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For the remaining losers, we have our wonderful volunteer staff, and if said staff doesn't catch a cheater on their 1st or 2nd attempt ... well then the cheater will just keep doing it until they do get caught, perhaps on their 39th attempt. When they do, they'll lose that many more months of progress after their character gets banned [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Personally I don't lose much sleep over such people existing, I just trust that they'll get caught eventually. In the meantime, I can live with the tiny percentage that haven't been caught (yet): they certainly don't ruin my game.
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Last edited by loramin; 09-29-2019 at 02:03 PM..
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If these statements were verifiable true then I would totally agree with you. My anecdotal experience is anything but this, however. IMO, the majority of players are using these programs (allbeit that the majority stick to the guidelines in order to avoid attention and consequences), but they are using them for simple work arounds to the UI restrictions. As for it not interfering with your game play that's a pretty low standard for enforcement. The rogue that is using auto-backstab isn't going to ruin your game and you will probably never even notice...but it is a major change to the gameplay that is technically against the rules. Who suffers from this? The rogue that is compliant and lawful good to the p99 rules and therefore has to hit his backstab button all night and then wonders why his DPS is low compared to the other rogue in the group. The other examples I totally agree: I know TONS of people who have been banned for RMT and Boxing. I don't know a single player ever suspended, banned, or even warned for running macros from a programmable keyboard unless they are blatantly absusive and AFK (I think I knew a mage in vanilla that got suspended for using a tab/attack macro to AFK level in mistmoore while sleeping --- and he probably would have been okay if he had set a text filter to alert him to the GM sending him tells to confirm if he was AFK). | |||
Last edited by fastboy21; 09-29-2019 at 02:31 PM..
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there is no way you are getting punished for using keyboard macros. The software is installed for many other reasons other than using the macros. Never seen a reason to use them, but it's quite easy to do so if you need to.
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wait a tick.... people have programs to hit their backstab button? the one fucking button rogues have to press? don't people just smash that thing the entire fight? like 10x a second like any normal tweaker?
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To be clear, I am in favor of the changes to the UI (classic hotbars)...it is a clearly good step in the mission of the project. It bothers me, however, that some folks will just get around it entirely with a simple macro while others will actually have to play according the intent of the rules. Same thing with pet commands. My understanding is that pet commands can be text typed while casting. Removing the click button from the pet window working while casting is good...but what about the players that macro the text command? They just get around the restriction with a simple single button push. Seems like it only restricts the people that don't know about macro'ing or are compelled by their sense of obedience to the rules. | |||
Last edited by fastboy21; 09-29-2019 at 02:45 PM..
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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.]
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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. | |||
Last edited by fastboy21; 09-29-2019 at 03:28 PM..
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if they are banning (which I doubt) over keyboard macros, then they need to start banning for GINA triggers and timers. Those provide more use for many different things than a simple keyboard macro.
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Programmable macro programs are explicitly forbidden under the rules... IMO, they ought to fall under the same category...but the staff for a variety of reasons have decided to treat them differently. | |||
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