/ignoremacro

[Babekeke]

I really wish that there was a way to not see everyone's stupid macros.

I don't care that you're summoning garuda, nor do I need to be reminded every 2 minutes that she's the goddess of wind.
Likewise I don't care that you're casting Utsusemi. Unless for some reason you're riding the ichi timer and haven't learned to cast it without it being interrupted so you need it to be stunned.

The worst, of course, are the ones in /say or /emote, and the new /jobemote only seemed to encourage this. Though at least you can /blacklist these guys if they're not in your pt.

[Alhanelem]

Thereis a command for that. It's called /blacklist add Name .

The server has no way of knowing if the /p CASTING SPELL NOW!!!!! that someone sent it is from a macro or not.

Just politely ask the person to stop, it's a simple matter to comment out a command. If they refuse, just blacklist them.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Garuda, I choose you! Now make me a sandwich!

[Greatguardian]

Tell people, to their face, to stop making such retarded freaking macros.

PSA for the audience: Stop. No one gives a flying frack about your kage bunshin no jutsu or the fact that you're casting Regen on someone.

Use the god damned /echo command if you want to see your character say "cool shit". I promise, no one else thinks it's cool.

[cidbahamut]

Tell people, to their face, to stop making such retarded freaking macros.

PSA for the audience: Stop. No one gives a flying frack about your kage bunshin no jutsu or the fact that you're casting Regen on someone.

Use the god damned /echo command if you want to see your character say "cool shit". I promise, no one else thinks it's cool.

This, right here.

It's more than annoying, it floods the chat log and can make things more difficult for your mages who are watching the chatlog like a hawk for things they need to respond to. If you're clogging it up by telling us about lucky numbers or your provoke cooldown, we will hate you. We will hate you to death. And then we won't give you a raise.

[Zarchery]

Tell people, to their face, to stop making such retarded freaking macros.

PSA for the audience: Stop. No one gives a flying frack about your kage bunshin no jutsu or the fact that you're casting Regen on someone.

Use the god damned /echo command if you want to see your character say "cool shit". I promise, no one else thinks it's cool.

I concur. I've seen some that are cute or funny the first few times, but it gets real old real fast.

Don't be too quick to blacklist. Just ask politely. I had this come up recently in a party. Several of my macros had lines in party chat announcing the usage. Nothing fancy, just stuff like "Warcry". It seemed like in the old days, this was acceptable, but times change. Truth is that I was so used to these things that I didn't even notice they were there. When someone asked me to take them out, I did. I've probably still got a few in there that I don't pay attention to (I was just thinking of Haste and Refresh macros on my WHM that still have /p text in them that I keep forgetting to remove).

I think they're still useful for certain abilities, like Chi Blast or Provoke or Stun or anything that pulls monsters. It's a quick and easy alert to the rest of the party that a monster is incoming, or that you got claim on a mob. Or when you're casting an AoE buff and you wanna give the party time to gather in range. I guess the rule of thumb is "Does anyone other than the one target of this spell/ability need to know this is happening?"

But yeah, nobody needs to know every time you

[Babekeke]

I think they're still useful for certain abilities, like Chi Blast or Provoke or Stun or anything that pulls monsters. It's a quick and easy alert to the rest of the party that a monster is incoming, or that you got claim on a mob. Or when you're casting an AoE buff and you wanna give the party time to gather in range. I guess the rule of thumb is "Does anyone other than the one target of this spell/ability need to know this is happening?"

I use 2 separate macros just for ranged attacks... 1 for if I'm pulling, and 1 for if I'm just hitting it, because /p for EVERY ranged attack is annoying. This would be the same for provoke, chi blast and stun, unless you ONLY use them for pulling.

I think that the only /p macro I use full-time is on stun, since it's there for stun orders, and proc mobs (can't proc while mob is stunned).


The server has no way of knowing if the /p CASTING SPELL NOW!!!!! that someone sent it is from a macro or not.

I'm fully aware of this... I was just dreaming >.>

I'm not a fan of /blacklisting people in my party, as half of the point to a party is to be sociable. Unfortunately most people using these macros <3 them and won't change them for the world.

[Alhanelem]

Usually I don't do it permanently, I just inform them that I don't want to listen to it and I will blacklist them until the party is over.

[Urthdigger]

Yeah, there's no excuse for macros like those. Some people like to go "Oh, but it helps me be in character..." No, stop. I'm all for roleplaying in the game, can help a party seem less like a grind, but if my character saw your character repeat the same thing over and over again, he's gonna get pissed off. So it's in character for my character to tell your character to shut up before he punts them over the horizon.

[Arek]

I did some Macros like that in my early days in FFXI... (like "<t> you're gonna die ! Last Resort !", "darkness give me strengh ! Souleater!!"

And finally I deleted them as I realize that it was dumb and really annoying for other people in party. So yeah, It annoys me. I saw pretty bad ones like : "/emote "someone" begans to meditate" or "/party "Sublimation" SCH refresh Ability !"
<_<

Like when a COR says "Luck" "Bad" numbers as if the others care.... :x I'm using /echo for that purpose.

/echo is your best friend for those

[FrankReynolds]

I used to have a separate set of cure macros for dnc, that said who I was curing, and what waltz level. I would use it once in a while to help keep the whm from casting cure V for 0 hp. But I would never full time that.

I've noticed summoners seem to do this the most. WTF is that about?

[Finuve]

I used to do this about 5 years ago or so, I thought they were awesome, kinda felt like comments characters would make in offline RPGs during certain attacks, but then i realized how stupidly annoying they were

the worst though was always
/p Provoking <t>
/ja Provoke <t>
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready in 15 seconds
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready

most annoying thing I had ever seen

[Babekeke]

I've noticed summoners seem to do this the most. WTF is that about?

Yeah, a lot of SMN like to have a little story for the rest of the party about 'goddess of whatever' when they cast the avatar, then 'I command you to attack' in /assault and 'I draw upon your strength' in BP macros.
The other common ones are utsusemi, often using '/jobemote ninja' or something about calling forth shadows.

My worst one recently was when duoing some NM in abyssea as blm/brd with a nin/dnc, his utsusemi ni macro had what I can only describe as a pre-37 macro for utsusemi ichi: "Casting spell Utsusemi please provoke"... seriously, aside from the fact that anyoneone who can't cast utsu ni without needing someone to provoke should retire from melee class completely, THERE WAS NO ONE TO PROVOKE!


I used to do this about 5 years ago or so, I thought they were awesome, kinda felt like comments characters would make in offline RPGs during certain attacks, but then i realized how stupidly annoying they were

the worst though was always
/p Provoking <t>
/ja Provoke <t>
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready in 15 seconds
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready

most annoying thing I had ever seen

I think we have the brady guide to thank for this one...
... in fact, thinking about it, that guide has a lot to answer for. Not only did it suggest about 3 stupid /p macros for every job, but it also killed off BST in parties for 5+ years >.>

[Greatguardian]

I've noticed summoners seem to do this the most. WTF is that about?

Think about what it must take to still play Summoner in this day and age.

You pretty much have to be a loon.

[Babekeke]

Think about what it must take to still play Summoner in this day and age.

You pretty much have to be a loon.

>< I still play SMN... unfortunately it's generally only in WoE, and as such I'm not skilling up the fecking magic ><

[FrankReynolds]

Think about what it must take to still play Summoner in this day and age.

You pretty much have to be a loon.

I just leveled it to 90 the other day lol. Thought it might be nice for when I'm feeling antisocial. Damn it.... I am becoming a loon.

[SpankWustler]

Back when the vile tendency to put /party or /emote or even /say stuff in macros was far more common, I really hated it and put together the most annoying countermeasure I could manage in four seconds.

A Cure I macro with three lines of chat in shout. At first it was about how I was about to cast Cure I, casting Cure I, and had just cast Cure I. That didn't seem to get the point across, because I still found myself being informed that the Ever-Emerald Goddess of Ill-Winds was using Provoke in 15 seconds to recast Utsesumi or maybe Regen so she could survive cutting her life into pieces by using her Last Resort.

So, consulted my inner-child and changed the text to a vivid description of the most difficult of my recent bowel movements. Something about pushing a live scorpion through a coffee stirrer. It still didn't get the point across, but a guy doing something else half-way across the zone had some very interesting input on how squatting to poop is much healthier.

The moral of this story is that you can't always fight fire with fire and you should squat when you poop.

[Tamoa]

That ^ is the funniest thing I have read in a long time :D

[FrankReynolds]

The moral of this story is that you can't always fight fire with fire and you should squat when you poop.

I am putting that in my signature, because I think there are way too many uninformed people out there who need to know this sort of thing.

[Babekeke]

The moral of this story is that you can't always fight fire with fire and you should squat when you poop.

I'm interested to see the dev's take on this.

[Ravenmore]

I have one /p line that I mean to use (I keep forgetting to delete the other) and thats on whm letting people know I'm casting protectra and shellra. Thats there to let them know not to run off or if they were out of rng to let me know. I really hate chasing people down just to buff them.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I redid some macros from '04 when I picked drk back up, but didn't look in the utsusemi lines. There was a WTF when I pressed it. lol

[SpankWustler]

I'm interested to see the dev's take on this.

"We plan to balance this by giving everyone indescribably descriptive macros pertaining to Garuda and a truly malevolent case of the Taiwanese Terror Trots. :D"

[Oscar71]

I really wish that there was a way to not see everyone's stupid macros.

I don't care that you're summoning garuda, nor do I need to be reminded every 2 minutes that she's the goddess of wind.
Likewise I don't care that you're casting Utsusemi. Unless for some reason you're riding the ichi timer and haven't learned to cast it without it being interrupted so you need it to be stunned.

The worst, of course, are the ones in /say or /emote, and the new /jobemote only seemed to encourage this. Though at least you can /blacklist these guys if they're not in your pt.

Worthless thread +1, we're on the same server, I use macros as such those you describe. I hope you /blacklist me. ^^

[Kincard]

Would be nice if they expanded the "hold" feature so that you could make it only appear that way and and not let it appear in the main window. They mentioned before splitting the log window would take too long to reasonably apply, but I do wonder if it would work if they made an option for an in-between of filter "on" and "hold" as described.

SE should've made a roleplaying server at some point. Those can actually be really fun if you're into that sort of thing.

[Tamoa]

Worthless thread +1, we're on the same server, I use macros as such those you describe. I hope you /blacklist me. ^^

Why does everyone in your party/alliance need to be told that you are casting a spell, summoning an avatar, provoking a mob or using a ws? Please give me one single good reason for using macros like that, just one.

Also, as someone who is on whm 95% of events, this:



It's more than annoying, it floods the chat log and can make things more difficult for your mages who are watching the chatlog like a hawk for things they need to respond to.

[Mifaco]

alt+1

/p I call forth, the divine powers of Alanta <call0>
/wait 1
/em begins to lift the rock from the ground with his power.
/wait 1
/p YESSSSSSSSSSS I FEEL THE BOOOST OF POWAR!<call1>
/wait 1

alt+2
/shout CAN YOU FEEL IT VANADEIL? THIS IS TRUE POWER!
/wait 1
/p GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH<Call2>
/wait 1
/p <Call17>Current power stats:
/wait 1

alt+3
/em power bar [|||||| ] 30%
/wait 1
/em power bar [||||||||||||||||| ] 65%
/wait 1
/em power bar [||||||||||||||||||||||| ] 100%
/wait 1

alt+4
/p NOW GATHER AROUND MY BROTHERANS
/wait1
/p HERE I GO
/wait
/p BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU<Call3>
/wait 1
/ja "Boost" <me>

Alt+5
/p MY NEXT ATTACK WILL NOW DO MORE DMG<Call1>
/wait 1
/em power begins to fade
/wait 1
/em power bar [|||||||||||||||||| ] 75%
/wait 1
/em power bar [|||||||||]40%
/wait 1
/em power bar []0%

alt+6
/p I tried my best, tell me..
/wait 1
/p will i dream <Call10>
/wait 10
/p BOOST MACRO READY
/wait 1
/echo BOOST MACRO READY

[Kincard]

I like to go with simplicity and elegance.

/sh this is my <boost> macro

[Babekeke]

Worthless thread +1, we're on the same server, I use macros as such those you describe. I hope you /blacklist me. ^^

Luckily I've never had the misfortune to bump into you.

[FrankReynolds]

Worthless thread +1, we're on the same server, I use macros as such those you describe. I hope you /blacklist me. ^^

I'm not on your server, so I will just blacklist you here.

[Haruka-Ash]

i found more anoying the cor macros with his luck 8 unlucky 9 XD

[Theytak]

Tell people, to their face, to stop making such retarded freaking macros.

PSA for the audience: Stop. No one gives a flying frack about your kage bunshin no jutsu or the fact that you're casting Regen on someone.

Use the god damned /echo command if you want to see your character say "cool shit". I promise, no one else thinks it's cool.

This is the way to do it. I've always been a fan of comments on my JA macros (less so for spells/ws), provided I can come up with ones that aren't horribly cliche, or are horribly cliche but have just theright amount of cheesey to be ok. That said, these are always in /echo, and I rarely actually HAVE JA macros, unless it's a JA like Chakra that needs a gearswap. Actually, I use that religiously on pup, since maneuvers don't appear in the chat log, and I pay more attention to my chat log than my buff icons. All of my maneuvers have echo tags that tell me what maneuver I just used.

I do, however, keep some joke/entertainment /p,/s,/em, etc macros on hand, in the far corner of my macrosheet, for when I'm just screwing around with friends and feel like making a joke.

I will also forever have access to my original chakra macro, from back when having funny /p macros was cool, because in seven years of using it, I've never gotten any reactions other than hysterical fits of laughter or groans of pun induced pain.

"Honing my chi, with a hint of lime~
I need HP, CHAKRA TIME!" (no, I don't use it in my regular macros, it's just my first go-to joke macro)


Worthless thread +1, we're on the same server, I use macros as such those you describe. I hope you /blacklist me. ^^

And this, children, is what we call "Asking for it". People who do this would also typically do something like, intentionally dropping the soap.

[FrankReynolds]

And this, children, is what we call "Asking for it". People who do this would also typically do something like, intentionally dropping the soap.


Hah! That about sums it up.

[Babekeke]

And this, children, is what we call "Asking for it". People who do this would also typically do something like, intentionally dropping the soap.


Hah! That about sums it up.

Sorry for the bump, but QFT! (and so far I still haven't run into Mr Oscar71)