Script for opening Foothills instances quickly - legal?

Hey.

I found myself doing Foothills for Syndicate encounters a lot recently. Since spawning the instance is very repetitive, I made an AHK skript to help with the process. If I understood the guidelines correctly, it should be legal, I wanted to ask here to make sure.


The script assigns 3 seperate hotkeys, each of them executing a (ctrl+) mouse click at a fixed location on my screen. First hotkey clicks waypoint, second ctrl-clicks Foothills on the map, third clicks "new" button. One server-side action per hotkey, nothing automated. No info is read from the game, location of the click is hardcoded in the script. I press the keys in sequence, a new instance is created.

Should be fine, right?

How are you getting syndicate? Wouldn't it just be cassia every time?

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garrison1 wrote:

How are you getting syndicate? Wouldn't it just be cassia every time?

Just like in maps, Cassia is in every area, but other masters can spawn additionally.

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Snarky85 wrote:

Hey.

I found myself doing Foothills for Syndicate encounters a lot recently. Since spawning the instance is very repetitive, I made an AHK skript to help with the process. If I understood the guidelines correctly, it should be legal, I wanted to ask here to make sure.


The script assigns 3 seperate hotkeys, each of them executing a (ctrl+) mouse click at a fixed location on my screen. First hotkey clicks waypoint, second ctrl-clicks Foothills on the map, third clicks "new" button. One server-side action per hotkey, nothing automated. No info is read from the game, location of the click is hardcoded in the script. I press the keys in sequence, a new instance is created.

Should be fine, right?

I'm pretty sure that this is the illegal part because what the macro really does is "moves the mouse to a certain point on the map and then ctrl-clicks on the that point of the map" it maybe is only one server side action but automaticly moving the cursor for sure is not legal. If I were you I would at least ask the support before using something like this!

For me this sounds like 1 serverside action, since the other stuff (opening the UI and navigating through it) should be pure client stuff.
But I agree with you that asking here, before using it is a good idea. ;)

Pretty sure automating mouse movement is not allowed.

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mark1030 wrote:

Pretty sure automating mouse movement is not allowed.

Afaik it is. Macros are fine, as long as they produce only one serverside action.
For example an macro that writes and sends a text would result in sereval keys pressed, but it's only one serverside action (sending the finished message). That's okay.

CTRL-Click is one server-side action, I am pretty sure about that. And if not, I can easily modify the script so I personally will press the ctrl button.

Any source on mouse movement not being allowed? I didn't find anything conclusive.

Thanks for the feedback so far.