EPTOn August 08 2010 07:07 ZealEngine wrote:
Um what? I play on a 46 inch tv, so I guess that gives me a unfair advantage too? But I only have a Radeon 4800, so in the meantime I want you to stop using your 5850 because its not fair to me, ok? While were at it, do you wear glasses or do you have perfect eye sight? Because thats not 'fair' either.
You cant control external factors in a game like this (and you should never try to). The only meaningful thing you can do is make sure that the parts that MATTER cant be influenced by said external factors. For example - no matter how much money you spend on your rig, no matter how many macros you use, you still must have a comprehensive understanding of the timing/strategy/mechanics of the game, or you will still lose.
The solution to the whole macro/keybinding problem is to simply ensure that they cant do anything a human cant already do. And they cant.
*and your baseball/sports analogy is false. Standardizing bats is more like standardizing how many resources each player starts with. It makes sense, since resources are a key mechanic of the game. On the other hand, standardizing key bindings or how you hit those key bindings (which is all a macro is) is like standardizing the color of the socks all players must wear. Sure we could have such a silly requirement, but does it add anything meaningful to the game? That is the question.
Um what? I play on a 46 inch tv, so I guess that gives me a unfair advantage too? But I only have a Radeon 4800, so in the meantime I want you to stop using your 5850 because its not fair to me, ok? While were at it, do you wear glasses or do you have perfect eye sight? Because thats not 'fair' either.
You cant control external factors in a game like this (and you should never try to). The only meaningful thing you can do is make sure that the parts that MATTER cant be influenced by said external factors. For example - no matter how much money you spend on your rig, no matter how many macros you use, you still must have a comprehensive understanding of the timing/strategy/mechanics of the game, or you will still lose.
The solution to the whole macro/keybinding problem is to simply ensure that they cant do anything a human cant already do. And they cant.
*and your baseball/sports analogy is false. Standardizing bats is more like standardizing how many resources each player starts with. It makes sense, since resources are a key mechanic of the game. On the other hand, standardizing key bindings or how you hit those key bindings (which is all a macro is) is like standardizing the color of the socks all players must wear. Sure we could have such a silly requirement, but does it add anything meaningful to the game? That is the question.
Macros do multiple tasks at once. Rebind/keybind is just changing one key to another key. You can bind multiple actions, or a macro, to one key. Rebinding is fine. Macros aren't.
A player spends four years maximizing his hatchery and larvae injection efficiency. A second player creates a macro, that once set up correctly, will on the click of a button instantly inject larvae to all the hatcheries. Please tell me that is fair.
This isn't even adding in to the fact that macros, and computer time, does not operate in the seconds. It operates in milliseconds and nanoseconds. Sure you can click 5 times a second, and get your nice 300 APM, or you can get a macro to do 50 actions in a second. See the difference?
Btw, the 4850 and 4870 performs better than its counterparts, the 5850 and 5870, but the other two are more heat efficient.
Eyesight, computer parts, are things you can't control. You either are well off, or you aren't. Macros, you can control. Macros aren't limited by the bloody buttons on your keyboard, they can be used with ANY keyboard and ANY mouse, with the right program. The mouse doesn't say, oh, set me up and perform millions of actions a second! It says, I give you buttons to do whatever you want with them.
The reason team players must wear the same colours is to identify them as in the same team. It's a uniform. Socks are part of it. Shoes aren't, because of sponsors. Same thing with headbands, wristbands, bags.
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