Add the ability of creating scripts

[TimeFold]

Other MMO's do this (RIFT) to save keystrokes and mouse clicks and enhance game play. There are so many abilities task bar management as you level up becomes a nightmare if your playing multiple classes.

 

It would be nice to have the ability to create "chained abilities" icons and drop it into the task bar taking up a single slot, but performs multiple ability commands... Also make it so that if a ability is cooling down it goes to the next ability in the script chain. This way you could put the longer cool downs in front and still just hit the one button to go through the chain of commands..

 

Example Script:

 

Script Name - Heal GM 1

(1) Target Group Member 1

(2) Force Armor (20 sec cool down on same player)

(3) Benevolence

 

Script Name - Attack

(1) Force Stun (1 minute cool down)

(2) Mind Crush ( 15 second cool down)

(3) Project (6 sec cool down)

(4) Telekinetic Throw, (6 sec cool down)

(5) Disturbance (no cool down)

 

One task bar slot ...in the last script performs 5 abilities... now that is a time saver...and greatly reduces user reaction time...

 

Another example:

 

Script Name - Companion Attack:

(1) Force Armor --> "Companion" (20 sec cool down on same player) See GUI on how to implement this

(2) Companion Attack ( currently selected target)

 

POST 3 Added here for convenience - IMPLEMENTATION IN GUI:

 

I see them creating a window that comes up with 10 slots.... and with all the abilities you have on the right side...then you drag and drop the abilities into the slots ....

 

By each slot when applicable you have a drop down combo box to select a target cast option:

 

Companion

Group Member 1

Group Member 2

Group Member 3

Group Member 4

Self

 

When your done adding all your going to... you save the script and it adds a new tree in the "abilities" menu called Chained Abilities. In that section are all the scripts your created for that toon... its toon specific.

 

Then you can drag and drop that newly created icon on the task bar.. and use it...

 

Also make it a subscriber only feature... incentive to subscribe...

Edited August 15, 2013 by TimeFold
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[anonnn]

I found scripting extremely useful in SWG... I would leave my characters going overnight to run around harvesting mobs, with a battle droid in tow, both of us shooting and destroying the mobs, and harvesting the loot for Storyteller Relics. It worked amazingly well (nearly flawless) once you tuned all the wait-times and targeting/auto-attack details.

 

However, I don't want to see afk'ing in SWToR... in SWG you would usually find a person or two afk-leveling their pet near Restuss, on the quick-respawn NPCs there. It's an eyesore and I don't want to find people doing that in SWToR.

 

One useful thing I can think of for scripting, is that during periods of bad lag, scripts could dramatically speed up sequences of targeting and healing. But the scripting can't be sophisticated enough to allow any kind of afk task to be accomplished ..

[TimeFold]

I'm not talking about that kind of scripting just the ability to chain your abilities to one icon that can be placed into a slot on the task bar...

 

Implementation in GUI

 

I see them creating a window that comes up with 10 slots.... and with all the abilities you have on the right side...then you drag and drop the abilities into the slots ....

 

By each slot when applicable you have a drop down combo box to select a target cast option:

 

Companion

Group Member 1

Group Member 2

Group Member 3

Group Member 4

Self

 

When your done adding all your going to... you save the script and it adds a new tree in the "abilities" menu called Chained Abilities. In that section are all the scripts your created for that toon... its toon specific.

 

Then you can drag and drop that newly created icon on the task bar.. and use it...

Edited August 15, 2013 by TimeFold
more info

[TimeFold]

This would really be a nice feature for playability....