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Good idea, thank you for the tips on how to disable it. Nothing more annoying than someone offhandedly mentioning something I should do and providing no details or elaboration.
Okay, maybe that was harsh, but really, not even an app name or… literally anything?
I was playing WoW and ket getting kicked out of Alterac Valley for idling. So I was like, if I stand in town and push a key every 9 minutes I could do this rep thing way faster. So I started looking up how to press keys without pressing them (circa 2004).
I figured out the key thing after a few confusing days, then slowly started scripting a path that would walk around the merchant areas and look like I was doing stuff. It was hot dogshit but once I figured that out I just kept writing more and more complicated cheats.
In university I had the chance to take real programming courses and by then I’d written hundreds of little scripts. Then I had the language to discuss my little cheats, learned about functions (I was using huge banks of hardcoded coordinates and delays in a giant while 1 loop.
Oh and I wrote a script to automate Ikariam, a fun lil web game and made it to the top 100 players worldwide. That was neat.
So in short, I learned to program to cheat at video games. Eventually stopped caring about the games, my game was cheating. Didn’t care if I got banned, could always jump to a new game because the real game was cheating.