(NOTE: This applies to duped copies of normally found weapons. No J-Swords, Elenor, Dark XXXX, whatever)
..how does duping wreck the game?
Now I know I'm gonna get jumped on, but you seem like smart, patient people, so I'll speak my lines. What exactly is so bad about duping, when it's simply a copy of a normally found item? Sure, they might not have earned it, and it makes you feel bad, but how's it wrong? I've heard some people say, "oh, well you know how much it ruins games when somebody with a really good item comes in and kills things in one hit". But if they'd found that item normally, would that make them any worse? I think it's not duping that's bad, it's people hogging EXP or playing with weaker characters that's bad.
On top of that, duping has positives (maybe not always the reason, but common enough) -
- You want to give another character an item, but want one for the first character too. (Like a Booma's claw for example. Say both your HUcast and HUmar want it.)
- They can help a friend recover a character in case he's corrupted (like twinking, but with no character of his own)
- Scape Dolls are unnaturally uncommon, until the point where they don't really help you (Ultimate). Materials are also a pain in the *ss to collect, especially TP materials.
- If you're worried about goofing up a mag, you can save a copy just in case.
I have two characters, a FOnewm and a FOnewearl, and can only take one online when my BBA arrives. The FOnewearl is level 35, and on Hard Ruins, the FOnewm is 56 and in Ultimate Caves. They're both on different cards though. I'm leaning towards the FOnewearl, because she hasn't been tampered with much (I used some minor stat modifying tricks on the FOnewm), but she's also lower level.
Which should I take online, or is it possible to set up both cards for online use?
Right just so me and other people know I wanna see how many people that play PSO go online.
If you do what does your character look like and what is his name?
So then I know if I see a person off Ragol.co.uk here.
Well I'm online and my character at the moment has a Red suit and dark blue hair. His name is AARON.
Before we began with this week's article, I have some sad news to report. Proj3ct Zero, will be temporarily be leaving the crew. He has much coursework to do and wants to do his best for his exams. Lee-Yoshi is also leaving sadly, but I dont know if it's permanent, or temporarily. But now here is the 6th...
MAIN STORY:
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Legits increase???
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Ivan Palmer, Phantom RAcast, Schoichet, Lewis Norton.
Over the past 3 weeks, the PSO population of legits has oddly shot from 8% to 18%. Why? we wish we knew. Not saying this is a bad thing, but it is quite odd.
PSONO correspondent, Lewis Norton (GOLDIE), interveiwd Sol, on his thoughts; "Playing the way ST designed the game is more fun, so yeah." Lewis: "Are you surprised at the sudden rise of legitament players?" Sol: "Yes, I am; it usually takes some sort of intervention or authority to stop or prevent poeple from cheating." Lewis: "Do you think ST is stamping more on duppers now?" Sol: "Well, I havent heard of ST cracking down and banning duppers. I can only figure out that people think that the legit is more fun. It may also be the case that I spoke to Ivan about it." Lewis: "Do you think it's easy to go legit? Or do you think it takes some "courage"?" Sol: "I think it has to do with the amount of time people have to play the game. People who enjoy the game could sit there for hours, chatting, playing, and having fun. As to people who dupe, I think they dont have that time, and want to make thier char moe powerfull, faster.
Our newest member, Nolan Schoichet, got some words from PSO players online. Many thought, "There are still 1,000 to many duppers online." or "Good, I dupe for backup.", and also harsh answers like, "Pff, must be a ton of noob increase rather than legitimancy."
PSO expert, Luke, said, "If its true, great; but I really doubt its anything real. Most players probobly still have their cheating chars. I mean, people being duppers becomming legit?..... Don't think it's going to happen."
FOLLOW-UPS:
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- Hex Editing not so big and bad?
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Ivan Palmer, Carl Hamilton (Proj3ct Zero)
Most people are woundering why it hasn't gotten as bad as it was predicted to be? Most also wounder if it's just simply taking time?
I interveiwed Carl Hamilton on his thoughts; "I'm actually quite surprised, as it was very feard from the start. I actually haven't heard many talking about it in a while. But it's not good for us to think like this at the moment. The case may simply be many people dont know how to do this at the moment. Or maybe most don't want to. We really don't know...
Some Hacked/ Hex edited items at the moment are...
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300 Dark "Black King Bar"
300 Native "Bringer's Rifle"
"Tsumikiri J-Sword" (But possibly not longer, (Being disscussed in our final folow-up)
- Tsumikiri J-Sword finaly out?
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Ivan Palmer, Lewis Norton
A great weapon, yes, but also not so great.
The Tsumikiri J-Sword, is the most dupped weapon world-wide on PSO. Over 25% more than the 2nd leading dupped; the "Black King Bar". We will keep you posted on this. In the mean time, one of my correspondents, Lewis Norton, has made us a graph. (Posted on the "Attach File" below)
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Now, voice your opinoins on ths thread, or of course you my E-mail me [email protected] ; You have until Wednesday, November 5th, 2003 at 11:59pm GMT time to respond either way.
Credits:
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Sol (Administrator) Sol
Luke (PSO expert and moderater of Ragol.co.uk) Decswxaqz
Carl Hamilton (PSO "Hero" and moderater of Ragol.co.uk) Proj3ct Zero
I was looking in the list of items in the word select chat and saw chocolate. I've only just started V.hard and can't go online, so iv'e got no idea how to get it or what it does. Same for christmas present?
Can any help me 2 find d red sword, im a humar, greenhill, lvl84 nd on ultimate mode can any 1 help me. I was told frm thesword that i would have 2 make a new character but i dont wanna looses d 1 i have now nd i wanna really find it
