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Posted by: wouw.5837

wouw.5837

Hello
Today I went To gw2stuff.com and saw they had a overlay feature wich showed the dragon timers, which were about the happen.

This seemed pretty useful, but than I wonderd, does A-Net Allow this?

I know they allowed Texmod in GW or even some other mods, do they here?

Elona is Love, Elona is life.

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Posted by: notebene.3190

notebene.3190

That overlay doesn’t interact with the game at all, at least the one I tried. I ended up not liking it because of it’s size and ‘how’ it sat on the window. It basically is designed to stay on top of the GW2 game (windowed mode), but it’s not like it’s an add-on. It doesn’t have focus. So when they tell you you can ‘right click’ on it to bring up this, that or the other, you really have to alt-tab to it (unless they changed how it works), and then you can interact with it.

But unlike the super-teleport-cheater-6000 thing that those people were using to pop around from node to node, and you’d see them dead in a rock from time to time, it isn’t interacting with the game client at all, other than to say “stay on top of this window”. It gets it’s information from the provided APIs, same as the web site, so I gather.

Now, if they deem that using it gives you an unfair advantage to accidentally die quicker than your opponent if you are accidentally alt-tabbed to it, though it wouldn’t look too different than not being, and you start mashing key strokes and nothing happens (much like seeing “wwwwwwwwwaaadddsss1111www11122 sorry” in chat from time to time), then I suppose it might give an unfair advantage to ‘not’ you who is attacking you.

Now, that was my experience with the very first edition of it. In fairness, it could have changed since then. I’d just as soon alt-tab and use the script for the audio notification, that suits me fine. What I’d really like is a mobile app.

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

Yes they allow it because it doesn’t interfear with the game and doesn’t give you an advantage, it’s not really any different to having a browser open on a timer website.

Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).

“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”

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Posted by: wouw.5837

wouw.5837

I thought so, thanks!

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Posted by: LHound.8964

LHound.8964

It’s perfectly legal. That overlay is one result of ANet’s API release:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/List-of-apps-websites-using-the-API/first.

You can find some good apps in there.
/cheers

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