Quote Originally Posted by yowelin View Post
i have already done so. I used external program for automatic pressing "shift+3" shortcut, which I have put alias shortcut (/loc) into it. And even with "pressing" every 1 ms (1/1000 of second) it worked normally (I could use ui buttons on the screen and physical keys on my keyboard), but frequency of screen renewal have fallen down upto 10-12 frames per second. And I think if some significant amount of players (e.g. 1000) do it in the same time servers can fall down, so that's why I think it is illigal
I get it, it works because you are sending "Shift+3" and not "/+l+o+c+Enter". Makes sense.

Quote Originally Posted by 4andreas View Post
Im pretty sure that using any application for automated input is considered botting and not allowed.

PS: the /loc command does not neccesary need to connect to the server
Macros like "Del+U" are definitely allowed (great for target closest or node and use/harvest it). That was definitely on the forums already ages ago.
There used to be a grey area that using macros for farming was okay if you were present at the keyboard at all times and actively following the game - I remember discussions on the forum as well. It was not clear if that is forbidden or not.

I think it is a safe bet that either the code for /loc is brutally not optimized (including the writing to chat, it might be that) or it is actually giving you the updated state of location after querying the server. Even 1000 inputs a second should not cost you tens of frames of the whole game rendering.