EVE General Discussion

With Rubicon, you can use the new Mobile Depot to swap out your ship's modules. This allows a mission runner to swap out weapons and tank in the middle of the mission. For laser users, this means you can swap between Pulse and Beam weapons on the fly without delay due to the insta-reload aspect of lasers.[1] For other weapon systems, you will still have to suffer through a 5 or 10 second reload delay when swapping between long and short range weapons.

However, as spiffy as this is, you cannot use 'Saved Fittings' to automatically swap out your fits when using the Mobile Depot, which means you have to manually drag and drop items between the fitting window and your cargo, container in cargo, or Mobile Depot's cargo. Can we say Repetitive Stress Injury?

So... does anyone have any recommendations on good Macro software to automate using the Mobile Depot to swap between fittings?

Edit: we're talking about playing back the macro at normal human speed and not at an accelerated speed.

In theory, this particular use of macroing shouldn't be a problem, as per http://community.eveonline.com/support/policies/third-party-policies , specifically 6.A.3. "3. You may not use your own or any third-party software, macros or other stored rapid keystrokes or other patterns of play that facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play.", since swapping fittings in missions doesn't seem, IMHO, to fall in the above definition.

However, this is CCP's game, and they can clarify, expand, or change the rules as they see fit.


[1] Would it be too much to ask to combine Tachyons and Pulse lasers into a single module, the Pulse Tachyon Laser? Simply to avoid this whole macro business, of course.

m8 your answer is in your own post.

"accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play"

i guess the isboxers are also 'played at normal speed'.

What is not clear? You quoted it:

"You may not use macros or other stored rapid keystrokes"

And you ask "so, this mean I can use macros" and "does anyone have any recommendations on good Macro software to automate using the Mobile Depot ?"

My english is pooor, not my first language, however even to me sounds pretty clear:

YOU. MAY. NOT. USE. MACROS.

A yurt + a spare damage mod would cost me 55m3, which means it costs me 2x cap 800 boosters or 4 large rep cycles to bring it in my mission runner, and my mission runner can already enter missions with 4 damage mods and tank the peak damage output even with armor tanked (and subsequently a rack of midslot applied damage mods).

Also tanking more heavily at the start of an encounter is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, in that a faster dps ship will bring more of the enemy ships down before they reach their optimal, so I'm not convinced that a yurt is going to do anything but make me slower.

I also did the maze last night in a droneboat, without losing a drone to the omfgwtfbbq number of elite frigates throughout it, ie so my main use case - replace drones without leavihg the maze, seems to be partially solved now by a different fitting choice anyway.

It says;
You may not use your own or any third-party software, macros or other stored rapid keystrokes or other patterns of play that facilitate acquisition of items, currency.

Which is what you're asking for.

Yeah, probably best.

You also have to look at all of the rules that CCP has spelled out. Here is what is currently in the Terms of Service:



Rengerel en Distel is exactly correct in his interpretation of the EULA, as that is the historical interpretation put out by CCP. But even if you are correct about the EULA, what you want to do in using a third party tool for switching out the fittings would use a tool that violates the ToS.

Posting in a stealth nerf multi-boxing thread

Yup, works on sisi. Personally, I'm half tempted to get a Paladin and hot-swap between tachyons and mega-pulse lasers in the middle of combat.