Please don't shelve Decal over this change. I'm uncomfortable with the change in the wording, but at the same time I feel a little deaf and blind IG now. Decal has extended the life of AC for me by some 3 years. I'm not a macroer, the highest level toon I have is level 148 and the next highest isn't even 90. Decal made SO much painful tedium in this game go away and while I can't help the abuse others have committed or Turbine's standing on this issue, the game will die without some sort of framework for taking out some of the game's tedium.


I wish Turbine had taken responsibility for Decal at some point. I wish they had given more than tacit approval of the framework. I didn't ge tmy wish, but I do hope the community will continue to support the product until either Turbine takes Decal as it's own or rolls something up that will give us a reason to continue playing.


Primarily I used:


Combater

(to shield me from lots of pointless chat scrolls)


MouseWheel 2

(to mousewheel scroll through monsters and corpses and players quickly)


DSC

(so I could quickly color check armor)


BS/2

(to quickly sift loot - good grief I'm hating the loot process now)


Nerfus Buffus 2

(to quickly buff myself and others)


Robochef

(to make consumables in support of my archers and meleers)


Magellan 2

(because I liked the handy encyclopedia of locations which I was maintaining and the dungeon HUD was invaluable to me)


ScrollSaver

(to manage needed scrolls across my several mages)


BanditMonarch

(to map our clan's allegiance structure)


And yes, I admit I used elTank, but only for two features; it had a simple buff botter for our mansion buff bot and I used the quest timers. Oh, and I liked the "Nude" button for quickly stripping my toons.

 

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ty for the laughs guru

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I seriously doubt Turbine will ban Decal, trade bots, portal bots or buff bots since they would lose a lot of their players, especially the multiple account holders.


It's not really a matter of them not banning, it's a case of they cant say one thing and do another whilst telling everyone...'it's ok we wont really ban for this action'.

Gouru, I have the utmost respect for you, but if you insist on taking them literally it will serve no purpose.


Any 3rd party program exists at their pleasure, it always has.


And if the lawyers have already taken this step to tighten up the wording covering 3rd party applications, I don't see that anything we do or say is going to reverse that.

If decal dies, I will still be playing AC. But that's of course not a surprise.


I think this thread is very interesting for the Turbine guys.

It shows that whatever amount of content and quests they add, including a brand new pack with a lot of content and goodies, some people value the work of third party programmers over their own work.


This is very interesting, and should make you think quite a bit, dear AC devs.

 

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Kill decal and kill AC.


You can almost smell the fear at turbines hq.

Owned lol

 

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Ibn posted this as a sticky on the Turbine website:


Please Read: There is no change to Code of Conduct policies or enforcement


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The wording of the Code of Conduct regarding third party apps has been changed, yes. Are we banning for anything we weren't banning for last week? No, absolutely not. We are not banning tradebots, buffbots, etc, only unattended combat macros.


We've always had the right to ban any third-party application, as per the End User License Agreement. Nothing regarding policies has changed, just the wording.

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AC1 Online Community Relations


You have it in writing, so please don't abandon or kill Decal!

-What are we supposed to be following?


do you really exept turbine to come out with a consistent answer and a consistent enforcement.

 

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I suggest they change the CoC wording if they want to keep players. They ruined AC 2 so bad that hardly anyone plays that, if they don't want anyone playing AC:ToD ban Decal.