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Just hittin' reply, Katheryne...I picked your reply link cuz you have a pretty siggy lol
(Man, one of these days I'm gonna open a sock puppet account called Reply, just to post stuff like "STOP HITTING ME!")
(And no I didn't read all four pages of the thread lolz)
Number of trees somebody hacked into Maxis's computers to replicate in the game: 0
Number of trees someone pressed ctr-alt-t 3,568 times to create one tree (1 in 1000 chance): 0
Number of trees someone stole from a shopping lot when the owner went AFK: 0
Basically, every single tree in the game was earned by someone getting their account to 24 months or payments. What they did with those trees at that point is their own business.
Thanks to the whiners who couldn't think of a more equitable solution, they're already wipping EVERYONE'S money across the board, cheaters and legit players alike. So once that's done, no one will be able to buy trees without having legit money, either earned or bought from EA.
Ah, but what about those that currently have trees bought with "counterfeit" funds who will then get to keep those trees in EALand? Well what would you suggest? We wipe all the TREES, too? That's REALLY going to piss of a LOT of folks who've not only never cheated, but who's only trees are the one's they earned on multiple accounts, or got as gifts from friends who knew better than to continue playing this game lol
I mean, that's only fair. Since SOME of those trees were bought with cheated money, we need to get rid of ALL the trees. Especially since it's no skin off your nose what with your lack of a tree.
But say, why stop at trees? Isn't it "no fair no fair" that everyone has a robo-dog but you? So let's wipe those too.
Heck, let's just wipe all the inventories, period. And blow up folks's lots, since private property is such a disgusting idea anyway.
Why, it's certaintly "not fair" that some folks have more skills than others.
So let's get one of those equalizing devices from The Sneetches story, and level the playing field: Just wipe the whole damn game, and see if anyone wants to bother starting over.
I don't get why it bothers folks so much what their neighbor owns, either in this game or real life. Real life? How 'bout GET a life! It doesn't effect you. Focus on your own life, not how the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, and you're gonna find a way to piss on your neighbor's lawn.
You want to whine about how someone has more money than you and that gives you the right to beg the authorities to take it away? Well go live in a communist country and see if that's REALLY what you want.
If folks want to spend real money on this game (and at the current 989 exchange rate 3k simoleans is less than four bucks), it's there money to blow any way they want. Heck, over the years, if you've been here since beta and had an extra account or two, you've ALREADY made this choice and blown over a thousand REAL DOLLARS on this game.
If there's a way to make a buck off of TSO after blowing over a thousand bucks on this game over the years, more power to 'em. God bless capitalism.
"...Now there's no more Oak oppression, for they cast a noble law. And the trees are all kept equal -- by hatchet, axe, and saw..."
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When you aren't off on another planet drinking up gabba juice, you sure make alot of sense!