Rp servers?

[Bonbori]

I don't understand why some people equate flavour macros to RP. Do they have any idea what RP is?

The purpose of macros in party chat is to inform the party that you used an important cooldown, let them know you got it so somebody else doesn't have to, or to make it clear that you won't be able to do it again for a while. Abilities that I think everyone should have party macros for are Swiftcast+Raise combo (this is mostly so that someone else doesn't waste mana and Swiftcast raising the same target), Refresh and Mana Shift cooldown notification (if someone asks) and Living Dead (this one 100%, healers need to know it's happening). As well as others for more situational applications (for example I started using a Chain Stratagem macro after the billionth time the other SCH in my party overrode my chain. One would think the spell's own sound cue would be enough but apparently not.)

And adding a flavour message to it is just a way to make it less dull. It's not what RP is and it's not what people on RP servers do all day.

Granted, if you are using macros with messages that are long and elaborate, people may be annoyed by lack of clarity. In those cases, you can probably fix it by frontloading your message with the name of the ability you used and the target. So for example , "[Raise] <t> Your Message Here" rather than "Your [Raise] Message <t> Here".

If your message is already short and clear and you are still running into people complaining, that's no longer your fault, it's theirs for being boring and devoid of hopes and dreams and a reason to live. Just ignore them.

[alimdia]

You're thinking of a whole different scenario Bonbori, the scenario we're thinking of is people adding a text macro to their dark arts button so it basically spams the chat every time they use it, or ASTs with yu-gi-oh type macros every 30s when they draw cards, those people are clearly trying to roleplay their job.

[Bonbori]

You're thinking of a whole different scenario Bonbori, the scenario we're thinking of is people adding a text macro to their dark arts button so it basically spams the chat every time they use it, or ASTs with yu-gi-oh type macros every 30s when they draw cards, those people are clearly trying to roleplay their job.

Oh...

That's not RP either, that's trolling.

I mean, there's this tiny seed of evil deep inside me that would love to make a Broil macro that goes "ALL SHALL BROIL!" but I'm also a (relatively) well adjusted, (relatively) sane person who only requires a fraction of a second of self-reflection to understand all the ways in which that would be a terrible idea. I'm willing to give the OP the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are not subjecting random people in dungeons to something like that.