A squeler or not?

[Farfar]

If one sees another player thats obviously are using a macro prog, to skillgain, and are away from his computer, shall one then call the GMs?

[Moraine DiGoraz]

Ofcourse! Macroing is illegal and like a good Nazi you should ALWAYS report people using macro programs! Better yet, you should ask those people for their RL adress and look them up so you can give them a proper beating!

[Khaelieth]

If you see someone beating a golem, always! But don't report the old school ones training on NPC fighters and paladins!

[Jack Sinist (•̪●)]

It'd be like calling the police for downlading things illegally farfar..

[Ileana Leontine]

My rule of thumb is that if it's something that has no bearing on other players whatsoever - e.g, that they're just in their house macroing a tradeskill to GM and saving themselves carpal tunnel syndrome in the process - then I wouldn't report it. If it's actively interfering with other players like bot farming, then yes, I'd say report it.

[Kas Valentine]

Take the law into your own hands !

Tackle them to the ground, tear off any undergarments and give their bum bum a good smacking....?

[Krieger]

Tackle them to the ground, tear off any undergarments and give their bum bum a good smacking....?

I'm with Ileana: if it's a combat skill and you think it's wrong, then you should (though I personally wouldn't, as it doesn't bother me), as it can affect other players directly in PvP; if it's a trade skill, therefore by using the script it saves them suffering RSI through clicking the same things a gazillion times, then I wouldn't. I don't think anyone would actually want to go through that.

[Mela Arkay]

I normally leave em.

[userjosh5368]

^^ Thats cause you are them!

[Farfar]

Thank you guys and girls. I now have something to go on.

[Moraine DiGoraz]

Let's put it this way.
I have had GM begging, GM detect hidden, GM armslore, GM snooping, GM tracking, GM itemID... need I go on?

OFCOURSE I am not gonna train these skills manually! Had someone reported me while training though then I would consider it pathetic. Generally, the only people reporting macroers are the ones who have no clue of how to do it.

Reporting bots is a whole different story. Resource/Gold farming does have a substantial impact on the community and according to my standards that is where the line is drawn.

Macroing combat skills or crafting skills is a bit of a grey area. Combat skills are no fun to train manually (unless you roleplay a character) and they really do affect your game play (personally I really start enjoying playing a character when the nescessary skills are maxed out). Crafting skills don't really bother me as it still takes the same amount of resources to reach GM, you just get there faster not cheaper.

All in all as long as macroing has no substantial impact on the community or economy, it's perfectly alright with me.

[Kas Valentine]

Kas has been naughty in the past too....



Bad boy for life...?

If I get nicked once more I get slapped with an ASBO !

(Sorry about the size of the image)

[Mercy]

You naughty Kas 

I've done macroes for skills like tailoring, mining, alchemy, posioning and yes I've trained a few warrior skills with a healing macro but I'm with the others as long as its not something that is likely to upset the community then its not bad.   

[Khaelieth]

Hunting script miners is fun.

[Amelia Cane]

Is placing a heavy object (erm say a bag of coins) on your keyboard whilst you go off and make supper considered skill macro'ing?