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I guess that's more my point, that it was O'Reilly. O'Reilly's pretty respected out there, and publishing this means that people will read this information from a respected source, and take it as the respectable way to play the game.

There is a lot you can do with the macro system that goes far beyond AFK macros. I hope they focused on some of that stuff. If it's just a book of macros, the laugh will be on whoever is suckered into buying what's easy enough to find elsewhere, and on O'Reilly when half the SWG macros stop working. (Any that involve running for a long time.)

Nah, the book is on hacks in general, not macros, so I doubt they put too much thought into the creative things you can do with the system. The dance macro given is actually sort of odd in its implementation.

I find it rather funny that they call a series of macros with /macro, then at then end use /ui toolbarSlot... There's no good reason to use the /ui command to loop, except before people realized you could use the /macro command. It's a pain to explain and bothersome to setup.

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Aleyo wrote:
Nah, the book is on hacks in general, not macros, so I doubt they put too much thought into the creative things you can do with the system. The dance macro given is actually sort of odd in its implementation.

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Yes, it is. It is definitely odd. They don't *quite* give it all away - it's a macro choice, but not exactly the most user-friendly macro out there.

I kind of think less of O'Reilly now (have one of their Linux books). They do provide thorough info, but I would have thought they would avoid publishing things like that. I do find it fascinating that they call it a "hack," when SOE calls it a game feature. I'm disappointed mostly because that info is provided to the detriment of the games it references. Though, I think O'Reilly pretty much agrees with our stance - those looping things are manipulations of a system that was put in with good intent, but used in a way that "cheats" the game. It's a way to beat the system.

The question remains, though - why play a game that you don't....play?

Message Edited by Warryyr on 12-09-2004 03:33 PM

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At least they have the grace to call it a hack.

Sony calls it a game feature and puts up articles telling their player base exactly how to do it on the official website.

Yeah, but what does it say if they (O'Reilly) *do* recognize it as a hack, yet publish the information anyway.

There's lots of websites that publish cheats and hacks for every game out there. It's kind of shocking that O'Reilly would support that kind of behavior, but hey.

heh. i know that guy, kinda... a bit ironic