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Imperil posted on 7/25/05 6:01pm My bad, I know I shouldn't totally generalize. Turbine just never should have allowed third party hacks because even though Decal has so much more functionality, and things that realistically 'should' be built into the game.. it is all shadowed by the macros and cheats.
Hey I wrote one of the first tank macros waaaaay before ElTank branching off one of Akilla's drain plugins.. so yeah I know how long it has been around. I also realized how I was breaking the game for other people and stopped development on the plugin.. although I knew somebody would write one and put it out there.
At least the majority of games out now and games in the future have seen what third party games do to an MMO and the companies reputation with the players... it looks like AC1 is the last of it's genre, the MMO with allowed cheats (or plugins, whatever you would rather me call them).
lol ever hear of Ultima online?
look up Easy UO on the internet
look up UOAssist
every mmo there is has 3rd party utilities for the overly mundame things. UO has a bulk order deed (BOD) system that has a blacksmith or tailor create items/clothing etc and sell them back to the npc for money/rewards. There is a 6 hour timer on these. I, alomg with most of the other players, use macros for this perpose to collect these ig items. Macro logs in the account and whichever char,chars has the skills for the items needed, they portal to the blacksmith shop or the tailor and collect the bods, then log out, and repeat every 6 hours.
UO assist does most of the same things that decal plugins can do. tracks mobs, loot, locations, etc and allows you to "Play" the game instead of pound on the keyboard.
fyi UOASSIST is a paid service. 15$ registration(I would do this with decal) and the game developers
support it fully. also fyi the games player base tripled when uoassist and easyuo became supported by the game designers.
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