QUOTE(Violentin @ Jul 1 2012, 14:42)
In short this window is useless.
Yes, and ideally it would simply be removed from the game.
Speaking of, I was thinking that a more clearly within the rules solution (which I can easily implemented BUT HAVE NOT)
Would be to make a script that detects this window, and when the window is detected replace ANY key press or mousepress with a spacebar. (or a set of likely keys, such as only the 1,2,3,4, and left mouse button keys)
So you need not move your hand from whatever key it was on (say, thumb over alt index over 1) to the spacebar and just press 1 or just hit the left mouse button.
An even tamer approach is to replace only left mouse button with space when the window is there. At that point it is no different then any of the existing and approved key remapping scripts.
QUOTE(Anime Janai @ Jul 1 2012, 01:21)
One thing in the past forum discussions at other game sites is the "rules lawyering" that botters or those accused of botting use in order to justify activities. It should be clarified that being strongly pro-botting doesn't mean someone is a botter. Discussion in e-hentai forums is healthy.
Also satisfying the "one action" permitted in the current rules is the automation program automatically choosing the best target to place attacks upon. For example, the user could click on an Area of Effect (AoE) spell such as "Meteor" and the automation program would use its one permissible click to select the one monster with the combination of highest susceptibility and remaining hit points unless a different monster had coalesced mana. Etcetera. If the current rules allow automation as long as there is one player click between each click the automation uses, then there is actually A LOT that the automation can do especially since it can parse the statistics far faster and more accurately than a player can.
The danger of this kind of automation being allowed is that the game character no longer demonstrates being an extension of the player's personality and fallability. The character becomes more "mechanical" in its HV career.... If this is desirable to change a casual fun game into a mechanical "only rewards matter, not the playing of the game itself" existence, then so be it if that is the Chief Pony's desire to allow rules lawyers to use rule loopholes as worded rather than using the spirit of the game as the actual guidelines of behaviour.
The rules lawyering mindset often results in tunnel vision in setting a goal of showing an activity should be permitted regardless of any type of word theatrics used to justify said activity. Thus, it becomes possible to have disingenuous twisting of words such as "entitlement" into meaning anything that is desirable. That was not certainly not the spirit in which I used the word in my prior post. It is my belief that the SPIRIT of the rules set down by the Chief Pony was to foster actual game playing and not automation of game play. All the clicks needed to proceed while in a game is part of the actual game play.
That is a very good point.
In fact it would not be too difficult to program that takes 1 action per spacebar click.
Player spams space bar, if the page has not finished loading ignores it. If it has do an action determined by a bot.
This action can be to scan a monster, to attack a monster, to heal self, etc... basically a full bot.
Such play will be several times faster and sounds like it should be considered cheating but according to the definition posted earlier, isn't.
This post has been edited by mrttao: Jul 10 2012, 00:45
How do I skip "you are victorious" window? (WITHOUT pressing a button!)
Jul 1 2012, 08:21
