eula

[pooka]

The EULA has some grey area, and I'm looking for opinions regarding modifying the choice window to always accept group invites. If it's just a modification of the UI, would it still qualify as violation of the EULA? Thanks!

9. You may not use any software to modify the Software to change Game play. You may not create, facilitate, host, link to or provide any other means through which the Game may be played by others, such as through server emulators. You may not decrypt or modify any data transmitted between client and server and you may not use, post, host or distribute macros, “bots” or other programs which would allow unattended game play or which otherwise impact game play. You may not take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You may not buy, sell or auction (or host or facilitate the ability to allow others to buy, sell or auction) any Game account, characters, items, coin or copyrighted material or any other intellectual property owned or controlled by us or our licensors without first obtaining our express written permission.

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

I would say that it does not infringe on the EULA, The part that reads "otherwise impact gameplay" having simple windows that offer information like the mapPOI mod would be a violation. I've doubts SOE would ban over half their population for it.

~EDIT~ Also SOE offers the ability to autodecline group invites in the default UI so you could claim that as a loophole if needed.

[Krylosis]

just looking at the idea: sounds like great functionality, but though you might get a loop hole in the auto decline, the question is now: what does this do, how does it affect the game. I'm no lawyer but I would agree that something like this isn't what soe is looking for i dunno perhaps the coding is there just not used, many times there are things they put in the game that is not used till a certain time and then they activate it.

Krylosis

and this is JUST my thoughts here nothing official at all

[Drumstix42]

I do not see it as an infringement.
Only as an annoying for blind invites

[lordebon]

I don't see it as being a violation, although I don't see why you would want it unless you're multiboxing or (god forbid) multi-botting. And in the first case (since I won't even go into the second) how hard is it really to just swap on over and click accept?

Also sounds like it could get very annoying... unless perhaps it could be set up to check the name against a user-created list of auto-accepts.

[Landiin]

I don't understand your concern really. What ever you can do through UI scripting is OK.

Now if you was using a 3rd party application that monitored the games data packets and then manipulate EQ2's memory to accept then yes you would be in violation of the EULA.