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Thread: Help! (Advice needed)
/smile causes you to face the person you are smiling at. Depending on which dance he/she was doing it could cause him to drift that direction. There are several dances that moves you around between flourishes. I try to time my flourishes to keep me in the same area but I doubt this person does that if he's running and AFK macro.
You can try explaining to him that it's the /smile that's most likely the the problem and removing it would help (not only cause less unneccessary stupid afk retard spam... *deep breath* *exhale*... ok I'm better now). If it doesn't change though I'd keep moving his ass outside until he learns his lesson 
Wow learn something new everyday I guess …
I don’t know of any follow_while_dancing macro, but then I’m not too good at macros. So very sorry but can’t help you there. I know in old days more sophisticated BoTs used to use a macro to target closest person for group invites, but that only works on the closest target I believe, that’s why they used to have the “sit in so and so chair and wait for invite” as part of their spam. As for being able to target you anywhere in cantina regardless if you are the closest target or not, not 100% sure, but he would have to have /target_you_name in his macro. Like I said I suck with macros but if he actually has your name in it then you should be able to report him for harassment.
I hope someonewith Macro PhD.jumps in and explains this phenomena 
C
Chessack wrote:
Wow that is some really annoying AFK macroing. I would report him. This is clear griefing.
C
I agree. And if other people in a group notice it, have them report it, too.
Thank you so much for such quick and helpful responses! I knew if I asked the dancers they would know the solution. 
I actually thought about the voritor thing but it would take too long and I wouldn't last a second (CL1).
I'll report it next time it happens.
Thanks again! '
What's really sad is that this "dancer" probably doesn't even know the macro has a targeting command in it. I've met quite a few people recently who were given macros by others (obviously non-entertainers)and when I ask them why they are doing X bizarre behavior their standard reply is....drum roll please.... "I didn't know I was doing that. How do I stop?" About 90% of the time I have to fight the urge to tell them that the way to stop is to surrender the entertainer skills and try combat instead.
There has been, in my opinion, a significant increase in the number of people in the cantinas who although they are actually ATK, the macro they run makes it look like they are AFK. I don't even know how to combat this new "disease" and honestly I don't know if it's even worth trying any more. For every one player I convince to actually be an entertainer 10 more show up with the same annoying macronized behaviors. It makes me long for the days when people would kite DJK several thousand meters to a cantina...
Well, finally got an answer from the dancer. He took the smile line out of his macro. He says he doesn't know how I kept getting targeted which supports the above theories that he doesn't know macros and probably got his from someone else. At any rate, we're both entertaining in the cantina now and hopefully all is well. He even tipped me for the trouble caused. A very nice gesture. I love it when things work out nicely.
Thanks again for all the suggestions here. You've been a BIG help!
Sholto
Message Edited by Esharra on 08-05-2005 09:53 PM