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Thread: Sorry to burst your bubble.

Sevardos
Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:28 am
#118

Someone please Pheonixstar more rope - that was too much fun. It was like watching one of those cheesy reality shows with all that back peddaling and panic scramble to save face.


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SakeO
Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:52 am
#119






FuschiaD wrote:


Agreed.

Not to rerail the thread or anything, because that would be a real shame, but... what IS your opinion on buffbots?





Well,I feel buff-bots are yet another abuse of multiple accounts that serves only to allow optimized combat templates to avoid the majority of the game with the exception of fighting and loot acquisition at the expense of the enjoyment of other players. I like the use of recursive macros to keep joining them to cantina groups but,I believe this has been deemed griefing currently.


Unfortuately, it will be very difficult to remove recursive macros without seriously hampering macro functionality. The most important piece of this change would be for the Devs to tell players and CSRs that buff-bots, tumblers,spammers and whatever else they are trying to remove from the game are not allowed and then enforce this.



SakeO

FuschiaD
Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:15 am
#120






SakeO wrote:

Well,I feel buff-bots are yet another abuse of multiple accounts that serves only to allow optimized combat templates to avoid the majority of the game with the exception of fighting and loot acquisition at the expense of the enjoyment of other players. I like the use of recursive macros to keep joining them to cantina groups but,I believe this has been deemed griefing currently.


Unfortuately, it will be very difficult to remove recursive macros without seriously hampering macro functionality. The most important piece of this change would be for the Devs to tell players and CSRs that buff-bots, tumblers,spammers and whatever else they are trying to remove from the game are not allowed and then enforce this.



SakeO




Well said. Yeah, it's gonna take some serious enforcing of the new rules for this to work... at least for a while. People have gotten too used to this, which is just one of the many reasons it's good that it's going away.






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KatzThirosk
Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:32 am
#121

On Valcyn I hang out in the Coronet Cantina with a buff-bot Candy Cane. Eventhough I dont agree with buff-bots, I seem to do fairly well. I used to use Candy Cane all the time with my Main untill time after time I would get people in the opposite faction hog her and not invite anyone. After you waist 20min over and over it gets old and fustrating, so I stoped using her. So I busted ass on my alt and got her to masters. Maybacca is her name, and Wookiee Mind buffs is her game. I love playing her and cracking jokes on the buff-bot. I tell all the guy Wookiee's "Why do you want a buff from that ugly bald AFK human??" and they seem to love that and I have them in my hands. I do other jokes in group chat and interact with everyone. If I hear "Can I get an invite to Candys group", ill invite them and buff them. I even /setperform every fighter that walks in to get their attention. One guy tips me 50K everytime beacuse I talk to him and not AFK. I have been Masters for 1 week now and made 1.5Mil right next to a buff-bot. Im sure I could make more without her but Im pretty satisfied, I just have to work harder to sway everyone away from her.

But 1/2 the people go straght to her and ignore me alltogether, so I suspect they are not tipping her either and just want a buff. Fine with me,


I also have to agree that killing looping macro's wont stop them, they will use a 3rd party and SOE will never find out. So IMO this macro fix just killed it for the rest of the gang and it sucks it has to be that way.


I say if you go afk for 5min of inactivity you get logged out. No reason for afk'er to stay in the game taking up bandwidth.



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