are no longer against ToS?? i've seen characters like ivsr in poc casting with multiple toons at once. nice to see even EA bend the rules for some measely $$

 

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playing multiple accounts, and casting near simultaneous can easily be achieved without any hardware or software macros...

and no group ever truely casts simultaneous.. EVER ... even if 4 all hit the key at exactly the same time localy... due to client, computer, network, internet, and server lag, they'd never sync up properly.. so your perception of them casting at the same time is just because your not paying attention or a fluke, because its statisticaly impossible for it ever actualy happen on purpose.

 

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lets say that my clients on 3 difrent computers

i hit keys to cast on 6 difrent characters, at 12:30:01:01, 12:30:01:14, 12:30:01:26, 12:30:01:40, 12:30:01:53, and 12:30:01:65

all within the same 1 second time frame

my PC compiles that packet, broadcast it to my cable mode, wich sends to the isp wich routes over 20 hops on the internet, all at variable times...

daoc recieves that information on theres server, processes it, then sends it back out to you...

now information coming from daoc server to your machine is gunna come in bunched up data packets, so your machine might see them all initiate casting at exactly the same time because thats when you got the data dump from mythic.

or maybe half of them would get split between data transmitions from mythics server... and they wouldnt cast at the same time

either way.. what YOU the player sees.. is COMPLETELY difrent then what the servers see

 

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I appeal true macro groups not suspect but no BS chinese macro farmers on a regular basis. NOTHING ever comes of it.

 

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Haha... It's entirely possible people running around with 4 or 5 characters are playing them all individually. Sure, they could be in their computer room frantically zipping around from one keyboard to the next dashing on keys with lightning precision.

But I think we all know that isn't what is actually happening.

Yeah, alot of magical /assist, /face, and #1 presses seem to be happening at speeds unmatched by human beans.

It could be precognition, not.

 

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I imagine it would be pretty easy to split keyboard wiring to 5 different PS2 lines so 1 keyboard controls 5 computers.

Unless Mythic is in your room, can they prove it?

 

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It isn't a court of law and no one is going to the chair. Mythic doesn't really have to prove anything. Would be nice if Mythic could police it's game and have people that can use common sense judgement when seeing these issues. Unfortunately it's not possible.

Always-on internal video recording of all player actions! Then post the movies on VN and let us vote.

 

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they sell hardware that does that....

or, for say a 4 caster, healer, melee group..

have melee keyboard center, healer keyboard above that.. this way its easy to drive, easy to heal..


casters on the sides top/bottom, with 123456789 qbound to zxcvbnm,. on the top keyboards.. then you can easily with thumb and finger on each hand hit two keys simultaneously one on each keyboard, two hands.. thats 4 keyboards... for casters, 1233zxcc for /assist/face/nuke/que up next nuke.... then bounce back to the healers/melee keyboard, while casters do there job...

its not rocket science or some magical speed of the hands.. its doing things in a smart manner...

i ran my pbae bomb group that way for years with much success...

 

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