Entertainer Archive
Thread: A question for discussion.
Let us pretend, for the sake of argument, that I could create a macro that would do the following:
1. Walk to the Medical Center
2. Get a full set of buffs from a med-bot
3. Walk from the Medical Center to the Cantina
4. Get buffs from a musician/dancer-bot
5. Walk to a Terminal (type of your choice) and search for the highest paying missions
6. Jump on my speeder bike and fly to within 125 meters of the mission (with an adjust for spawn adjusts.)
7. Jump off my speeder bike, run up and complete the mission
8. Jump on my speeder bike and fly back to town and jump off my bike
9. Repeat steps 5 through 8 six times
10. Pause 10 minutes to clear any remaining buffs
11. Repeat Macro from the beginning
Now let's assume that this macro was widely available and all the combat professions started using it. And if this resulted in the mission-bot interfering with live players from getting missions and enjoying thier chosen professions, how long do you think it would take to fix?
Roho.
P.S. This originally started as a response to a separate post in a different forum, but I thought that it stands alone without attacking any specific individual.
So I'll state two things.
If what you're getting at is that entertainers (musicians and dancer specifically) are at the bottom of the heap in the developers' eyes, evidence would support that theory, though I harbor hope that it's because they want to change the things that affect the most people first, rather than a perverse desire to see entertainers leave the game.
On the other hand, this development team doesn't seem to much care if half their population is AFK and exploiting the game engine. Whether that's because they truly don't care, or because they're scared of taking away entrenched tools, once things like this get into the game, they don't seem to leave.
So my guess is that the macro you described, if it got onto the live servers, would never be removed.
Goldshadow wrote:
And if this resulted in the mission-bot interfering with live players from getting missions and enjoying thier chosen professions, how long do you think it would take to fix?
Roho.
Definitely as quickly as possible. We're talking about a very high percentage of people that would be affected by this macro, and alot of uproar.
What bothers me so much is that, like was mentioned earlier, it's not just Entertainers that are affected by this. There are auto-attack macros and auto-looting macros that go on as unchecked as buffbot macros. The difference is that the other macros don't affect the livelyhood of their professions as much as it affects ours. We're feeling the results alot more.
My sincere hope is that after the Combat Balance has taken place, alot of the problems in the combat professions will have been taken care of. This will leave them in a much better position to take a look at the non-combat professions.
I still have hope 