Macros???

JMandrake

Since we won't have any currency in the game we won't have anyone auctionning left and right on their stores and stuff.

But what about nice macros that if someone wants to be in the threshold hanging out but also want to send a greeting message to that threshold to welcome dreamers and stuff every i dunno 1 minute it could repeat itself.

This could also be useful for teachers and other task, as long as there is no command like /pickup item in room, which would be in a way cool for genning but it could also be a way to abuse the system.

 

 

StrikesBrain

If I got caught in a room where 20 dreamers stood, dazed in a half trance spilling out nonsense lines of shorthand that somehow rectifies itself into a line of auctioning, I'd go postal.  I'd whip out a chakram and waste the lot of them!  No, seriously it's a pet peeve of mine in MMO's when they got that, ESPECIALLY self repeating macros, I hate that.

It's not like I ever had trouble finding someone who needed to unload the item I needed.  A great place to set up auctions though is the house mission board.

An especially entrepeneuring soul might even go as far as to organize an interhouse auction.  Each house has an auction mission, listing the special items and who wants to unload them.  And then people act as runners between the houses passing updated info on the missions from each house.

But back on to the topic of macros, it's uncanny, there I was about to start a topic on macros when there was one sitting and waiting for me.  "Oh well" says I "Less typing to do."

I want them for a completely different reason, I want macros that are VERY easy to bind and fire off, and there's only one reason I want them, battle commands.  Have you ever been in a fight, and you wanted to bark off a real short command like "Get away!" or "Heal me!" or "Help" or "I'm fine!" and find that it's a huge undertaining to say the most simple of syllables?  I mean honestly, it should be easy to talk and walk at the same time from an IC perspective, yet until there's a way to use your voice, we're stuck typing.

What the macros do is allow for a shortcut in combat.  You are in a scrap, situation changes, you can bark out a short order and get your point across. 

The only issue I can see with it is some dern silly so and so spamming large lines over and over via macros.  There's two solutions, the community gives him what for (as we are oft to do to chumps in lyra games) or we just limit the string size of a macro to something short and simple.

Either way, I don't want to be tongue tied whenever I start swinging a blade or blasting a chak.

Malamenz

Don't know about an autorepeated message, but I certaintly agree that macros need to be easier to use.  Like Brain said, a skirmish breaks out, it annoying to have to stop, type in a message and hope no one sees you standing still and start taking shots at you (I know when i see someone stopped for more than a second i gun for them,yes I admit it).  Its not like the numberpad is really used for commands in this game, so why couldn't we set them to macros?

selika

Macros should be limited like they are now in ul, and they
shouldn't be auto'd or whatever it's called. If you want them for
things like battle, I agree, but then they should also be limited.
Say for instance you're allowed to store 3 macros for somethng as
long as fighting is going on in the room (I don't know if that's even
possible). Anything beyond those 3 things does add more
challenge to a battlefield. Again though, this shouldn't be auto'd. If
you're really about to be stabbed with a dagger, you may or may
not think about screaming out coherent words anyway.

StrikesBrain

Oh people can certainly think of coherent words in a hot situation. It shouldn't be as limitedas UL since UL made it "teachers only" which was a pain in the patoot.  But you are trained and drilled in combat, and you are a pretty sound director you'd know enough to bark a few intellegent orders and to bark them a heck of a lot faster then you can type them.  But really they'd be short and sweet and consistent, which is why I'd prefer a handfull of short macros.  I would need no more then 20 characters a macro and 5 of them.

This is a demo line. (17 characters) as you can see, 20 characters isn't that much.

Of course if lyra trusts us with longer lines, I won't object.

And agian, auto repeaters is just evil!  If someone doesn't want to put any effort into interacting with me or greeting me, then I won't see any reason to put any effort into interacting with them.