Macros. I hate em any and everyone can use them in any and every game, theyre not discriminating I find that in ALL mmorpgs once the community gets large enough they become rampant, today even betas and alphas are plagued with them. No matter how hard devs try its impossible to weed out mc users and they're becoming extremely slippery and hard to catch with more sophisticated macro programs. The fact is this appears to be one plague that unlike hacks developers cannot seem to ever keep up with the new tech in mcing and advancements in mc programs. Its become extremely hard to prove as well as create a prevention within a program with toady's sophisticated mc progs. Usually when caught after extreme long term abuse and long hard investigation by mod/gms the mc user gets no more than a slap on the wrist like a 1 week ban, or like 3rd offense 1 month ban etc. after they've exploited near 24 hr days for months or years with these programs. I consider these worse than hack programs in games due to the extreme difficulty in preventing them. Currently there is no MMORPG in the world that is not plagued with these people utterly destroying the enjoyment of this entire game genre as well as being used in other games. Extremely skilled rts gamers can even create simple click and record macros that will demolish non expert rts gamers by using their skill. This involves mathematics which can clearly be perfected with speed and precision by use of a macro, mathematics is part of skill in RTS games but using a program to carry out this math with pinpoint precision is horrible. I am an extremely good rts gamer by use of math speed precision and skill all key elements. But when it comes down to it people who aren't as good and would loose to players anyways who utilize bursts, or excessive macros in rts's I just donut think its right that they are trying while skilled players are relaxing pressing little macro keys. Either an excessive string of commands against a novice, or a few seconds worth of micro controlled combat vs a skilled player. Granted, as far as rts goes the people with the skill to do this are few and far between, but it doesn't make it any less wrong, and I wanted to explain how it can effect more than the mmorpg community.
An example of macros in mmorpgs, if you have or ever were an mmorpg addict, you probably realize more than others just how rampant it is. For those that don't ill give an example. When I was playing a game, (addicted) 16 hrs a day when I had too much time on my hands. I was fighting for rank 1 in a combat ability doing nothing but training it, I knew all the other top 10 players and refused to train with anyone who macro-ed. Due to this fact I could not take rank 1 cause the only people who were on enough to train consistently with me were macroers. Even with tons of training partners who I paid in game money to so they'd take extra time to train, the best I could do was rank 3. As I said I knew everyone in the top 10 rather well, how many could I train with? 0. Every single one was a macroer, which I knew was a fact since I knew them well. The GMs were doing everything they could to crack down on macroers. The fact is when they go after macroers they have to PROVE the persons using a macro, which in some cases can take a GM days of investigation.
Signed, The Rambling man
