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(10-29-2016, 11:04 AM)Durandal Wrote:
(10-28-2016, 10:44 PM)Zelot Wrote: There is something else to think about. One of the reasons setmsg was originally asked for by the admin team was that there were people who were using 3rd party programs to do the same thing and it created a very unbalanced playing field between the vets and more tech savvy people, who had no problem using these kind of programs, that generally didn't set off the anti-cheat, and others who couldn't. People will find a way to use setmsg whether it is part of the game or not, at least this way the playing field is level.
That's actually really interesting, and even though I could've figured it out if I thought about it, I didn't. Now that I am thinking about it, I have to wonder if people still care enough to go to that kind of length in Discovery's sunset years.
It's not even a particularly excessive length to go to. It takes maybe ten, fifteen minutes to find and install an acceptable macro program, and maybe a minute for each hotkey. It's an order of magnitude more than it takes to do "/setmsg 1 engagabugn all red wut i cee wif mininal rp))", but when that's only ten seconds, it's not of that much consequence. If you're a slow typer and/or English isn't something you're quite as comfortable with as would be optimal and take twenty, thirty, even forty seconds to type an engagement notice, and you're a PvP-heavy player, it's well worth the 20 minutes to set up some macros compared to how much time it'll save you.