Question About Macros

#1 - June 19, 2013, 2:49 p.m.
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Okay so I have a simple question about ArenaNet’s policy.

I have a Logitech G15 keyboard and one of it’s features is to make Macros, one of things I’m able to do with it is button presses/clicks macro and set a “hold down” option and a time for how long it takes to fire off between each action.

My question is, were I to make a macro that did the following be permitted:
Upon Button Press, Mouseclick
Repeat while button pressed at 10ms Intervals.

This effectively allows me to just click really fast while I press my G15 Keyboard key.

The purposes for this would simply be opening a lot of bags like Karma Boxes and such, nothing else. This program is not editing GW2 in anyway, nor does this give me any advantage other than saving me about 5 minutes when opening bags, which lets be honest, we need an “open all” feature anyway.

Is this macro bannable? I hold the key down and it clicks quite fast? Certain mice already have this feature added. Can I be banned for this? Again, it’s JUST clicking, nothing else and it ONLY does it when I have my finger on whatever hotkey I set it too.

I’d like to know before I start going around opening 250 bags in about 10 seconds.

Edit: I’ve read the macro policy, but this is still in the grey area, that’s why I’m looking for an answer. I understand you can’t really give an explicit ‘yes’ or ‘no’ but I’ve seen certain “we do not have intentions to terminate accounts for this kind of thing” yet.

Again, it’s just using the official logitech software and hardware and doesn’t do it if I leave the computer

#17 - June 20, 2013, 1:21 p.m.
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You’ve seen the policy, and I don’t want to get into too much of a fine-grained discussion, because the policy says all that we’re prepared to say.

But in a general sense, would doing something in one minute that takes another player several hours not give the first player an advantage? Time saved could well be said to be an advantage, yes?