Attacking Monsters with an Avatar While Being AFK.

[Dazusu]

<SE guy1> err guys we have a problem
<SE guy2> ??
<SE guy1>Yea we have 100s of people using programs to cheat in nyzle isle
<SE guy2>Ok, yea we all know that much but we can't detect it....
<SE guy3>WAIT GUYS!!!!!! THERE A FAR MORE SERIOUS ISSUE
<SE guy1> what ?
<SE guy3>PPLE ARE GOING AFK ON SMN WITH AN AVATAR AND FARMING GEODES FOR THERE TRAILS!!!!!
<SE guy2>ooo we can detect that easy cause it's a feature we've built into the the game
<SE guy1>Sounds like serious buisness!! rets ban em!!!

Your role-play makes me warm in the pants.

[Raksha]

edit: nvm...

[Alhanelem]

Not everyone plays the game using macros

Ummm... what?

Yes, they do.

I probably use the menus more than anyone, but even I still have macros.

[Krashport]

Ummm... what?

Yes, they do.

I probably use the menus more than anyone, but even I still have macros.

They may "Have" macro's. But not everyone "Uses" them some just pick from the list of spells and abilities. I personally don't use Macro's all the time myself.

[Karbuncle]

If you don't use macros you're doing it very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very ....

Wrong.

Learn how to do it its not hard. Only excuse is laziness. In-game macros are a tad limited but you can make wonderful use of them by making a system. Situational gear and armor, WS and TP Set armor, all of it exists for the Macro system. If you don't take advantage of it, You're doing it wrong. No real discussion here.

It doesn't take long to learn, stop being a wannabe FFXI Hipster and hatin' on macros cause Macros are too mainstream for you. You'll seriously wonder how you played without them once you learn. I know back in my early days, I full timed DEX rings on my THF... DEX GEAR, This was back at like level 30-40 though... But knowing by level 50 i knew how to make a macro.. was a game changer. I Could use R.Harness full time and Swift Belt, but still switch them out for WS!

Its not a lot of work to learn it

(Of note, there are some exceptions - I Don't have a macro for every spell, That'd be pretty dumb, BUt important ones you might want one for -

Garuda Macro to equip Karura Hachigane
I have a special Macro labelled ShivaMacc for her Macc BOots.

I also have a macro named after each Avatar, including the above, That would swap in the proper staff and summon them at the same time. I use Fay Crozier still these days cause well, Works ⌐ ⌐, But if i did use different staves, Thats a good use for the macros.)

[Sparthos]

Hey SE, People are AFKing in Abyssea and making millions of gil per hour. Gonna do something about that?

:P

[RAIST]

Hey SE, People are AFKing in Abyssea and making millions of gil per hour. Gonna do something about that?

:P

Was wondering if anyone was gonna draw this contrast. RMT and merc groups pulling in large chunks of gil, players racing to the top, flooding the AH with gil buying up spells and various accessories for higher levels, effectively killing the sales rate of lower/mid-tier equipment....in effect trashing a large sector of the economy.

And they have a hissy fit because someone is solo afk'ing for a paultry amount of xp and at best 11/12 drops an hour for a crafting/magian item that just happens to sell anywhere between 20 and 40k a pop depending on server and supply/demand. People make gil faster in Dynamis with minimal effort ( I went in there just to fart around on MNK solo one day and made over 200k in bazaar inside of 15 minutes after I came out--in BASTOK no less, didn't even make it to Jeuno before I sold out). They routinely make an ungodly rate of XP/hour while AFK in Abyssea and GoV (some people buy the slots, so someone is making 100's of thousands of gil per hour hosting cleave parties)......and they are getting their panties in a whad over this??

/facepalm

[Windwhisper]

honestly. This is by far the worst reason to ban anyone. Community has spoken very clear on this matter.

there are far more depressing matters.

I for one wont ever call a GM when i see someone afking with avatar out. and to call out to us, to encourage us to report them is so sad.... i miss the right words. its just sad SE

[hideka]

Garuda will die eventually. If you're really afk you cannot resummon, and most importantly, you cannot cure yourself. If more than one aggro, you're fucked.

Also, can anyone fill me in on what exactly people were exploiting? Are SE upset that people were getting 2k EXP overnight? Or a stack of Chigoe Blood? What? I have no idea what has been exploited in Grauberg [S] so that people actually profited off of it. The worst I can imagine is people doing trial kills, which is still horribly inefficient. I don't see what's, in any way, shape or form, bad about this.

I actually do care a bit about this, because I've used this to make pulling easier. This has been especially useful for trials, where you can pull with Dia or even by activating a BP and have the avatar engage the mob automatically. It will be a bit more tiresome to do it manually, and I'm opposed to any trade off of intellectual labor for manual labor.

i think its more of completing AFK magian trials.

[hideka]

as well as preventing non AFK people from completing their trials.