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Thread: There Goes My CoB Macro

Sabatian_FarStrider
Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:13 pm
#1



This will make keeping Center of Being going more of a chore during a prolonged battle.

What do you think?


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Removing Recrsive Macros

Message Edited by Sabatian_FarStrider on 08-07-2004 06:13 PM



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ViithSamoor
Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:41 pm
#2

Does this include a macro that calls a user interface button ? Like, i have a loop macro that hits ui button 2, waits 10 seconds, then hits the macro in button 1 to start the loop ? I mostly use it for AFK shuttle waiting. I'm more worried about losing that ability than a CoB macro
Sabatian_FarStrider
Sat Aug 07, 2004 3:04 pm
#3

From what I understand it will eliminate any that will call on a tool bar slot. But then I could be wrong.



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Arafel_
Sat Aug 07, 2004 3:38 pm
#4






Sabatian_FarStrider wrote:

From what I understand it will eliminate any that will call on a tool bar slot. But then I could be wrong.






that would make macros virtually useless then



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gloga
Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:18 pm
#5

Not just Center kiss new docs any new weaponsmiths armorsmiths and any other crafting profession goodbye unless there is an easy way to get xp for crafting you wont' have crafters in the comunity anymore not to mention try and get rid of bf as i was reading through this thread i saw some old timer player saying he couldn't have fun in the cantina OMG do u want ot have fun in the game at all you try getting buffs with 999 bf then trying to get rid of it with novice entertainer.With big game hunting which after mastering a prof is all there is left to do then there will be no way to do it. In THEORY this would be good but it would completly kill the game as a whole.
Joinky316
Sat Aug 07, 2004 6:32 pm
#6






gloga wrote:

Not just Center kiss new docs any new weaponsmiths armorsmiths and any other crafting profession goodbye unless there is an easy way to get xp for crafting you wont' have crafters in the comunity anymore not to mention try and get rid of bf as i was reading through this thread i saw some old timer player saying he couldn't have fun in the cantina OMG do u want ot have fun in the game at all you try getting buffs with 999 bf then trying to get rid of it with novice entertainer.With big game hunting which after mastering a prof is all there is left to do then there will be no way to do it. In THEORY this would be good but it would completly kill the game as a whole.







First of all, am I the only one disgusted by the fact that people used to be able to solo a NS Elder without even being at the keyboard?


Second of all, I never use a CoB macro, and I constantly have it active when I'm fighting most everything. It's really not all that tedious to keep it going - in fact, I think it adds an element of excitement/skill to combat.


Third of all, anybody that thinks the loss of the looping macro will discourage beginning crafters is just plain wrong. Okay, so your crafting macro doesn't loop... is it really that hard to push 1 button every minute or so, that will start the macro back up again? Guess what, people used to master crafting professions without ANY MACRO AT ALL. It's not impossible. People have become too lazy in this game, that's all.


Don't even get me started on entertainers...

QuadLazerX
Sat Aug 07, 2004 8:28 pm
#7

joinkey.. if it doesnt open your crafting tools you gotta press more buttons



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AmetTovar
Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:40 pm
#8


Here is TH's post requarding this Scroll down and you will see his response that goes like this:


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RozhlokLightningskull wrote: TH: I think a lot of us would appreciate it if you got into specifics of how you plan to elimnate recursive macros. If you do as you say and are elimiting recursive macros and check for an infite loop in a macro and don't allow that, then I think this is fine. I can live with it, for sure. But, if you are just getting rid of the /macro and /ui action toolbarSlotxx and the like then we are going to have MAJOR problems. I think a lot of the community is up in arms about this right now because you haven't been specific enough. Is /macro and /ui aciton toolbarSlotxx going away with this change? Because a great deal of my non-recursive macros use these commands!


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We'll have more info for sure later this week, but for now, I wouldnt worry (this change won't be happening until well after Publish 10). Something along the lines of a time limit or a check for an infinite loop is what we will most likely see.




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Message Edited by AmetTovar on 08-11-2004 03:42 PM



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Joinky316
Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:44 am
#9






QuadLazerX wrote:

joinkey.. if it doesnt open your crafting tools you gotta press more buttons






Where did you hear that it wouldn't? From what I've read, the only changes are that macros won't be able to instigate macros... nothing about not being able to initialize a crafting tool.
gloga
Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:38 pm
#10






Joinky316 wrote:





gloga wrote:

Not just Center kiss new docs any new weaponsmiths armorsmiths and any other crafting profession goodbye unless there is an easy way to get xp for crafting you wont' have crafters in the comunity anymore not to mention try and get rid of bf as i was reading through this thread i saw some old timer player saying he couldn't have fun in the cantina OMG do u want ot have fun in the game at all you try getting buffs with 999 bf then trying to get rid of it with novice entertainer.With big game hunting which after mastering a prof is all there is left to do then there will be no way to do it. In THEORY this would be good but it would completly kill the game as a whole.







First of all, am I the only one disgusted by the fact that people used to be able to solo a NS Elder without even being at the keyboard?


Second of all, I never use a CoB macro, and I constantly have it active when I'm fighting most everything. It's really not all that tedious to keep it going - in fact, I think it adds an element of excitement/skill to combat.


Third of all, anybody that thinks the loss of the looping macro will discourage beginning crafters is just plain wrong. Okay, so your crafting macro doesn't loop... is it really that hard to push 1 button every minute or so, that will start the macro back up again? Guess what, people used to master crafting professions without ANY MACRO AT ALL. It's not impossible. People have become too lazy in this game, that's all.


Don't even get me started on entertainers...







no you aren't the only one discusted that they have soloed with a macro BUT i would love to see them do it when they AREN"T broken so /shrug and ya we are lazy because we do it with a macro but the ppl near the begining who were grinding with factories aren't lazy at all that is probobly around the time u are talking about

Message Edited by gloga on 08-12-2004 01:38 PM

StarNick
Thu Aug 12, 2004 6:35 pm
#11

I do wonder if this also affects macros that call up /alias commands that in effect recall the macro....



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Joesf33
Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:23 am
#12

All you have to do is add /centerofbeing to all your combat macros. Doesn't help when idle in PvP for suprise attack but still works while fighting just as well.



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dhantrag
Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:04 am
#13

Poor me... i dont use any combat macros accept CoB... and i aint that bad



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