SOME of You Cheaters, Beware!!!
This is NOT a BOT thread.
EVONY wants to ban bot programs because they feel that the players using them are abusing the system they have created by automatically setting building upgrades, hero hunting, NPC farming, etc.
Fine. It's their ball. They can bounce it any way they want. :cool:
But when the topic begins to turn to players having multiple accounts on the same server, EVONY gets real quiet and the thread gets closed.
WHY?
Probably because if they ban multiple accounts, that "11 Million Players Online" ad they just posted would read "5.5 Million Angry Players Wondering Where Their 'Other' Account(s) Went". :(
Cheating is cheating, regardless of the style of cheating.
Where is the threatening letter about legal action against players using feeder accounts? :confused:
EVONY has the ability to stop feeder accounts, not bots. They have chosen to allow one type of cheating which they CAN stop, and ban a type of cheating they have no real way of stopping, other than guessing who is using a bot.
Hypocrisy anyone? :D
If you want to ban cheating, ban cheating. If you want to allow cheating, allow cheating. But be consistent.
It's one or the other, not both.
The problem with standing on both sides of the fence is that, eventually, you fall and land on the fence. :eek:
Again, I redirect your attention
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Originally Posted by
HaddenUff
This whole argument is retarded.
As I have said before, every game has its cheats and Evony is no exemption. Whinging and whining on forums won't change this fact, nor will it stop the cheats. You will never prevent cheating unless you stand behind someone and smack them across the back of the head each time they try. If it's not this game it will be another. If its not this account it will be another.
Every person who has EVER in any game bought currency (plat, gold whatever) from third party sellers are CHEATS - if you can't achieve what you need to achieve in a game without buying items or currency outside of the game....how do you think THAT affected those games and the rest of the player base?
See the hypocrisy here? I bet many of the whiners and whingers are people who have done just that in other games, bought items or currency from third parties.
Anyone who has ever shared their account details in other games have breached the EULA's of those games, yet I bet many people have done it. It too, is considered cheating, i.e. gaining an unfair advantage.
Evony developers themselves (from what I have been led to believe) have gained the money to create THIS game from the profits of cheaters in other games....but who cares if they have? It is the way of on-line gaming really, isn't it.
There is only a small percentage of any population (on-line gaming population, welfare recipient population, tax-paying population etc etc) who will always - ALWAYS do the right thing. Some statistics put this around 15% as an average. There is another group within these populations - somewhere around the same statistical percentage of hard-core individuals that will do the wrong thing despite knowing the consequences of their actions in advance. The remaining 70% are in a group where they will do mostly the right thing, but will be tempted to (and probably) do the wrong thing if they think they won't get caught.
At the end of the day, if you can't cope with the thought of people cheating or doing the wrong thing, you may need to re-consider your desire to play on-line games. Whilst ever you interact with others - face-to-face, or online - you WILL be exposed to people who cheat. End of story. If you can't deal with that fact, play a single player game.......just make sure you don't use those cheat codes for extra food, gold or other resources that you got from googling.... or we will all smell the hypocrisy from here.................................
This is not a players ethics arguement. This is a developer ethics arguement.
So, one more time.
Why does EVONY allow the cheating to continue when the ability is there to stop it?
I am not interested in a lesson on why people look to exploit advantages. I care why EVONY allows some exploitation and not others. Stay focused people.