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Why are their no macro's again?

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Hyfy
11.14.2013 , 06:58 PM | #151
Quote: Originally Posted by Eyesmindassassin View Post
Perfect post, close thread now. The reason these 'anti-macro' people are arguing with you is because they are the ones with the advantage and the Naga's and the keyboards. They are the ToS violators and the culprits. We are the saints and the do-gooders. This is wrong. All we want is equality . All they want is inequality. Not only is it not right, it's disgusting and BioWare should amend this grave injustice by making macros usable by EVERYONE. NOT just the people in this thread who can afford to buy the hardware and then troll every macro thread that comes about so that they keep their pathetic advantage.

You are the bad players, not us.
Wow, just wow! What's next, are you going to tell us that all the people that could afford to purchase a mouse or keyboard with the capability to make those macros (whether the people use the macros or not) should buy them for you and others like you? Because I'll tell you now that you should be, assuming you were being serious, exceptionally embarrassed and ashamed for that post. Definitely put a pin feather into that cap of self aggrandizing entitlement mentality.
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Mallorik
11.14.2013 , 08:07 PM | #152
Quote: Originally Posted by Hyfy View Post
Wow, just wow! What's next, are you going to tell us that all the people that could afford to purchase a mouse or keyboard with the capability to make those macros (whether the people use the macros or not) should buy them for you and others like you? Because I'll tell you now that you should be, assuming you were being serious, exceptionally embarrassed and ashamed for that post. Definitely put a pin feather into that cap of self aggrandizing entitlement mentality.
I think hes just saying that right now people use macros in the game anyways, why not implement them in game so everyone can. not just people with programmable keyboards and mice. Now take your pill and calm down.

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Hyfy
11.14.2013 , 08:09 PM | #153
Quote: Originally Posted by Mallorik View Post
I think hes just saying that right now people use macros in the game anyways, why not implement them in game so everyone can. not just people with programmable keyboards and mice. Now take your pill and calm down.
I already took my pill, but if he is serious with that garbage then calming down is not likely.
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Ratajack
11.15.2013 , 01:38 AM | #154
Quote: Originally Posted by Mallorik View Post
I think hes just saying that right now people use macros in the game anyways, why not implement them in game so everyone can. not just people with programmable keyboards and mice. Now take your pill and calm down.
Because some people choose to cheat and violate the TOS by using peripherals to "chain" multiple actions to a single keystroke, BW should allow everyone to do so? Should they change their rules or TOS because some people choose to cheat and violate the TOS, risking the possibility of being banned?

BW has made it very clear that the use of peripherals to create macros that "chain" multiple actions to a single keystroke is a violation of the TOS and is subject to action up to and including banning. Not everyone who can afford those peripherals cheats and uses "chain" macros, btw.

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AlexDougherty
11.15.2013 , 04:52 AM | #155
Quote: Originally Posted by Hyfy View Post
Ah huh I gotcha now. Sorry my brain has been stuck on stupid most of the day due to a severe lack of sleep over the last few days.
No problem, we all get off days.
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blackcerberus
11.15.2013 , 06:58 AM | #156
Quote: Originally Posted by NoFishing View Post
Blackcerberus was referring to a specific (and imo, hypothetical) macro that someone could create where they could just press a single key over and over again and have it send a different key each time it is pressed. As long as this macro did not try to send multiple keystrokes, or implement any kind of timing logic, it would be allowed by the ToS.

So not quite a keybind, but close enough that nobody on either side of the argument is likely to care. And discussing why there is no in-game system that supports such a limited but acceptable macro is a waste of space.
waste of space? really? do you think the space is better used when people discuss back and forth about something the devs explicitly said its not and will never be allowed in any way or shape? because to me thats the definition of pointless...

btw, "limited" macro? OMG. just because you cant see the potential of something doesnt mean it doesnt exists.

I'll give you a hint: clicking a skill that is currently on CD/unavailable does not trigger GCD
now, think about that for 5 minutes

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blackcerberus
11.15.2013 , 07:05 AM | #157
Quote: Originally Posted by Ratajack View Post
So you're a cheater. The only real surprise there is the fact that you actually admitted to being a cheater.
actually, he didnt say anywhere he was cheating. binding multiple skills to a button is fine as long as they arent triggered one after another with a single press, and he didnt say they did.

the funniest part is that you actually quoted that in the gold post but didnt understand it

Quote: Originally Posted by Ratajack View Post
Sequence clicking
If you have a system set up so that if you hit the same key 4 times likes so: '1, 1, 1, 1' and instead of just firing off whatever 1 is bound to it fires off '1, 2, 3, 4', then as long as you keep it to 'one key == one other key hit' its in that grey area of not true automation.

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Maraxuss
11.15.2013 , 08:04 AM | #158
Quote: Originally Posted by Nikkalos View Post
Those are some really cool macros... But I think there's something about third party programs being against the rules... So however your using those macro's is probably against the rules. So I thank you for supporting macro's, but perhaps you shouldn't so openly admit to currently using them like that.
You do know that Razers Naga mouse (even the SWTOR Officially licensed version) will let you do all that and more, with just one button press (which in turn is actually multiple button presses to hot keys on your keyboard) so as to there actually is a key press for each power used.
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Keypek
11.15.2013 , 08:59 AM | #159
I would like macros for things like /yell or /say or /emotes. That sort of thing for raids and general fun. But I absolutely am opposed to macros for combat abilities or anything that makes it easier to use abilities while in combat.
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Lexhorn
11.15.2013 , 09:41 AM | #160
As there is no macro and that it's restricted to use any third party software, everyone 'laughing" when fighting are cheaters ? Because I wondering how it's possible to launch special abilities, running and typing /laugh in the meantime...