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Cheats and Scams and Whatnots

Falon of Eldor

Sage
Stratics Veteran
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It sickens me that people cant CHOOSE not to use such. Any justification for using them is BS.

Any guild or player who associates with those who use such are just as guilty even if they or s/he doesnt use them themselves ---- because they are in fact justifying the person(s) using them.

Siege justice? comeon..................blow me another one.
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
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Any you hope to accomplish what with this thread?
 

Kage

Crazed Zealot
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Stratics Legend
It sickens me that people cant CHOOSE not to use such. Any justification for using them is BS.

Any guild or player who associates with those who use such are just as guilty even if they or s/he doesnt use them themselves ---- because they are in fact justifying the person(s) using them.

Siege justice? comeon..................blow me another one.
This thread is dumb :talktothehand:
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
Not as dumb as YOUR FACE!

...Tell your face that I'm sorry, that was uncalled for. I have no idea how your face would perform in any sort of controlled intelligence testing.
 

Kage

Crazed Zealot
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
OH HELL NAH!

You just wait I'm going to make you eat those words the next time our paths cross.
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
You couldn't make me eat my words if they were deep-fried and bacon-wrapped!
 
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HaHa

Guest
It sickens me that people cant CHOOSE not to use such. Any justification for using them is BS.

Any guild or player who associates with those who use such are just as guilty even if they or s/he doesnt use them themselves ---- because they are in fact justifying the person(s) using them.

Siege justice? comeon..................blow me another one.
*points to Petra quote in sig*
 

Py Lethius

Visitor
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
It sickens me that people cant CHOOSE not to use such. Any justification for using them is BS.

Any guild or player who associates with those who use such are just as guilty even if they or s/he doesnt use them themselves ---- because they are in fact justifying the person(s) using them.

Siege justice? comeon..................blow me another one.
*blows you another one*

Without tools, men are weak.

Those lacking in tools seek to make them selves stronger through acquiring tools to give them an advantage over others.

That in itself is not wrong. A warrior, like a craftsman, should use the best tools available to do the job.

Where men do go wrong is when they sacrifice their honor for advantage - to choose the tools that give unfair advantage, when they choose to break the rules of society and law.

Having spent much time in the study of men and the choices they make, I feel pity and some sadness that there are so many who have so little respect for their own honor. So many are missing examples in their lives of what a man should be, so they follow the examples of what appears to be the smart choice, which ultimately turns them into something far less than what they could be.

If you make war on such as these, you will face unfair advantage. They choose to cheat. It will take great skill and determination to bring low enemies like this.

But what is the real victory? That they won on the field using an unfair advantage? Or is it that you faced unfair odds, perhaps lost the field, but you kept your honor intact?

In the end, you must decide what is worth more: one hundred kills - or your honor?


Py Lethius, Retired Knight
Knights of the Silver Serpent
 

Draxous

Grand Poobah
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
In the end, you must decide what is worth more: one hundred kills - or your honor?
I enjoy both. :thumbsup:

Thanks.


And by the way, no one's ever defending people cheating. The majority of push back those who constantly pancake about cheating get comes from how absolutely childish and illogical they act on the subject, even if the cheaters are 'more' childish... children are meant to be seen, not heard. k tks bye.
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
The cheating, the pancakes, or the pancakes about the pancakes?
 

Py Lethius

Visitor
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The cheating, the pancakes, or the pancakes about the pancakes?
About the pancakes...

You know, it takes a good amount of fortitude to play a game full of cheaters and not get frustrated. You can either get so far removed from player interaction you might as well be playing a single player game, or you can work on your mindset to deal with it. That takes some work, and there will be steam needing to be blown in the process. There is no age limit, there is no "effective" age limit, you will always be playing games with childish people.

I have 4 children - I like to bask in the silliness of their youth and laugh, but there are times when I want to pack them all in a box and ship them away.

I think it is a necessary outlet for the frustration.
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
there are times when I want to pack them all in a box and ship them away.
Remember to poke air-holes.

My frustration comes from the fact that in all my years of playing, I can probably count the PvP-based cheats I've had used against me on one hand. None of them ever killed me.

Legitimate game mechanics were far worse than anything illegitimate I came across.

And the scam threads are the worst of all. Nobody can say anything about them, which leads to innuendo and having to infer who did what to who. People can't defend themselves against that, so we're left thinking "somebody did something to someone" with our minds to fill in the blanks.
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
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Arden Provo'd a sheep onto you, while the guards whacked?

You're a sick, sick man.
 

Py Lethius

Visitor
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Stratics Legend
Remember to poke air-holes.

My frustration comes from the fact that in all my years of playing, I can probably count the PvP-based cheats I've had used against me on one hand. None of them ever killed me.

Legitimate game mechanics were far worse than anything illegitimate I came across.

And the scam threads are the worst of all. Nobody can say anything about them, which leads to innuendo and having to infer who did what to who. People can't defend themselves against that, so we're left thinking "somebody did something to someone" with our minds to fill in the blanks.
I would have to agree there.

Exploiting game mechanics with dirty tricks is probably more maddening than cheats. Guard-whack tricks, and the like are borderline - like hitting someone in the stones in a "fist fight". There isn't a rule about it outside a regulation ring, and there isn't any formal announcement saying you are "in" a "fist fight"... all is fair I suppose...

Darth and Yoda were two of the most repugnant characters I've ever encountered in a game, but I will readily admit that they were incredibly skilled at legally exploiting game mechanics without breaking any apparent rules.

Using exploits and client hacks and using script tools to automate things that would normally be near impossible to execute manually with the "approved" game software is what we usually call "cheating". The ones that are exploited most rampantly usually get fixed.At least get the satisfaction of knowing you compete without these.

When it is a game mechanic that has been there from the beginning, that is abused ad nauseum, that is more aggravating by far. Especially since you know a GM will tell you, "It's legal". it looks like a cheat, smells like a cheat, but by the book it isn't. But you know, it's like these people who take other people's money with legal loopholes - they won't get hung for it, but they certainly deserve it :)

Air holes... OH DAMN! I'll be right back!!
 
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Black magick

Guest
Where men do go wrong is when they sacrifice their honor for advantage - to choose the tools that give unfair advantage, when they choose to break the rules of society and law.

Having spent much time in the study of men and the choices they make, I feel pity and some sadness that there are so many who have so little respect for their own honor. So many are missing examples in their lives of what a man should be, so they follow the examples of what appears to be the smart choice, which ultimately turns them into something far less than what they could be.

If you make war on such as these, you will face unfair advantage. They choose to cheat. It will take great skill and determination to bring low enemies like this.

But what is the real victory? That they won on the field using an unfair advantage? Or is it that you faced unfair odds, perhaps lost the field, but you kept your honor intact?

In the end, you must decide what is worth more: one hundred kills - or your honor?


Py Lethius, Retired Knight
Knights of the Silver Serpent
Do you know why the samurai art is all but extinct while ninjutsu lives on and flourishes? Its because samurai valued honor over everything, while ninja valued getting it done over everything. Also, we are both idiots for comparing a game to real life. :p
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
Are you not playing this game in real life?

Do you think your honor is any less involved when you use a mouse and keyboard?
 

Py Lethius

Visitor
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Are you not playing this game in real life?

Do you think your honor is any less involved when you use a mouse and keyboard?
Those little toons are actually run by people, sitting at their computers.


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Black magick

Guest
Indeed, but do your ingame actions reflect so much on your real life? If I'm an ass, murderer, thief ingame, does that nessecarily mean that I will kill, steal, and **** everyone off IRL? No, your honor isn't any less involved when you use a mouse and keyboard; but, like i said, you can be a dishonorable guy online, and an honorable one IRL. Which one really counts?
 

Revvo

Slightly Crazed
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
Are you not playing this game in real life?

Do you think your honor is any less involved when you use a mouse and keyboard?
Yes 100%, escapism is getting away from the real world.
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
So if I want to escape my problems, I can head to the local strip bar, do lines of coke off strippers till i black out and wake up next to them, a midget, a yak, and a box of torn condoms in the morning, then forget about it until I'm arguing with their children on an internet forum decades years later about whether escapism gets you out of doing the right thing?

If that's the case, I've got... nothing to tell you.
 
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Duke SP

Guest
So if I want to escape my problems, I can head to the local strip bar, do lines of coke off strippers till i black out and wake up next to them, a midget, a yak, and a box of torn condoms in the morning, then forget about it until I'm arguing with their children on an internet forum decades years later about whether escapism gets you out of doing the right thing?

If that's the case, I've got... nothing to tell you.
Was the Yak wearing the condoms?:D
 
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Duke SP

Guest
I know, i know, after your done using them it looks like it right?
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
What have I told you about setting up hidden cameras in my work urinals?

NOT BEFORE THE CC PAYMENT GOES THROUGH!
 
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Duke SP

Guest
I wanted to make sure your not eating the urinal deodorant out of them again, that **** gets expensive!
 

Wulf2k

Stratics Legend
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C'mon, that was ONE freaking time, and Megan Fox had sat on it while drunk.

Extenuating circumstances.
 
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