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Thread: anyone else find this disturbing?

Warplex
Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:00 am
#1

http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/content.jsp?page=macro%20and%20command%20list


They are showing, on this page (this is SOE's friday feature), how to AFK dance as well as combat. Did SOE just endorse looping macros and, if anything, make it easier for people to afk our professions?



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ZolaTelanina
Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:03 am
#2


I think currently, yes, it's not helping the whole afk thing.


But they're only showing you how to loop macro's and such and I'd imagine, at least hope, once they sort out the 'afk looping macro' problem, things like that will be solved. And thus making use of macro's like that afk, not possible.


Or maybe that's too much wishful thinking.

Message Edited by ZolaTelanina on 11-25-2004 02:04 PM



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Warplex
Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:56 am
#3

Just to quote the article (this is the first macro they show how to do):







SOE Wrote:


Using Alias's and Dancing Macro


3.A Being the evil person I am and making you type all that out, here is how you can use short cuts or alias's to make your macros shorter. This is how an alias works, you take a command or a whole set of commands you use a lot and make it into an alias. Then when you type what you named that alias, it will execute the whole set of commands you told it too. I feel like dancing over this easier way to make macros. So I am going to make a small dance routine and turn it into one command. I am going to put this routine on tool bar pane 4 (03 to the computer). Here is my routine:


Dancing Macro Code


3.B.


/ui action toolbarPane03;


/alias Dance /startdance rhythmic; /pause 5; /floiurish1; /pause 20; /fourish7; /pause 20; /flourish 4; /stopdance;


/alias Dance2 /startdance formal; /pause 5; /floiurish4; /pause 20; /fourish2; /pause 20; /flourish 6; /stopdance;


Now when I type:


/Dance
or
/Dance2


I will perform that whole dance routine. You need to load this alias every time you log into the game though. So make a macro with all your aliases then click it once every time you log on. Then you can get creative and make macros with combos of /dance and /dance2.










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Shorrim2
Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:10 am
#4

I was about to start a thread to Thank JChase29 for his thoughtfulness. Is he by any chance the Entertainer Dev? It would explain a lot.



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NJ62
Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:50 am
#5

Furthermore it would be impossible to use the macro given, as it has improper syntax and spelling for 2/3 of the flourishes.



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NewJedi
Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:27 pm
#6

Yeah, I'm not wild about it either. But which Friday Feature was this? Not the most recent one, which dealt with loot. Was it last week's? How long has it been up?
NJ62
Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:18 am
#7

NewJedi, it went up on Wednesday November 24. It wasn't "friday" but it was the end of the week.



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Orryhazard
Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:21 am
#8

It was not writen by SOE, or the developers.


I remember reading that in the SWG discussion thread. It was writen by a player.
Warplex
Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:42 pm
#9

hey, if no one bothers to use spell check, why should posts that SOE turns into guides for their front page be any different? Also, I don't think they removed the mind-wound healing stims from the loot revamp



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DeathsEgo
Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:12 pm
#10

atleast it has /stopdance at the end of the macro so hopefully people will run it and just walk away and be gone from our professions. Or /startdance (being a musician) and go no where. What a relief



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Kyorlana
Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:34 am
#11

Quite frankly I find this disappointing and insulting too. How they can justify publishing something that they admit hurts our professions instead of many of the genuinely helpful information guides out there just baffles me. It's like they are trying to get us to quit!

Warryyr
Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:02 am
#12

I think it's just plain stupid of them to bother posting this information right now, when they're totally overhauling the macro system soon (or at least modifying it).


It would have been better to introduce this system to players AFTER they've made it more inline with what they want it to be.


Instead, it'll be useful for only as long as the system remains as it is, then it'll become outdated and obsolete.


My bottom line: They shouldn't have bothered, and they most certainly shouldn't have included Entertainer in there. It's like rubbing salt in our wounds at this point. Very poor taste and well, I'm sorry, just stupidity on their part.


The Devs' focus on attention to detail is also made blantantly obvious with all the horrible typos in that document. I would never post something to such a large community with such poor spelling/grammar. Way to go Devs, "introduce" macros to people totally unfamiliar with it by giving them misspelled and error-filled macros.


They basically thieved some poor person's macro guide and just copy/pasted it. Top notch work. Well, top notch "work."

Last_Samurai
Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:11 am
#13

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