Yeah disregard it considering people can still bypass it. Just waiting for this post to get closed rn
Macrofishing Checker
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I think macro already checks for the image anyway (been around since wom)
Yeah, I thought it would just count similar images as the same thing since I know people would have the area around the bobber check if thereâs no white line which if there isnât, theyâll pause the macro for x time
the way this suggestion is worded is how my brain words things at 3 am after playing AO for the past 5 hours
please explain how spam clicking is bad and just clicking once is good?
Iâm just very confused
Idk, I came up with this at 3am and just thought that out of the 5 macrofishers I caught, the similarities they have is that they still spam click even after the catch
It should only take a small amount of attention to the bobber since you would immediately see that the fish stays in place, the problem is the few sec wasted
idk it feels a bit scammy to have people catch a fish that isnât actually catchable
Theyâll get the next catch in only 1 second as compensation, perhaps even immediately reel it in for passing the checker
Also no oneâs fr closing this suggestion 
Idk man fishing up sunken iron items by yourself then assembling them like fucking exodia pieces is such an ego boost to me.
This I agree. The creme de la creme should only be accessible to people who are highly invested in the game. Thatâs why there should be methods introduced to prevent macro-fishing but they should not dampen the legitimate playerbase at all. Fishing is lame already no one wants it but with extra steps.
This would mean that the macroers (+people that have so many rare items at which point theyâre no longer rare to you eh?) are also making minimal profit. A bunch of them screwing over each other with the normal playerbase as collateral damage. It would be fun to watch but if one can predict when a certain rare itemâs value will drop, they can still make a profit out of it. Itâs the nature of the marketplace and people who prefer making a profit out of rare items instead of using them themselves should learn to adapt to.
confusing to people that donât keep up with patch notes / read them to every last detail. it is also just an annoyance
again, will confuse an actual player.
besides, if you really wanted, you could probably use a macro to determine if youâre being checked or not by determining if the line was reeled in very quickly after the exclamation point was detected, and imitate a behaving player
in order to create a non intrusive anti-macro you need to create a system that explicitly lets the player know âthis is a sanity check.â
summoners war has macro detection every once in a while when it thinks youâve repeated actions for a long period of time in a certain order; as a checkpoint, it introduces a check disguised as a âquiz eventâ, rewards the player for completion, and relieves them for current suspicion.
a macro canât really answer this; nobody would waste the time to do so.
my personal take is I could care less if fishing is macroed, it is repetitive and boring decently far enough in, and is designed so
how about we just make fishing completely automatic so we can stop worrying about it entirely
the thing that stops you from afking with it is the fact that people will walk up and kill you
I mean deckhand fishing is allready automatic⌠it is just⌠6 minutes at best per-fish
yeah something like a simple captcha would kill macro fishers
although the one you linked above I could probally whip up a OCR + image detection script to complete these
more time to rant on how stupid this suggestion is
tbh a interesting idea that would kill all the macros I have looked into
just make the ! change colors
literally all the macros I look at are looking for the red of the !. what if we just changed itâs color randomly
then theyâd just make a version that looks for any variation of it.
which is mutch harder to do. you cant even detect quick color changes because that could be triggered by the time of day changing.
if they start checking for the general ! symbol. why not make it pop up with a random fishing-related symbol eg: a fishing rod, a fish, a shark
Then theyâll make a version thatâll check for every variation and every color of every variation.
Just like fishing knockback, this only really harms legitimate fishers while making it only a bit harder to set up a macro, and the downsides outweigh the upsides
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so they are going to check 255*255*255*x variations
(where x is the number of icons)
this could be simplified by checking if it is similar but⌠that barely does anything
oh yeah and mirroring exists
because I wasnât thinking of it being a âcolor setâ but it just rolls 3 random RGB values
Yes, countering all of that should be comedically easy for anybody who knows how to set up a macro like that to begin with.