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Date:    2014 Jul 30 05:48
To:      dentin all
From:    victorious
Subject: GH feature in mush-z
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Hi Dentin

In the latest beta of mush-z, the following feature was added.  From the changelog:

New healing functions for groups! There is a new alias called gh (group heal). You
can type gh to automatically heal the player with the lowest percentage of hitpoints,
or you can type gh followed by a player's name to include/exclude from healing. It
even checks if you have enough mana and if that particular player needs more than
100 hp to cast heal! The include/exclude function can be used if (for example) the
group leader tells you to heal only the hitters, you can exclude the tank by typing
gh and th
e name of the tank.

Although this is not technically a group bot (i understand that this feature had
your approval), it is trivial to turn it into one, despite the following obsticles.

1. In its current form, you have to manually add people that you want to heal to
the GH list by doing GH <playername>, repeating that command again to remove them
from the heal list. This could be automated with triggers matching off players entering
or leaving the group.

2. You need to manually type GH every time you want it to check for injured group
members. This could be automated through a timer that does so for the botter every
x seconds, and with a little scripting, the timer could fire at random, unpredictable
intervals with random numbers generated with the math.random() function.

As it is so easy to turn GH into a group healing bot, I urge you to reconsider your
decision to allow inclusion of this feature into mush-z. The current tools available
for checking group status are sufficient to allow screen readers to heal effectively,
and something like GH will inevitably lead to more group botters in the future. As
this feature can be easily turned into a bot, allowing it would also send mixed signals,
undermining Your stance against group botters.


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