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I currently have three copies of the wreath and cake — it really doesn’t take that long if they want more. A few minutes more at most.
As a housing enthusiast that amount is nowhere near enough. You can easily use several in a build. Take for example last years snowman, that was used as a modern light and could easily use 6-10 in one build. Multiply that by multiple builds and the fact that these are untradable and only available during the event (no way I’m paying $5 for one) and you might understand why someone would want to farm dozens of them while we can.
- How would you suggest we implement this artificial limit?
- What would prevent users from simply restarting Miqobot to reset the cooldown?
- What would prevent users from using a mouse macro to restart Miqobot and click the button automatically in a loop while being AFK?
- What would prevent users from trying to hack Miqobot in order to remove the cooldown?
- Does everyone agree with this artificial limit?
Just when I thought we had found a solid implementation, Miqo brings up some important points. It shows that the miqo team thinks thoroughly on the ethical implications of each feature they introduce.
In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to add any sort of artificial limit. I myself update prices anywhere from once an hr to a few times a day. For me, adding such a feature would be more of a QoL enhancement than the undercutting bot that some people want/wish for. It would closer resemble the watering garden feature (another feature on my wish list), just something used to alleviate the monotony of updating prices or watering plants.
However, we do not live in a perfect world. Without some sort of limitation, something that I envision only used as needed, would instead be abused to keep the user’s prices updated to the second, causing many of the problems already mentioned.
- How would you suggest we implement this artificial limit?
- What would prevent users from simply restarting Miqobot to reset the cooldown?
- What would prevent users from using a mouse macro to restart Miqobot and click the button automatically in a loop while being AFK?
- What would prevent users from trying to hack Miqobot in order to remove the cooldown?
I agree with Nirvana’s suggestion for this. Having a cooldown that is server-sided would discourage/prevent any type of tampering with miqobot.
5. Does everyone agree with this artificial limit?
I myself think the cooldown should be anywhere from 30min to 1hr. This is about how often a reasonable person would be updating their prices. Whatever undercutting issues arise from that should fall within the norm. Miqo would just be saving the user the button presses.
However, that is just my opinion. Perhaps a forum poll to decide? Or better yet (and this would probably fall under a feature request), adding a polling feature to miqobot. When a user starts miqo, there could be a feedback/poll section on the main window that can update from the server with whatever the miqo team wants feedback on. That way you are gauging response from all users and not just the ones on the forums.
It still remains a pvp feature. You clicked the button and your bot did all the undercutting for you. Nice. But someone else clicked it one minute later. And now your button is on 1 hour cooldown. Does it make you happy?
Yes it would make people happy because it would be a QoL thing which is what miqo is for, doing tedious/grindy things for you.
If you keep it from being automated and keep it from being used in scenario, then that avoids a lot of the problems people have with an undercutting bot. It would still rely on user interaction, similar to combat assist. Its a good compromise between fully automated and not existing at all.
