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Thread: AFK Harvesting at an end? :O
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darmokVtS
Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:30 am
#14
I don't like this specific change at all.
While (as already pointed out here) it does not stop macro-play it however stops my habit of setting /afk when I am doing something where I do not want to be caught in tell-hell. A simple "/afkmessage I'm currently busy in the DWB;/afk" worked fine in the past, this doesn't work now :/.
While (as already pointed out here) it does not stop macro-play it however stops my habit of setting /afk when I am doing something where I do not want to be caught in tell-hell. A simple "/afkmessage I'm currently busy in the DWB;/afk" worked fine in the past, this doesn't work now :/.
darmokVtS
Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:03 am
#15
DureenaBadKarma wrote:
it stops the AFK looters and grinders
As stated repeatedly in this thread, it doesn't stop them.
ScoerFusou
Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:10 am
#16
If you wanna stay in game forever just make a auction macro. I have 1 i run while im on hunting or whatever so I advertise to any planet im on and if I have to leave for an hour to go eat or whatever I'll come back and still be in game and not even be afk unless i put myself afk. Works great, took a 3 hour nap yesterday while i sat in the middle of nowhere on dath.
DureenaBadKarma
Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:43 am
#17
darmokVtS wrote:
DureenaBadKarma wrote:
it stops the AFK looters and grinders
As stated repeatedly in this thread, it doesn't stop them.
As I stated right up at the top.... I suspect the next stage of this is to remove the option to turn off AFK and set a max time limit of 15 mins or so...
Taking 7 words totally out of their context doesn't help make a point sweetheart! 
Fodder650
Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:46 am
#18
It wont fix the problem though. Since the one poster pointed out there are a dozen ways to get around the AFK timer
DureenaBadKarma
Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:53 am
#19
Ok, I'm gonna give up this discussion here with this statement...
I KNOW IT DOESN'T WORK NOW!!
BUT IT MIGHT ONE DAY, soon hopefully!
Catch ya'll in another thread 
Rinviero
Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:16 am
#20
Quick input into this... using a looping macro does not stop you going AFK, just stops you getting booted from the server... So if this is true and you can not attack when AFK it has indeed killed the harvest bots!
Fodder650
Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:23 am
#21
No it doesnt but like the one poster said throwing a line in your macro to broadcast to the auction channel does keep you from going afk.
A lot of people have worked very hard to game this game. Im still suprised there are two other exploits out there that havent been fixed yet as well.
A lot of people have worked very hard to game this game. Im still suprised there are two other exploits out there that havent been fixed yet as well.
Rinviero
Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:56 am
#22
Fodder650 wrote:
No it doesnt but like the one poster said throwing a line in your macro to broadcast to the auction channel does keep you from going afk.
A lot of people have worked very hard to game this game. Im still suprised there are two other exploits out there that havent been fixed yet as well.
Odd, I use the auction channel at times AFK to sell my wares, and always go AFK when doing so?
Fodder650
Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:02 pm
#23
Well heck im wrong all over the place. Just repeating what the poster said above "I just broadcast on the auction channel for three hours and never leave the game world". It must make him afk but not put him on the timer for logging out.
ScoerFusou
Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:41 pm
#24
I do not go afk, at least I never get the message "you are now afk" or "you have returned from afk". At any rate I was just making a comment. I hate afk looters and harvesters and I myself have never done it. I just run that macro while im hunting with Shu or crafting with Scoer to advertise. If I happen to step away from the keyboard for a few hours I leave it running so I don't have to re login but thats not the macros main purpose.
agent156
Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:32 pm
#25
Fodder650 wrote:Agent,Not everyone knows the cycle target outward thing. And really until the devs do the right thing and kill recursive macros as has been promised since 10/04! its a blight in this game. You are able to power level, power harvest, without any actual time at the screen. The talus AFKer made 35 million afk. Does this seem right to you? What about all the AFK meatlump hunters we used to conceal?
Recursive macros will never go away. They would have to remove macros all together, or nerf them into uselessness. How many crafters know how to use many copies of one macro and /ui action toolbarSlot## ? That one is never going away... Its called Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
Viva /nextCraftingstage!I was just coming to the defense of someone the mentioned some things that are Either in our own FAQs or in most of the Combat profession FAQs. Then the thought police stepped in...
/loot I learned it by watching you! LoL.
/harvest meat See above.
/target cycleOutward I like to target the thing closest to me, instead of tabbing through all the nunas on the hill over there. I must be in league with the Devil.
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