Keymaps Legal?

[alcattle]

If you're paranoid - go full hardware. Its the only way to be 100% sure.

If you take the statistics that no one has been banned for using multi boxing software that we know of, go ahead and use software. Many are doing it without issue.

The only thing different I see Fur, is the software can change the input "key" and have different output on different clients. As long as it is one input<-->one output then we are complying with the aim of TOS.

[BobGnarly]

Their position is: one press on the keyboard = one key sent to each client. They don't say it has to be the same key, and in fact, I saw a conversation with a gm that asked specifically this question and they said it was fine as long as there was a single event per client for each external event (key press, mouse button, etc). Sorry, I can't find it now, so take it with a grain of salt.

I used to fret over this quite a bit until I realized something. You can do the same thing without keymapping in software. I can bind each key to a different action on each client, so that each client does a different thing. We do it all the time with things like our spread-out macros. We also make round-robin (in-game) macros to allow us to round-robin things like frost nova, or thunderstorm. We are, in effect, making each client do a different thing with the same keystroke. The software just makes this a little easier.

[Arckon]

Their position is: one press on the keyboard = one key sent to each client. .

Thats exacly my point Bob when you set up an FTL using keymaps you are having one key sending one, two, three + keys to clients that aren't the main. So we enter the grey area i am questioning of weather or not they base it off or "One key = One Action" or "One key = One key" and as this thread has progressed it seems people are conflicted. I was just out to see if anyone had a snapshot of a conclusive answer, i mean you guys who are end game are more likely to get busted for it (especially in arena tournaments) than someone like me who is starting out.

[heyaz]

Thats exacly my point Bob when you set up an FTL using keymaps you are having one key sending one, two, three + keys to clients that aren't the main. So we enter the grey area i am questioning of weather or not they base it off or "One key = One Action" or "One key = One key" and as this thread has progressed it seems people are conflicted. I was just out to see if anyone had a snapshot of a conclusive answer, i mean you guys who are end game are more likely to get busted for it (especially in arena tournaments) than someone like me who is starting out.

Well FTL is a macro, which you can do with a spell in 1 keypress

/assist blah blah blah
/cast spell

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Thats exacly my point Bob when you set up an FTL using keymaps you are having one key sending one, two, three + keys to clients that aren't the main. So we enter the grey area i am questioning of weather or not they base it off or "One key = One Action" or "One key = One key" and as this thread has progressed it seems people are conflicted. I was just out to see if anyone had a snapshot of a conclusive answer, i mean you guys who are end game are more likely to get busted for it (especially in arena tournaments) than someone like me who is starting out.

Dude. I hate to trumpet Ye Olde RTFM but people have already done the work.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde..._Conversations

Of particular note is this quote:

'safe' multi-boxing commands are one button press = one action per character.

[Link: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...geNo=1&sid=1#9 ]

[Meshuggenah]

Seems to me that Blizzard's anti-"bot" policy is more geared towards AFK playing.

Somebody made a ticket about me in a BG (finally!) not long ago. A GM turned up and the conversation went something like:

GM - "Hello, may I speak with you a moment?".
Me - "Sure"
GM - "Was just checking you're there. Have a nice day!"

I'm sure that I'm not the only one who makes "creative" use of the toggle function on the G15 keyboard to prevent chronic RSI. Is this technically against the rules? Probably. Have I ever been banned or even questioned because of activities like this in over 9(?) years of boxing MMO's? Of course not. As long as you're at your keyboard, not "hacking" and your credit card is valid, Dev's simply don't care.

The "Botting/Macroing/Hacking" mentions in the ToS are blatantly designed to prohibit very specific types of behavior. The reason boxing and botting are mentioned so frequently in the same context is because the people doing the mentioning have an agenda.