all valid questions, short version cause typing /mhw is easier than pressing heal wound 6 times with the appropriate pause, yeah I know your sayin I can do that with a macro already… ahhh but through this mechanism, you won’t have to see the command in your hud anywhere, yet when you load them they are present to use…
so heres the deal, there are some commands that typing out in macro’s are a PITA if you typo it, nothing works etc… so imagine you had an outside text file you could load once when you launch that had special commands… these are aliases
recd5: /rechargeDroid 05;
pcomb: /tellpet at;/pause 0.75;/tellpet sa1;/pause 0.75;/tellpet sa2;
pheal: /tellpet t1;/pause 5;/tellpet t2;
u0: /ui action toolbarSlot00;
u1: /ui action toolbarSlot01;
u2: /ui action toolbarSlot02;
u3: /ui action toolbarSlot03;
u4: /ui action toolbarSlot04;
u5: /ui action toolbarSlot05;
u6: /ui action toolbarSlot06;
u7: /ui action toolbarSlot07;
u8: /ui action toolbarSlot08;
u9: /ui action toolbarSlot09;
u10: /ui action toolbarSlot10;
u11: /ui action toolbarSlot11;
u12: /ui action toolbarSlot12;
u13: /ui action toolbarSlot13;
u14: /ui action toolbarSlot14;
u15: /ui action toolbarSlot15;
u16: /ui action toolbarSlot16;
u17: /ui action toolbarSlot17;
u18: /ui action toolbarSlot18;
u19: /ui action toolbarSlot19;
u20: /ui action toolbarSlot20;
u21: /ui action toolbarSlot21;
u22: /ui action toolbarSlot22;
u23: /ui action toolbarSlot23;
namehar: /namestructure \#ffee00 VNC Harvesting;
pm10: /addpower 10000;/paymaint 10000;
pm50: /addpower 50000;/paymaint 50000;
pm100: /addpower 100000;/paymaint 100000;etc etc until you have something like this /*paste in mycom.txt*/ and store that inside your main starwarsgalaxies directory maybe someplace like c:/starwarsgalaxies-infinity/mycom.txt
the key thing to keep in mind is aliases have to be loaded once after your character loads in — to do it you simply do /load mycom.txt for as many special command files as you want to load, this potentially allows you to write say a medic.txt with any customizations you want ie… a command that would do /diag; /pause 1;/mhw and then again at the end do another diag… ( examples to come )
here is mymed.txt
mhw: /diag;/pause 1;/healwound;/pause 20.5;/healwound;/pause 20.5;/healwound;/pause 20.5;/healwound;/pause 20.5;/healwound;/pause 20.5;/healwound;/pause 20.5;/diag;
mdhw: /diag;/pause 1;/healwound;/pause 10.5;/healwound;/pause 10.5;/healwound;/pause 10.5;/healwound;/pause 10.5;/healwound;/pause 10.5;/healwound;/pause 10.5;/diag;in the above you can basically see the difference for timing for novice medic vs master doctor same commands but 2 different alias based on the timing, just one button to create for each if you don’t do a keybind, and in either case running either alias actually fires 8 commands — effectively macro for the simple minded