Is lag what causes me to stop following?

[Briarknit]

I noticed while multiboxing that my guys will randomly lose follow, is this because of the server lag?

[Tim]

It can be, but a few things:

Make sure your FPS never goes below 7, prefer 10, on all your guys.
Combat breaks follow
World environment (ie bumps, stairs, etc) can stick your guys

Basically just get used to hitting your follow button often

[Briarknit]

Originally Posted by Tim

It can be, but a few things:

Make sure your FPS never goes below 7, prefer 10, on all your guys.
Combat breaks follow
World environment (ie bumps, stairs, etc) can stick your guys

Basically just get used to hitting your follow button often

Ah ok, FPS can cause follow issues? Wow

Any live streams today Tim?

[Ualaa]

Jamba is an option (addon).
It has a lot of neat features.

One of those is strobe follow.
Which has the addon do a /follow command, every "x" seconds.
The default is 3, but you can set it to 1.

Strobe has had an issue since the last major patch.
Where toons get confused who the leader to follow is, when in combat.
Which can be extremely annoying and even fatal to the toons.

Assuming it is fixed, strobe is very nice indeed.
Even without using strobe, Jamba includes a lot of extremely nice features.
Definitely makes boxing 20x easier in many regards.

[ebony]

your forgettting a full servers with 1000 off players in same zone going bang lagaland is spam the follow key for me,

and somethink more inpoint that a lot is if your leader got some "buff" to make them move faster then they will not keep up hunter/ratpally and a few others i think have them

[Iru]

Or pulling alts on 60% mounts behind a boosting toon on a %100 speed mount

[ebony]

Originally Posted by Iru

Or pulling alts on 60% mounts behind a boosting toon on a %100 speed mount

i did that with flying mounts 150% behind a 290% = big fail


and this is why i got the mount that has exta seats and now the nuff to summon stones a bike would even do but them vendors do help

[TheMuffinMan]

Originally Posted by ebony

your forgettting a full servers with 1000 off players in same zone going bang lagaland is spam the follow key for me,

and somethink more inpoint that a lot is if your leader got some "buff" to make them move faster then they will not keep up hunter/ratpally and a few others i think have them

The Jamba functionality Ualaa mentioned essentially spams the the follow command for you.

I prefer this addon however...
KeepFollowing - Addons - Curse

[Ualaa]

In a way, Jamba Strobe is automation.

Press the hotkey once.
And you have the game receive /follow, once per second, for as long as you are online (or until canceled).

However, it is a function done by an addon.
And you can only do what the API allows.
You are never in trouble for using an addon to do what Blizzard lets addons do.
But, there's a good chance that functionality will eventually be removed.
And if you are used to it, and have become reliant on it, that sucks when its gone.

[Tim]

What we need really is a mod that does only 1 thing - Follow Strobe. Jamba is a bit too full of other things for me to be useful (and I think for others as well) but a simple addon that is GREEN for strobe-on and RED for strobe-off, and that can be turned on/off by a hotkey, would be absolutely fantastic.