/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