Rage Bankerdo
The Rising Stars Academy
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Posted - 2015.09.03 12:01:34 -
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I am fairly new to EvE. I guess you could say, EvE is my WoW replacement. I totally agree with this policy. Blizzard was a little more relaxed than this because they had the ingame macro system where you could make your own buttons. Even with macros built into the game, Blizzard was totally against the same things. WoW has a mechanic called "global cooldown" and you could fire off as many skills as you want instantly with 1 press as long as you do not trigger global cooldown. Once anything trigger the global cooldown, it was illegal for the macro to continue, and the game would "fizzle" or stop it once it triggered.
They also have a strict policy against "automation". You still had to have a hardware input to do anything ingame. So even with the relaxed stance on the "macro" thing, they still policed the automation programs and bots. Anyway........
I am all for this policy, but the game needs a more robust keybind system. The UI is almost "stone-age" compared to any other game in this respect. CCP don't want macros or scripts, AWESOME and more power to em, but at least give us a more indepth keybind system with more "functions" or "actions" able to be bound to a key......
For example, you have a key to command drones to attack a target, you have automation "behavior" installed for how they act (passive/aggressive), you have a key to recall them all to your hanger bay, you let us create "groups" for them but you have to right click each group heading and find the "launch" command in a drop down menu box.......... Ok, I can understand not wanting 1 button that will release 100 drones all with one press..... I get that. You already have a system in place in the existing keybind system to apply. You hold ctrl key down and click any object to target it. There you go..... Let us have a key to hold down, or even the ctrl key and click the group heading in the drone box to launch that group, just like we can target without right click/drop down menu to target. Instant hotkey that does not allow 500 drones to be launched with 1 single button press, yet still give us a hotkey......
I do like parts of the UI. The overview is an awesome "customizable" information display tool that rocks. The only thing missing is at least a tiny bit more robust keybind system.....
And to all the "botters and such", I can run a keyboard faster than a bot can do it..... I did try out the MF bot for diablo 2, and I could do manual runs way faster than the bot could....... The only thing a bot has is that it can play for you while you sleep/work. Anyone that needs a bot to help you kill people is just pathetic :)
And... to the people that do not think they can effectively police for people using auto programs........ Blizzard opened up their UI to the players so they could build their own UI and such, and they did a descent job of "policing" for bots and such. WIth CCP keeping their API locked down and closed, it is just that much easier to "police" because ANY software or such messing with the game code, or inputting commands sticks out even more and actually easier to catch than blizzard was doing. |