24 August 2012

Semi automatic?

I want to start out by saying I do not advocate or support botting the auction house.  About a year or more  ago someone created some scripts that allowed the average auction house player to cancel undercut auctions, open mail, and report auctions all AFK.  Prior to this botting was the domain of those using botting software such as glide in violation of Blizzard’s TOS.  This caused Blizzard to make a few changes in how the auction house works.  Basically you now need to enter a keystroke for each auction you post.  This makes automation much more difficult.  Unfortunately it also ensures that posting large quantities of auctions is more tedious that it was previously.  
How do we ensure we stay compliant with the TOS and still make this less tedious for us who are posting large quantities of auctions?  All my solutions involve macro-ing the major buttons in Tradeskill Master.  Here are their instructions from their FAQ:
Type /framestack and hover over the button and determine what the name of the button is. If the button has no name (all you see is "table: XXXXXX"), then you can't put it in a macro. If the button does have a name, make a macro with "/click BUTTON_NAME" in it (replace BUTTON_NAME with the name of the button and without parentheses obviously).
Since I make macros so often I actually have macro’d the /framestack command.  My first solution is to pick a button on your keyboard that you don't use often and map this macro to it.  I say use a key that you don't use much as you will be repeatedly pounding this key to post auctions, mill herbs, disenchant items, prospect etc.  
The second solution is to map the macro to your scroll wheel on your mouse.  I included this suggestion as i see it fairly often suggested.  I haven't done it as I like my scroll wheel being mapped to my camera zoom too much due to playing zoomed out most of the time.  
My personal solution is to use a Logitech gaming keyboard.  I have mapped my Tradeskill Master macros to two of my G-keys.  And have set them on timed repeat.  one is set for very fast and the other one fairly fast.  This helps me speedily post all my auctions.  And it stays compliant with the TOS as i am technically sending one keystroke for each auction.  
Hopefully this helps others speed up their auction posting and ensure we ensure we all can “Get Rich in WOW - in only 15 MInutes a Day!”

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