Beginner's Guide to EVE Macro mining
Been searching on the net for macros? Looked through the forums and found many interesting macros/bots promising an endless stream of ISK without you having to do anything? Sounds good doesn't it?
There are several community sites that allow members to post EVE game tips, bots, macros and so on. One of the recommended sites that provide tips, guides, hacks, bots and macro is Strategy Freaks. Here you can find more than 20 games forums.
This macro and guide has been written with users who have little macroing experience in mind, if any at all. The guide will attempt to be as clear as possible in guiding players through how to setup the macro provided, as well as explaining what is going on. I can appreciate how frustrating macroing can be, I have myself several times tried to look for a good mining macro only to be frustrated in trying to find out how to work it and finally giving up and going back to endless hours of mind numbing mining action. By the end of this guide the reader SHOULD HAVE A WORKING MINING MACRO, and should probably learn enough about macros to maybe start write one of their own.
What is a macro
A macro is simply a virtual you, it will simulate anything from pressing keystrokes to moving and clicking with the mouse, it will perform these tasks according to a pre-programed instruction (or code). You could program the macro to for example, press the T key 3 times, then wait for 3 seconds and then move the mouse to the top left hand corner of the screen.
What does this particular macro do?
How does it do this?
There is a wide variety of functions and commands you could use with a macro and some macros can be very complex. The more complex macros tend to contain many checks and balances, essentially it is programed to adapt and react according to the changing situations. Using EVE as an example, there could be a macro that will automatically boost the shield if it falls below a certain level. There are several ways of coding this action, one way to do this might be to program the macro to check for the color pixel at a particular part of the shield bar and if it turns red then click on the boosting button. The mining macro provided with this guide however is a “one way macro�, and as such is much simpler. “One way� in this case meaning that it is not monitoring what is going on, but will simply carry out its predetermined instructions regardless of what happens. There are some very complicated macros out there which will defend the ship when it is attack, automatically move on to new asteroids if the current one is depleted and wash the dishes for you as well (this is obviously not true, please don't start searching madly for it on the net). Keeping things simple is probably the best way to go in this case, as it is much easier to setup and see what is going on, then when you feel more confident perhaps you could start looking at the more complex ones. Using some good timing and screen layouts however, this simple macro can be just as effective, plus simpler “usually� means more reliable.
Getting started
The code for the macros can be written using almost any program (for example, notepad) but you would still need a program that can interpret the codes and carryout the desired actions. So before we begin lets make sure that you have such a program. In this case I recommend that you download a program called Autoit, since it was the program used during the course of this guide. It can be downloaded from http://www.autoitscript.com/
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