Posted by Reece

this guys obviously never heard of grinding before

I have nearly maxed all my skills on EVE online, i know what grinding is.

Posted by ShizGodsu

I actually mined 2k in a day so It's possible if you just "no-life" it.

#GetOnMyLevel

yeah? and the games been out for like 3 days now? 2k in a day thanks for helping me, 2k in a day. games been out for 3 days and thats 6k rocks mined.

so try get 15k in 3 days.  

Posted by Meph

First off, I want to commend you for your honesty.
Most people who get jailed categorically deny it.

Thank you for not lying.


Your jail is less than 5 hours long.

That's nothing.
Take this as your warning- it won't be so generous next time.


Given the right coding, even sparring could be macroed.

Macroing is impossible to avoid.
Especially for player jobs, since they're usually repetitive.

Even if the rocks randomly spawned, a macro could do an image search for those rocks, execute the mining commands until the rock is disappeared, then repeat the process to find another rock.

The only way to decrease the macroers would be to make the job more complex, as it would eliminate "newbie macroers" who don't know more advanced macroing.

And even then, it's not guaranteed.
People would eventually create macros for it, and distribute them.
The only guarantee that would come of making the job more complex is that the "legit" people would suffer.

We shouldn't have to make our game more difficult because of the bad apples.

Fortunately, as you have generously demonstrated, macroers are easy to catch.

I'd wager that you were caught because a player realized that you unresponsive, and were repeating the same actions (slamming away at a rock spawn point even when it's not there is pretty obvious).

That player then used the 'Report' tab, an admin warped to you to investigate, and when you remained unresponsive, you were jailed.


Hey man,
I did a 26 spar winning streak last night, on a trial account, with a Peacekeeper against mostly Repeating Rifles.

I had a blast.

Granted, that was in the Streak Spar room, where the walk speed is increased and you can dodge bullets, but still- I didn't pay a dime for it.


Distorted is absolutely correct.

If you had a simple macro that repeatedly presses the D button, not only were you absurdly obvious, but you were absurdly inefficient.

This limited you to one rock.
A good chunk of your macro's time was spent pounding away at the dirt, waiting for the rock to respawn.

Meanwhile, somebody with a brain (or a better macro) has no down-time.
Every time they complete a rock, they simply go to another one.

WRECKED  

Posted by Distorted

WRECKED

what? He was giving me feedback on my post...  

Multiple of my friends make lots of money from mining a day, and usually people who do it all day are doing other things as well, like when I grind I watch a movie and play other games as well. Plus a majority of players on Ol'West probably have no clue to design an actual good macro so it's pointless to use a bad one anyways since it'll just get detected easily.  

Can I pentest ol'west  

Posted by Colin

Multiple of my friends make lots of money from mining a day, and usually people who do it all day are doing other things as well, like when I grind I watch a movie and play other games as well. Plus a majority of players on Ol'West probably have no clue to design an actual good macro so it's pointless to use a bad one anyways since it'll just get detected easily.

il try that,thanks

Posted by Jatz

Can I pentest ol'west

haha damn you're still around, I remember when you used to hack/test era then they just hired you to do it without getting banned.  

Posted by Mithos

Only 2k o o? That's only like an hour for me to get.

Well aside from actually having school let me minimize it less. I over exaggerated. :p

Posted by Joshacorn Parze

I have nearly maxed all my skills on EVE online, i know what grinding is.



yeah? and the games been out for like 3 days now? 2k in a day thanks for helping me, 2k in a day. games been out for 3 days and thats 6k rocks mined.

so try get 15k in 3 days.

As stated in my previous post.  

you guys only earn 2k an hour? I get 5k in one hour..  

Posted by ShizGodsu

Well aside from actually having school let me minimize it less. I over exaggerated. :p



As stated in my previous post.

haha yup

I used a macro, I admit i did a wrong doing. It won't happen again now i know it will get me jailed. I get out in 20 minutes. Hopefully the gralat pack i purchased is still there.  

I can get over 10k if I try really really hard in an hour, you have to suck not to be able to.  

Posted by Distorted

I can get over 10k if I try really really hard in an hour, you have to suck not to be able to.

All i do is go to that cave where the rocks spawn in the same place over and over again and just hit the down button while watching tv  

Posted by Dawn

All i do is go to that cave where the rocks spawn in the same place over and over again and just hit the down button while watching tv

I usually pan  

Posted by Distorted

I usually pan

mining earns more money imo  

Posted by Dawn

mining earns more money imo

The way you do it is probably different than mine.  

plus you can look for 2 rocks being spawned close to each other and mine both at once