11-01-2006, 12:09 PM
Ugh, how many times do I have to explain this. Cheating makes you illigit, not all hacking is cheating ergo anti codes do not make you non-legit in any way. I back up to protect against corruption/FSOD, and I consider myself as legit as anyone else.
Technically as you say back up would not be necessarry if it weren't for hacking and certain glitches. But, they do exist and so it is acceptable. If you found an item and lost it to a hacker, you shouldn't have lost the item and there for I think it is fine to 'anti-hack' your item back into the game, be that by previous duping or bank-modding.
The problem comes when someone loses an item due to their own lack of thought. If you say, leave something on the floor by accident that is purely your own fault and could have happened even without getting hacked/glitched and in that instance you do not have the right to replace your item.
As for Quasi legit, in my eyes your legit, or a cheater. I have to draw a destinction somewhere and the point just above is pretty much it for me. peoples views will vary. On my forum a poll has been held and still every vote has classified back up as legit. After all, you may as well call it thinking ahead. You don't have to do it, but if you do, well, it sure helps.
You can make an analogy of anything, I could liken a corruption/glitch to an upcoming exam. You dont have to prepare for it, but those who do prepare should not be frowned upon by others. In fact, more people should learn to do the same.
However, if you dupe to trade so you can keep the same weapon as well as gaining another, that is not legit and is also un-ehtical. As well as forcing someone un-knowingly into playing non-legit you also gain something you shouldn't have gained.
The way I see it, you have a kind of PSO legit karma if you will. As long as I give myself less than or equal to what I had before a corruption it's balanced. But give yourself more than you should have, or give yourself something you never had anything like before, even if it keeps in-reach of the balance (say creating yourself a level 60 ranger after your level 80 hunter corrupted. Sure, its in balance because its less than you had before but its so different it is not comparable) then you destroy your legitimacy and must start over unless you want to be called a cheater.
Just keep the balance and try to keep the online community as stable as possible, at the end of the day only you yourself can judge in your own mind if you think you are legit or not. Just dont spoil the game for others online!
It is just a game, but it still takes up real time and unless you want that time wasted when you could be doing other things in real life, be prepared. Back up, that's my advice.
Technically as you say back up would not be necessarry if it weren't for hacking and certain glitches. But, they do exist and so it is acceptable. If you found an item and lost it to a hacker, you shouldn't have lost the item and there for I think it is fine to 'anti-hack' your item back into the game, be that by previous duping or bank-modding.
The problem comes when someone loses an item due to their own lack of thought. If you say, leave something on the floor by accident that is purely your own fault and could have happened even without getting hacked/glitched and in that instance you do not have the right to replace your item.
As for Quasi legit, in my eyes your legit, or a cheater. I have to draw a destinction somewhere and the point just above is pretty much it for me. peoples views will vary. On my forum a poll has been held and still every vote has classified back up as legit. After all, you may as well call it thinking ahead. You don't have to do it, but if you do, well, it sure helps.
You can make an analogy of anything, I could liken a corruption/glitch to an upcoming exam. You dont have to prepare for it, but those who do prepare should not be frowned upon by others. In fact, more people should learn to do the same.
However, if you dupe to trade so you can keep the same weapon as well as gaining another, that is not legit and is also un-ehtical. As well as forcing someone un-knowingly into playing non-legit you also gain something you shouldn't have gained.
The way I see it, you have a kind of PSO legit karma if you will. As long as I give myself less than or equal to what I had before a corruption it's balanced. But give yourself more than you should have, or give yourself something you never had anything like before, even if it keeps in-reach of the balance (say creating yourself a level 60 ranger after your level 80 hunter corrupted. Sure, its in balance because its less than you had before but its so different it is not comparable) then you destroy your legitimacy and must start over unless you want to be called a cheater.
Just keep the balance and try to keep the online community as stable as possible, at the end of the day only you yourself can judge in your own mind if you think you are legit or not. Just dont spoil the game for others online!
It is just a game, but it still takes up real time and unless you want that time wasted when you could be doing other things in real life, be prepared. Back up, that's my advice.
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