Seeking Redemption

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Evilized wrote:

What part of using a flask macro or POE Overlay is cheating? Just curious as I'm also a long-time customer and would like to avoid being disciplined for things literally 95% of the playerbase is doing.

As an aside, I have not ever used any sort of macro for PoE.

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Evilized wrote:

What part of using a flask macro or POE Overlay is cheating?

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raics wrote:

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Evilized wrote:

What part of using a flask macro or POE Overlay is cheating?

As far as I know, flask macro is banned on the grounds of 'multiple actions for one button press'.
And PoE Overlay is banned because it's a tool that 'directly interacts with the game during playing', so something like typing out the item properties into a tool that sits in the background to do a price check would be fine, but clicking on an item to get a price check is not.

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Evilized wrote:

have they ever outright said that poe overlay is banned?

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I just checked with Chris, and he says the policy is the same as it has been for the last eight or so years: You may not run programs that interact with the Path of Exile game client. It's okay to run things that are entirely external to the game (i.e. they would work if run on a second computer because they don't need the game open, for example ones that read the client log files).
Edit: I asked one of our team members about this and the account locks related to the Overlay recently have been due to it "hammering the ever-living shit out of our website".

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Evilized wrote:

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raics wrote:

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Evilized wrote:

What part of using a flask macro or POE Overlay is cheating?

As far as I know, flask macro is banned on the grounds of 'multiple actions for one button press'.
And PoE Overlay is banned because it's a tool that 'directly interacts with the game during playing', so something like typing out the item properties into a tool that sits in the background to do a price check would be fine, but clicking on an item to get a price check is not.

have they ever outright said that poe overlay is banned?

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In general, we do not encourage the creation or use of third-party tools because they provide advantages for players that use them. I'm afraid, due to the dynamics of our policies, we're unable to guarantee if a tool is allowed or would remain allowed in the future.

I would recommend refraining from creating or using any programs that automates or does more than one action with a keystroke or mouse click as well as anything that interacts with the game client to provide an advantage over other players or provide information that isn't normally visible.

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raics wrote:

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Evilized wrote:

have they ever outright said that poe overlay is banned?

Yes, found what Bex wrote on reddit

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I just checked with Chris, and he says the policy is the same as it has been for the last eight or so years: You may not run programs that interact with the Path of Exile game client. It's okay to run things that are entirely external to the game (i.e. they would work if run on a second computer because they don't need the game open, for example ones that read the client log files).
Edit: I asked one of our team members about this and the account locks related to the Overlay recently have been due to it "hammering the ever-living shit out of our website".

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_Daybit_ wrote:

Stop spread misinformation, Poe Overlay users were locked because of bug which sent millions of requests to Trade API (which is certainly not normal behaviour). And they got their accounts back, which means that PoE overlay itself isn't considered a cheat.