What's the point of having a TOS if only select players need to abide by it?
I highly doubt this topic will last long but we will see maybe the moderators will let the discussion go.
Why is cheating allowed to be so widespread in UO without any action ever being taken? The cheaters do not even try to hide the fact anymore uploading constant video's of themselves with unapproved 3rd party programs running. I know the excuse from the development team is that these programs are under review but that doesn't make them LEGAL to use maybe in the future it might although that would be a terrible mistake but as of right now these programs are unapproved therefore illegal and users should have actions taken against them. Maybe the reason they are allowed to continue is simply because they cannot detect who is running what or maybe they simply just choose not to care? I don't know the reason but the endless cheating is ruining the game possibly to the point of no return. When you have players with scripted casting, scripted stone walls and now even bots the cheating needs to end.
Most of us all pay our monthly subscription fee to follow the ToS / RoC and we expect that same commitment to be followed by our fellow players and if they choose to break the rules then we expect that punishment be dished out accordingly by the development team.
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There are some sample video's after a short search of YouTube. I doubt they will be allowed to stay up long as it seems the dev team would prefer to sweep the problem under the rug rather then address it.
I just cannot understand how a company can allow cheaters to negatively impact the enjoyment of their customers.
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I'd gladly sign a petition for them to make the option for simplified field spells.
No the majority of players self identify as rarely or never PvP. That's according to polls done here, admittedly a small sample but Broadsword knows the truth from server traffic logs.
In the rest of the game cheaters are like the neighbour who won't cut his grass annoying but doesn't really affect your game play unless you want it to.
That's the reason I point and laugh at PvPs. Why are you playing and defending a portion of the game you know is "fixed"?
Another Question: If you delegated this task to GMs should they stop answering help calls to do it?
There are only so many hours in a day and only a finite number of Broadsword employees, rather less than the number of cheaters you can find. They do catch and remove some, as posted on the newsletters, there is a large difference between what is desirable and what is possible. Many older players understand that.
FACT #1 is that the all mighty GREEN, $$$$, controls everything when it comes to UO.
FACT #2 Always refer to FACT #1 when thinking about doing anything to UO end of FACTs.
Didn't Bonnie once say at a M/G that as long as you answered a GM that it was ok to use whatever program and that the only people that would be actioned were true AFKers and multiboxers.
Also EA, who owns UO and DAoC by the way, have allowed this along with RMTs for so long that sadly nothing will ever be done about it because if you start to cut into the bottom line, you know that green stuff, then they, EA, will be forced to stop paying BS to manage UO/DAoC and then there will be no cheating or RMT because UO will no longer exist. Nothing major will ever happen in UO/DAoC without EAs approval.
Economy is trashed by the non PvP ones, haven and Luna is a noisy mess of scripted training, events are farmed. These things affect me. You're confused in thinking I am complaining. I merely pointed out why many don't get banned.
Where do you think they got the idea.... swapping out the images for the field spells has been around for way longer than that program. And yet again, it doesn't require a 3rd party program running to do it.
Health percentages above peoples heads.... Something you can mod into the enhanced client..... Ban them all for such an advantage. Add that one to my petition for the classic client as well.
Want to ban players for this sort of thing, Great. But i'd rather see the manpower and time spent bringing the classic client of a retro game to the 21st century with some features for different playstyles, while retaining the look. And bringing back a real bank for EJ accounts with limited weight.
Do both of those things and my god we might actually see some pvpers return to OSI.
I'm sorry if you think I was criticizing you I was just trying to point out a more probable reason clamping down on 3rd party programs is not a priority.
PS I do agree with you on how the game could be better with out cheaters but I think they are a minor annoyance that don't really don't hurt me that much.
Do you ever read your own posts?
All I do when not in fel is help new players in haven, and I see it all the time. I get into a lot of arguments over it. PvP is fun, you have nothing to lose, you can compete with skill and thought, its not the end of the world, just annoying sometimes.
Cheers MissE