Escort/Compassion Script?

[silentsentinel]

Hi guys, am new here, I've scoured around the net and have not come up with anything really useful. I'm looking for an AFK/semi-afk Compassion/Escort running script.

I realize it's not much gold income but I've seen a few people scripting it and can't find any good starter script.

Any chance someone could point me in the right direction? I'm competent enough to fix issues or make tweaks to scripts, but I'd really like to get something half started so I don't have to completely re-invent the wheel, I'm sure it's already been done in the past

Thanks all for any input!

[TrailMyx]

I started one of those a long time ago.  That was one of my first gold manufacturing methods after bowcraft.  I also wanted to have something like that for quite some time.

To be honest, it's not all that difficult to build, but the railing can be difficult if you try to do it yourself.  Other than that, just a good set of runes and some gating subs and your set.  (overly simplified, yes I know.....)

[Cerveza]

I'd assume the hardest part would be finding the escortee, and getting the destinations. If it's a dungeon, just refuse?

I know escorting used to be a great way to work up magery, back in the day.

[silentsentinel]

Hey TrailMix, any chance I could use what you have cobbled together and take it over for my use? Or anyone?

Starting from scratch seems like it'd be a huge amount of time, would love to have some sort of starting point and take it from there, if anyone has something

Much obliged for the responses

[TrailMyx]

You know, I don't think I even have that stuff anymore.  I've only lost data once, and that was on a laptop way back when.  I had a couple scripts I was working on with that machine. 

[silentsentinel]

but the railing can be difficult if you try to do it yourself.

Hm, can't just 'event pathfind' to the NPC?

I think another hard part, is I'm not sure how to best differentiate between normal and quest/escort npcs?

[TrailMyx]

I think another hard part, is I'm not sure how to best differentiate between normal and quest/escort npcs?

This is "THE" hard part really. 

It's been forever since I've actually done these quests.  Do you get a special quest gump now when you initiate a quest?  I remember back in the day it was just text commands and no gumps.

[12TimesOver]

Silent - I responded to you on WinUO in the chatbox but perhaps I was misunderstanding your intention. I thought you were looking for something to gain Compassion.

If this is the case then I feel that the scripting is a waste of energy unless it was to include automated login routines to do multiple characters across multiple shards. However, if you were looking to do this for some other reason than Compassion (god knows I can't think of a reason) then this would obviously not matter.

The issue is simply that Compassion isn't something that can be "powergamed". Unless there has been a change or you've discovered a bug you get to gain Compassion no more than 5 times per day. Furthermore, unless you use the prisoner in Orc Dungeon, you can only take an escort every 5 minutes. As for gold farming, this equates to only in the neghborhood of 5k to 6k gold per hour.

What would the intent be of said script?

XII

[silentsentinel]

Heya, thanks for the reply - it is for (meager) gold farming.
4 accounts * ~1k gold per escort every 5 mins = 48k/hr (roughly)

Yes it's not much but it would equate to what I make farming with my tamer per hour.

[TrailMyx]

Unfortunately they nerfed this a long time ago.  There used to not be a timer on these quests, so you could really rake in the gold even though the gold return was less back then. 

Man, you could farm gold from a good lich spawn and get that much with one account.  Even the Arctic Orge lord in T2A Ice give around 55K/hr with one account.  And that's an easy one for a dexxer.

I even farm the mummies in Deceit for around 22K/hr.

[silentsentinel]

Totally true, and I may try a dexxer or tamer farming script for simplicitys sake. The reason I didn't immediately go that route tho is this: Large shard population. (Most every farming spot get checked fairly frequently on the shard I play.) Escorts at the least, while slow, would be a bit more sustainable as you can't as easily kill the bot as one could in a dungeon.

One thing I do know is that you can use context menus on the escorts here to ask for destination and accept/abandon escorts. The old text commands such as "I will take thee" work fine too.

Just throwing around the idea. There's plenty of monster farming scripts out there so I thought I'd check this out

[TrailMyx]

Ah, well that's a good argument for your idea.  A slow, safe, steady drip of gold versus a short flood before banning.  lol.  Something that you can AFK 24/7 with little possibility of being paged upon.

[TrailMyx]

Oh, and I have context menu manipulation routines here at the site, so that can help you out a bit.

[12TimesOver]

4 accounts * ~1k gold per escort every 5 mins = 48k/hr (roughly)

Yes it's not much but it would equate to what I make farming with my tamer per hour.

Ah, well nowadays it equals one escort every 5 minutes at about 450gold per escort.

There are SOOOOO many easier and safer ways to script much more than that even on a single account. If you need to throw some gold together quickly while AFK spend one day a week farming ore or turning in Daishos for Folded Steel, you'll make more that one day than a month of escorts (450gold x 12 escorts an hour x 24 hours in a day x 30 days in a month = 3.1 mil per month. A single pair of Folded Steel will sell for three times that and can be obtained in 17 hours).

Although I do hate to be so negative, I just have a hard time not getting into logic efficiencies, etc. Kind of part of my job so it comes too naturally lol. Probably why I'm always in the doghouse with my wife... 

Could be fun to write either way.

XII

[TrailMyx]

Probably why I'm always in the doghouse with my wife... 

XII

You're just a natural troublemaker, aren't you!