Yup, now we have AHK being used outside it's intended use.. Assassins use it, scripts now auto purge, auto heal based on % values of HP. It's being used outside of the excuse of carpal tunnel.. Besides.. we don't see guitarists using scripts to play their guitar because carpal tunnel. It's being used out of laziness.. Again with the guitar reference- would we be able to brag about how good a guitarist is if he's using a script to auto play a whole solo when they strum once XD no.. we dontKeirsti wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 1:28 pmNot that I'll be doing it on Eden, but I played 8v8 Paladin for 3-5 hours, 5 days a week, for 3+ years (and solo during that same window + a couple of years before it), and I have no doubt twisting was a bigger contributor to short-term wrist problems I had then and longer-term ones I'll develop as I continue to get older.Electronic wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 6:14 pm If it's a complicated button press and you need a 3rd party automation tool, maybe play a different game. At a certain point it's taking the fun out of the game for anyone not using it, if you need it to compete, you're the problem.
While I agree that people may be using macro keyboards/AHK-type stuff to macro things that should be manual, keep in mind that the appeal of these tools In some cases is not about avoiding "complicated button presses" but for more pragmatic and practical benefits. I was staunchly against using AHK back when I played paladin but boy do I regret that now.
I would be fine with it but it's too superior when used on most classes in DAoC.. There are even Heros with a script (if they are shield/LW) where they can use 1 button to do their anytime/positional styles with LW and /face and auto swap back to shield. where all you have to do is press 1 button and you'll go from using a shield, to swapping to a LW and doing a style, then automatically swapping back to the shield.. So you stay using Shield for max defense while your swing timer for LW is going through.
When it's used outside of the game's normalcy- it's problematic and clearly advantageous vs any human without AHK in the same situation.. Honestly... the whole "My fingers hurt" or "My wrists hurt" needs to stop being used as if it's the main reason why it was used on their end. We all know gamers rarely have wrist/finger problems.. we get better.. Millions of people play games all day, 12 hour a day or more and j**k off 17 times a day and still get on the next day to repeat daily/weekly... This issue with AHK is about people wanting an edge vs their opponent.. AHK vs AHK or otherwise.