Asherons Call: Possible CoC Changes Regarding Combat Macroing

Straight from ACVault's own boards, we have the following post from Ken Karl...

Doing this so I can easily link to in on ACCMTY.COM.

If you want to chat with me about it, please come to ACCMTY.COM.

FIRST THING -- THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL YET!!! Still a bunch of things to be worked out..

One thing I am considering is actually dry running the AC2 Policy on AC1.

I know all you Ken Haters, MS Hater, Whatever Haters, dont believe or will come up with some sort of flame for this..whatever.. consider the messsage ignored.

With them out of the way -- If I am going to do something in the game, we are going to do it all the way. To do what we plan on doing in AC2 requires man power. And now I have that.

I did not choose to this because I wanted to screw AC1. I have as much time and energy devoted into this game as almost anyone at Turbine, MS or playing the game. I have been a part of this game since Preview 1 and I understand the frustrations, but until this moment, I simply could not enforce this policy 100%.

You may argue, 50% is better then nothing, fine, if that is your belief, but mine is that if you do not do something 100% right, it just Anti-Macro putting in 100 request about a combat macro and all of his calls fall through the crack due to the 50% philosphy. Yeah, Im sure that would just go over well and make him happy to hear others seeing this.

And no,its not talk. One thing that we do in AC2 is that we have a Hall of Shame where we will post character names that get banned because of this. If/when we did it for AC1, we would do that too.

I know, it all M$ fault and had Ken just not been stupid we would have world peace... oh well.

One very important thing I must wait on is a fix to a bug that allows these bots to detect an uncloaked admin. This allows them to log out before we get there (Its not like I have never looked into this hehe). Makes it kinda tough huh? Also, it will be interesting if/when we start doing this to see how many of these are acctually players.

Understand, I will NOT be enforcing all macros. I will NOT be banning attended macros. This will simply be unattended Combat/Drain/Perch Macros.

Im curious to get some feedback. TO make it easier, I will start a thread on the AC1 Boards on accmty.comidealbb and pin it to the top.

Yes, I will be removing flames and attacks and banning those who can not be civil. If you do not think you can handle that, best stay here (where Im sure the mods will be happy to do the same thing with you).

Im really not sure if I can pull this off before AC2.

When we start it, its going to be a bumpy road. And its going to be a secondary call for Admins (Sorry abuse calls will always come first).

Anyone, thats what is going through my mind... whats going through yours?

Ken

To follow up on this new development, go to this thread on the MS AC Community Site.

Wow, I never thought they would consider doing this. Lets see what happens now..