LOL! Paying more taxes doesn't give you more political power. But those in the highest tax brackets certainly have the money to buy out a congressman or five. Not only that, but if you're the CEO of, say, a pharmaceutical company. You can buy legislation that pads your bottom line on the shareholders' dollar.
No. Women spend effort in the relationship trying to get their man to change. Men spend their effort in the relationship to get their woman to not change.
If I was advertised a certain rate on the website and then they turned around and said "actually, the real interest rate is 5%", I'd tell them where to go.
When you see an advertised interest rate, this rate will be footnoted with the acronym "O.A.C.". Perhaps you should look up what that means...
Yes. I fondly remember UT. I also remember the multiplayer game being ruined by cheaters with aimbots. For good or bad, the days of true "single player" gaming are fading away. It's all about the online communities now. And once cheaters get a foothold, these communities (and the revenue streams that often come with them) will just go away.
The ban was only for 14 days. Even then, they are robbing him of nothing. He agreed to the Terms of Use (ie: the rules of the game) when he first signed on. These terms clearly state their policy for cheaters. If you can't play by the rules, screw you!
Who cares about achievements? Achievements are cosmetic at best, and nobody really cares about them.
Riiight... Just about every major multiplayer game has introduced Achievements in the past two years. And all the game designers do this in light of the fact that "nobody really cares about them"? You don't find value in them? Fine. But it's pretty much a foregone conclusion in light of the facts that you don't speak for the other millions of gamers out there.
Maphack is pretty much impossible to detect. Did that person hack their way to your expansion, or did they just walk all over you by superior intuition, by watching which way your units were going in the brief times they saw them?
I had played Warcraft 3 on battlenet for years. Its 'instant replay' feature was a fairly good way of sniffing out maphack. You could give yourself your opponent's "vision", seeing everything that they saw in the game. Any time I suspected a maphack, I'd run a replay. Often, I'd see an opponent making a tactical move that he would *only* make if he could see what it was that I was doing. These replays would get sent to Blizzard.
More often, however, I'd find someone using maphack on my own team. I'd ask him once (nicely) to turn it off. If he didn't, I'd drop from the game and report him.
Yes. I know all about showers. Ask your mama about the golden one I gave her last night. Get out of her basement more often and you might have some experiences, too!!
#1 Bullshit! A cheater is a cheater is a cheater. I expect a fair game in a battleground the same way I expect a fair poker game. This is a lesson I learned when I was in Kindergarten. Perhaps you should review, as you see absolutely nothing at all ethically wrong with your reprehensible behavior.
#2 Bullshit! One of the key "rules of the game" is that you control your own character. If bots didn't give an unfair advantage, why do you think they are banned? Their scripting and macro API specifically blocks out the scripting of button clicks. Why do you think this is? (I'm shocked, again, that I have to explain this). Because bots don't make the mistakes that human players do. The win-or-lose decisions the best healers make take concentration, focus, and very quick thinking. In the time a human healer has planned out his next two heals, a bot has already queued up his next 50. If you can't see how simple this concept is, I really don't think I have any more to discuss with you.
You spoke about that as if the person were actually "getting off" on the praise when it sounded to me like they were "getting off" on the geekery of figuring something out and executing it well.
Honestly, I don't care if he "gets off" to underage donkeys. He's a cheater. And cheaters, I have absolutely zero respect or tolerance for. Nor do I tolerate those who make excuses for them. Cleverness be damned. I don't care if the game is WoW, Baseball, the Stock Market, or Tiddlywinks. Play fairly, or GTFO.
Hell, even checkers is a much more challenging game.
Link me to your WoW armory page that shows your Heroic "Kingslayer" and "Starcaller" achievements, then I'll defer to your expert opinion. You don't have those, do you? In that case, stop talking. You have no authority on the matter.
I spend about 60% of my work hours finding ways to have computers automate things that human workers are paid to do, and I find it fascinating. I understand if you think "WoW is serious business" but really - taking something like that game environment and designing scripts that can handle automation within it can be pretty interesting.
Yes, it's very interesting. And I've already praised it upthread for its cleverness. But it's still fucking cheating. If you want to play with bots, be my guest. But do it in a way that doesn't screw with other players who pay to play what they should expect to be a fair game.
To be blunt, if getting praise because *you* personally are able to do something in a battle ground that *I* can write software to do as well or better - that seems like you're the one with the issue. I mean, shouldn't you go and find a hobby that isn't so mindnumbingly stupid and easy that a duffer can write software that is able to outperform you?
To be blunt. You can go fuck yourself. Bots never get their math wrong. Bots never fat finger a key, or wind up typing in their commands into a chat window. Bots don't get so focused on healing that they forget to move out of the fire. Bots don't make the mistakes that even the *best* player makes from time to time. Why do you think they're forbidden by just about every online games' TOS?
If anyone's inadequate, it sounds like you. But hey, that's just my take as someone who could write a script that is "smarter" than you within this game's parameters.
Kindly get your e-dick out of my face. It's not nearly as impressive as you think it is.
There is no bonus for being first on the meters. Being first was not depriving anyone of anything.
You yourself mentioned all the praise you got for your healing, beating the #2 guy by "a large margin". Those accolades rightly belonged to someone else.
You cannot steal honor from anyone. Everyone gets the same honor based on how many kills they're involved in and how well the team does in the match.
Really? Without your bot, more of your teammates would have died. More of your battlegrounds would have been lost. This would have given more honor to your opposing team. How is this not stealing honor?
One of the biggest reasons one side would lose a BG is lack of healing, so if anything my bot was probably helping people gain honor.
Again, at the expense of your opposing team who was likely playing fairly. I find it amazing that someone so familiar with the game's mechanics that he can write such an optimal healbot is unaware of this most basic of concepts.
No. The poster is just a cheater. He gets off on cheating in battlegrounds. He gets off on the wholly unearned praise he gets from other players. He gets off on "finishing #1" when that honor fairly belongs to someone else. Don't blame the game for this loser's social inadequacies.
It was quite simple - it would search for nearby players and try to stay in the middle of everyone. It would throw heals over time on anyone within range that was slightly injured, and cast big heals on people taking a lot of damage. I used it to farm honor in the PVP battlegrounds. After letting it run for hours, I'd take a look at the chat log and see lots of tells from people thanking me (it) for heals. Never once saw a comment calling it out as a bot. The mod I used to queue battlegrounds took screenshots of the match results, and many times my bot was #1 on healing (often by a large margin).
"Kudos" for writing a clever application. "Go screw yourself" for being a lousy, stinking cheater.
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LOL! Paying more taxes doesn't give you more political power. But those in the highest tax brackets certainly have the money to buy out a congressman or five. Not only that, but if you're the CEO of, say, a pharmaceutical company. You can buy legislation that pads your bottom line on the shareholders' dollar.
What were the two rallying cries of the Teabaggers when health care reform was being written? "No Socialized Medicine!" and Don't touch my Medicare!!
No. Women spend effort in the relationship trying to get their man to change. Men spend their effort in the relationship to get their woman to not change.
When you see an advertised interest rate, this rate will be footnoted with the acronym "O.A.C.". Perhaps you should look up what that means...
Yes. I fondly remember UT. I also remember the multiplayer game being ruined by cheaters with aimbots. For good or bad, the days of true "single player" gaming are fading away. It's all about the online communities now. And once cheaters get a foothold, these communities (and the revenue streams that often come with them) will just go away.
The ban was only for 14 days. Even then, they are robbing him of nothing. He agreed to the Terms of Use (ie: the rules of the game) when he first signed on. These terms clearly state their policy for cheaters. If you can't play by the rules, screw you!
When people stop paying that price, they will lower it. That's how the market works.
Let me guess. You played a Hunter? :)
Riiight... Just about every major multiplayer game has introduced Achievements in the past two years. And all the game designers do this in light of the fact that "nobody really cares about them"? You don't find value in them? Fine. But it's pretty much a foregone conclusion in light of the facts that you don't speak for the other millions of gamers out there.
"Banned outright" sounds so much more harsh than "banned for 14 days", which is what happened.
FTFY :P
I had played Warcraft 3 on battlenet for years. Its 'instant replay' feature was a fairly good way of sniffing out maphack. You could give yourself your opponent's "vision", seeing everything that they saw in the game. Any time I suspected a maphack, I'd run a replay. Often, I'd see an opponent making a tactical move that he would *only* make if he could see what it was that I was doing. These replays would get sent to Blizzard.
More often, however, I'd find someone using maphack on my own team. I'd ask him once (nicely) to turn it off. If he didn't, I'd drop from the game and report him.
Citation, please..
Yes. I'm sure you dont' use *any* of the honor farmed with this bot to upgrade your gear.
Yes. I know all about showers. Ask your mama about the golden one I gave her last night. Get out of her basement more often and you might have some experiences, too!!
#1 Bullshit! A cheater is a cheater is a cheater. I expect a fair game in a battleground the same way I expect a fair poker game. This is a lesson I learned when I was in Kindergarten. Perhaps you should review, as you see absolutely nothing at all ethically wrong with your reprehensible behavior. #2 Bullshit! One of the key "rules of the game" is that you control your own character. If bots didn't give an unfair advantage, why do you think they are banned? Their scripting and macro API specifically blocks out the scripting of button clicks. Why do you think this is? (I'm shocked, again, that I have to explain this). Because bots don't make the mistakes that human players do. The win-or-lose decisions the best healers make take concentration, focus, and very quick thinking. In the time a human healer has planned out his next two heals, a bot has already queued up his next 50. If you can't see how simple this concept is, I really don't think I have any more to discuss with you.
What do you think of people that cheat at poker? Or chess? Monopoly? No big deal, right? It's just a game, right?
Then take a shower... please.
I think it's a sad, sad commentary on our society when "fair play" is considered a "unique" concept.
Honestly, I don't care if he "gets off" to underage donkeys. He's a cheater. And cheaters, I have absolutely zero respect or tolerance for. Nor do I tolerate those who make excuses for them. Cleverness be damned. I don't care if the game is WoW, Baseball, the Stock Market, or Tiddlywinks. Play fairly, or GTFO.
Link me to your WoW armory page that shows your Heroic "Kingslayer" and "Starcaller" achievements, then I'll defer to your expert opinion. You don't have those, do you? In that case, stop talking. You have no authority on the matter.
Yes, it's very interesting. And I've already praised it upthread for its cleverness. But it's still fucking cheating. If you want to play with bots, be my guest. But do it in a way that doesn't screw with other players who pay to play what they should expect to be a fair game.
To be blunt. You can go fuck yourself. Bots never get their math wrong. Bots never fat finger a key, or wind up typing in their commands into a chat window. Bots don't get so focused on healing that they forget to move out of the fire. Bots don't make the mistakes that even the *best* player makes from time to time. Why do you think they're forbidden by just about every online games' TOS?
Kindly get your e-dick out of my face. It's not nearly as impressive as you think it is.
You yourself mentioned all the praise you got for your healing, beating the #2 guy by "a large margin". Those accolades rightly belonged to someone else.
Really? Without your bot, more of your teammates would have died. More of your battlegrounds would have been lost. This would have given more honor to your opposing team. How is this not stealing honor?
Again, at the expense of your opposing team who was likely playing fairly. I find it amazing that someone so familiar with the game's mechanics that he can write such an optimal healbot is unaware of this most basic of concepts.
Please, keep talking. Your lack of any coherence on the matter is hilarious! It's like laughing at the retarded kid without any guilt.
No. The poster is just a cheater. He gets off on cheating in battlegrounds. He gets off on the wholly unearned praise he gets from other players. He gets off on "finishing #1" when that honor fairly belongs to someone else. Don't blame the game for this loser's social inadequacies.
"Kudos" for writing a clever application. "Go screw yourself" for being a lousy, stinking cheater.