RaivynBlood
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Posted - 2007.07.06 08:50:00 -
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i found this on a site giving directions on how to make a macro for mining, but it kept the program which they used to make the macro a secret, they put it up simply to make a point. here is the post:
"#40 by wowzer, May 31, 2007 For all those against this i have a few things to say:
1) mining is the most boring and slow way of making money for ingame use; 2) mineral prices are kept constant by the macrominers, and fluctuated by traders that are not using macros for that (they can`t); 3) mineral prices would rise if all miners would have to stay there and mine for hours and hours... noob miners would simply give it up and start something else, as the yeld is infinitely small and the amount of time spent is huge; 4) if the prices for minerals go up, so do the prices for ships and items, therefore making everything more expensive and making everyone work harder and dedicate more time to staying ingame (unless you are a total computer addict allready, i doubt you would like to spend hours at a time doing nothing but smacktalking on chats and mining) 5) next time you buy a cheap ship think about the macros that mined the ore for it to be built at that price.
conclusion: unless the game mechanism is fundamentally changed, macrominers should be allowed but strictly controlled because imo one account with a macrominer is no big deal, plenty of them for one user may become a problem and should not be allowed.
ISK sellers should be tracked and banned, i personally do not fully agree with that, although in some cases it is what earns people their very existance... sad, i know...
so consider all this before you go around pointing fingers. there are worse things than macrominers. think about the npc-ing bots... placed in deep 0.0 earn more money than any macro-miner however skilled it is... plus the trading manipulation of markets and so on... the list of bad things is pretty long, one guy in a miner using a macro seems to me like the least important."
yah... imo, thats more than enough explination. i play FFXI too and the fact is, the worst enemy you will have is gil/gold/isk/plat buyers/sellers, and that goes for all mmo players. so lay off the macro miners and worry about bigger probs, like say a life
and for the recored, thank you wowzer, whoever you are
p.s. thank you MP "We've emailed CCP about macro mining like how it is shown above and they say it is not cheating and your account will not be de-activated BUT they DO NOT condone it's use."
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