[Addon] Jamba - An assistant for multiboxers. Old Thread

[Ken]

This has probably been brought up before, but does Jamba constitute "illegal automation"?

Blizzard has made it so you cannot do "illegal automation" in World of Warcraft Addons (addons have to behave according to Blizzard rules). Other software programs that are not addons need to be approached very carefully. Jamba is a WoW addon. Using any WoW addon is fine and shouldn't get you into trouble.

Edit: If Blizzard want to stop certain addon behaviour, they usually change the wow api code that addons can call.

That's not true. There are many things that one could do with addons that are illegal. The scripting system is of course made in such a way that these possibilities are minimized, but you can definitely be creative enough to get yourself banned.

Some examples of addons that might get you a ban:
- An addon that spams players.
- An addon that gathers names of players (or other info) and saves it into settings files (just like the auctioneer tool saves its statistics). (datamining is illegal)
- An addon that is like the minimap but offers a complete command-center interface and automatically keeps sending messages to players with the directives that were decided by the raid leader. The raid leader could select people or groups of people and then click on the action they should be doing. This addon would track all the behavior and would tell people what to do (e.g. go to X) until they do it (e.g. when they are in a 10 yard range).

Customer Service GM's have repeatedly stated that you can NOT be banned for using WoW addons :)

theres usually lots of posts in the CS forums like so

Title: Wrongly Banned
Post I was wrongly banned, maybe it was cause of addon X

GM Reply: We don't ban people for using addons.

Seriously do a search :P theres like millions of the things.

Any GM that would state such a thing would be a liar. (assuming that he knows the Blizzard policies)
Let me quote from http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/exploitation.html

We definitely want people to create their own UIs utilizing custom menu configurations, graphics, and even sounds. Anything that can be coded to modify the style and the look of the UI is fair game, as long as the modifications are done to the sanctioned internal files of the game. However, anything done to the UI to gain any sort of an unfair advantage over other players is unacceptable.

If a player is found to have modified a UI so that they gain an unfair advantage in the game over others, he/she may:

* Be temporarily suspended from the game
* Have further action taken, up to and including account closure, based on the intent of the modification

UI modifications go through script, so this proves that you could script something that can get your account banned.
Of course what is "unfair" is completely decided by Blizzard.