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Tycalibur

Sat May 08, 2004 12:57 am

Merchant Barker droids can do one thing that the AFK Macro Shouter cannot. They can BE there while the Merchant can go off and do other things. And frankly, when I'm spamming for my vendor, I'd rather be tending my harvesters, preparing to restock my vendors, or just doing other things that I need to get done rather than stand in a starport for hours spamming my vendor location.

Conclusion: People that don't want to spend time yacking away in the starports WILL buy these droids, so IMO, there IS a market for them.

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Nambrino

Sat May 08, 2004 5:09 am

#28

There is also the matter of people with two or more accounts. They can log in both accounts, set one character AFK and spamming, while playing the other character.

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SkyeDarkangel

Sat May 08, 2004 11:12 pm

#29

Except then you've got people running 3rd party mouse/keyboard macro programs. Since they basically simulate the actions at the OS level, SWG won't be able to tell, and the AFK macroers continue to AFK macro.

Also, SOE has said that AFK macroing is allowed, so they can't very well shut it off without changing their whole stance on it. Sadly, no matter how hard you make it, the really annoying ones will continue to plague. There's no in-game system you can create that can block the AFK macro'ers and not greatly inconvenience normal players.

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MekeaAdetu

Sun May 09, 2004 7:10 am

#30

SkyeDarkangel wrote:

Except then you've got people running 3rd party mouse/keyboard macro programs. Since they basically simulate the actions at the OS level, SWG won't be able to tell, and the AFK macroers continue to AFK macro.

Also, SOE has said that AFK macroing is allowed, so they can't very well shut it off without changing their whole stance on it. Sadly, no matter how hard you make it, the really annoying ones will continue to plague. There's no in-game system you can create that can block the AFK macro'ers and not greatly inconvenience normal players.

Actually, they can already detect 3rd party programs...

And they've said it isn't an exploit because it's using in-game resources as they're provided. But they've said that stuff like macro-entertaining isn't howmacros were intended to be used.

And anyway, as long as they give prior warning, and only start getting people in trouble for the action *after* warning is given, why can't they change their stance on a game-breaking problem?

*shrug* maybe I don't get it. Oh well.

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