Targetting by name sometimes selects the wrong target

TheAFKBard · Post by **TheAFKBard** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:05 pm

There are some people who choose to name their characters similarly. If there is one person named Player and another named Playertoo and I use /target Player in a macro or from the command line when Playertoo is closer, Playertoo will be targetted.
It would be useful to have /target =Player or something similar.

Drumstix42 · Post by **Drumstix42** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:40 pm

have you tried:

/target "player"

(just a guess)

oorglebot6000 · Post by **oorglebot6000** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:24 am

Perhaps another method would be by going by their class. For example, if Player is a cleric, and Playertoo is a warrior, you could do "/target player cleric" or "/target player warrior". If they use the same class... f them

. (or try what drumstix42 suggested)

Reverend · Post by **Reverend** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:31 am

oorglebot6000 wrote:Perhaps another method would be by going by their class. For example, if Player is a cleric, and Playertoo is a warrior, you could do "/target player cleric" or "/target player warrior". If they use the same class... f them . (or try what drumstix42 suggested)

Thank you very much.

TheAFKBard · Post by **TheAFKBard** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:17 am

Targetting by class will work for manual targetting, but my feature request will allow macros that either store the target as a variable or use a name as a parameter to not need a bunch of contrivances.

Caladine · Post by **Caladine** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:27 am

I'll have to check tonight, but I'm pretty sure that enclosing it in quotes will do what you're looking for. If not, I'll post the code here how to add what you want, it's a simple addition.

eqjoe · Post by **eqjoe** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:54 am

I sometimes have to us /target pc "name" to get the player and not his corpse. I also find myself doing a /target pc "name" <class>. While its a pain in the ass, if you need to hotkey a target /target id works best.

-j

Mimatas · Post by **Mimatas** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:38 pm

Does the target ID change when a mob dies? I'm thinking that may be a good way to ensure that I loot the correct corpse in a hunting macro (sorry for being off topic.. just got me thinking)

Caladine · Post by **Caladine** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:31 pm

The ID won't change when the target dies, fortunately. It's still the same "spawn", just in a different state. :)

blueninja · Post by **blueninja** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:59 pm

Assuming the name of the spawn you are looking for is in ${Name}..

Find a spawnid using

/varset MyID ${Me.NearestSpawn[${Name}].ID}

and compare it to the name you want to target using

${Spawn[id ${MyID}].Name.Equal[${Name}]}

If the name matches do

/target id ${MyID}

If it doesn't match get the next id using

${Me.NearestSpawn[${x},${Name}].ID}

and compare using Name.Equal[] again. Keep looking (by increasing x, start at 2) until you find the correct name or id is null (meaning there was no matching spawn).

blueninja · Post by **blueninja** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:13 pm

http://macroquest2.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8641