Meepo script , Instant poofs.

"I don't understand, are you trying to insult me? Yes competitive console gameplay, where the winning pots are bigger then any PC sponsored events. How about you stay on topic to the OP, because you look like pretty stupid right now."

You look equally stupid, no one mentioned competitive console scene or competitive play in general until someone attempted to a page ago and that got shot down, so it's you who looks stupid. Another thing to think about is we are talking about macros in Dota a game that people play with a competitive mindset even in PMM not some random console shooter that 90% of the community that plays it couldn't care less if it died a week from now or not and another 8% of the them don't even know there is a competitive scene for that game.

stay on topic please, Dota, macros in dota, scripts in dota, and if they are a problem or not.

thanks

The point is that they are bad,it doesn't teach you to play/help you master a hero,but it does teach you one thing:LAZY!

Dota 2 is designed to accommodate scripts like these, they're completely legitimate. Most streamers/pros use scripts for quick courier, jumping to rune spots, etc. A lot of you don't seem to realise that both Dota 1 and 2 allow a player to cue actions, and that the delay between each action being executed once cued is completely static; no script can affect it. You can cue Meepo's poofs [any finite list of commands] with one key or with several. Its unlikely you'd ever want to cue more than a few commands though, since the longer your cue is the less chance you have to react to new events with more commands [or to cancel a command altogether and recue it a split second later].

In other words don't worry about stacking commands. As long as the script is not "reacting" to in-game data or modifying commands there's no problem. I have yet to come across a streamer who actually selects courier, presses the key to collect all items, presses the key to deliver and then presses the speed up hot key. I know I'd much rather press 'x', because the things in the game that really matter [like csing, lane control, map awareness, coordination etc] demand my focus. I refuse to spend any of it on stacking commands that will never need to be interrupted. The same applies to Meepo's poof or Invoker's spells.

The command stacking in Dota 2 is far more dynamic than the original DotA. In Dota 2 you can right click an item to execute the commands required to buy all of its components. In DotA you buy each component individually, and without a search function. Stacking the 3 commands it takes to buy Shadow Blade [formerly Lothar's Edge] with one key isn't lazy, its efficient. If you lose out on a few split-seconds because your poofs execute faster than you can cue them, don't blame the smarter player who actually finds that extra time by stacking their commands more efficiently.