Connor my point is that I don't care what your doing while playing UO or what some other guy is doing. Enjoy the game anyway you want.
Do you apply this same logic to Football, Checkers, Tennis, Horse Racing, and Nascar? They all have rules, and if you break the rules, most people (you excluded, of course), call it "CHEATING". Cheaters are generally scorned by most people. Why? Because they CHEAT. They gain an Unfair advantage over other players.
Let's dissect my previous examples, shall we?
If, in a game of Football, the other team moves the ball, to their advantage, between downs, and you see them do it, do you just say "Oh! No biggie! Go ahead and enjoy the game anyway you want!"? When you try it (moving the ball), the Ref jumps in and kicks you out of the game. How would you feel about CHEATING, then?
How about Checkers! You are in a heated match, when you have to go to the bathroom. Back you come, and the other player declares themselves the winner, and has cleared the board of your playing pieces. How long would you play Checkers, with a person like that? Would you tell them "I don't worry about what you do...go ahead and do what you enjoy doing, when we play Checkers!"?
Horse Racing...your prize race horse is mysteriously drugged (in a non-permanently harmful way, of course) right before a race. Your horse loses, as do almost all the other horses because they , too, are drugged, and one, in particular, wins, like they have every race, for the last 75 races. You saw the jockey give that horse drugs to enhance their performance, before the race. Would you say "Oh! You know...I really don't care that you gain an unfair advantage over my horse...I will still devote the time to training up and racing thoroughbreds against the likes of you, because I really don't care HOW you race...I just like to race!!".
Nascar...your car always gets flat tires in the pits...and runs terrible, during your races. You find out that an opposing team is putting tire puncturing nails on the ground in your area, and doctoring your car's fuel, so that it doesn't run well. Would you say "You just go right ahead, and CHEAT all you want...when I lose, I will know, in my heart, that I let YOU play the game the way YOU wanted to, and that I didn't mind...and that's really all I need!!".
God...I pity you, if this is your stance...but wait...there's MORE!!
I see players all the time that I think are scripting or unattending macroing and it does not bother me and I do not feel any need or desire to page a GM. Furthermore I do not feel as though they are taking away anything from me or the game or are detracting from it.
Wow...I DO pity you. Your logic is so very far from what anyone...ANYONE...in the real world would feel about people blatantly breaking established, written rules about a game that I am having a hard time going on...yikes.
A friend of mine the other day told me about how he was ignoring a player that was talking to him and suddenly a GM shows up because he was paged that "a player was unattended". Just as in real life people need to mind their own business and worry about themselves.
And the playerbase isn't dwindling because of scripters. It's dwindling because there not adding new content people get burned out doing the same things over and over.
Oh Lord...you honestly believe all this, don't you?
Tell you what...If you have any houses on any shards...I have a GREAT deal for you...you transfer the houses to me (18X 18's preferably), and I will give you back Castles, for every one!! Honest!! [/Intense Sarcasm]
Also the PvP playerbase gets burned out and fed up with the constant changes and tweaks to PvP. The game will never be the same since the disengration of the tank mage.
Live and Let Live.
Yeah, I am sure that all of the Healing and Speeding and Chugging and Spamming scripts have naught to do with how some people feel about PvP.
In fact...LOL...I am very sure that those scripts are just MYTHS...plus...even if they are real...you don't care that people use them, now, do you? I mean...if you PvPed, and didn't use these scripts, and others did, and they beat you...we all know you would say:
Live and Let Live.
Meh & Bleh...
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