They are more likely to ban the bagball placer than the scripter
... and think he got got fed up for the night. Good work team 😂 First time he hasn't been on in about 8 days.
Ask yourself this - how is this affecting your game?
You can still play - you can still find your own playstyle, and play the way you find most fulfilling.
In my experience, players like this, are Uni students, who are busy studying, attending lectures, having a life, they are time poor, cash poor, knowledge rich, hence they get the game to play itself while they are not there. You may want to be thinking, it's cool they want to play the game..
As opposed to many people, who are time rich, and knowledge poor - should time rich people have the advantage in games? I used to think so, I used to believe Time put in should equal best rewards. Now I realise, not everyone has equal time spare, and others want to play also, again, we should be happy they want to, and make the effort to play.
These Uni students, sometimes sell their ingame gains, for gold, or money, to help them progress ingame, or to help them IRL, again, I do not mind this. It is just different paths of progressing.
If I was a Developer - I would be quite impressed at what these people are doing, what they are accomplishing, and I would even learn from them, and evolve with them.
Other players are doing this, purely to make RL money - but again, they can only do this, because the market is there - there are other time poor, cash rich players - those who work/have families, who still want to progress, and find this is their best way. Again - it is just another path - it does not have to affect you.
So you get - time poor, time rich, cash poor, cash rich, knowledge poor, knowledge rich players - they all have different needs, and find ways for the game to work for them.
Evolve, be more tolerant. 🙂
You can all chose categories for yourself, to work out where you fit, and your playstyle
I am time poor, cash rich, knowledge poor!
Working guy, family, good job, not brilliant at scripts. But committed to playing, having a good time.
But I know people who are Knowledge rich, they help me.
I know people who are time rich, they help me.
We all pool what we have, that is teamwork. That is the point of all of this.
If this is happening in Trammel, yes this annoys me, because player options to interfere, and make this part of the game, are limited. If this is in Felucca, I have no issues at all.
But this is not a GM Issue. This is a game mechanic issue - I believe Trammel should not be designed the way it is, it prevents sandbox play. The GM's should not be having to police for us - the very fact they are, points to game mechanic issues.
Thing is... they’re NOT playing the game. They’re running a script to gain unfair advantage over folks that ARE playing the game. Time is what players here are investing in their games. Game evolution & tolerance have absolutely nothing to do with breaking rules which players have agreed to accept when they play.
There’s a undeniably solid reason most every MMO bans players for doing that. Its a proven fact, it hurts gaming communities. You already know all this so please stop trying to justify the inexcusable. Your vain attempt to normalize TOS breaking actions isn’t deep thought or rational logic, it just shows the community how much vitriol you have for honest gamers.
ps. I just saw your use of the word Vitriol...
That is a very strong, toxic, emotional word - you should not be using it. It is highly passive aggressive.
I can assure you, I have zero Vitriol.
I always grin when there's post after post about pvpers being the worst cheaters then the tram crowd gets caught red handed.
Things like this are solid proof that mind numbing tedious tasks should be removed from game. The team was on the right track before they quit working on the game. SoTs to combat unattended skill working. Bods on a point system. Crafting menu to make X number.
I share Cookie's view on this. Especially when a quick google search will show this exact script was made in 2008.
Having brought attention to this problem, I think now is the time to end it, before it becomes more heated.