Modron automation

[Jman]

It does not work like it says it does. I set up with 1 Familiar on the click damage, 1 familiar clicking and 1 familiar on a tank. I set the reset to reset way before clicking would run out of damage. It is in the background. It resets. It stops working and gets stuck anywhere from level 1 to 16 and the familiars are sometimes not even there. I click the number the formation is set to and familiars pop out and start doing what they are supposed to. That is the formation saved in the first dot of the core and the light is green showing it is enabled so does anyone know why is it not able to actually reset itself and continue on? I can literally go click it myself but the defeats the automation part of the modron if I have to be the one to click the formation number. I assumed this is something that would work in background parties and offline but maybe it only works when it is the active party?

Also, possibly worth noting. It is on a level with no hit based or armor based enemies.

[Nero Chaos]

Sounds like the formation is not chosen in a core settings.
On a screen where you choose reset zone, left panel is formation setting.
https://ibb.co/fDmbQGn
You can load one formation by yourself by clicking the number, but on the core may be another formation set (or no formation)

[Jman]

Thank you for the reply. That's the weird part. I do have it set. I click the same formation number the modron is set to as exampled in your picture. I felt like I had a baseline understanding because I run a reset in my active party but I use more familiars for briv, shandie, hewmaan etc.

I've watched party 3 reset and it works. Arkhaan I watched the reset because he is the last seat and I wondered if money was a problem. The first kill from the clicker gets enough money to put 100 levels on him so I can't figure out why these other parties suddenly break when they are offline or in the background. I can't figure out what I'm missing that breaks things.

[Jman]

just as further added info party 2 has 18 resets listed. Party 3 has 24. It works some of the time and randomly it stops working and I get the circle with the X for no party progress. Sometimes the familiars aren't loaded in and I can't sort out why. It has broken at least 3 times that I remember during that 18 and 24.

[Nero Chaos]

The only issues when my familiars were not loaded are:
- forgot to save the formation with familiars set,
- didn't choose the formation in core settings,
- forgot to turn on the formation in core settings (red square on a panel)
- familiars were already used in other adventures.

[Nero Chaos]

And I think it's useless to have a tank on a field "just in case"
I use formations like "2 familiars only" and they can work fine for weeks. If a game decide to bug out, a tank wont help - it'll stagger anyway.

[Jman]

I thought a champion was necessary. I can knock it down to 2 familiars. Was trying to see if there was something I was missing that kept breaking the reset.

I shouldn't be able to take familiars if they are already in use elsewhere. Even when I click a formation and it asks if I want to recall champions I tell it to skip that. Not sure if it would pull familiars too so I never recall anything that way.

I'm tired of micromanaging 4 parties so I wanted to set 2 and forget about them for 7 days at a time. Hopefully it will start working and I don't have to micro 4 parties.

[kab_reg]

I don't use automatic reset for background parties, and they usually work fine at least to z700. However, last week I tried to use tankless parties for a patron challenge and in some variants. The end result was the same: multiple stalls in background mode starring from z140. In online mode, the same parties ran without any issues to around z650.

Originally posted by Jman:

I'm tired of micromanaging 4 parties so I wanted to set 2 and forget about them for 7 days at a time. Hopefully it will start working and I don't have to micro 4 parties.

Unfortunately, nope. Background mode is a horrible mess from the very beginning.

[Nero Chaos]

As for me, I'm voting for more resets then less.
My offline parties reset on 250-300, but they can do 400 on click damage. And still 250 work more stable then 300.

Originally posted by Jman:

I'm tired of micromanaging 4 parties so I wanted to set 2 and forget about them for 7 days at a time. Hopefully it will start working and I don't have to micro 4 parties.

offline parties are good in completing easy patron variants.
also good in completing weekly patron challenges ( require some management) and collecting 5000 freeplay tokens.
good in completing season daily / weekly / milestone quests.
as to farming gems they are not good. Not quite useless, but not good.