T2's journal

hi hi
This T2.

I've been here 3 months, I think it's about time to start making a journal about:

1. My setup for playing ML, including hardware and software tools.
2. My ongoing projects/tools for QoL.
3. My characters, my routes and my plans.

I think I'm the kind of person that very likely will across the line of ToS, so I would like to make a journal share all my tricks that I used to improve my gaming experience while ensure no part of it conflict with ToS.

Besides self-reflecting, I also would like to take notes of my crazy odd ideas somewhere for fun.

I wish by sharing my thoughts and discovories, I could have more similar companions and enjoy gaming together! Ty for reading.

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Context:

Entry 1: My Setups
Entry 2: My Multiple Accounts' Voting Solutions
Entry 3: Update - My Voting Solution V2.0
Entry 4: My GearScrolling Analyser Tool
Entry 5: Timer Tool For Tracking Mobs Respawn - XNote Stopwatch

 

Entry 1 : My Setups

What is my gaming setups?

Spoiler: Hardware: My desktop and computers

Here is a photo for my desktop. oops hope no personal info leaked here.

There're actually 2 pc here, one hdmi output to the left 1080p screen (my side pc), one DP output to the right 2k screen (my main pc).


This is the main controller I used for playing ML - DuelSense
I also have a spare controller, my old reliable xbox one controller. Not as comfortble grabing as duelsense, which makes it the alternative.
I'll share my software tools for my controller in later sections.

I have considered to buy foot pedals, but since I don't have enough characters to multi-client, so that's only a plan for now.
(maybe I should try my toes on keyboard? hmmm)

How do I use one keyboard, mouse, controller for 2 computers?

Spoiler: Software: Synergy

I'm currently using a software solution to share my keyboard and mouse over my 2 computers: Synergy. Synergy has a commercial version which charges, and also has a core open source version on github, but I believe most people are not that geek to try compiling their source code version (I tried and failed).

There is an alternative free option: Barrier, which basicly is a modified compilation based on an old version of Synergy. Which works fine but no hot key support.

Synergy not only enable use your 2 computers with one sets of keyboard & mouse, but also provide hokey for switch between screens or mapping a key to a specific computer, which makes pure keyboard/controller playing across computers multi-client possible and much easier.


additional trick about Synergy: shift/alt/ctrl + ins/ del/ home/ end/ pgup/ pgdn/ Print/ Scroll/ Pause, won't trigger the original key functions, which is nice to be used for hotkey bindings.
I'm using shift+ins to switch to left, and shift+del to switch right. About my shift+home and shift+end? I'll introduce them in detail in a future entry about my multi-client plan .

Spoiler: Software: Xpadder

This is a software tool for controller mapping. Now it charges, but there is free older version online. It's what I'm using and it is all fine.
The "2" layout can be switched to while pulling the right trigger, which enable more keys to be used on my controller.


I post my keyboard settings here as a reference for how I mapping my controllers. I change the default layout for these reasons:

1. shift has to be empty in order to not conflic with my synergy hotkeys.
2. alt has to be modifiable, because later on I'll try multi-client, I need to bind attaking*3 macro on this key, then alt + esc through all clients to keep them attacking.

And how I managed borderless fullscreen ML?

Spoiler: Software: ShiftWindow

I got the info here.
It's pretty easy to use, with just looking at the interface you would know what it achieved. It's necessary to make ML window in borderless fullscreen if you're also using synergy like me. Original fullscreen will stuck for several seconds each time switching between screens.
And it can not only achieve borderless fullscreen, but also multiple clients spread across the entire screen like this.

Above is my setups and my general software tools used.

 

Entry 2: My Multiple Accounts' Voting Solutions

Now I have 2 available methods. One is easy to copy for most people, the other requires more knowledge about network and programming.

Spoiler: First method via phone data

Thanks to Mirrors shared this voting app. And also thanks to Krythan shares with me Automate Flow to make voting via data even easier.

Basicly, I create a flow in Automate Flow, that enables airplane mode and after several seconds disable it, then jump to the voting app.
Then I just need to swipe to the flow page, click start, then click into voting page to vote.


And as you may notice, if I'm at somewhere the data connection is not good, voting on multiple characters could cost a long time and makes me burnout pretty quick. Which leads me to find another way to multi-voting through Wi-Fi.

Spoiler: Second method via Wi-Fi

My discovory: GTOP and TTOP only check's your ip address. If your device have ipv6 address, they check on your ipv6 address, if no ipv6 then they check on ipv4. Which makes multi-voting on the same device with same network connection possible. We just need to find a way to change device's ipv6 address conveniently.

Requirements for this method to work:

1. You must be able to change your device's ipv6 address. In my case, my router is OpenWrt system, I checked on my router's control pannel under interface tabs inside the DHCPv6 Client sec, "IPv6-PD: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::/56" confirmed I can allocate ipv6 address to my devices in my local network.
2. You must find a way to be able to change your device's ipv6 address conveniently. In my case, I made sure SLAAC is disabled and DHCPv6 is enabled on my router. Because my router is Linux based system, I could ssh to my router and send command lines to router to change my device's ipv6 address. Here is my python code to do that.
   
   Code:

   import paramiko, random
   
   def generate_ipv6_suffix():
       # Generate a random 4-character hexadecimal string
       hex_suffix = ''.join(random.choice('0123456789abcdef') for _ in range(4))
   
       # Return the uppercase hexadecimal string
       return hex_suffix
   
   
   ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
   ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
   try:
       ssh.connect('192.168.123.1', username='root')
       while True:
           print('Please press enter to grand a new random ipv6 address:')
           input()
           newipv6 = generate_ipv6_suffix()
           print(newipv6)
           newipv6 = f"'{newipv6}'"
           stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command("uci set dhcp.@host[2].hostid=" + newipv6)
           stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command('uci commit')
           stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command('/sbin/reload_config')
   except KeyboardInterrupt:
       print('KeyboardInterrupt')
   except Exception as e:
       print(e)
   finally:
       ssh.close()

3. Your device must be covenient enough to update the ipv6 address - either disable Wi-Fi and enable it to refresh ipv6 (On mobile devices or computers using Wi-Fi), or disable the net adapter and enable it (On ethernet cable connected device). I've tried on windows, batch script can disable and enable net adapters with administration. But I don't like the solution since it requires admin, and my pc gets blue screen once while I test my code. My solution is using mobile device (an ipad) over ethernet device (my pc).

As you can see this method is not suitable for most people. But if you happen to be the small group of people that can try this out, I'm glad to share my solution in detail . Anyway here comes a demo of one attempt vote via my method.

And for the second method I have a update here

 

If I use 4:3 instead of 16:9 ML window mode, I think I could for sure haha. And so do my side screen, there should be able to be 6 clients. Holy.... That's 12 clients in total, WOW.

Edit:
Forgot to answer second line lol. Gonna post it.

 

Both Bluetooth and type-C to USB cable connecting works. I normally use cable, sometimes I would forget to charge my controller lol. I bought 2 USB bluetooth adapter for my PCs.

As far as I remembered, after connecting controller to computer, no further step needed for it to be recognized by Xpadder.

And here is a official win10 tool to update the duelsense controller's firmware. I believe I've downloaded and used it long ago, not sure if it's a necessary step for duelsense to work on windows system.

 

Entry 3: Update - My Voting Solution V2.0

After recalling that there is Shortcus on IOS, I decide to transfer the part of script running on my pc to my ipad, which will make each voting loop even easier.

Here's how I done it:

Spoiler: my method v2.0

I add a script for changing my ipad's ipv6 on my router.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Generate a random 4-character string in hex format
random_string=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9a-f' | head -c 4)

# Set the hostid using uci with the generated random string
uci set dhcp.@host[2].hostid="$random_string"

# Commit changes
uci commit

# Reload the configuration
/sbin/reload_config

Then ceate a shortcut on my ipad to trigger the script via SSH:

Spoiler: SSH shortcut

And then enable the AssistiveTouch by: Seetings->Accessibility->AssistiveTouch

Spoiler: AssistiveTouch

Next, go into "Costomise Top Level Menu", add a icon, modify it to the former ShortCuts I created.

Spoiler: Add a shortcut botton to AssistiveTouch

Finally, go back one layer, change Double-Tap or Long Press (or Single-Tap if you like) to the former Shortcuts I created.

Spoiler: Double-Tap

All settled!
Now you can either click into the "White Spot" to run the shortcut, or though double-tap it.

Here's one of my voting attampt demo.


In addition, there's a seperate disccussion about my discovery based on changing IPV6 address to multi-vote. You can view it click here.

 

Entry 4: My GearScrolling Analyser Tool

This is still an ongoing project, but most part has been done. The disccussion thread for my tool can be viewed here.
The Source Code can be find here, and the Windows system executable release can be downloaded here.

The tool can do 3 kinds of caculation for now:

1. Single Analyse - By giving a detailed scrolls' sequence and initial gear, the calculator will generate the result for that sequence.
2. Best Order - By giving a detailed scrolls' sequence and specific initial gear, the calculator will generate the best order of given scrolls based on EV of total meso cost, and then output the result of the best ordered sequence.
3. Best Sequence - By giving how many successful 10%/30% slots and 60%/70% slots in total, the tool is going to compare all possible sequences and output the best sequence based on EV of total cost.

And 2 methods to use above tools:

1. Command line interaction.
2. "QuickCommand" to load commands from file.

Spoiler: "QuickCommand" demo

 

Entry 5: Timer Tool For Tracking Mobs Respawn - XNote Stopwatch

This tool can be downloaded here.
My config file is here. Put it next to the xnsw.exe then open xnsw.exe should work.

Spoiler: My Demo