[Suggestion] Consolidating Equip Macros

[Rosina]

Love the tag guys... funny my suggest is highly popular.... Give credit where its due tho. k? You guys rage too much and fail at thinking of anything outside ur self and ur egos. Its just a video GAME, no need to act like a spoiled 3 yr old at daycare.... FFxi forums... the daycare for adults. Thing nanny SE got change a few diapers got some cranky adults who need to be changed.

[Shadowsong]

Is adding 4 periods now the cool way to put commas?

[Demon6324236]

Is adding 4 periods now the cool way to put commas?

Yep... sure is.

[Rosina]

I type how I talk. the .... is a text indication of a pause. I basic scripting. But wow...... (indication oF exaggerated sarcastic wow) you guy are REALLY mature.... *eye roll* You guys fail to get how to type sarcasim. I was being sarcastic

[Vivik]

I type how I talk.

That explains a lot.

[Jerbob]

Instead of arguing amongst ourselves and making personal attacks, is it at least possible to agree on the fact that introducing something like that which has been suggested by the OP would be beneficial to at least some people in the game? It's obvious that people have strong views on using third party tools - I know I could argue until the cows come home about it - but this isn't really the place.

I honestly cannot see a drawback to enhancing macros (please correct me if I am wrong), and I don't think anyone here has argued against it per se, so we need to focus on giving the community reps something concrete to take back to the developers. As usual there seems to be a misunderstanding on their (the developers) part - this would be a "quality of life" style change and not something that would allow actions to be taken without any player input. We need to find a way to make this clear and to draw up some ideas on how it could be implemented. I am certain that both people with experience of the benefits of third party tools and those with experience of the current, limited in-game macroing system can both contribute to this, identifying weaknesses and proposing fixes.

I personally feel like I have a lot invested in this sort of thread. I'm sick of having to mash macros and make gear sacrifices that stop me from being the best player that I can be, and any enhancement to the macro system would make my enjoyment of the game increase twofold. Simple restrictions like allowing macros to call one another but only up to a maximum of, say, 6, would prevent botting. The oft-mentioned gearset creation idea would work well too. We just need to pull together in support of any of these systems so that the community reps can do their thing and make the developers understand. Even an "I wouldn't use it but it looks useful to some people" is better than "I don't need it so it's terrible."

[FrankReynolds]

It would be nice if they could make macros save as soon as you make them while they are at it. I don't know how many times I have written a bunch of macros, only to get D/c a minute later and lose all the changes. I imagine that the reason they won't let you save them to the server this way is because it would bog them down, but they should be saved locally as soon as you write them.

[Rosina]

It would be nice if they could make macros save as soon as you make them while they are at it. I don't know how many times I have written a bunch of macros, only to get D/c a minute later and lose all the changes. I imagine that the reason they won't let you save them to the server this way is because it would bog them down, but they should be saved locally as soon as you write them.

this please and thank you.
been there done that got 5 t-shirts and burned them all.

O btw here is something neat i found out about the macro saving.

I started a character same name on same server and retained my macros w/o having to upload it.

When i played rdm melee. I put my debuffs into 2 macros dia/poison had it's own macro then para/blind/slow. (this help to get all my spells off at the start of the fight so I could watch everyones hp/mp while watching the log for dispel.)

[cidbahamut]

When i played rdm melee. I put my debuffs into 2 macros dia/poison had it's own macro then para/blind/slow. (this help to get all my spells off at the start of the fight so I could watch everyones hp/mp while watching the log for dispel.)

Stuffing multiple spells into a single macro is rarely a good idea on Red Mage. You give up too much control and may also end up with redundant casts. I would strongly discourage people from setting up their macros like that.

[Demon6324236]

Stuffing multiple spells into a single macro is rarely a good idea on Red Mage. You give up too much control and may also end up with redundant casts. I would strongly discourage people from setting up their macros like that.

Shh~... don't need more fighting, I think we had enough of that in this thread.