Creature Handler Archive
Thread: No recursive macros- One more blow to CH
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TheLoneBowler
Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:27 pm
#1
well here goes one of the last things that made my creatures almostuseful in combat.
Aakhperkare
Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:43 pm
#3
How do you figure? How will removing the ability to loop a macro kill the CH? You might actually have to play the game?...
Suenr
Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:30 pm
#4
Hehe, it is rather dramatic that someone thinks the loss of looping macros is the death of the CH of all classes. If you can't live without your macro, just make a long macro with /echo DONE!!! as the last line, then you just have to hit the macro every once in a while to restart it. I am much more worried about the price of buffs than I am about having to push the special attack button over and over (I like to do it manually anyway, makes me feel like I am doing something, and allows me to be sure and keep my pet's specials on the target).
theorb22
Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:24 pm
#5
no more macro looping? good thing i got my alt surveying 4 when i did 
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TottDonetta
Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:24 am
#6
Aakhperkare wrote:
How do you figure? How will removing the ability to loop a macro kill the CH? You might actually have to play the game?...
spoken like someone whos never had to grind thru any ent skill or craftign porfession. i dont know about you but the idea of pressing 'flourish 1 thru 8' for 2 months just to get a novice dancer really doesnt appeal to me, oh and by the way. take up WS. hand craft 4000 metal staves (dont waste resources on anything else, if your not a master you wont be able to sell sod all anyway) by hand and tell me how much you love actualy having to 'play the game. removing the macros wont have too much of an effect on CH's but wait till you need some BF healed!
once SOE has settled all the RSI law suits they will conclude that SWG is a loss making project. see you all back on EQ!
Aakhperkare
Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:02 am
#7
TottDonetta wrote:
Aakhperkare wrote:
How do you figure? How will removing the ability to loop a macro kill the CH? You might actually have to play the game?...
spoken like someone whos never had to grind thru any ent skill or craftign porfession. i dont know about you but the idea of pressing 'flourish 1 thru 8' for 2 months just to get a novice dancer really doesnt appeal to me, oh and by the way. take up WS. hand craft 4000 metal staves (dont waste resources on anything else, if your not a master you wont be able to sell sod all anyway) by hand and tell me how much you love actualy having to 'play the game. removing the macros wont have too much of an effect on CH's but wait till you need some BF healed!
once SOE has settled all the RSI law suits they will conclude that SWG is a loss making project. see you all back on EQ!
Sorry, but you're full of it. It doesn't take anywhere near, even by the furthest stretch of the imagination 2 months to get to Novice Dancer.
By the way. THEY ARE NOT REMOVING MACROS. Just the ability to loop them endlessly. You may have to push the button every now and then, get over it.
Good luck with that law suit by the way...
Gawzeera
Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:38 am
#8
ohh no pls dont make me push a button! I might have to get off my lazy butt and do something.
pffft please
I dont see how removing the ability to loop a macro will have any effect on CH, as far as I can see all its going to do is cut back on buffbots, give actual players the ability to get some conversation going with people in cantinas and get everything in line for the Comabt balance, as the devs have already said buffs will be "dealt with" in the comabt balance. and this is a step in the right direction.
as far as I'm concerned some one who pays money to log in and loop a macro while they go to the movies or watch porn or what ever is just chucking they're or at they're parentes cash down the toilet cause your not really enjoying the game if your technically not in the game.
Ronge_Ricin
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:03 pm
#9
AFK CH. You got to be kidding me.
That's such a waste of time. Be a man, play the game, learn it. Hologrinding days are over, so why grind through CH? Play it, have fun, make lots of money.
TheLoneBowler
Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:53 pm
#10
Ronge_Ricin wrote:
AFK CH. You got to be kidding me.
That's such a waste of time. Be a man, play the game, learn it. Hologrinding days are over, so why grind through CH? Play it, have fun, make lots of money.
lol I am not a hologrinder, I have 2 professions in a year of playing. I am a master. I do not play afk. I just like my pets to follow me when I tell them to. I like them to do a special when I tell them to. And I don't like to push a button a thousand times to get a working result.
Litushot
Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:59 pm
#11
Ummm.....ya don't have to push it a million times.....it's called lag
TheLoneBowler wrote:
Ronge_Ricin wrote:
AFK CH. You got to be kidding me.
That's such a waste of time. Be a man, play the game, learn it. Hologrinding days are over, so why grind through CH? Play it, have fun, make lots of money.
lol I am not a hologrinder, I have 2 professions in a year of playing. I am a master. I do not play afk. I just like my pets to follow me when I tell them to. I like them to do a special when I tell them to. And I don't like to push a button a thousand times to get a working result.
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TheLoneBowler
Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:32 pm
#12
Litushot wrote:
Ummm.....ya don't have to push it a million times.....it's called lag
TheLoneBowler wrote:
Ronge_Ricin wrote:
AFK CH. You got to be kidding me.
That's such a waste of time. Be a man, play the game, learn it. Hologrinding days are over, so why grind through CH? Play it, have fun, make lots of money.
lol I am not a hologrinder, I have 2 professions in a year of playing. I am a master. I do not play afk. I just like my pets to follow me when I tell them to. I like them to do a special when I tell them to. And I don't like to push a button a thousand times to get a working result.
This is not lag.Lag does nothave the ability to affect just one of your pets at a time.Lag does not keep a poison or disease special from sticking while allowing intimidate. Lag does not make one of your pets stop at a server boundary and make you drive back 500 meters because you didn't notice it stopped following. I guess no one here has figured out the intricacies of this profession. In that case I guess it will not be a problem for most people when this new patch hits.
Anyndel
Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:25 pm
#13
No, it's not lag, it's called chance. Just because your poison or disease DOT has a 70% chance of sticking, say, doesn't mean it will stick seven times out of ten clicks. Each round is a different random 'dice roll'. Each and every DOT only ever has a 'chance' to stick. Even if that chance is 99.999% you could still roll a hundred rounds where you just happen to get that 0.001% miss.
As for losing your pet, here's a novel idea... Instead of driving back 500m to pick it up, try using the STORE command in your datapad. So what if you have to wait 15 seoonds to call it again, how long does it take you to drive 500m? My guess would be 15 seconds or longer.
It seems to me that we're not the ones missing out on the intricacies of this profession, especially if you're the one not using your store command for stuck pets.
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