Hello everyone,

I was a registered member from back in 2009.  I quit playing UO in December of '15.  After a few years off, I have decided to return. 

My favorite part of UO was creating scripts to allow my three accounts to interact with each other.  Debugging and watching the accounts path find around my favorite North American shard was an addicting hobby. 

A little about me:
I started playing UO after I separated from the Navy in '98.  I maintained three accounts from day one.  I continued to play while I was in college and graduated with an undergrad duel degree in mechanical and electrical engineering.  I continued playing UO while raising my now 17 year old, 16 year old, and quit while my wife was pregnant with our almost 4 year old daughter.  I quit UO and let my Luna house and Felluca castle fall when we decided that real life needed more time than I had to offer.

Aside from UO, I play Battlefield and Ghost Recon, I used to race R/C cars all summer but that hobby also died down.  I still enjoy building PC's and goofing around with benchmark test and tweaking GPU bios settings, however I'm no k|ngp|n.

I am ready to do this UO thing again with the hopes that I can tweak my old scripts (without Cheffe this time I guess) and get it all running again.  I hope to see you guys in game and look forward to working with you here on the boards.

Mike xApCx

Last night something rather cool happened around my house.  I walked in the pc room and noticed that my 8 and 9 year old were writing scripts on the desktop pc.  I always have a client or two up and running, I guess the kids had been reading the scripts and decided they were going to make the charaters doing something.  Without getting all mushy on here I will summarize it by saying it was real cute.

So, that was the background leading to my question.  What offline emulators are still around?  Years ago I used UOX before it became UOX3.  Is any of the old UOX stuff still around?  What is everyone using now?  I want to keep this real simple so that the kids will keep having fun and keep themselves intrested it playing with it.

What does everyone know about the battle chickens so far?
details details?

Im working on an archer that will follow a lead character.  when the archer sees a target creature, he will attack it.  he will constantly move so that his lead is between him and the creature.  this is the begining:

set %timWait ( #SCNT - 16 )
set %findtype PI_DH_FD_ME_TD
set %lastMon 00000
set %disMon 00000
set %corpse YFM
set %Gold POF
set %keys LZF
set %loot POF_LZF_ZFM_MIG
set %prize SWO
set %BOS 00000000
set %findPet 00000000
set %aids ZLF
;=====================================================
set %location 0 ; 0 = everything, 1 = ice, 2 = doom,
;=====================================================
if %location = 0
{
set %creaturetype TH_ME_PI_DH_FD_ME_TD_WD_R_EB
}
if %location = 1
{
set %creaturetype TH
}
if %location = 2
{
set %creaturetype ????
}
;=====================================================
FINDITEM %aids C_ , #BACKPACKID
      IF #FINDKIND = -1
      {
        DISPLAY you need aids. $ HALTED!
        HALT
      }
set %bandage #findid

gosub setLead



;================== main loop =========================

loop:
gosub healthcheck
wait 1
gosub movOption
wait 1
goto loop

;======================================================


;================== health check ======================


sub healthcheck
    if %timWait < ( #SCNT - 4 )
    {
    if ( #HITS + 10 ) < #MAXHITS || C in #CHARSTATUS
    event sysmessage injured
    set #lobjectid %bandage
    event macro 17 0
    target 2s
    event macro 23 0
    if #MAXSTAM < 115
    {
    set %timWait ( #SCNT + 2 )
    }
    set %timWait ( #SCNT + 1 )
    }
    }
return


;======================================================


sub movOption
gosub findMonster
return


;======================================================


sub findMonster
findItem %creaturetype G_8
  if #findkind <> -1
  {
if #finddist < 2
{
set #ltargetid #findid
set %target #findid
set %monX #findx
set %monY #findY
gosub findLead2
}
goto fm
  }
  gosub findLead1
  fm:
return


sub findLead1
findItem %lead G_17
  if #findkind <> -1
  {
if #finddist <= 2
{
set %movex ( #findx ) 
set %movey ( #findy )
gosub moveNow1
}
  }
return


sub findLead2
findItem %lead G_17
  if #findkind <> -1
  {
if #findx > %monX
{
   if #findy > %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx + 1 ) 
      set %movey ( #findy + 1 )
   }
   if #findy < %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx + 1 ) 
      set %movey ( #findy - 1 )
   }
   if #findy = %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx + 1 ) 
      set %movey ( #findy )
   }
}
if #findx < %monX
{
   if #findy > %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx - 1 ) 
      set %movey ( #findy + 1 )
   }
   if #findy < %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx - 1 ) 
      set %movey ( #findy - 1 )
   }
   if #findy = %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx - 1 ) 
      set %movey ( #findy )
   }
}
        if #findx = %monX
{
   if #findy > %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx ) 
      set %movey ( #findy + 1 )
   }
   if #findy < %monY
   {
      set %movex ( #findx ) 
      set %movey ( #findy - 1 )
   }
}
  gosub moveNow2
  gosub attack
  }
return


;================== move now ==========================================


sub moveNow1
  set %x %movex
  set %y %movey
  set %z %movez
  moving1:
  event pathfind %x %y
  if #CHARPOSX < ( %x - 2 ) || #CHARPOSX > ( %x + 2 ) || #CHARPOSY < ( %y - 2) || #CHARPOSY > ( %y + 2)
  {
  wait 10
  goto moving1
  }
return

sub moveNow2
  set %x %movex
  set %y %movey
  set %z %movez
  moving2:
  event pathfind %x %y
  if #CHARPOSX <> %x || #CHARPOSY <> %y
  {
  wait 10
  goto moving2
  }
return


;========================= attack ======================================


sub attack
event macro 22 0
wait 1
event macro 27 0
  event sysmessage attack!
  wait 10
return


;========================================================================


sub setLead
    display ok please target your Lead.
    set #targcurs 1
    target 5s
    watLeadLup:
    if #targcurs = 1
    {
    goto watLeadLup
    wait 5
    }
    finditem #ltargetid
    set %lead #ltargetid
return




I have an issue when i use pathfinding to move in my script.  If the z axis changes levels, i get the "can't get there from here" message above my head.  As a work around, I use an incremental %i to just cancle out of the pathfind.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could fix this?  Here is my move code i use:

Sub moveNow
  set %x %movex
  set %y %movey
  set %z %movez
  set %i 0
  while ( #CHARPOSX <> %x || #CHARPOSY <> %y ) && %i < 5
  {
  event pathfind %x %y
  wait 5
  set %i ( %i + 1 )
  }
Return
Sub moveNow
  set %x %movex
  set %y %movey
  set %z %movez
  set %i 0
  while ( #CHARPOSX <> %x || #CHARPOSY <> %y ) && %i < 5
  {
  event pathfind %x %y
  wait 5
  set %i ( %i + 1 )
  }
Return