Last time I played UO was sometime after Xmas 2004. I know this because all of my characters have the Xmas presents on them...which turns out, are worth some gold now.
Anyway, FT software engineer/part time professor, and I take to scripting like syrup on pancakes.
I started with AutoIt and other simple macro and script tools in UO, but even before that I would jamb a penny and a couple sheets of paper into the keyboard to get my gains. Then I found AskChopper and SkunkWorks...and the botting began.
I spent three hours the other night perfecting an ore smelting script in EUO to go from 78 to GM mining. Luckily, when I quit in 2004/5 I left an unimaginable amount of unsmelted ore in a bank. No valorite ore, just about 2K in Val ingots, but I'm set on Verite for some time =( That was fun. I forgot how tedious it can be to program one task at a time. I just wanted to program some libraries to make a move from one bag to another with a MoveItemToBackpack(%secureid, %ores, 1) and then UseItemOnObject(%ores, %forges) easier, because it's the same over and over, just done a hundred different ways based on the scripter.
After UO, I moved on to Everquest and WoW, a ton of FPS games and back to WoW then EQ2, ESO, WoW...
I took the reigns on a TinyToon hunter bot sometime before Warden banned everyone. It was pretty good, but it started as someone else's work and I just tried to make it reliable and act more realistic.
The last 15 years or so have been me trying to get my *bleep* together, get degrees, get a real job and raise my son, in that order. Doing good and looking for my old hobbies to see if I can stand sitting at the computer at home since my job isn't very exciting. I'm currently using EUO as I said above, but I'm always interested in other scripting or programming methods.
Today while I'm at work I will be starting to create a rail based lumberjack and mining script that is agnostic about your window placement. I realize that between my lumber and mining rails, I must have moved the game window. All of my X Y clicks are not working because everything is off by some M and N number of pixel values. What a pain in the ass...I've got to do something about that.
So, knock, knock.
Here's Johnny!
aka godfetish
