evilC wrote:vasili111 wrote:guest3456 wrote:Again, I strongly strongly disagree with all of this, based on principle. It's not our job to police games.
I think the same.
I think game developers should care about it not we.
If game developers care about it and deal with it, they generally stop the game from running AT ALL if AHK is installed or running - meaning people with legitimate uses for AHK cannot play the game unless they uninstall AHK or exit all scripts.
THAT is the problem I am trying to address, or rather I am trying to stop things from getting to that point with too many games.
I understand that the intentions are good but I disagree in that restricting some gaming scripts will help anyhow with dealing with the problem described by you.
1. While AutoHotkey primary purpose is not game automation and primarily targets automation of non-gaming related tasks, it will always be best suited for game automation and that can't be changed. So it will be always popular among people that want to automate games. You can not change the software so that it will be suited less for game automation and not to lose any features for non-game automation.
2. Restricting some gaming scripts and allowing others will not make AutoHotkey less associated with game bots. There will be left lots of gaming scripts that are disallowed by game developers but allowed in Autohotkey forums according to rules posted above. So banning some scripts and allowing others will not make game developers think that AutoHotkey is not a good tool for making game bots.
3. AutoIt has banned all types of game related scripts from their forum but that did not solve the problem that AutoIt is strongly associated with game scripting. There are many other forums that are discussing AutoIt for game automation and AutoIt is still heavily used for game automation and AutoIt is still strongly associated with game scripting, nothing has really changed.
I don't think that restricting some or all game related scripts at forums will solve the problem that AutoHotkey is strongly associated with game scripting.
evilC wrote:guest3456 wrote:Again, I strongly strongly disagree with all of this, based on principle. It's not our job to police games.
So if people started writing viruses in AHK and distributing them on the forums, would your response be "It's not our job to police windows"?
Viruses are not legal, game automation is legal. These two are different things.