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how to make smartbomb smart!!

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IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#21 - 2014-06-29 18:52:19 UTC
Killer Dale wrote:
Mara Rinn wrote:
Saisin wrote:
Mara Rinn wrote:
... So either get an N-key rollover keyboard (even the cheaper "gaming" keyboard will support 10, over the "standard" keyboard 6KRO) or get a keyboard macro tool that will let you map a macro key to "F1" followed by "F2" etc, and find out how close you can time it.

Just be aware that getting all your SBs to fire at the same time is not necessarily a good thing.


this would get the OP banned for using macros to speed keyboard stroke on a single character..

To make sure OP is not banned activating 8 smart bombs at the same time, create 8 alts with each a smartbombing ship fit, and press F1 via IsBoxer.

The macro on a single character is banned as per the Eula, but the IsBoxer is not...What?


Simple keystroke macros will not get you banned. There is a grey area for keystroke macros with time delays (undock, warp to bookmark, target stuff, activate mining lasers), but to get banned you definitely have to have automation in there (which CCP seems to define as "the macro repeats itself" as the simplest case).

The most telling example is that you can use keystroke broadcasting to obtain in game benefit faster than simply alt-tabbing to each client and pressing the keys, but CCP doesn't consider this to be automation, even though every capsuleer and their camera drone can tell that having a fleet of ships firing weapons in perfect synchronicity is a very real advantage, which is why drone fleet doctrines were so popular, and why CCP nerfed drone assist to a maximum of 50 drones.

But I digress.

Hmm not so sure of this. I believe that using a macro that hits the F1 and F2 keys when you only press the F1 key is grounds for a ban. You are only allowed to duplicate keystrokes.

Of course if you are manually engaging such a macro, it would be borderline impossible for them to know if it's scripted or not.

Would the popsicle stick be a bannable offense? I meant it as a joke even though it might work.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#22 - 2014-06-30 09:29:40 UTC
Killer Dale wrote:
Hmm not so sure of this. I believe that using a macro that hits the F1 and F2 keys when you only press the F1 key is grounds for a ban. You are only allowed to duplicate keystrokes.

Of course if you are manually engaging such a macro, it would be borderline impossible for them to know if it's scripted or not.


Just look up any of the posts discussing the Logitech G15 keyboard. Programmable key sequences are allowed, but sequences that self-repeat are not.

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ISD Ezwal
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ISD Alliance
#23 - 2014-06-30 09:45:11 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
IIshira wrote:
Would the popsicle stick be a bannable offense? I meant it as a joke even though it might work.
No, it would not get you banned as you are actually manually giving the command(s) to the client physically. And yes, it would work. That is, if the popsickle stick is long enough and the keyboard you own can recognise 8 keys being pressed at once as valid input.
As mentioned above by others, if it would be a smart thing to do to activate all your fitted smart bombs at the same time, is an entirely different matter.


That said, I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. As always I let some edge cases stay.
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