New "Macro Strings", Macro's Reborn!

[kingfury]

The way you have it might not open up exploits, and it would definitely give players (us!) a lot more to work with...
...but
It's also very complicated for most users, and adding a whole new menu button in and of itself is a big change. I think that hiding the process somehow (like with snapshots) would make it a lot easier to work with on both ends.
Don't get me wrong, I would rather have your original idea. However, I just don't see them doing something that drastic and would like to at least see some form of it (much more applicable, but fewer capabilities) actually show up in the game.
Also this.

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I'm with ya lol I wouldn't care how it got done so long as it got done! /agreed

Now ya gotta think back to when they added "Macro Books" because that was a pretty major leap forward for our macro systems. Heck I'm still finding new ways to configure my Books lmao ^^ They did that leap in a huge way too by adding 20 fully customizable macro books, all while tossing in the "/macro book/set" syntax to boot. I can't even remember what we had before that update honestly lol ><

All that being said, give me your thoughts on how this concept would compare in difficulty to the macro book system. I would hope it's not as complex/difficult as that was since I tried to make it as simple as possible o.o; lol

[Selzak]

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I'm with ya lol I wouldn't care how it got done so long as it got done! /agreed

Now ya gotta think back to when they added "Macro Books" because that was a pretty major leap forward for our macro systems. Heck I'm still finding new ways to configure my Books lmao ^^ They did that leap in a huge way too by adding 20 fully customizable macro books, all while tossing in the "/macro book/set" syntax to boot. I can't even remember what we had before that update honestly lol ><

All that being said, give me your thoughts on how this concept would compare in difficulty to the macro book system. I would hope it's not as complex/difficult as that was since I tried to make it as simple as possible o.o; lol

Well Macro Books were essentially just "more macros" not really much going on there. At the time it was surprising because people had been begging for more lines for so long and suddenly we got 20x what we had.

This is new functionality altogether. Strings aren't macros (similar format, but different behaviors), and you'd probably be surprised by how many people don't understand macros as they are now. It might seem like common sense to you, but I'd be willing to bet that a lot of people would have a hard time even grasping the concept of calling commands from outside the macro. Not because they're dumb, but because this sort of thing requires a kind of conceptual understanding of programming that most people don't have.

That's not to say that there aren't some very clever people playing this game, but I think there's an illusion going on where 1% of the playerbase figures everything out and then everyone just works off of it. We're talking about something that everyone would need to actually understand.