeyClone is the easiest solution. I personally use Maximizer (to fit all the windows on my displays) & AutoHotKey (key broadcasting) though - I set up my solution before I knew about KeyClone, and I'm happy with it. KeyClone looks MUCH easier for a non-tech person to use, since editing AHK requires a little learning of the script language, and Maximizer can be a little troublesome to set up the first time too.

2) I use the /script AcceptQuest() macro for accepting quests and just click in each window to talk to quest-givers/NPCs. You *should* be able to target the NPC by /target Party1target, then use the /script GetGossipActiveQuests(); macro to get the text speech for a quest you're ready to complete. Then use the /script AcceptQuest(); macro to complete it. The only problem I see is if you're given a choice of quest rewards, or there are multiple quests to turn in and there's an option of which one. SelectGossipActiveQuest(index) could solve the multiple quest issue. You could use GetQuestReward(index) to select the quest reward, but that's something you probably *don't* want to be done automatically for all the characters anyway.

[BobGnarly]

Hey all! I've got to admit this is one hell of an awesome community! I
never thought I'd find so much helpful info in one location!

Welcome, and thank you for reading a little before asking questions.

1) The first issue is regarding my clones ability to follow at a decent
pace. Whenever I have the clones window up it runs at the correct
speed. As soon as it is minimized it begins to fall behind and
eventually stop following. Is there a program that allows all 3 screens
to remain maximized? How about a program that would keep my clones
window in PIP mode? If not, anyone have any ideas?

You have to keep the windows non-minimized or windows will drop their priorities waaay down. If you want to do this anyway (I'd just recommend backgrounding them), I *think* you can get what you want by right clicking on the task in the task manager and forcing a priority there. Or at least that's what I read once by somebody attempting to do the same thing (no personal experience).

2) I've looked around and I've noticed that a lot of people have the
obvious problem of accepting/turning in quests and whatnot on their
clones. I've got a mod that auto accepts everything but the problem is
getting my toons to right-click on the NPC i'm trying to interact with.
I used autoscriptwriter to record the various mouse-button clicks and
have been successful in creating a hotkey to activate those clicks.
However, unlike my 1-9, 0, -, = hotkeys, it wont get a response from my
clones. I also undersatdn that in order for this to work all my toons
have to be in first-person which is not much of a problem because I can
move them around a bit each time before hitting my hotkey so as to get
all 3 to accept. Any suggestions?

Not sure about scripting this, but I can tell you that if you have and auto-accept mod (so you just get the quest with main and share it - which is then auto-accepted), the turn in part isn't too bad if you *don't* have your windows minimized. I've gotten pretty used to just mousing over and right clicking on the quest guy once in a while.

That's pretty much it! With issue#1 out of the way I will be able to
progress much faster and the answers to issue #2 will also be utilized
for looting corpses so that I can go ahead with collection quests.
Thanks to everybody in advance!

You can actually get away without doing collection quests, if you want - there are enough non-collection quests to level. If you want to do them for whatever reason, and figure out a way to get a macro-driven mechanism in place (that doesn't use third party software, at least for me), then please do share.

[brontes]

Keyclone is great, but beware of the draconian DRM. It phones home on every launch for authentication. Keyclone server goes down? Your SOL.

Great program, the DRM kills me though.

[-silencer-]

Keyclone is great, but beware of the draconian DRM. It phones home on every launch for authentication. Keyclone server goes down? Your SOL.

Great program, the DRM kills me though.

What DRM is used? ViaTech? I bought a baseball sim that uses Via Tech and it was a hassle to get it registered again if a hard drive went down or I forgot to un-register it before reformatting (which I do often).
As a software engineer, I totally understand the reason for protecting your investment and letting someone else handle the transactions and licensing, but it can be a headache at times compared to just installing from a CD.

[brontes]

What DRM is used?

yes. your license allows you to move your activation to whatever machine you wish... but that process is a manual one, and requires interaction on my part (in other words, it could take a day or 2). contact me with your old system id, new system id, and your email address you used with paypal. once i have those, i will invalidate your old license and activate your new one.

Hope he never goes on vacation.

if you change your hardware, re-install your OS, or get a new machine, odds are good that your keyclone system-id will change. when that happens, your keyclone will pop-up as expired. this is due to the new system-id not being activated.

See above. Hope you don't want to reformat or upgrade your computer. Worse than Windows' call-in-to-reactivate garbage.