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Thread: So I'm like W.T.F mate
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EnderUK
Sat Mar 05, 2005 10:37 am
#1
I just went out to get lunch and ran my /sit /pause/stand macro on so the server would not boot me. I flipped on /afk and left.
When I come back I run up to a lair, hit my spin attack grindmacro and nothing happens. I'm like W.T.F. I try hitting specials and nothing happens. I'm about to log when I get a tell and my afk message response. I turn off the afk to reply and low and behold I'm able to attack.
So they finaly got rid of the AFK macro. kinda of a half arse job since I'm still grinding now away while righting this post.So you can't use combat specials now when afk, same is probably true for medic and dancer.
hatfield02
Sat Mar 05, 2005 10:57 am
#2
Went in with 13.1 I think, can't attack while AFK.
Mostly to get rid of the meatlump loot farmers I thinks.
EnderUK
Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:01 am
#3
But you can still afk it as long as you don't have your AFK up. Kinda of a half-arsed hotfix if you ask me 
Vrond
Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:22 am
#4
I know of a guy who was special forces in what he thought was a private safe house and AFK who was killed when the safe house turned out to not be so safe and he had put him self afk so he would reply with an automatic message to tells.
Even tho he was in the room with the computer and got back to the keyboard to fight when the music started he was smoking mad.
cpz
Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:40 pm
#5
Anything that discourages afk grinding and sends a signal that the devs reject afk as a viable way of gettign xp, money and loot is a good start in my book
maxtheusher
Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:46 pm
#6
I DON'T like it, now even less Afkers won'thave an AFK tag up.
Zeon_Zaku
Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:58 pm
#7
The AFK loot thing is tough. I wish they'd find another way other then taking at repeating macros when AFK. I don't really know how... but I put up and AFK repeating macro when I go AFK that simply enters /brb every sixty seconds so I don't get booted (it's a pain in the ass to log back in because I have to completely exit SWG then start it up again).
If they completely took out repeating macros, I wouldn't be able to go to grab something to eat real fast and come back.
Perhaps they should take out repeating macros expect ones that enter /brb, /brb4drink and /brb4food. Anything that has a combat, crafting or entertainer macro couldn't work, though.
Perhaps they should take out repeating macros expect ones that enter /brb, /brb4drink and /brb4food. Anything that has a combat, crafting or entertainer macro couldn't work, though.
SpinningCloud
Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:14 am
#8
Zeon,
Dancers and Musicians NEED macros. There is no other good way to choreograph dance routines for example unless you can time flourishes and effects accurately.
As for macros that let you join/leave teams automatically I fully agree...they need to go. That would take care of buf bots. As for afk healing entertainers I simply don't use them, or if I have to use them I NEVER tip them.
maxtheusher
Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:43 am
#9
I think he means make macros that have combat/entertainer commands not be able to be recursive.
Also, "stay online" macros, not that hard to do without recursives. I actually had a macro pre-this publish that would wait out my covert timer and then log me out, so i could hit up a recruiter, find a safe place, and hit the macro and go to sleep. it didn't loop at all. for over an hour. and it would have been very easy to broaden the macro to span several hours or even a full day, if I was so inclined.
But I don't see how they can remove recursive macros without ruining macros. at them moment, you can make a macro, and place it in your hotkeys. if you include a ui action toolbarSlot xx for that hotkey, it will loop continuously. But there are MANY legitimate reasons for using ui action toolbarSlot xx, such as armor macros, weapon macros, throwing traps, etc.
Also, "stay online" macros, not that hard to do without recursives. I actually had a macro pre-this publish that would wait out my covert timer and then log me out, so i could hit up a recruiter, find a safe place, and hit the macro and go to sleep. it didn't loop at all. for over an hour. and it would have been very easy to broaden the macro to span several hours or even a full day, if I was so inclined.
But I don't see how they can remove recursive macros without ruining macros. at them moment, you can make a macro, and place it in your hotkeys. if you include a ui action toolbarSlot xx for that hotkey, it will loop continuously. But there are MANY legitimate reasons for using ui action toolbarSlot xx, such as armor macros, weapon macros, throwing traps, etc.
Stawei_Idow
Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:49 pm
#10
afk looting/xp grinding needs to go. without a doubt.
but what im trying to understand is why do you need a macro to keep you from being booted for 5 hours?
ive seen lots of people just standing in a starport or cantina with some macro that waves or greets or some other nonsense every 20 seconds for hours on end.
why do you need to be online if you arent doing anything?
5 minutes so you can make a sandwich or drop the deuce is no big deal but hours?
whats the point?
all youre doing is adding to server load. possibly to the detriment of other players who are actually there at their keys playing the game.
why do you think they have the inactivity boot? just because they thought it would be neat to add a timer and some code as a test to see if they could actually do it?
i have left for up to 10 minutes without getting booted for inactivity.
tabbed out to check an auction, went to make dinner, whatever, but you dont need to have your toon do or say something every 10 seconds.
everyone whom i see doing this get added to my ignore list. there must be 300 people on my list now.
im sure ive lost some slicing business since i dont ever see their tell, but oh well.
then again, maybe not, as they dont seem to actually play the game anyway.
if you have to make a macro to stay online, go find some dark corner away from others and have it loop every 5 minutes or so.
you dont need to smile every 30 seconds.
oh, and to not completely hijack the original post, removing the combat while having an afk tag up solves nothing, as someone else pointed out, they just wont put the tag up and will make sure the timer is turned off.
im glad that the devs tried to think of something to stop the afk looting/xp grinding but did they really think this would work?
but what im trying to understand is why do you need a macro to keep you from being booted for 5 hours?
ive seen lots of people just standing in a starport or cantina with some macro that waves or greets or some other nonsense every 20 seconds for hours on end.
why do you need to be online if you arent doing anything?
5 minutes so you can make a sandwich or drop the deuce is no big deal but hours?
whats the point?
all youre doing is adding to server load. possibly to the detriment of other players who are actually there at their keys playing the game.
why do you think they have the inactivity boot? just because they thought it would be neat to add a timer and some code as a test to see if they could actually do it?
i have left for up to 10 minutes without getting booted for inactivity.
tabbed out to check an auction, went to make dinner, whatever, but you dont need to have your toon do or say something every 10 seconds.
everyone whom i see doing this get added to my ignore list. there must be 300 people on my list now.
im sure ive lost some slicing business since i dont ever see their tell, but oh well.
then again, maybe not, as they dont seem to actually play the game anyway.
if you have to make a macro to stay online, go find some dark corner away from others and have it loop every 5 minutes or so.
you dont need to smile every 30 seconds.
oh, and to not completely hijack the original post, removing the combat while having an afk tag up solves nothing, as someone else pointed out, they just wont put the tag up and will make sure the timer is turned off.
im glad that the devs tried to think of something to stop the afk looting/xp grinding but did they really think this would work?
nerfherder321
Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:55 pm
#11
i've seen worse.. a guy went AFK with his probe droid... meatlumps would target the droid and shoot it, the droid would kill them instantly, he would tehn (i think) loot them
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