Autoattack - I don't understand

[Raven434]

My autoattack has been disabled via the web page.

From the CLI I typed 'autoattack disabled'

Why does Mafia think I am trying to pickpockets and get me beat on in Hobopolis?

The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground
Encounter: Romeo Lennon, Who Sings Nursery Rhymes in a High-Pitched Voice While Delicately Caressing a Straight Razor
Strategy: skill moxious maneuver
Round 0: JoeMomma wins initiative!
Round 1: JoeMomma tries to steal an item!
You lose 388 hit points
Round 2: JoeMomma casts MOXIOUS MANEUVER!
Round 2: Hunka Hunka Burnin' Grimacite does a couple of karate moves, then swivels his hips and gyrates his pelvis.
Round 2: spooky hobo takes 602 damage.
You gain 21 Muscleboundness
You gain 33 Wizardliness
You gain 41 Roguishness

From my prefs file:

defaultAutoAttack=0

setAutoAttack=false

I don't understand what I am missing here. Or do I need to set my autoattack for moxious and having it be '0' is basically the same as doing nothing?

Thanks.

 

[jasonharper]

This has nothing to do with your autoattack setting; KoLmafia always uses pickpocket when it's available and seems appropriate to use. To bypass that, you'll need to use a CCS. One that just says:

[ default ]
skill moxious maneuver

should do the job.

 

[Raven434]

Thanks for the clarification JH.

;-)

 

[lostcalpolydude]

So maybe the proper question is, why does mafia think it's appropriate to pickpocket in Hobopolis?

 

[Bale]

Because mafia notices it cannot be hit, but lacks understanding that an item exists to be picked. You suggest that mafia should be educated about which monsters lack pockets.

 

[lostcalpolydude]

There's two separate things that could apply there. First, you can be hit even if you have a million moxie, so it's never "safe" to waste a round, in the sense that mafia assumes it is. Second, you can't pickpocket anything, so it's always a waste of a round and a waste of server resources. Either of those by itself should be enough reason for mafia to not pickpocket there, though changing the code for either thing is probably a bit of work.

 

[Bale]

Yeah, I'm not really fond of the pickpocket whenever safe feature either. (I was just explaining the logic. And I think it predated monster crits.) I figure that if I want to pick pockets I can do it myself.