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SOCOMICEPICK
Profile Joined August 2010
87 Posts
August 24 2010 01:13 GMT
#141
thanks for the message with the pic....i updated the OP
"Whoever said "Money can't buy happiness" never had money in the first place."
sureshot_
Profile Joined August 2010
United States257 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-24 01:22:14
August 24 2010 01:17 GMT
#142
I do not how much of a threat this ban truly is. I've been using the Logitech G15 (old school v1 baby) keyboard for macro keys since release and I haven't gotten a single warning or ban.

A little BM of mine is when a player is lagging to spam one of my macro keys an infinite number of times, each press macro'd to type the letter "D" 25 times each in just milliseconds. I get a nice wall of text and a lot of hate if their lag ever happens to stop.
SOCOMICEPICK
Profile Joined August 2010
87 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-24 01:23:26
August 24 2010 01:18 GMT
#143
On August 24 2010 08:07 Piy wrote:
Do you know what the moral of this story is OP?


if its the easy way out don't try it or you get the pimp hand?
"Whoever said "Money can't buy happiness" never had money in the first place."
Merikh
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States918 Posts
August 24 2010 01:37 GMT
#144
On August 24 2010 10:13 SOCOMICEPICK wrote:
thanks for the message with the pic....i updated the OP


No problem, a lot of trolls on the forums today though -.-
G4MR | I mod day9, djwheat and GLHF's stream
SC2Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2814 Posts
August 24 2010 01:39 GMT
#145
Awesom by blizzard imo. Blizzard actually laying down the law for once.
Who the fuck has a family of fucking trees? This song is so god damn stupid. Fuck you song, fuck you and your stupid trees. -itmeJP
Magdain
Profile Joined June 2010
United States58 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-24 01:54:24
August 24 2010 01:52 GMT
#146
On August 24 2010 04:04 mahnini wrote:
pretty awesome if that's true. kind of doubt blizzard would ban macros without warning though seeing as how they endorse macro keyboards for WoW and such.


They don't "endorse" macro keyboards. Their official, well-documented rule is using a macro keyboard is OK, but using it to bypass limitations of a manual user playing the game is not allowed.

In WoW, it's one hardware event = one action. A hardware event is defined as both a key press and a release of the same key. An action is one ability limited by the global cooldown. Basically, if you use a single hardware event macro to chain a series of actions that would normally take a user multiple hardware events it's illegal.

The situation is a little different in SC2 since it doesn't differentiate between key press and release for events (i.e. holding down a key will continually send an event while it's depressed), however the concept is the same; Using a macro to chain multiple separate unit / building queues is completely against the spirit of the game.


I think the immediate ban was a bit of an overreaction, this deserved as least a warning... But the fact that they're preventing play like this is positive for the game.
Pyrthas
Profile Joined March 2007
United States3196 Posts
August 24 2010 02:35 GMT
#147
On August 24 2010 10:52 Magdain wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2010 04:04 mahnini wrote:
pretty awesome if that's true. kind of doubt blizzard would ban macros without warning though seeing as how they endorse macro keyboards for WoW and such.


They don't "endorse" macro keyboards.

I don't know jack about WoW, but in the business sense of endorsing, they've certainly endorsed an sc2 keyboard with macros. See the Razer Marauder keyboard that people mentioned earlier in the thread.
Subversion
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
South Africa3627 Posts
August 24 2010 02:44 GMT
#148
I'm in support of making macros a bannable offense. you can literally have macros to do almost anything. it really is a form of cheating imo.

That being said, I'd really like Blizz to WARN people first. I think that a lot of people would be unaware that they are cheating, and having to buy a new game is a bit much.

Just send a warning basically saying what the offense is, and give you a time period (like 3 days?) that you have to change it, or face a ban.
kariido
Profile Joined December 2007
Saudi Arabia179 Posts
August 24 2010 03:17 GMT
#149
Good on Blizzard, thanks for keeping SCII on an even playing field
http://campaignforliberty.org/
Zegu
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada52 Posts
August 24 2010 04:01 GMT
#150
well on blizzards side they did say that any 3rd party software resulted in a ban, and unlike sc1 where you could just create a new account, you cant do that anymore, if it means 1 more button = less maphacks, im for it
Adeeler
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United Kingdom764 Posts
August 24 2010 04:08 GMT
#151
I bet they don't ban ppl using the official razer sc2 keyboard which has "On-The-Fly Macro Recording Allows For Effortless Configuration
Record unlimited macros on-the-fly without having to take your eye off the game and immediately change between up to 10 profiles without the hassle of going into complex driver menus."
Hikari
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
1914 Posts
August 24 2010 04:12 GMT
#152
hmmmm... i can see a lot of people falling for this death trap...
fathead
Profile Joined July 2008
United States158 Posts
August 24 2010 04:46 GMT
#153
Awesome, I'm glad they banned him. Macro should be illegal. However I am unsure whether binding a key to a side mouse button is banable, does anyone know?
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Kruxxen
Profile Joined April 2010
United States149 Posts
August 24 2010 04:50 GMT
#154
I have a button on my mouse bound to 0 for control groups, think that'll get me banned?
bluefuzz
Profile Joined March 2010
United States112 Posts
August 24 2010 05:48 GMT
#155
as long as you are pressing 1 button and getting 1 action response in game then no, binding something to your mouse is not bannable
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro
atrain117
Profile Joined August 2010
United States54 Posts
August 24 2010 05:53 GMT
#156
Will This affect me?

I use a razer mouse with 2 side buttons configured to minimap pinging, and to 0,E (spawn probe)
Is this bannable? It's not giving me an unfair advantage, and There is an option to insert delays if necessary. All I use it for is pinging and probes.
"I think we could make a successful merger." -High Templar
b_unnies
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
3579 Posts
August 24 2010 05:53 GMT
#157
Sounds fair
Fazzmania
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia29 Posts
August 24 2010 05:57 GMT
#158
G15's and the like were bannable in WoW, if you used them to string together several actions like the OP is doing. The keyboard itself is perfectly fine, as is using the macro keys to do a single action . The same applies in SC2 I'd imagine. It sucks that you didn't get a warning, but too bad, that's it.
han.
Profile Joined May 2010
United States51 Posts
August 24 2010 06:32 GMT
#159
I think it sucks that you weren't given a warning and that you had to buy a new account, but overall I completely side with Blizzard regardless of if this is fake or not.
hallo~
angelicfolly
Profile Joined June 2010
United States292 Posts
August 24 2010 06:38 GMT
#160
On August 24 2010 14:53 atrain117 wrote:
Will This affect me?

I use a razer mouse with 2 side buttons configured to minimap pinging, and to 0,E (spawn probe)
Is this bannable? It's not giving me an unfair advantage, and There is an option to insert delays if necessary. All I use it for is pinging and probes.


The one about spawning probes I guess your using one click for two actions, i.e. clicking 0, the E. WHICH is NOT allowed.

You should have followed this- one click, one action.
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