Bard bot?Follow

Very Fishy indeed!

Have you tried training him?

The person is running macros.

Petition it next time. They will be banned.

The HoH basements are very popular places for people to macro bards in.

train the crud out ofhim a few times, and he'll get the idea and knock it off. (or at least move to an instanced zone.)

I'd bet the bard has a looting macro to only loot parchments.

Those corpses you see will most likely have junk.

Good point. The Bard is alone.

It can't hurt to hang around and try a few corpses.

Don't remember if those mobs drop coin, but if they do, you can tell if he is running a script for looting that way.

Put him on your friends list.

Which is the lessor of the two evils then???

Training a BOT? OR the BOT process itself?

I'd like to add:



Yeah? So is hogging a zone/mobs while AFK when other people are there for legit reasons.



and using macros will get you banned.



At the cost of others game play. Oh that's real cool.

macroed bards arent gonna be driven off their paths. unless, you mean, by training 100+ mobs on to them and lagging the crap out of them.


we aren't talking about hotbuttons.

Thanks to everyone for the info/advice... coincidentally, last night, the bard in question was non-anon and not in HOH for the first time in a long time (he was in an instanced zone).

Maybe he's an allak reader! LOL

In any case, I decided to /petition. I'm not sure if the GM's will just blow it off, but unless I see Return-of-the-Macro'd-Bard, I'm moving on.

Like any player in EQ, I've probably had my share of grief, but this was the first time it's ever gotten me frustrated enough to take it to a /petition.

Do the spell components drop anywhere else?
Sounds like you lost a lot of funtime by just watching this dude's macro.
I'd rather watch digital grass grow than worry about macroers.
most macroers are just in their own corner and nobody even notices them. Like one small ection of HOH...

Macroing isn't really a problem.
2% of macroers are responsible for the bad name and PR. Basicly those that are doing stuff like auto-tradeskilling in order to own a market.

i'm not a new player and i may get "flamed" for saying this but is there a macro program out there that does like spell skills cause i'm getting sick of having to sit at my desk and hit 1-5 to work up spell skill cause you fly from 1-30 in a matter of hours (if you know how and where to go) and i don't want to spend what little time i have to play to work up those stupid skills i'd love to just get some work done at home and around the house while doing that skill up process.

Don't know.. I'd do both. Then again, it's far, far more acceptable on the PvP server, so I guess it's one of those taboos on other servers I'm not quite understanding of.

And, hey, the guy's cheating. May as well take him down... not like he hasn't cheated his way up for more than any series of trains couldn't do to him.

One question, though. Back the old days, GMs would periodically check up on players on Rallos Zek. One did with me and my friends so much we got to know him quite well.. they'd use a form of Invis that wasn't detectable with See Invis, Track, or any other skill you'd hope might be useful in the case. I hear they've cut down on GMs.. does this mean no more check ups? Or do bots like this just slip through the cracks?