Macro poll. Yes or No?

[STAR_GOD]

macro never!

[Derek]

Might not be allowed, but if enforcement is left up to player policing and GM's then it will ruin the game. If macroing gives any form of advantage, players will find a way to do it and not get caught. Anyone who says otherwise is being naive.

[neijlu]

I think the best thing is to make macros difficult to use. For now a simple autoclick can allow u to fish.

[Gamefreak]

Macros shouldn't be allowed, but because there is no way to stop them except having GMs act as a sort of secret police, it will never be enforced. Plus, if you give GMs the power to give 24 hour bans on suspected macroing individuals, you can bet safely some of them will abuse it.

Stop a macroing program? Great, buy a logitech keyboard and you can still macro. I haven't seen a game that actually deals with this problem, and I highly doubt this will be the first.

[sionide]

Blackice, we don't need polls like this.

Macroing is illegal in any MMO. Only reason attended macroing was allowed in DFO was because everyone was macroing and the devs would have had to ban like 90% of the population.

[blackice]

I really just wanted to get peoples opinions on it. i can see only around 10% of people would support that in general. Keeping in mind that its still illegal its kinda like asking a pothead if he should think weed should be legalised.

[Senusret]

If there is a zero tolerance policy on macros then I am sure it will cut down on the macroing. Just a simple rule anyone caught using macros will have their character deleted.

[iraclear]

I really just wanted to get peoples opinions on it. i can see only around 10% of people would support that in general. Keeping in mind that its still illegal its kinda like asking a pothead if he should think weed should be legalised.

i say yes to weed and macros.
thing is, if the game mechanics invite you to macro, for example that they put a need on you to do the same spell/click 1000 times, you might as well macro it instead of actually do the clicking - i play mmo's, i played DF, and my idea of fun isn't to do the same thing over and over again for skillgains.

That being said, there is not gonna be anywhere near the same macroing in Xsyon as in DF, because DF had the worst grind in MMO history, and in order to be competative you really had to repeat the same actions in safezones beyond the edge of sanity -> macroing was just a natural consequence. The only thing I've seen so far in X that invites you to macro is fishing, which doesnt give you any huge advantages over other players - besides it could easily be fixed the same way foraging and scavenging was; 'you were just fishing here recently'.

If they start paying out melee skillpoints for hitting friendly players, you can be sure macroing will skyrocket, at least since DFO's player base is already here

[schlock]

I really just wanted to get peoples opinions on it. i can see only around 10% of people would support that in general. Keeping in mind that its still illegal its kinda like asking a pothead if he should think weed should be legalised.

There is absolutely no comparison between asking a macroer if macroing should be legal and asking a pot head if weed should be legalized. Macroing gives you an advantage, smoking pot to the degree to be called a pot head dulls your senses and leaves you at a disadvantage. Just don't ask a pot head that because they will try their best to disagree...ahhh, huh huuh,....yeah......