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Old 09-02-2004, 06:22 PM   #5 (permalink)
Zippy
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I'll consider the other stuff but:

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On osi shards they only allow an action every 1000ms otherwise you get the 'you must wait to perform an action message'. I ping 30-40ms to my home shard and if I hit my dress armor macro with the delay set to 650 it will equip maybe 2 items out of 11. 1000ms is what must be used for it to equip your whole suit flawlessly without hitting the dress macro 6 times.

Having to set it that high causes problems if you want to equip weapons as well because then you are waiting 1000ms before it equips the weapon when a much lower value can be used for just equiping weapons... I've used under 500 with no problems.
I'm not sure about the delay on OSI or on other emulators, but I know on RunUO the delay is exactly 500ms for every item (unless you're using custom scripts). With the value of about 650 I almost NEVER miss a beat dressing items, etc on RunUO shards.

However I'd like to point out that unless you have recently performed an action, the delay when equipping a single item will always be 0. The Action Queue only kicks in after 1 action has been performed (and so the second would need to be queued). If you're rapidly equipping/unequipping items you'll get slowed down by the action queue. But if you just out of the blue unequip an item it will be instant.
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