Mouse bindings and allowed programs

I just received my Redragon M908 impact and i was going to bind its side keys.
Unfortunately this is my first ever programmable mouse so i don't know what would be allowed: do i have to bind the side buttons to a keyboard keypress or can i just directly allocate stuffs like price check on poe.trade macro and messages like "thank you" to its side button keypress?
Would pressing a mouse key that has the same binding as a keyboard press result in troubles?

Pressing one button = doing one action

That's the allowed limitation. GGG doesn't care, if you use "F5", "MouseButton7" or "Q" to use your first Flask, bind whatever you want.

For your trade macro question: technically using automated messages, that whisper a player with a prepared message is more than one action (openening chat, whispering the player, typing the message, sending the message).

When In doubt, if it's bannable, contanc support via E-Mail. I doubt they'll ban you for using trade macro functionalities though^^

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Arandur wrote:

Pressing one button = doing one action

That's the allowed limitation. GGG doesn't care, if you use "F5", "MouseButton7" or "Q" to use your first Flask, bind whatever you want.

For your trade macro question: technically using automated messages, that whisper a player with a prepared message is more than one action (openening chat, whispering the player, typing the message, sending the message).

When In doubt, if it's bannable, contanc support via E-Mail. I doubt they'll ban you for using trade macro functionalities though^^

Thanks, i'll send a quick email with the specific questions!

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Arandur wrote:

For your trade macro question: technically using automated messages, that whisper a player with a prepared message is more than one action (openening chat, whispering the player, typing the message, sending the message).

In case you don't hear back from them in a timely manner, the limit is one server-side action per button press. So long as the only server-side action your macro does is to message a player, it's allowed to do whatever it wants client-side, including opening chat windows, putting letters in the text entry, looking up prices using external tools and so forth. One exception is that the action must be the same every time. Having a macro that rotates between your flasks, for example, even if it uses only one flask each time, is a form of automation and not allowed.

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Redwyrm wrote:

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Eh, it's your account. I'll just say that if you consistently activate a skill and three flasks at the same time, and use another flask after an exact time interval, I think they could figure that out, whether your macro is hardware or software.

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ekaye wrote:

Eh, it's your account. I'll just say that if you consistently activate a skill and three flasks at the same time, and use another flask after an exact time interval, I think they could figure that out, whether your macro is hardware or software.

I am working as a game master/moderator my self from time to time. As an insider i know for fact that in majority of situation such "issues" just get ignored. Only the end-result is matter.
If you program fully functional bot that "plays for you" - that's 100% bannable offence (and not something you can possibly do with hardware macros).
If you still play game actively on your own - then whatever.

Yes, there was some very shameful incident in history when game masters banned players for using hardware macroses. Like one back in a days when game masters banned person who used hardware macros to >>help<< himself do jumping puzzles in Guild Wars 2 (he also never was unbanned, which speak loudly about ANet game masters professionalism :P ).
But something tells me GGG better than that.

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Redwyrm wrote:

I doubt they will bother about using hardware macroses. Those are limited anyway. It's not like you can program fully functional bot with hardware macroses.
I am personally using two hardware macroses on my good'ol G600. One activating 3 flasks and one skill with single button push. Another one repeatedly activating Doedre's Elixir every 9.5s (providing it still have charges of course), to help keep power (and other) charges for longer in between engagements.

P.S. last one i actually keep forgetting to manually disable, when i am not on maps. Which results constantly adding "2" when i type something for ppl (usually for trades) :P

Still...you just freely admitted on forums that you use an illegal macro, and that is something GGG will take action against. The flask macro debate has been going on for years and is explicitly against the ToS. As Sarno says in his macro guide, even a popsicle stick on your keyboard that presses multiple keys simultaneously is against the ToS.

ekaye is correct that it is one server side macro. Chat macros are acceptable so long as there is no automated process to them because the first enter as well as the typed message are client side, and sending the message is server side. Chat scanners are quite gray; I’m not sure where the official policy on those fell. I think it’s LuteBot that offers a logout macro that has been given the thumbs up because it cuts your connection to the game and is considered 1 server side action. A macro that would do the same thing by pressing Alt + F4 is not, because it performs 2 server side actions. Mouse buttons that use keybindings are perfectly acceptable.