There is more to Decal then your macros

 

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Decal isn't crack, it's a necessity! At least for those of us wishing to save on repetitive strain injuries

1) I'd Like to see the wording of Macro not be used to include Unattended Macro. There are two types and the majority of those who actually play and not let a program play for them uses the Attended ones


2) I'd like to see the burden of Decal taken out of the player bases hands and put into Turbines control as the only way to legally access the Client.


3) I'm tired of all these people who think that you cannot play without Automations playing for you and that Decal is nothing but a Bot Haven and UCM paradise.


4) I am ready for a life without Decal. I rather have my plugin and my Macroes which I have to attend in order for them to work. I do however not agree that Bots make AC a better place. It dehumanizes it and I think that the Decal Developers and the AC Developers need to find a way to remove them from the game and or the need for them.


Nuff Said

blackmail does not have to involve money at all.... you can blackmail someone to get a disired result and it would STILL be blackmail even if NO money was involved in any way

 

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Having been the object of 2 bans (quickley reversed I might add) by a "rouge" envoy(admin at the time). You will have to forgive me if I see it as Ban first (who cares if you pay my salary) and invetigate later.


Brute

Amusing. Tag.

 

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I certainly hope you are wrong about decal being "dead" and if you are not, than I hope that Elgar can make Eltank work without decal.


I have been playing for four years and have used decal/eltank the last two or so. I use eltank to search for things, to navigate around Dereth, I use it to self buff (and buff others who might be in need), I use it to track my quests timers, I use it to communicate on more than one channel (bringing all the community closer to me), I use it to tell me how much a critter is when I kill it (pops right there for me), I track my comps and many other things, too numerous to mention.


All in all, Eltank/decal has kept me playing this game for the last couple of years. I never self buffed before tank, I found the spellbar to be encumbersome and tedious, trying to remember "what spell I last cast and which should be next", time consuming and certainly took away from the "fun" of playing.


These TPA's have ENHANCED my AC game time and game play. I don't UCM, I don't ACM... but I do like to use my time efficiently. I don't like doing repetitive tasks that bore you to tears, I want to have FUN. That's why I play an online computer game.


If I don't have these enhancements, I can see AC becoming just too tedious to even enjoy.


You can't unring a bell that has rung! You can't go backwards ... you can only move forward. AC won't ever be what it "used to be". There are not "good old days".. THESE are our good old days!


I hope that decal and Eltank live as long as AC itself. They make a great TEAM!

 

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if i were a decal devs , this topic would push some pressure to turbine and test to knox if turbine admit the power of decal .


step One done : turbine admit very fast their dependancy on decal and are ok to satisfy any wish of decal devs .


step tow of decal devs : emailing turbine to ask them money to make a working decal ...


sorry but i like bashere i didnot understood the meaning of this topic .


i mean the coc is a good things but what s kills is the people using the weapon , not the one that make them .

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I hope that decal and Eltank live as long as AC itself. They make a great TEAM!

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Boy, if I was undecided before...this post could push me right over the edge.

I'm guessing they reworded something else in the CoC and accidentally left out the word "combat" in "unattended combat macro." Makes you wonder what the lawyers are paid for.


Personally I think it's about time Turbine and the decal devs sat down, decided what is and is not appropriate behavior, and coordinated their efforts. It's clear that the decal devs are willing to comply, even to the point of pulling the plug on decal, with the CoC. Turbine needs to decide if they want the decal devs to allow ACMing, and they need to communicate their decision to the public. Turbine needs to decide how they stand on tradebots, portal bots, UI extensions like 6th sense and BS/2, etc, they need to openly and clearly state their policy, and they need to post a clear and non-legal-ese CoC for all to read. There should be no difference between the CoC and Turbine's policy, nor should there be much by way of interpretation needed.


And, IMO, it's finally time for Turbine to stop being pansies and actually make a statement either supporting decal itself, or renouncing it. I'm sorry, Ibn, I know that's probably not what you guys want to hear, but it's the truth.