Bigshot Tutorial

[Enuch]

I am new to bigshot and have a couple questions as I am woefully unintelligent when it comes to scripts.

Room ID: Can I use go2 Room ID's or do I have to do the descriptor -- Like Town Square Central Versus 228?
Starting Room and Boundary Room: essentially same question as above. Do I use the descriptions of the rooms or the Go2 function.

Prehunt commands: Can I input ;waggle into the pre hunt and then also ;sloot into loot or do I have to type it another way?
For ShouldIHunt: does it want the becoming numbed or a percentage? and same question for shouldIrest?

I think that is it.

Appreciate any help any skilled players are able to offer in advance!

[drauz]

I am new to bigshot and have a couple questions as I am woefully unintelligent when it comes to scripts.

Room ID: Can I use go2 Room ID's or do I have to do the descriptor -- Like Town Square Central Versus 228?
Starting Room and Boundary Room: essentially same question as above. Do I use the descriptions of the rooms or the Go2 function.

Prehunt commands: Can I input ;waggle into the pre hunt and then also ;sloot into loot or do I have to type it another way?
For ShouldIHunt: does it want the becoming numbed or a percentage? and same question for shouldIrest?

I think that is it.

Appreciate any help any skilled players are able to offer in advance!

The room numbers work fine.

I wouldn't put waggle into the prehunt command as you will kill your mana before hunting. I have it set to go when I get back from a hunt.

[Soulance]

Anywhere it says script you type it normally there. Don't do the activator ";" like ;sloot. So, where the loot script line is, do just "sloot". Also, as mentioned, do the "waggle" while resting. There's are two rest command lines at the front. One is for normal typing the second is for scripts. Again, same thing there. Don't type in the ";" and separate them by commas. So, waggle X, waggle y, etc,

[elcidcannon]

For resting scripts, make sure to include "sloot sell," not just "sloot" if you want to do that after each hunt.

[Enuch]

is the going to rest a numeric value or do I put in fried?

[elcidcannon]

numeric value.....percentage of your exp bank

[Enuch]

Is slot sell a separate repo Download than sloot?

[Viekn]

numeric value.....percentage of your exp bank

FYI, I think typical values for this are 70 for percent mind on when to hunt (this lets you get to muddled before you head back out to hunt) and 100 for percentmind on when to rest, which gets you fried. Some people don't like to get all the way to muddled before hunting, but I think that's subjective. Definitely don't get to clear though.

[Insodus]

Definitely don't get to clear though.

Um. Why? I routinely go clear to fried. Its only 1 more exp per pulse at clear vs. Muddled. You waste like 90 seconds going to/from the hunt area and waiting for spawns to start rolling in. If you do that too often because you are only resting for 5 miuntes at a time that can kill your off-node/on-node ratio.

[Viekn]

Um. Why? I routinely go clear to fried. Its only 1 more exp per pulse at clear vs. Muddled. You waste like 90 seconds going to/from the hunt area and waiting for spawns to start rolling in. If you do that too often because you are only resting for 5 miuntes at a time that can kill your off-node/on-node ratio.

I couldn't tell you for sure, that's just always been my understanding. I'm sure someone else who knows more than me can either chime in as to why or tell me why I'm wrong.

[Insodus]

I couldn't tell you for sure, that's just always been my understanding. I'm sure someone else who knows more than me can either chime in as to why or tell me why I'm wrong.

Yea I dont think thats a good assumption to make. It depends a lot on how long it takes you to get to your hunting area and how long it takes you to fry. Generally for me, the farther away the hunting area is and the slower the spawn rate of the mobs, the lower I let my mind get before heading back out. Sure if I can get out to the hunt and fry within 2-3 minutes then I'll go from muddled to fried, over and over. But long walks and slow spawns and I'll let it go down to clear or even fresh to max out those supernode pulses.

[Soulance]

Is slot sell a separate repo Download than sloot?
No, in order to sell your stuff, if you want it done automatically, you use "sloot sell". You can have it run to the locksmith, sell furs, gems, and items at the pawnshop. Be sure to ;sloot setup and include/exclude what you want to sell. Also, make sure your containers are okay as well.

[Soulance]

Your resting scripts can look like...

Resting commands: stow all

Scripts: useherbs, sloot sell, waggle

*setup ;useherbs to --buy-missing=on also if you havent already. Or, you could add that part to the script line.

[Enuch]

this has been super helpful everyone! I have to underhunt at the moment (10 minute 1700 spam hunts) so I would much rather watch the scroll then manually input these days.

Is there a way to have bigshot wait for a target to attack me first before engaging? Just curious for one of my melee stance dancer's

[Arqueto]

Yes. Wait.

It will either wait for the amount of time you specify, then move on to the next command (attack), or it will move to that next part immediately if you're attacked.

wait 5, attack target (will wait 5 seconds for the creature to attack you. If you get attacked within the 5 seconds, the attack will fire. If 5 seconds goes by with no attack, it will fire off the attack. Then it should stance you back I think and repeat the cycle)

wait 5, attack target(xx) (will wait 5 seconds just as above, but once it starts attacking it will keep attacking rather than going back into the wait routine)

[Enuch]

oh thats neat, thanks for the info, appreciate it.

[elcidcannon]

did you check out the http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?51794-Bigshot-The-New-Optimus-Prime? lots of good info in there

[Enuch]

I have not, I will take a look at it.