Macro = TexMod?

If players are able to use TexMod for title gaining purposes... are drinkbots allowed too?

the 2 are similar how?

Well, aside from the technical EULA issues of whether drinkbots are allowed, more to the point would be how (and why) anybody would stop you. There are plenty of people (see: Grotto) who stand around in town all day doing a whole lot of nothing, so you wouldn't be much different from them.

I think his point is that they're both 3rd-party add-ons that change an aspect of the game for the player, but not anyone else.

Cartography with aids requires interaction.
Running a bot does not require interaction.

Did you eat paint chips when you were a kid?

Is there really a difference whether I'm there or not?

No, the difference is what Burst Cancel said:

Textmod=it only affects you (and some would say everyone else but indirectly, see discussion on LHMC); bot=affects everyone directly (server-side).

Guess you are right.

Anet should just give you all the titles in the game, then ban your account.

Does it matter if you are there or not?

Just download ghost-mouse or some shiz like that and keep chugging...

mind telling me since when is a bot seversided?

It's not. Not the drinkbot anyway. o.O; Doesn't it just.. click? Pretty sure it's NOT serverside.

It's lovely when everyone is so flame-happy.

The merits of the instant issue (rather, lack thereof) are clear, but to be fair, the cited statement is a mischaracterization.

Textmod was never intended to complete cartography for you. What it was intended to do was prevent you from having to figure out which areas you missed. In that sense, it doesn't require interaction; whereas you would have spent potentially hours scouring and re-scouring maps or comparing bitmaps in photoshop, Textmod gives it to you for free.

In terms of allowability, Textmod is only escaping on the basis of a technicality - that it's a 'cosmetic' change. The kind of texture modding used for cartography is done for a completely different purpose than, say, changing the appearance of your armor. As such, hiding behind the 'cosmetic' change to escape the EULA is improper.

To answer the original question, no, drinkbots are not allowed, nor are any other kinds of bots:

Section 7 of the EULA states:
(emphasis added)

Thank you for bolding the 'without interaction' part.

Close thread please.

you got not gain in game stuff from texmod.. only eye candy for yourself - graphics, but the bot actualy adds controll... texmod yes, drinkbot no.

texmod is no diff to placing a red plastic filter over your moniter, it just effects what you see.

Bots are not aids. Bots do the work for you. With the cartography aid you still have to go everywhere and do everything. Except with the aid you're sure you didn't miss a spot and you have a better idea of where to go. The bot just lets you go do whatever while you gain a title for no reason.

It's not. I think what Fril meant is that the effects of a bot/macro are felt serverside because the bot/macro generates commands that do get executed by the server, thus changing the state of the GW "world" for everyone. Conversely, the effects of a texmod are only felt clientside.

(Now, you having a drinkbot macro changes the GW world in a way that I probably won't notice and wouldn't care about if I did (a line of text under your name appearing sooner than it otherwise would). But that is a serverside impact nonetheless.)

Anywho, Burst Cancel posted the final word on OP's original question:
End of discussion.

Closed by request.