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I'm currently working on a desktop application which communicates with a bunch of cable boxes over a serial port. Luckily I'm using Java, which has great, native, and supported libraries to communicate on serial ports.

Mousekeys has been a feature of Windows since the early 90's. From Microsoft's own website: "Mousekeys is an accessibility feature designed for people who have difficulty using a mouse" If you use Mousekeys for its designated purpose, then no, its not cheating. In fact, I'd say you'd put yourself at a disadvantage because you wouldn't be using a mouse. If you're using it in combination with an actual mouse, then you defeat the purpose of Mousekeys, and I would have to insist that its macroing. When you combine Mousekeys with that mouse, not only do you defeat the purpose of Mousekeys, but you're gaining an (unfair) advantage doing it.

For the same reason that you say it isn't a macro, I say it is. You say that a macro is remapping keys? lol... EDIT: Quoted from a website "Macro: A series of commands, keyboard or mouse actions that are recorded and performed automatically when a certain key is pressed or a certain command is entered." That's right, even though its one-to-one, it's still a macro. Also, the fact that you've admitted that you're able to "auto-click" and scroll indefinitely makes me highly suspicious of this mouse. If I made "a" click the mouse, "s" move the mouse down 30 pixels, "d" move the mouse right 40 pixels, "f" move the mouse up 240 pixels, and so on until I had enough keys reassigned to bury bones, I would be banned for macroing. EVERYTHING DONE WITH THIS MOUSE IS DONE IN SOFTWARE, NOT IN HARDWARE. When you change the mouse, you don't flip DIP switches or solder on a new capacitor.

They said it was an update for beginning players; I'd have to say I agree with it. The new staff also shows how pitiful F2P magic is - it gives a magic bonus of +4 atk / def, the best staff you can use is either the talisman staff or the magic staff (depending on the magic defense you want), which are +5 / 10 atk respectively, +15/10 def respectively. 40% of the best item's stats versus ~25% for the sword, or ~30% for the bow.

For the same reason that you say it isn't a macro, I say it is.

Sometimes it really irks me when someone yells "O M G S A F E R!" when I eat at 240 hp, especially after they just hit 250 with their rune scimitar, or if I eat at 300 hp and they're 99 range and 99 strength (with a high probability of hitting 300+ in the space of two turns). It ticks me off even worse when they yell "safe", and they do the exact same thing... or they "safe because you are". Shut up, filthy hypocrite. After fighting someone who was particularly vocal about it, I went back, and commentated on his next fight, saying the same things - omg so-and-so safes... check out that safe.... nom nom nom eat up safer... etc. It was pretty gratifying to watch them skip eating to get me to shut up, and then die immediately after. I also think its pretty stupid when they call me a safer after they red-bar me; I didn't safe, you're just unlucky. That's probably why I PK - its to kill those punks. +1 I found that the most fun I ever had pking was during the mu glitch, everyone had public and private turned off. They couldn't say anything stupid.

I'll say this again - 5m experience is more difficult to attain than to whine, kick, scream, and beg your parents for 15 minutes to get them to subscribe.

I noticed that swordfish dropped in price, from 500 ea to 489. I wonder if the time savings contributed to an increase in supply? Glad to see the price isn't stuck anymore.

I noticed I have the opposite "problem" - I'm usually at the high end for my level. The fact that I have an outlier (93 strength, 51 defense), and that I'm pure F2P probably explains most of it. Who cares? Whenever you level up, you jump over an entire class of individuals (those with lower experience but 1 higher level, or those with more experience and 1 level lower). My advice - keep playing the game how you like to play it. The only wrong way of playing is to not enjoy it.

I built my first computer. Even before I had the operating system installed, it still received keyboard input. After I installed the operating system, it had mouse input (there was no need for mouse input when configuring the BIOS). Even though my keyboard and mouse had about 20 non standard buttons total, THEY STILL FUNCTIONED NORMALLY AND WORKED WITHOUT THE BUNDLED SOFTWARE. And no, I did not hook up to the internet, so there was no downloading drivers. Unless you're using a crap OS, the mouse drivers are built in.

You know it'll be nearly impossible to rewrite those rules without some loophole or exploit... And, to be perfectly frank - normal mice and keyboards don't need extraneous software, its all built in to the operating system. Same with mousekeys, its built in. When you start getting people that write their own software, or use *special*, configurable multipurposed buttons, it starts getting into the area of "advantage over others". Whatever, it'll be his problem if he gets banned, and it'll be Jagex's problem when they can't see distinguish their own lines separating cheating from legit.

I still stand by everything I said. Also, if its not cheating, and the user knows this, why would they have to take down their youtube video?

No, this is very easy to define. In java, when you click your mouse, you produce up to three MouseEvents - MOUSE_PRESSED, MOUSE_RELEASED, MOUSE_CLICKED. If you move your mouse, you produce up to two more events - MouseMotionEvents, called MOUSE_MOVED, and MOUSE_DRAGGED. But, this is the key - A normal player that clicks their mouse will only produce one of each event. If you hold your mouse down for 10 minutes, only one MOUSE_PRESSED event will show up. When you release your mouse, only one MOUSE_RELEASED and one MOUSE_CLICKED event will show up. For the keyboard, there is KEY_PRESSED, KEY_RELEASED, and KEY_TYPED. It is very similar to how the mouse works. For this guy to generate events at 9000x the regular speed, an action that should have produced one KEY_PRESSED, one KEY_RELEASED, and one KEY_TYPED event produces 9000 of them. This is modifying input so that one input does not equal one output. The guy that did this with the touch screen was banned, he broke the rules for macroing. What I saw in the video looked to be the same thing - macroing. Unfortunately, we could not see what his hands were doing, so its impossible to tell how much was automated, and how much was "skill". I'm willing to bet that more than 90% was automated, and that he was breaking the rules.

That is completely asinine, and you should know it. In one case the person is doing nothing, as their is no need to move and no need to click, same as a bot, in the other the guy is using mousekeys. Except they need to keep the stylus held to the screen, which is doing something. I could also mindlessly use mouse keys to click while watching television, and alch this way. If its considered cheating for one user to change the way the computer triggers input events, then that should be applied uniformly to everyone. If this user, instead of using extraneous, re purposed buttons on the mouse, used actual mouse keys to do the same thing, I would not consider it cheating. Oh - question - If I used an auto-talker to use mouse keys to alch for me, would I be banned? Jagex doesn't ban mouse key users, and they don't ban auto-talkers.... I think I might have something....

A player rewrote/amended the driver of their tablet's touch screen to "autoclick" if he kept the stylus on the same spot for an extended period of time. They used this to high alch items while they watched television. The player was banned for macroing. Their appeal was denied because it was third party software. This is pretty much the EXACT SAME THING, except its with a mouse and not a stylus&tablet.

Its not the hardware that's against the rules, ITS THE SOFTWARE IN IT! The fact that he can PROGRAM the mouse to do different things means that it is SOFTWARE. Its also unclear where the SOFTWARE resides - whether its on the PC, generating inputs based upon which extraneous button is pressed, or in the MOUSE where setting it up would be a little tricky. If the mouse comes with a setup utility, its almost certain it resides ON THE COMPUTER, hence software.

Step back, Cool it. OT: Botting will always be a problem so long as there are people that play RuneScape and have an interest in computer science/programming. In other news, I bought 20m worth of silver ore today. I think I might just hang on to it for a bit longer than I was planning.

Whatever he is doing is programmed - There is no hardware that will do that. Because it is programmed, it is third party software. If he's allowed to do this, I don't see why I'm not allowed to do that in software, which triggers when I hit some key, maybe a function key? The simple fix to this is on Jagex's side - don't allow more than one or two actions per update. That way, they'll be forced to doing tasks at the same speed as the rest of us.

You could try and write your own. In java, you would use the Robot class, along with a KeyEventListener. That way, you'd have full flexibility on what everything does.

You can definitely get away with just 1 black knight. He only dies to traps, really, so if you're only sending him to attack monsters, then the second one is redundant. Go with a spy instead. Knowing exactly where you need to end up can save you a lot of pain and suffering.

For a prize that's valued at what, 3-4k USD? Not sure if that's worth it to me. Especially the hassle of postage and shipping internationally, it might be cheaper to buy a month of membership on a nub acct.

I understand that RuneScape doesn't advertise in traditional methods such as television, billboards, or online flash ads (to my knowledge). I also know that a lot of you old time 'scapers will remember when the floodgates were let open, and the miniclippers piled in. I remember reading many rants about this - believe it or not, I started out as a miniclipper. Back on to the point, and the discussion I'd like to start - Miniclip has changed the logo of Runescape, and has featured it at the head of the category for 3D- games. Its unclear if this was auto generated based on games I played at miniclip recently, or if they really are featuring it prominently again. To be honest, I'm not even sure how much traffic miniclip receives any more or generates for Jagex. -Do you think this will start a flood of new players? -What do you think is Jagex's relationship with miniclip, even though it has funorb?

I prefer Uncyclopedia...

New update means that you're 10x less likely to hit your absolute max. Before the update, I was fairly sure that I could not hit higher than 24 with a rune scimitar. Now, I don't know if its 240, 241, 242... etc. Also, I lose HP faster to low level monsters - they're more likely to hit!

I'm pretty sure most of us could leave runescape for an extended period of time with no repercussions on our health, no symptoms of withdrawal. Same with most things on the computer - there was a point in my life that I was on AIM 24/7 - I wasn't addicted, because I could leave (and did). I do know people that are addicted to video games - they do show symptoms of withdrawal when they're not next to their xbox360 or ps3. The important thing is they need to recognize when they're addicted, and they have a problem (just like someone with an alcohol or nicotine addiction). As far as addictions go, video games certainly aren't the most unhealthy of them.