Macroing crafted items for tickets? Read this first!
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:46 pm
Right now the Tidy Up Brittania event is going on and not all of us are lucky enough to have keeps and castles full of unused Power weapons we can trash for points. So some players are crafting items and throwing them in the trashcan to make points. This is a slow but reliable way to get additional tickets if you don't have quite enough for that neon hair dye or furniture dye tub you need.
However, at least 2 different players have already bought the beard cream (to change your facial hair) on accident while macroing and this is how it's happening. If part of your macro includes throwing your item in the trash after it's made, your macro includes a script to select menu option #2 which is where you say "yes" to confirm deleting the item. If you happen to double click your trashcan while your macro is running, there is a good chance that beard cream will be automatically selected for 10,000 points which happens to be menu option #2. The GM's cannot refund tickets or even confirm that your beard cream was obtained during this event so if you aren't careful, you will be wasting tickets.
The safe way to check your ticket balance is to always stop your macro if you need to check your ticket balance. As far as a suggestion to a GM, when the rewards are changed on July 11th, 2017, perhaps a cheap placeholder reward could be placed in slot #2 of the reward menu. Maybe a shirt that says "I participated in the Tidy Up Brittania event and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" for 50 honor points or something so if someone buys it on accident it's not a big deal.
However, at least 2 different players have already bought the beard cream (to change your facial hair) on accident while macroing and this is how it's happening. If part of your macro includes throwing your item in the trash after it's made, your macro includes a script to select menu option #2 which is where you say "yes" to confirm deleting the item. If you happen to double click your trashcan while your macro is running, there is a good chance that beard cream will be automatically selected for 10,000 points which happens to be menu option #2. The GM's cannot refund tickets or even confirm that your beard cream was obtained during this event so if you aren't careful, you will be wasting tickets.
The safe way to check your ticket balance is to always stop your macro if you need to check your ticket balance. As far as a suggestion to a GM, when the rewards are changed on July 11th, 2017, perhaps a cheap placeholder reward could be placed in slot #2 of the reward menu. Maybe a shirt that says "I participated in the Tidy Up Brittania event and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" for 50 honor points or something so if someone buys it on accident it's not a big deal.