[Siul]

Originally Posted by Naiya

New twist on the thread - and this is asked more out of ignorance and wishing to be educated than out of an attempt to be inflammatory...

Sigil is cracking down on macro users. My assumption is that they mean those who macro to farm but I wonder... Does macroing to craft do the same thing? What about macroing to harvest?

I'm getting into this sphere and I really like the idea of making it easier and not have to mouse around so much, but I really want to adhere to the *spirit* of the ELUA as well as the *letter* of it.

Again, this is asked out of ignorance and a desire to be educated. so please, all feedback is accepted and very welcome

Interesting twist... I am clueless towards macros and just click away. IMO macroing in itself would not be bad but a question arises. You can macro (I think) to be able to locate resources in the world around that are even to far away from you to see (I think I read this somewhere in these forums), is this fair? How much different it is than getting someone to do the harvesting for you (other then you prob save money by not paying third parties)? This i think would be counter the idea of the game (IMO).

Now the other point, how bad it is to macro to get the crafting going in a less painful way (sometimes literally)? In this case it is not intended to cheat in the sense that instead of clicking the mouse you press a few keys. In this case you are not using a cheat to gain an advantage that is not intended in the game. Does this make sense? I mean for me the crafting macros are making crafting easier but you are still in the same place doing it and you were collecting all the material the good old fashion way of walking around and finding them (that's the intent i think), on the other hand using a macro to make it to detect something that you may not otherwise find is not cool for me.
Hope that's clearer, if nopt maybe tomorrow I can rephrase after sleep.