FTL PwnBoxer setup?

[SF Base]

Is it possible to have at focusless, targetless, leaderless system with pwnboxer?
For example, you press the "1" key, and have "shift + 1" sent to your 2nd wow client, and "alt + shift + 1" sent to your 3rd wow client.

[Tim]

Well the whole FTL concept is really false, because you DO need focus, and a leader, and a target.

This is easily accomplished in Pwnboxer just by using fast window switching and simple WoW macro to re-establish focus to a new leader.

However

The ability to tranform keys like 1 -> shift1 (on Game2) -> alt+shift+1 (on Game3) is coming in our next release of Pwnboxer.

I'm a huge WoW player of course, and overall, I rather set the focus myself. After all, it just requires 1 keypress, and is much better to use IMO than using key translations, which may not always fit your scenario.

I like having ultimate flexibility and control, and to do that, I use Pwnboxer's fast game switching, and then simply assign 1 key to change my focus.

The end result is near-instant switching of party leaders in case somebody dies or such.

[TRoN]

Originally Posted by Tim

Well the whole FTL concept is really false, because you DO need focus, and a leader, and a target.

Well, this is not true. FTL means you don't have a toon who is ALWAYS the Leader; you don't need to use focus to control your team; master and slaves can have different targets. That's the concept of FTL.

I use FTL myself on my teams and I can tell you it's a new level of MBxing.

I don't use focus to basic follow/target behaviours. All toons can target or focus anything I tell them to. The master is the one on my active window (if I change my mouse to another window, that toon becomes master and all the other become slaves). I can, for example with my tank, hit all mobs around switching my target, while slaves keep nuking the target I've assigned to kill.

I'm not telling the FTL implementation is the best you can have. Every player has his own playstyle and some may prefer the standard focus system. But, FTL, as I said, gives you a lot more flexibility and control if you are an advanced MB player looking for bigger challenges.

[adz4u28]

could you perhaps give everyone a little how-to? or some information on how you have this set up? explain it to those of us that arent so sure about ftl?

[TRoN]

Originally Posted by adz4u28

could you perhaps give everyone a little how-to? or some information on how you have this set up? explain it to those of us that arent so sure about ftl?

Let's wait for the next release of pwnboxer...

Originally Posted by Tim

The ability to tranform keys like 1 -> shift1 (on Game2) -> alt+shift+1 (on Game3) is coming in our next release of Pwnboxer.

... you'll need that to use FTL. The setup is a bit complex but the usage will be simple and clear.

I promise to make a mini-tutorial and post it here so ppl can understand how it works and give it a try.

[necrimus]

You can use FTL with most any multiplexer, it's driven by macros and keymaps. It is very complex to setup but very functional once it's rolling. I didn't like it. I don't PvP and I don't use ISBoxer so I don't need all of the functionality. I can accomplish the solo playability without it :/

[adz4u28]

Originally Posted by TRoN

Let's wait for the next release of pwnboxer...



... you'll need that to use FTL. The setup is a bit complex but the usage will be simple and clear.

I promise to make a mini-tutorial and post it here so ppl can understand how it works and give it a try.

id love to have a read at your tutorial!

[lofblad]

Originally Posted by Tim

... This is easily accomplished in Pwnboxer just by using fast window switching and simple WoW macro to re-establish focus to a new leader. ...

I can't seem to find this macro anywhere. I found lots of macros that sets focus to a specific "main" toon, but no macro that lets you change what toon is leader. Could you please type it out for me (like you're talking to a 10-year old).

Thanks!

[Poyzon]

I use this one.

/clearfocus
/focus [target=toon1,nodead,exists][target=toon2,nodead,exists][target=toon3,nodead,exists][target=toon4,nodead,exists][target=toon5,nodead,exists][target=toon1]
/script SetView(3);SetView(3);

Replace toon1, toon2, ..., toon5 with your toon names. toon1 should be your main.

Things worth noting:

• The SetView(3); resets your camera angle. Use 1-5 and there's even a way to save a view to the current camera position if you need to.
• This will select the first person that isn't dead (and exists). If all fail, then I select toon1 (my leader). This is helpful for if/when we wipe and we're all ghosts.

Keybind that and mash it when someone dies. The next available too will be the focus and you can switch to them and starting controlling as normal.

[Tim]

Ahh it just dawned on me something, a way that by having your software do some key mapping, could enable you to do some really powerful things.

Before I go on, could you do what a user mentioned, and explain some things in really good detail?

I might actually want to hold off on the key translations in the next Pwnboxer, and instead, pay close attention so the things you mention, and release Pwnboxer with a really balls-to-walls kick ass setup with regards to this.