AutoHotkey Community

[h4xx0r n00bl37]

Yeah sure it is legal I think ehh if you get banned that would be a good thing that game is like crack.

[Guest]

It is 100% LEGAL. This topic has been discussed at nauseum on the WOW forums. Multi boxing is 100% legal, even some GM's do it.


So instead of blowing this whole topic into some sort of hate fest. You should maybe spend 10 minutes checking your facts.

The only thing illegal in WOW are 3rd party BOTS which kill and loot for you. They are very sophisticated these days. Also hacked wow.exe that gives you any advantage to break game mechanics.

Scripts are 100% fine and always will be.

[Superfraggle]

Depends on how much it does.

Before someone points out this mentions "hacking" the memory of the game it also points out it automates many tasks and will involve more time online/more skills gaine . IE dual boxing etc...

I personally agree scripts should be allowed, but there should be a limit and they should be accessible to everyone. I think counter strike had the best idea with the built in scripting abilities.

Anyway heres the link.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7314353.stm

All im saying is be careful, these companies will sue for anything now :S
_________________
Steve F AKA Superfraggle

http://r.yuwie.com/superfraggle

[some guy]

I suppose if you are using it to "auto level" with third party controls controlling every keystroke, then yes. Setting your key board to control multiple toons while pressing the same keys on two keyboards (imaginary or otherwise) is not. As long as your toons every action is governed by your every key stroke you should be fine. Blizzard said that multi-boxing was "allowed", "not cheating" and "very finny to watch" but you can check the forums. Can Autohotkey be taken to far by setting timed variations and repeated action preformed by another programs? Yeah, totally. Use your heads, you know when your going too far and blizzard knows too that is if they're watching. In short, autohotkey is allowed.

[ihavenoname]

[Guest]

Here's a post I made directed at the live forums, slightly edited to repost here:

There are three bans: The people that get banned by warden are people using programs that modify wow memory addresses. Those that get banned by GM's are using full automation tools like a popular one I won't name here or running fishing robots while AFK. The final ban is the coveted social ban, when someone reports you for saying 'fart' in a private party chat and the GM's go ballistic.

To my knowledge nobody has been banned for using AutoHotKey to do anything that doesn't include the first two. In fact until they add AutoIt to the warden ban list AutoHotKey isn't going to be anywhere close to it.

In the stark reality of automating games and making them easier/faster/etc there are about a trillion AutoIt scripts out there for anything you can imagine in use at this very moment in WoW. Let's just say it this way: One of the most common uses for any automation software is character stacking/multiboxing, which by it's very nature goes against the 'one key press one action' rule, since you are pressing one key and getting 2 character actions and Blizzard hasn't done anything but endorse this so far and most people use AHK to do it.

Is it worth the hassle? There is an EJ thread on keyspamming that proves in 3.3 that it's faster than manual spamming. Personally, I haven't yet used any of this stuff even with a working knowledge of their programming - I have found that I don't really need to. You can also do way more interesting things than simple keyspamming.

Lastly there was an exploit back in like 2.3? Where people were using a chat bug to plug into another automation program that let them do all KINDS of wacky stuff that breaks the TOS and to my knowledge nothing came of this either except that they fixed the exploit.

Don't bot and don't screw with the program files or memory and it's very very very unlikely that you are doing anything they would want to take action on. In the end it comes down to the enforcement, and there's simply no way to enforce something you can't even detect easily, short of banning everyone running AutoIt or AHK which have infinite other purposes - and in the same action banning thousands and thousands of multiboxer accounts which they have already endorsed.