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><dharzhak@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>> If Blizzard didn't want you to modify the interface and create macros,
>> they wouldn't have given you the ability to do so, much less provide a
>> forum on their web site dedicated to the topic.
>>
>> Preach on all you like, you're still going to be playing gimped. You
>> may also want to consider that Blizzard opened up the interface because
>> they possibly wanted to save the R&D costs on trying to figure out what
>> everybody wanted and, instead, just let the market drive itself.
>> Personally, I think they made the right choice.
>>
>> ...and no, using interface options does not turn you into a D2-style
>> bot. Blizzard does keep some limitations on these things.
>
>Missed my point. hehe.
>
>I'm a programmer. I can't use those addons without wanting something
>better, and if I can't find it, I'd make it.
>
>I've toyed with one mod that does threat assessment (auto-targets the
>biggest threat, or informs you when your chances againsta target are next
>to nil)... another that times your tricks (hardcoded, non-configurable last
>I tried it) so that it will keep a pally's blessings and seals active...
>automatically performs a SoJ-turn on a target shortly before it runs away,
>auto-exorcises anything on it's undead list, and auto-shields-and-heals if
>your health reaches critical, as well as switches auras if you take damage
>of certain types (fire, shadow, frost, etc). I've been toying with a
>waypoint manager, my own system for noting the vendor value and AH of items
>based on experience (and able to identify the most worthless garbage in your
>inventory), a quick-mailer that ships all my regular auction items to my AH
>mule straight from inventory (requires that you go to a mailbox of course),
>and I've even toyed with a combat manager (does a good bit of the work in
>combat against mobs, with you mostly making decisions).
>
>A lot of this already exists - I have a habit of reinventing the wheel - but
>I'm learning by doing, and can more easily modify my own work than that of
>others. Also these are all made to work in unison, rather than as seperate
>addons that have to be coordinated.
>
>I'm also working on better ways of communicating directly with one of my
>servers for information storage and retrieval. Once I have that working,
>you don't want to know what I've got in mind.
>
>All of this, put together, comes dangerously close to botting, which is why
>I'm pretty limited in my testing... and also takes ALL the fun out of the
>game. However, it's inevitable. I can't just install a cute addon, as that
>makes it too easy to improve on that addon... then make more addons.
>Instead I choose not to use any during regular gameplay... similar to how I
>quit using thottbot so regularly (makes quests more fun when you don't know
>every single detail about them).
>
>How many of you (show of hands) have caught yourself taking intricate notes
>on how to run through all the quests in an area, organizing it into a
>step-based instruction set to tear through an area with maximum efficiency
>and speed? I did... often... and the only way to stop was to quit doing it
>at all.
>
>For some people, an addon or two is just an enhancement. For others, it's
>like giving a bump of coke to a recovering addict - all it does is fire up
>the fiending.
>
>That, and the fact that the game isn't meant to be a contest between who can
>slip in the most effective addons without getting caught - and when you
>introduce addons on a large-scale, that's what it becomes, regardless of
>original intentions. Why play the AH pricing game, when you can compute the
>optimal price? Why go searching for resources, when you can have a program
>tell you where they are? And why learn to coordinate a complex and built-up
>character, when a program can do the work of managing buffs and heals more
>effectively than a human?
>
Sounds to me like you could really have fun, if you downloaded a pirate
server so you could fool around with that to your hearts delight :-D
I knew there was a reason for their popularity, now you opened my eyes
so I could see it
🙂
--
Allan Stig Kiilerich Frederiksen
"When you try to change a mans paradigm, you must keep in mind that he
can hear you only through the filter of the paradigm he holds."
-Myron Tribus
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