Macros/Keybinds/Autoclickers Survey Community Discussion

Wow, I'm surprised the community is very heavily weighted against Macros.

I myself didn't vote because I do not have enough knowledge to contribute to the subject, but I am very curious the reasons why people voted they way they did on this survey.

Would definitely agree to see this allowed. Upon death for sure but obviously not to get around afk kicks.

I wonder what others think about being able to craft a full inventory of (for example) melon slices to blocks using 1 click macro. This same thing can also be done just as fast using the crafting book. Maybe a second difference but should that be allowed?

The proposed changes seem nice, but I'm interested in the change to the 1-1 rule. Inherently through the 1-1 rule, at least in crafting, means whether you click or use macros you produce items more or less at the same speed. Changing that to an "expected" time seems like it would open up quite a few loopholes or just be rather easy to abuse, in comparison to 1-1....

Could there be an example given? Or more description as to what this "event limit" is?

Other than that, I like it. Having the respawn on death allowed now seems reasonable to me. I don't use macros for much outside of staff purposes (and even then haven't used them much) but I can definitely see their usage in saving fingers... And sanity

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So is this in regarding to using alts? two accounts simultaneously? Im just wondering is that up for discussion or no? Is this what this is relating to? Just curious.

See cause my reason if I was to use macros would be to mine concrete cause it's such a chore, not head farming or auto-respawning. How would the new rules apply to that?

I think most players that use macros are players which have played this game for a considerable amount of time, and, logicaly, they have grown some boredom to some game mechanics which are grindy... Now, when some discussions pop-up about this topic, the main reply is: if you want to use this, or want something easier go to another server. This does not make sense to me. EMC, at least for me, is still a play your way server some people like more challenges than others, but we are still stick together as a community.

Why would the only solution that people give to this issue is to “grow up” from EMC.

I think Macros should be allowed to have a wide range of players difficulties.

EMC has done this in the past, possiky unintentinaly, but here I go with my example:

I dont remember the last time I actually went mining on EMC for ores/gems. With voting rewards, I have enough diamonds/emeralds for what I need. When this change came, my love/activity for EMC grew a lot because it alowed me to take the time I used to go mining, for other stuff I like to do.

Macros should be the same way. If you have growned out from the game, EMC should try to attract these players back by giving them more time for the activities they actualy enjoy

As for ideas: uhm maybe like that message that popped up in the Wii to take some rest after X hours of activity(afk), or like that message in clash of clans that says: Hey, are you still online? After some time of afk
(With the captcha thing Aikar invented, so noone can automatically skip it)
This message, if not clicked would kick the afk player (and prevent auto-reconnects)

Ps- written in phone in a hurry, so ideas might be worded in a confusing way lol

I approve, I feel like this is a good compromise.

Ok thank you

I believe the "one account auto-respawn" rule is fair and it would definitely help out the head-farming community. Also the 3-minute rule would seem alright. But I'd prefer to hear the opinions of people who do use macros, as I don't.

Why dont we go back to the old original post of 2016? That was the prime time there.

I think that the only reason that the poll showed such a large portion of people using macros is because of the audience polled. The amount of people that use macros versus the amount of people that play on EMC has got to be much much lower than that. Those represented however are the ones that have been here for a while or use the forums and naturally will be the ones more likely to use other tools to make their gameplay easier. Also, as you can see here with the replies, people that are not invested in macros have little care to even take part in the survey anyways.

That said, someone else using macros has never negatively effected my gameplay but this pretending that it doesn't make gameplay easier seems just silly to me. even from 10 cps to 5 cps, no one is going to sustain that level of clicking for very long without macros. Minecraft isn't difficult and if you want to have bulk of something then grinding is the obvious way people would have to get it... or ya know, build farms or collaborate with others.

No matter what is said, my mind is obviously made up that macros do not bring anything to EMC, not to the gameplay nor the community but it seems those that run the community are willing to go through creating all kinds of vague and silly rules on the use of macros just to see that they are not "abused" when that is just the nature of the beast.

What ever happened to "play your way"? This is an example in my opinion of playing in my own way. If people want to use macros let them.

Just let macro users use macros if they want to, I don't see how it effects anyone who doesn't use one, unless it's pvp, then it's not allowed, but grinding is different...

I'll be the devils advocate... I say processes that could be automated should be okay, like fishing. You can put a weight on a key and leave it. As long as you are there, it should be okay. Having thst mantality is fine. If its auto respawn, I find that the new rule 1:1 is fair. Auto trading is iffy for me.

You blew that out of the water and clearly did not thoroughly read my post. It was only talking about macros. Thank you though.

Would it be allowed to auto click grind on minecraft, while watching a youtube or doing something else on another tab?