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Originally Posted by Kaelten
you mean I have to waste 15 mins of my time trying to dodge the damned fence on the road, instead of enjoying myself?
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heh. Sorry, that gave me quite a good chuckle.
I'll have to say that one of my first mods I wrote was a patrol script. Followed by AvgXP. The patrol script was a movement script, taking advantage of the movement commands, allowing you to store waypoints and travel between the points using a bezier curves to approximate proper locations of turning to make it rounded, smooth, and intelligent. The reason? I'm a roleplayer, I stand around a lot. I didn't want to stand in one spot, so I made a script to patrol me back and forth between a few points to minimize my need to control my character.
My reasoning for that was entirely different than an autotravel mod. While I could of easily had it autotravel, I didn't. The reason why I used it was for the sake of being able to move and communicate, trade, etc, without having to continually be turning around when moving in a small space.
Shortly after the removal of getposition and unitfacing I scrapped the idea entirely because it just lost its flair, its accuracy. It wasn't fluid, it wasn't natural.
I'll agree with you in stating that the travel functions themselves are not being abused by botters. There isn't enough reliability in it for me to ever consider running anything unmanned.
However, I am going to go out and say that I agree with Blizzards position. Not that we really have a choice, its their game, and we choose to play their game how they make it. I rather enjoy their games and I will continue to enjoy it, regardless of what "bonus features" they remove. All of the UI modding in and of itself is a bonus, a priviledge we are granted to bring our interface above and beyond the standard scope they created, and give it our own feel to our own play style. I feel that a bot that is autotravelling for you, is doing nothing more than playing the game for you. While many will argue "its not playing the game because its just moving" well I'm sorry, but it is playing the game for you. The intent of the game is that your characters movement and interaction is driven by you. Aside from using a taxi service, all character movement is done by the user and is expected to be. We don't have a large mass of scripts out there that talk for us. When I talk to you, I expect you to talk back, not some automated script trying to formulate a response.
Blizzard bases their playstyle and gaming style on the expectations they have of the gamer during their play time. They have added many bonuses such as rested exp, and teleporters to make the lives for many more casual people easier, but the intent of the player to actually be in full control of the character almost 99% of the time. There were things that took more control out of the hands of the user. Formerly mind control effects were far more powerful than present day. Previously action buttons greyed out and all control and buttons became inoperable, you couldn't even open your bags, when your player was not in control. They've since changed this, putting more and more control into the hands of the player at any given time. I believe this is their intentions, and I believe they expect you to man the controls when you're playing the game. Different games have different playstyles and perhaps this style doesn't fit your needs, and if so there are plenty of possibilities out there.
Again, this is just my view, and you're subject to your own opinions. There really is little to discuss about the merits of the decision since it isn't our decision to make, and the gavel has fallen.
The utmost important thing we must realize is that we're all here to have fun and have a good time, there is always plenty to do, plenty to see, and there will always be different things for us to focus our attention on. (Shameless plug) If you don't think so, stop by the Feathermoon server, and experience a different world for yourself. Complete with Church services, player run pubs, fashion shows, dueling night, Stormwind University classes and expeditions, full roleplayed Molten Core and Onyxia raids, and more. There is much more to this world than the simple mechanics that Blizzard lays before us, and losing something like autotravel just may make you spend that extra minute to take a second and look around and see something you've never seen before.
Sorry for the novel.
-Atrius
Storyteller, Bard, and leader of the once Bête Noire