Performing actions without player input?

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February 18, 2022
TotemsAreGreat

Performing actions without player input?

I was "spying" on what players were up to in Ironforge to see what they were crafting; you can see this easily by configuring one of your chat windows to only show trade skill messages and while doing that I noticed one player was constantly recasting Find Herbs & Find Minerals.

This wouldn't be very strange to me since I have a character with both professions and I use a macro to switch between them with a key press while riding or flying around but this player was doing it while afk (had the away status) and inside the city of Ironforge, where he can't find any herbs or minerals.

So it was an automatic process by either an addon or something else and I want to know how legal this is. I tried talking to this player by accusing him of botting and he replied to me very angrily in Russian language. I had to use some internet magic to figure out the Cyrillic alphabet and translate it and it was actually pretty fun to do, might have to do more of that stuff when people start talking in foreign language.

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Here's the translation of his replies that I mentioned, feels like I now know half of Russian language already. :^)

тупой выблядок - stupid bastard
ты еблан - you are ****ed
иди на хуи - go **** yourself
не пиши мне - do not write to me
сука - *****
February 18, 2022
Shred

Probably an autohotkey macro. Not legal, but hard to prove.
February 18, 2022
Thorbjorn

You can manually toggle away status and make it so that it doesn't get removed until you do it. He could've been playing with away status, that doesn't prove anything. Also, a lot of people follow guides to leveling professions so they buy mass mats and just sit in cities crafting with those mats.
February 18, 2022
TotemsAreGreat

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Originally Posted by Thorbjorn

You can manually toggle away status and make it so that it doesn't get removed until you do it. He could've been playing with away status, that doesn't prove anything. Also, a lot of people follow guides to leveling professions so they buy mass mats and just sit in cities crafting with those mats.

I think you misunderstood what I said. The first bit about crafting and trade was just fluff text, a bit of a humor attempt by me. My point was this player was constantly toggling between Find Herb and Find Minerals abilities while afk and running into a wall. I've got a screenshot that I took of this but I don't know if I should report it. Even if he is using some software to automate the process of switching between find herbs/minerals he probably isn't a bot since he is a 6.2k holy paladin (why would he risk that?)
February 18, 2022
Thorbjorn

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Originally Posted by TotemsAreGreat

I think you misunderstood what I said. The first bit about crafting and trade was just fluff text, a bit of a humor attempt by me. My point was this player was constantly toggling between Find Herb and Find Minerals abilities while afk and running into a wall. I've got a screenshot that I took of this but I don't know if I should report it. Even if he is using some software to automate the process of switching between find herbs/minerals he probably isn't a bot since he is a 6.2k holy paladin (why would he risk that?)

A single screenshot won't prove anything tbh. Also, I'd argue if he replied to you he clearly wasn't AFK. And for the tracking spam, could be he's using a mouse macro or something? Could be something else automated sure, but IDK why it would matter if he's just switching tracking toggles. There's no way you can prove that he's not spamming it on his end.
February 18, 2022
Baartleby2

It's just a macro:

/run if not THO then local f,t,c=CreateFrame("Frame","THO"),1,0 f:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(_, e) c=c+e if c>3 then c=0 SetTracking(t) if t==1 then t=2 else t=1 end end end) THO:Hide() end
/run if THO:IsVisible() then THO:Hide() else THO:Show() end

That's all you need. It will toggle between the finding nodes/herbs
February 18, 2022
TotemsAreGreat

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Originally Posted by Baartleby2

It's just a macro:

/run if not THO then local f,t,c=CreateFrame("Frame","THO"),1,0 f:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(_, e) c=c+e if c>3 then c=0 SetTracking(t) if t==1 then t=2 else t=1 end end end) THO:Hide() end
/run if THO:IsVisible() then THO:Hide() else THO:Show() end

That's all you need. It will toggle between the finding nodes/herbs

That's lot more sofisticated than the one I made for myself. /castsequence Find Herbs, Find Minerals

So that one you made is totally fine to use and I don't have to keep pressing a button every few seconds?
February 18, 2022
Baartleby2

I didn't make it. It's as old as the game itself. It changes tracking every 3 second or so when flying and not in combat. I can't see any reason why it would be against the TOS to use, seeing as it's just a macro. You don't need any automated program or something. It gives you no unfair advantage over other players in any way.
February 18, 2022
Shred

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Originally Posted by Baartleby2

It's just a macro:

/run if not THO then local f,t,c=CreateFrame("Frame","THO"),1,0 f:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(_, e) c=c+e if c>3 then c=0 SetTracking(t) if t==1 then t=2 else t=1 end end end) THO:Hide() end
/run if THO:IsVisible() then THO:Hide() else THO:Show() end

That's all you need. It will toggle between the finding nodes/herbs

That's really cool. Thanks.
February 20, 2022
Stipped

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baartleby2

I didn't make it. It's as old as the game itself. It changes tracking every 3 second or so when flying and not in combat. I can't see any reason why it would be against the TOS to use, seeing as it's just a macro. You don't need any automated program or something. It gives you no unfair advantage over other players in any way.

Don't think it's legal. Or might have changed further down the time line.

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...cro-tos/225792

1 action, 1 click.
Script sequencing or auto scripts are not allowed.
February 21, 2022
AzureOrc

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stipped

Don't think it's legal. Or might have changed further down the time line.

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...cro-tos/225792

1 action, 1 click.
Script sequencing or auto scripts are not allowed.

This topic is about using third-party software to interact with the game, isn't it? Specifically mouse macro, not in-game macro