AFK Scripting policy
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:11 am
This hasn't been stickied or "officially" documented anywhere before, so I thought now would be a good time to do it.
It is not acceptable to AFK (away from keyboard) script any beneficial or disruptive action at all, anytime, ever. If you are caught AFK scripting you will at the least be hit with an ASP (AFK Scripting Penalty) which will reduce your skillgains for a certain amount of points' worth of gain. You're also likely to be penalized in other ways depending on the scripting - if you were caught AFK scripting something that resulted in skillgain, any associated skills will likely be lowered. If you were making riln with the script, riln will be reduced. If you were getting guild points from it ... you get the idea.
An example of a disruptive script would be something like AFK scripting your character dancing or singing or reciting poetry or ... something like that, in public. Feel free to be creative and act all that out when you're at your keyboard, but if you're doing it over and over while AFK, it's just going to be repetitive and disruptive with the screen scroll.
Exceptions would be something like sending the info command every 5 minutes to prevent a character from idling out, or information-only commands like health, skills, and so on, since they're useful for various plugins and the like. However, I do enjoy messing with people who use scripts just to keep themselves from idling out, so just giving fair warning! If you're idling away in the Commons forever, an NPC thief might chance by and pick your pocket, or a stray mutt might bite your leg, etc.
Note that scripting is okay, as long as you're at the computer and responsive when something happens. If an NPC stops by and says or does something out of the ordinary, be sure to respond to it, as it's likely a GM checking in on you.
It is not acceptable to AFK (away from keyboard) script any beneficial or disruptive action at all, anytime, ever. If you are caught AFK scripting you will at the least be hit with an ASP (AFK Scripting Penalty) which will reduce your skillgains for a certain amount of points' worth of gain. You're also likely to be penalized in other ways depending on the scripting - if you were caught AFK scripting something that resulted in skillgain, any associated skills will likely be lowered. If you were making riln with the script, riln will be reduced. If you were getting guild points from it ... you get the idea.
An example of a disruptive script would be something like AFK scripting your character dancing or singing or reciting poetry or ... something like that, in public. Feel free to be creative and act all that out when you're at your keyboard, but if you're doing it over and over while AFK, it's just going to be repetitive and disruptive with the screen scroll.
Exceptions would be something like sending the info command every 5 minutes to prevent a character from idling out, or information-only commands like health, skills, and so on, since they're useful for various plugins and the like. However, I do enjoy messing with people who use scripts just to keep themselves from idling out, so just giving fair warning! If you're idling away in the Commons forever, an NPC thief might chance by and pick your pocket, or a stray mutt might bite your leg, etc.
Note that scripting is okay, as long as you're at the computer and responsive when something happens. If an NPC stops by and says or does something out of the ordinary, be sure to respond to it, as it's likely a GM checking in on you.