Is mapping multiple buttons to a gamepad chearing?

[loramin]

Originally Posted by kylok [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You do know that every single person on the red server has /who bound to a movement key, and that this can be done from inside the game itself right?

I know; lots of people on Blue bind Sense Heading to a movement key the same way.

There are reasons though why you'd want to use a gamepad to do things the EQ client can't. Take bard song twisting: you start song #1, then a second or two later you start song #2. You can't bind a single key to do that in the EQ client, but with the right gamepad you can save some wrist strain by mapping the "A" button to "1,2" (where 1,2 = "start song #1, wait a second, start song #2").

Is that prohibited? If so is it because the gamepad is doing something that a keyboard could not (ie. trigger two keypresses from the user pressing one key)? Or is it because of the 1-second delay in between the keys (which makes it qualify as "automation")? Or is there some other criteria involved? I'm not trying to argue one way or the other, I'm just trying to figure out whether the GMs want us doing it or not, and I had hoped someone would know of a written record indicating one way or the other (eg. a forum post from Rogean, a forum post from someone who just got banned for multi-button-ing, a Twitch transcript where Sirken says "I multi-button-map all the time!", etc.).