November 2019 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Alhanelem]

No, thanks. I'd rather to pay the dev team more than that expensive keyboard. Not everyone has a super computer though.

A basic gaming keyboard costs less today than the standard membrane keyboard I bought for my MS DOS machine like 25 years ago. You don't need a "super computer" to use one either. It is child's play to program your keyboard to automatically press enter every so often.

This will display your recent synthesis actions. Click on the recipe you'd like to repeat from that history list. As long as you have the required materials in your inventory when you select *Ok* it will repeat that synthesis.

For clarity to others, this is what I'm referring to, and it's how you can essentially press enter a bunch of times to repeat syntheses.

[Typral]

A basic gaming keyboard costs less today than the standard membrane keyboard I bought for my MS DOS machine like 25 years ago. You don't need a "super computer" to use one either. It is child's play to program your keyboard to automatically press enter every so often.




For clarity to others, this is what I'm referring to, and it's how you can essentially press enter a bunch of times to repeat syntheses.

You're advocating for automation, that is against the rules actually. With the keyboard thing.

[Nyarlko]

You're advocating for automation, that is against the rules actually. With the keyboard thing.

What he is describing is a common feature in 3rd party controllers known as "Auto-Fire". No, using something like that which can only spam a single button/key is not against the rules.

[Alhanelem]

You're advocating for automation, that is against the rules actually. With the keyboard thing.

It's not against the rules for me to use my hardware's built in functionality. And even if it was, to the PC it's just normal inputs. Gaming input devices today can do this at the hardware level. This isn't a bot or a script, it's just repeatedly mashing a key. Something any human being can do. And I do not advocate walking away and leaving the game unattended. I only advise it as a means to reduce the number of keys you have to press.

These devices do not interact with the game software in any way. This is no different than putting a clamp on a controller button to hold it down.

If you want to press the enter key 100 times to synth a couple stacks of items, be my guest. but my keyboard doesn't enable the game to play itself- it just saves me from carpal tunnel.

FFXIV now lets you synthesize repeatedly with a simple checkbox ingame. Until SE does that for FFXI, I see no reason not to leverage my PC's innate ability to make that easier without any third party programs.

(Disclaimer: I don't even craft much at all, much less actually use keyboard macros) but I don't appreciate the insinuation I'm some kind of cheater if I were to use my keyboard's built in features to ease a repetitive task.)

I mean really: are turbo buttons on controllers cheating? I don't agree that it is. Turbo buttons are doing something I can do already, just without injuring my hand.

By your logic, using in-game macro features to simplify tasks is against the rules, because it's no different- one ingame macro saves you from many dozens of keystrokes. You can in fact do *most* of this with ingame macros- it just doesn't reduce the number of keypresses by as large of a number.