As it is, there are three things that Honorbuddy insists that we change about our WoW installation that aren't entirely standard for WoW installs. They're not uncalled for, but they're probably not that common outside of botting either.
First - Click To Move. It's a fine setting, and I use it normally too. But others do not, and when I've been so kind as to bot for other people's accounts - when they get back, they turn it off. "It's annoying as shit," some say.
I'm hoping there is a way to get Honorbuddy to function without it, because here's something else that Honorbuddy does that a normal player simply can't do. With CTM on, when Honorbuddy is flying around - you can see that it's actually clicking in the middle of the air to move. Not the mountain way off in the distance, but an actual floating move point. Players can't do that at all, they'd be going for the mountain. That's a red flag in my book.
Second - Windowed Mode I can't even run it in Windowed (Fullscreen), which is (or should be) everyone's preference anyway. It has to be Windowed, and it can not be fullscreen. I don't know anyone that normally plays like that, but it's also not uncalled for - people with shoddy computers might have to use a smaller window and poor resolution, I can't judge. But it is something that all Honorbuddy runners have in common, and that'd be a red flag for me.
Finally -32bit mode for 64bit systems. Who does that? I mean, really. Players would have to go out of their way to set that up, and personally - I'd not want to run an application in 32bit mode if it's already optimized for 64bit. But 64bit changes memory references around, I get that. Easier to focus on what all systems could have in common - which is 64bit. I think that's a terrible idea, because the only reason anyone has for to run in 64bit mode, is for troubleshooting problems. No one should be running 32bit for the sake of it, and I don't think anyone does.
The point of this post is to not criticize Honorbuddy, because I absolutely love the application and would be in a much different financial situation without it. But I think that it should always strive to emulate a standard environment, and I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that Blizzard collects system information and game settings as a way to determine most common settings - so they can adjust the quality of their game in the future.
Problem is, while they're already collecting that information - what if they also searched for common settings for botters? Meeting all the "system flags" for botting by itself wouldn't do it, but I find myself quite certain that it has to be a factor.
First - Click To Move. It's a fine setting, and I use it normally too. But others do not, and when I've been so kind as to bot for other people's accounts - when they get back, they turn it off. "It's annoying as shit," some say.
I'm hoping there is a way to get Honorbuddy to function without it, because here's something else that Honorbuddy does that a normal player simply can't do. With CTM on, when Honorbuddy is flying around - you can see that it's actually clicking in the middle of the air to move. Not the mountain way off in the distance, but an actual floating move point. Players can't do that at all, they'd be going for the mountain. That's a red flag in my book.
Second - Windowed Mode I can't even run it in Windowed (Fullscreen), which is (or should be) everyone's preference anyway. It has to be Windowed, and it can not be fullscreen. I don't know anyone that normally plays like that, but it's also not uncalled for - people with shoddy computers might have to use a smaller window and poor resolution, I can't judge. But it is something that all Honorbuddy runners have in common, and that'd be a red flag for me.
Finally -32bit mode for 64bit systems. Who does that? I mean, really. Players would have to go out of their way to set that up, and personally - I'd not want to run an application in 32bit mode if it's already optimized for 64bit. But 64bit changes memory references around, I get that. Easier to focus on what all systems could have in common - which is 64bit. I think that's a terrible idea, because the only reason anyone has for to run in 64bit mode, is for troubleshooting problems. No one should be running 32bit for the sake of it, and I don't think anyone does.
The point of this post is to not criticize Honorbuddy, because I absolutely love the application and would be in a much different financial situation without it. But I think that it should always strive to emulate a standard environment, and I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that Blizzard collects system information and game settings as a way to determine most common settings - so they can adjust the quality of their game in the future.
Problem is, while they're already collecting that information - what if they also searched for common settings for botters? Meeting all the "system flags" for botting by itself wouldn't do it, but I find myself quite certain that it has to be a factor.
