Entertainer Archive

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Also it would be interesting to know what the developers think unattended gameplay by third party tools does to the game so that it has to be forbidden that cannot be reproduced by ingame-macros, in turn allowing those. Thats more of a rhetorical question, but maybe there is a reasoning we don't see.

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I can give a good guess at an answer for this too.

There are many things third party programs can do that in-game macros can not. Simple examples would be waiting for events, and responding to them. When I played EQ, there was a fully automated KEI buff-bot on the server I played on. You trade payment with him, he invites you, and when the group is full he casts and disbands. Suprisingly, no action was ever taken against him that I was aware of.

Then there is pixel scanners, and memory scanners which can give access to things the client needs to know about but you aren't supposed to know about. A good example in EQ is a program that would show you everything around you on a radar like map (Doing tracking better than the ranger tracking skill) and would also tell you what equipment the mobs had equipped = what loot you would get. These programs could tell you exactly when something spawned and where it was, giving people using it an unfair advantage. Then there are "smart" macros that know how to do things that the normal macro system does not, and can react to the world instead of just doing things blindly.

And that is just drawing on previous examples. I'm sure people are creative enough to come up with new things that aren't even thought of yet. So there is a blanket ban on using any 3rd party programs.

Compared to that, what you can do with the in game macro system seems like childs play.

>Compared to that, what you can do with the in game macro system seems like childs play.

Thats right. But to gain xp for master (elite) entertainer classes, all that is needed is child play. So for entertainer classes, there is no difference between those two

Sometimes I wonder if a well written third party tool would be better than a repetetive macrotainer No, I don't. I know it would be easier to ignore than "heal me plz tips appreciated thx" from a chorus of 10 people.

Anyway, waiting for the answers. Feels a little bit like christmas

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Tiaga wrote:
"I think you may have misunderstood that quote (I can't find the Fri Feature so I'm not sure)."

The key part in the quote is "... the process to becoming a jedi ...". Once you start your second character, you are a jedi from the beginning, just not a very skilled one. Trust me, I have clarification on this point from the devs that it means exactly what I said. I would not have made the change if I was not positive. And the new question is not my own. It is a question that was tossed around a lot before the current system was known, so I thought it a fair replacement.

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*edit*

Revoke that last question. I got a link on the Jedi boards to a post from those in red talking about keeping holocrons complete counting towards the new FSCS system