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Posted - 2010.04.05 15:53:00 -
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Right, I have been following peoples arguements about Macro mining for a long time now....and heres my opinion **** See note at end for disclaimer
I honestly feel that CCP have no possible solution to this, and i have my reasons - which i will try to explain here.
Over the last few months i have done some research into the macro mining market/applications - without actually running them (someone earler seemed to know a lot about them too - so he must have aswell)
1 of the macro's (which is free may i add) is a damn good product (i am a programmer and i am impressed that it has been programmed for no financial gain), This macro can read the screen and respond to what is on screen, it can mine in any ship with any config - and attack any threats......... HOW CAN CCP COMBAT THIS, simple - they cant its just not possible. Player A could undock - warp to belt mine, dock and sell as quickly as a person could do it, heres a list of possibilities.......
CCP implement a test style captcha, OCR would combat this........
CCP make a probe style belt finder, Player A would log in - find the belt and then start the macro with a BM
CCP implement a mini game, Realistically there is only going to be 1 (as opposed to multiple mini games), so this would be easy to manipulate
Lets Get realistic, your fighting a program that can mine in multiple systems, and ignore empty belts - Player A could set it up to mine 10 different systems, log in and log out automatically before and after DT - YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS
Now..... heres the bad thing, There is one problem in my eyes which is much bigger than this. Ratting bots - there are fewer of these, and these dont effect the market as much,but the main one costs about 30 euro's and according to the website has over 1000 users, Now from a personal point as a programmer - if i had worked on a application that made me 30,000 euros in my spare time - i would do anything i could to keep it working, making that unstoppable too.
Now i know this may be a bit of a wall of text, but its certainly accurate - do some googling!
**** DISCLAIMER ****
I have never used a macro - or never intend to, so for the people who petition me etc - ccp bear this in mind
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