[Live] Update Notes: Thursday, January 28, 2010(0)

**Offical Forums** · #1 01-27-2010, 10:10 PM

GENERAL

Ability commands such as “useability” are now being throttled in an effort to cut down on server lag. This means that “mega-macros” that attempt to cast many spells will no longer work as expected.
Housing zones and persistent instances will now automatically shutdown after one hour of inactivity. Any AFK players left in the zone will be camped back to the character select screen. You may still AFK indefinitely in overland zones, city zones and non-persistent dungeons.

**Drumstix42** · #2 01-27-2010, 10:49 PM

Sounds like a good idea'er to me.

**Landiin** · #3 01-28-2010, 12:01 AM

Oh I got go see all the bitching on the forums on how this broke every ones one button to pawn them all macro! This is gonna be fun

lol

Dechau · #4 01-28-2010, 03:43 AM

Haha, that is going to be some whinefest I am sure

So many people uses a 6-7 useability macro these days, I can't believe it

Papabard · #5 01-28-2010, 06:14 AM

whats worse is the gear macros that get spammed to cause lag during contested fights.

**lordebon** · #6 01-28-2010, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Papabard

whats worse is the gear macros that get spammed to cause lag during contested fights.

They could fix that too. Just put a limit on the # of them you can use in a certain time period. Say you can use a maximum of 1 equip-item call per slot per minute. It's kind of stupid how folks do it. Heck, they should just keep logs of it and start banning the people that abuse it.

But yeah, to the actual change: good. QQ to all the folks that whine that they actually have to push buttons to play the game now.

I can't wait to see how the persistant instance change affects the lag on AB. I'm hoping it's going to cut the lag down a bit; raiding as a healer sucks when you're getting 1-2s spell lag =/