Do you want to Auto-Skill System?

[[GM]Blade]

Hi Maniacs,

As you are aware, we recently introduced the Auto-Skill Macro System, which allows you to automatically cast up to two skills.

A3 Macro System

Since the initial implementation, we have made the following changes to the Auto-Skill system (Not Live yet):

1. Skills are only cast when the character is outside town boundaries.
2. Skills are no longer automatically cast every time the character teleports to a different map.
3. A skill is only re-cast after its existing effect has expired.

However, after several days of intensive internal testing, we have found that the Auto-Skill system can be quite intrusive during actual gameplay.

Casting a skill often requires the character to stop moving and has a noticeable animation time. During wars and other PvP situations, we feel this could potentially take away valuable reaction time and interfere with player-controlled actions.

For example, consider an Archer using Chaser and Mirage in Auto-Skill mode while under the effect of Razbadge. The player may need to manually use Freedom to remove the effect. However, if a Holy Knight is continuously spamming Weapon or Shield, the Archer can end up repeatedly entering the skill-casting state. This can prevent the player from responding quickly and using Freedom when needed.

We have explored several ways to mitigate this behaviour, but unfortunately, every solution we tested either continued to interfere with gameplay or took too much control away from the player.

Because of this, we are considering removing the Auto-Skill functionality altogether and retaining only Auto-Potting and Auto-Teleport.

Before making a final decision, however, we would like to hear directly from the community.

Please vote in the poll and let us know what you prefer.

Your feedback will help us decide whether Auto-Skill should remain as part of the A3 Macro System or be removed.

Thanks, Maniacs!

[luvrulzz]

in my opinion we dont need this features.

[Gon]

Warrior need this feature. Warrior cast many skills; this will help for sure.

[tigerxxx]

Players have option to keep it on or off then it is good function who like it they will keep it on others will keep it off. Thanks for voting

[tigerxxx]

in my opinion we dont need this features.

Alexmica we are not seeing you playing game. Without using how can you say that ? Alexmica left since many days.. hope you come back and test it and vote

[Jha2Temoz]

If you're going to bring updates, bring useful ones instead of handicapping strong players or messing with critical A3 mechanics just to force "accessibility" through things like autopot and other autoplay so called features.

And while you're at it, maybe add proper translation for public Korean trash talk too. If someone is going to talk trash in another language in a public community, everyone should be able to understand the tone and intent so other regions can actually reply accordingly instead of needing a translator just to figure out what was said.

Improve the game. Don't dumb it down. And if you're going to let people talk trash, at least let everyone understand the trash they're throwing.

[[GM]Blade]

If you're going to bring updates, bring useful ones instead of handicapping strong players or messing with critical A3 mechanics just to force "accessibility" through things like autopot and other autoplay so called features.

The changelog already provides the full justification for the change. This is about making critical functionality consistent, reliable, and part of the game itself, rather than dependent on external tools.

[Jha2Temoz]

The changelog already provides the full justification for the change. This is about making critical functionality consistent, reliable, and part of the game itself, rather than dependent on external tools.

Still, the main question remains unanswered. I'd genuinely like to hear your thoughts on the actual issue you conveniently avoided addressing. What's your honest answer? Don't worry no one's going to judge you. I'm just curious whether you'll answer the question this time instead of expertly dodging it.

[[GM]Blade]

I only addressed what is relevant to this topic. If you have some other suggestions or thoughts, you can post separately.

[jha2quanato]

If you're going to bring updates, bring useful ones instead of handicapping strong players or messing with critical A3 mechanics just to force "accessibility" through things like autopot and other autoplay so called features.

And while you're at it, maybe add proper translation for public Korean trash talk too. If someone is going to talk trash in another language in a public community, everyone should be able to understand the tone and intent so other regions can actually reply accordingly instead of needing a translator just to figure out what was said.

Improve the game. Don't dumb it down. And if you're going to let people talk trash, at least let everyone understand the trash they're throwing.

You should stop talking trash. You should learn some manners first and respect whom you're talking to. The A3 team is doing their best. So, either give constructive suggestions or keep quiet.

[bilmade]

My suggestion would be to keep Auto-Skill only for buff/support-type skills, for example:

Heal
KW
Shields
Other similar self-buff/support skills

Debuff, offensive, and situational skills should remain manual.

This way, players still get the convenience of automatically maintaining buffs while keeping full control over important skills during PvP.

The main issue seems to be Auto-Skill forcing the character into a casting animation at the wrong time. That becomes a much bigger problem with debuffs or situational skills where timing matters.

Keeping those skills manual would prevent Auto-Skill from taking too much control away from the player while preserving the feature's useful aspects.

Auto-Skill: Buff/Support skills only
Debuff/Offensive/Situational skills: Manual only

I think this would be a better compromise than removing Auto-Skill altogether.

[[GM]Blade]

By design, auto-skill only works on self-buff skills. For skills that you cast on other players, you still have to cast them manually.

[bilmade]

By design, auto-skill only works on self-buff skills. For skills that you cast on other players, you still have to cast them manually.

I see. I haven't tried it out outside of self-buffs, but that makes sense now.

Seems like it's going to be niche usage. It can help in 1v1 and small-scale, but it can be disruptive in large-scale battles. I guess leave it up to people how they want to use it. People will learn eventually when to use it and when not to.

[luvrulzz]

Alexmica we are not seeing you playing game. Without using how can you say that ? Alexmica left since many days.. hope you come back and test it and vote

I haven't been actively playing for some time, but I'm still following the game, forums and staying in touch with players.

I'm not against new features, but I feel updates should improve A3 without taking away the skill, timing and player control that make the game competitive. Convenience is good, but not at the cost of core gameplay.

So my opinion is based on the direction of the feature, not simply on whether I've used it recently.

[Goldenarrows]

@GMs only...Actually I find the updates cosmetic and making-players-lazy-farmers in nature which has only harmed the gameplay that A3 boasted since so many years, no offense intended.

I played the updated game for a few hours and it made me feel instantly disconnected.

Initially only the Coreans used to triple or quadruple login, now every farmer can do that, without worrying of getting pk'd with auto potting and auto tp on. Moreover with hk and warrior they can attack the attacker...that means a single player can now control 3 or 4 players himself to attack any other player.

Also, with auto buff skills like, mirage and/or chaser, for example, you dont have to worry if the person/creep is removing your skills or not because the auto skills are doing it for him while in normal maps farming or war.

I actually find it little amusing that the main purpose of the updates was to reduce surging demand made by third party tools for the purpose of potting or such. Now with a single person quadrupling for farming with auto potter on albeit with throttled potting wont be doing any good either...or is it? The game itself has become a bloatware by providing these facilities in game.

All I can say that there is no Game Play left in this game now. Everything on auto has killed the game play that A3 was known for.
Instead of making auto skills and auto pots, the best thing was to reintroduce the RB System Game play and banning the use of all 3rd party software or potter...by doing that the game play also would have been preserved and even any Tom Dick or Harry could easily survive on dex and play his game.

MY SUGGESTIONS: Revert back to the original RB SYSTEM, BAN all 3rd party tools, REMOVE auto potting/skills option

Regards
Goldenarrows