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Originally Posted by loramin
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You and Fastboy are welcome to your opinion, but I think the staff have much better visibility on this than any of us do. The staff says it's both banned and that they monitor for it, so I choose to believe them ... and personally I'm not going to risk my account doing programmable keyboard stuff to test whether they're telling the truth or not.
I would (no sarcasm) love to see someone else do a test and report back [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
I totally agree. Only the staff know the data they've collected because it is generally kept secret (for good reasons).
If there is data that the staff has monitored that indicates that only a few folks abuse macro programs on a normal daily basis then everything I just said would be worthless.
I'm not sure that is the case. From a computers perspective it would be hard for them to do this without invasion of privacy (they could use their secret weapon .dll to look for these programs running while folks are playing EQ and flag those accounts) or without a high degree of false positives (since folks have legit reasons to have programmable keyboard software running on their computer without cheating). I have owned several RAZER keyboards/mice over my time on p99 and I have never turned them off while playing p99 --- I don't use them, but they are always running on my taskbar.
Of course I trust server staff to judge the significance of various exploits and deploy their limited resources in ways that give the best return for the project. I'm just providing a concern/player's perspective on it, which may or not be helpful to the staff.
I hope it goes without saying that we all "have a right to our opinion" --- not sure why it needs to be said, but I appreciate it (I think). All of us are operating on opinion without access to server data when it comes to these issues.