Prat, and it's Delay macro command

[Silly Gooooose]

So I recently noticed Prat has a neat macro command '/in' that allows a unsecured action (chat, text and such, no /cast-ing though) to be delayed.

I.e.

/in 4 /s HI GUYS!

So you push the macro, and in 4 seconds, it says that.


Well I am very wary of delays because I don't want to get my accounts banned, so I asked in the customer service forums.
Long post short, I'd stay away from using the /in command.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...76791&sid=1#19

[kllrwlf]

Yeah... as a general rule, avoid anything that causes or has a delay.

Better to be safe then sorry.

[Achor84]

Interessting.
Because this Command is part of Ace2.
http://www.wowace.com/wiki/AceEvent-2.0 from
For Fun Macro: Conversation?
So Could become Ace a problem?

And isn't it used in Bossmods?

[Silly Gooooose]

I agree, It can't be used to do anything important, but I can't argue with the fact that the GM said it would be a bad idea to use it, lol.

[Achor84]

I agree, It can't be used to do anything important, but I can't argue with the fact that the GM said it would be a bad idea to use it, lol.

Yeah, I know.

BUT

If the command is used in Ace2-Addons, so you could call a function that uses this command for "Addon-functability".
So if you run a Ace2Addon, you will get in trouble because the Addon could use this function (because its in the libary) - And if all Ace2-Users are banned, Blizz will loose a lot of customers.
Blizz could only fix this if it was patched - like the Aoe-Makro.

[TheHamburglar]

I'm thinking this might be fixed soon because of the Shaman Fire nova totem bug.
It can be done with out the /in command but it does make it easier.

[Bovidae]

This has been covered, officially, on the WoW forums. Blizzard allows delays on non-secure functions, such as chat/timers/RaidWarnings. IIRC they said they could disable this ability if they wanted to, but it is a part of their API.

I'd love to post a Blue reference, but I don't have the time to find it. Check the macros and Ui forum

[Silly Gooooose]

I'm thinking this might be fixed soon because of the Shaman Fire nova totem bug.
It can be done with out the /in command but it does make it easier.

Have you been able to do it since the recent patch, because I sure can't.

If you can, please let me know how.... there are sooo many gold spammers on my server.

[TheHamburglar]

I've only done it once a few days ago, then thought better of it. No sense in getting banned.

But i will leave you with this

[TheHamburglar]

and found this
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...40786741&sid=1

* Fixed bug where it was possible to kill people with the Fire Nova Totem by logging out as it's exploding.