I do agree with you.. I have no problem with triggers/aliases that just make the game less work while playing, and I very often make changes to the code that could just be done with a trigger anyway (such as walking automatically when tracking something). What I dislike is completely automated players. Some things in the game should be difficult and take time (like gathering millions of gold). These players create mages and clerics who have a lot of mana to just sit somewhere and automatically summon lower-level mobs for gold. Slow golding, sure.. but when that character is connected for 10 hours, it adds up.
I am liking the idea of timing certain responses to certain triggers. What I am thinking about.. is for the code to give everyone an automation rating. If that gets too high, it will start adding random characters to their output buffer, hopefully breaking triggers. --Palrich. On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 05:24, Chad Simmons wrote: > --- Michael Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone else have a problem with players who over automate everything > > with > > scripts? > > Like, say, scripts that collect gold or items for them overnight while they > > sleep? > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to break them. > > > I've heard of coders doing this before.. Making ways to prevent players from > automating their character. I've never understood the mentality myself. You're > making a game presumably. When people write scripts to automate things it > would > seem to me that the things they are automating are the "not so much fun" parts > (aka tedious). I would see this more as an oportunity to refine the game and > make more enjoyable the portions of the game which your players do not find > entertaining, rather than trying to go about tricking their automation or some > such. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure as they say. > > > ~Kender > > ===== > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version 3.1 > GCS/L/C/O d-(+) s++: a-- C+++$>++++ UBLS++++$ > P+++(--)$ L+++>++++ E--- W+>++$ N !o K? w(--) !O > M- !V PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP->+ t+ 5 X+() R(+) tv+@ > b++(+++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++$ h---() r+++ y+++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
