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Kryogenicx 
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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
All,

I have a sick feeling I have been doing something wrong and was hoping someone could shed some light on it. I was reading on AC Wiki and started seeing all the different kinds of rares and different Tier rares you could potentially loot. I use Alinco3 and have absolutely NEVER looted any rares outside of the normal Tier 1 or Tier 2 rares you normally loot. Are they just so rare that its possible i haven't run across one since i have been using Alinco OR Do I have to physically go in to Alinco and copy all the names of the potential rare Tier Items into the Trophy section for them to be picked up? I have been playing AC for a long long time and feel the odds are slim i couldn't have run across at least one. I appreciate any ideas/advice.


Edit: What would someone suggest that I have running to make sure that if a rare drops no matter what tier that it gets picked up? That's my main question goal of this...

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
If it is picking up the lower tier rares, then you should be good.

The higher tier ones are extremely rare. And up until 4-5 months ago, were mythical.

There are maybe 3-5, dropping across all servers, a month now.

 

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
If you're using alinco, you need to add every rare by name.

My recommendation is to use vtank looting. It's method for looting in general is far superior, although much more difficult to setup.

I use vtank looting for ACM, and alinco looting for chest pulls.

 

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
mav_sc posted:
If you're using alinco, you need to add every rare by name.


This only applies to people who use Alinco and Vtank. Alinco on it's own loots rares just fine.

 

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
Endy_The_Unsane posted:
mav_sc posted:
If you're using alinco, you need to add every rare by name.


This only applies to people who use Alinco and Vtank. Alinco on it's own loots rares just fine.


Fyi, I said that Alinco WAS looting rares for me, just not the higher tier ones (assuming one had ever been available for looting). If you look in Alinco's tables, it has a few non exact "Trophy" descriptions that would find tier one and tier two rares. However, the higher tier rares have unique names which wouldn't be covered by the general "Trophy" descriptions. This might be something people assume as I was doing, but now Im thinking I made a mistake by assuming it. I think that all higher tier rares with unique names do have to be added to the Trophy descriptions or it will not see them as rares. Please tell me if you disagree...

Out of curiosity, why wouldn't alinco work the same as far as looting whether Vtank is running or not? I would think that the reference data is the same regardless?

A little history: I resisted using Vtank for a while just because i had used Lifetank for so long and its Gui interface was very user friendly. Because of that, I tried to use as little of Vtank as possible which got me using Alinco3 in conjunction with Vtank. Now that I am more comfortable with Vtank i might try its loot system again. I have grown to love the map system for Vtank its awesome! The program runs smoother over time as well. Its just growing pains for me.

Thanks for all the responses...

 

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
Alinco doesn't loot rares by name. It loots them by some loot flag that says that it's a rare.

I believe that the reason that Alinco doesn't loot rares with vtank is because it wasn't setup properly to tell vtank when it's done looting and so vtank moves on too quickly. I've watched Alinco loot rares and it loots them last and most of the time, it seems that there's a pause after it's done looting everything else before it will loot the rare.

When you add the rare name to the Name rule, then it does work with vtank because it's now using a different rule to pick up the rare and a rule that does work with vtank.

 

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
Every rare I've ever found has been in the first slot of the corpse item display bar. I don't understand why it would completely ruin your life to look at that spot and double click the rare to pick it up. You are just sitting there, staring at your monitor and can't be bothered to do -anything-? If you were to find a 'high tier' rare, you'll know by looking. And from the sound that should wake you up after you fall asleep from boredom.

This stuff is taking 'LAZY' to new heights. Congrats, you're a trend setter. happy

 

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
Shojimbo, do you always have to be a huge flopping dick on this board?

I play 3-4 accounts at one time. If i'm on one character, I don't get any sounds/alerts from the other 3 that are running.

Just because your playstyle doesn't match someone else's is no reason to rag on em.

Keep the juvenile remarks on the server boards please. This is the utilities board, where people come for help.

 

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Subject: Question about High Tier Rares and Alinco
shojimbo posted:
Every rare I've ever found has been in the first slot of the corpse item display bar. I don't understand why it would completely ruin your life to look at that spot and double click the rare to pick it up. You are just sitting there, staring at your monitor and can't be bothered to do -anything-? If you were to find a 'high tier' rare, you'll know by looking. And from the sound that should wake you up after you fall asleep from boredom.

This stuff is taking 'LAZY' to new heights. Congrats, you're a trend setter. happy


Shojimbo, Ballcruncher is exactly correct about multiple sessions and sound. I run two accounts at a time, and 85% of the time the toon that's grinding will have the highest potential to find the rare and the lowest potential for me to hear the rare sound, where as the other account I am focusing my attention too is either PVP or questing. The legitimate question I have been asking is the functionality of Alinco rare looting with Vtank and is a 100% valid question.

Your comment did not add any information or assistance to my question, so please keep your trash comments to yourself. If you are telling me you sit there and watch your toon macro exclusively you are the lazy one and must have the most empty life possible.

Congratulations, sounds like you need to join the NMPP (National Macro Policing Program).

 

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