Reality check? lol! Where can I go to get rewarded for playing by the rules? Tell me, lol. The idea alone to reward someone for following the rules is just ridiculous. The only reward we should, and do, get is to not get penalized when we follow the rules.
Losing a significant amount of players will. And judging from other games that have gone the same route, it slowly destroyed them, it will likely slowly destroy UO.
Had the same thing happen to me...probably the only mark I've ever had on any account. Unattended banksorting, LOL.
Lessor vendors? Those websites only promote Luna for the most part, probably where 90% of the games vendor base has been located for the past 5 years. It's not hurting anyone, it's just a source of free advertisement. Nothing's stopping you from opening a vendor shop at Brit moongate or elsewhere and throwing down runes. The only advantage you gain is uhh.. price competition (drives prices down) and saved time. Normal capitalism, nothing to see here.
They promote Luna only, which means that there's a lot of revenue lost for many vendors that are not well known or pre-search site. I know many who have tried to run vendors, dropping runes, etc. But that business has been dropping more and more for anything worthwhile, as Luna is so easy to search, it even shows you on a map where the item is located.
Damn ... dint see that one coming! Well done, Sirrah! :bowdown:You really need to stop putting words in peoples' mouthes. I never said I supported cheating, and I don't support the use of such websites. I literally haven't had to purchase gear (or much of anything) in over two years because I made all (well most) of the stuff I needed years ago, not to mention imbuing now.
Yet, you keep writing like you support it.
And I think that Ultima should implement autolooters and better scripting tools, like WoW and other games. Yet you don't seem ok with people using the unethical versions of these programs because EA hasn't provided it.
And so what? Sure there are better deals *sometimes*, but most people don't use that. Like I CLEARLY said earlier, some vendors will do well, especially old well established ones, but as a whole, vendoring is clearly hurting over this.
It's great to see some people on the dev team have their heads on straight. This makes me have a little faith in what's going on behind the scenes. For my own piece of mind tho, I'd love to know what the dev team considers actionable scripting and non actionable... is this going to be defined? Or are we just leaving it alone and trying to weed out the stuff that's harming the game, ala: Horrible speed hacking. I'd LOVE to see a rack, where you bend a character over in it, lock them up for 24 hours for unattended macroing. I'd mark a rune there daily to get a good laugh. haha And honestly, I'd rather have that happen to them, and interfere with their gameplay, than see them banned. Banning should be a very last resort, our game is dying slowly as it is, lets plug the leaks and work together for a better GAME. Not a less populated one...Exactly ... it's a fine between justice and fairness and ... perception of both.
We discuss methods of action from zany to subtle and invisible to the general population. It's the difference between putting someone on a rack in front of the town a la Puritan New England ... v. something clandestine where players the next day will just notice someone gone ...
You get the point. It's important to know, though, that we are still actively on this item.
in addition to publishes, backend hardware updates and golf lessons in Tahiti ...
Okay they are Wii golf lessons ...
The program only works on a few free shards, but either way, it is just one of many programs and cheat sites out there.
If cheating makes your gaming experience more enjoyable, maybe you should find a game that doesn't prohibit cheating in its TOS. You agreed to the rules when you signed up. Don't act surprised that you're being held to your agreement.
I would think the tree stump crack would be visible by checking the integrity of certain files ... however, speeders, well, I'm not sure how they would be checked. The thing about speeders though is they make casting, and actions, very hard to do without scripts, so I think if you knock out illegal third party script programs then speeders are going to be a little less effective ... except for tamer hybrids, they'll still be annoying.
If you consider that a cheat....then reading any information on this site to prepare yourself for an expansion or publish is a cheat also.
I find it endlessly amusing that you can never see anyones elses choices or viewpoints outside of your own context.
Well, his point is those sites use illegal third party scripts to collect the vendor information. If you support those sites, you support scripters. Not exactly the same thing as reading spoilers over on Stratics, hehe.
No it isn't, because that information isn't gained through cheating.
So you find it fine to benefit indirectly from cheating, playing in a ruined economy, cheated resources, etc.?
Then stay, there would be nothing requiring you to move to this new cheat free shard, nothing would change for you.
Then see, you'd have the choice. And we can see if it brings in new players playing the right way.
But still a cheat...so are you admitting to being a cheater too?
Exactly how am I benefiting from a ruined economy? If anything, I would say that the results of people scripting has hurt me. Have you ever tried to fill a valorite BOD? Used to be, I would find a valorite vein and be able to mine the hell out of it. Now, I find a vein, mine it for a bit, and it goes goes poof faster than an Army lead over Navy at halftime. Randomizing ore veins or whatever they call it.
Exactly my point. Nothing would change for me, so why do you wonder why I would not want to move. Do you often move for no reason?
And that was caused by Llewyns ilk, not the cheaters themselves. It was the whiners that kept going at it and the devs made a knee jerk reaction and viola, randomized resources.
Well, that is good.
You can buy the items within the TOS too. Heck, you can buy them for real dollars within the TOS too.
So if nothing changes for you, why exactly jump on the anti-cheating bandwagon when there's the danger lurking of too many accounts being shut down and UO being forced to downsize or even close down shards or the game itself.
I can think of several reasons why people would not want more shards.
Popps let's get real for a minute....
Blaming the victim? I would agree that i do not like the solution to the problem with script miners (and lumberjacks), but blaming the people that saw the problem and asked for a solution. No.
Ok, lets go for that.
People keep saying that no cheating will bring back people = more money = more support and events.
Making a new shard is easy as hell for them, just duplicate one onto some old server hardware and host it the same place the rest are hosted...done deal.
Because then the cheated characters will be gone too, their money will matter again, regular PvPers can compete without having 100 million gold suits, etc.
And I refuted all 3. There really aren't all that many good reasons at all.
Without them, there wouldn't have been such a stupid solution. If they hadn't whined and whined, the devs might have found a sensible solution...but noooo, they were forced into making a knee jerk decision instead.
Maybe, but then you're overlooking where 95% of the blame lies.
If you new me in game, you would know how funny this is.
No I am not, its with the cheaters. You just refuse to see that.
Oh really...so lets follow that logic.
Yeah, thats like mine, not a good analogy. But anyway, that really wasn't a knee jerk reaction. And they don't ruin driving.
It does. If it didn't no one would do it.
These achievements represent under an hour of playing for most folks. Yet, you claim to know about how many players cheat? You have as much experience as a week-old player in my guild. Yet, you claim to have deep insight into UO's economy?
