Contest Integrity

[melkathi]

From a Major Arkfall a while ago:
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(the score of course is Kills/Deaths/Revives/Damage)
People will never reach top positions this way, but they still manage to push leggit players off the scoreboard.

edit: eek the image shows up tiny tiny tiny

[Writhen]

While there is cheating going on, and that's Bad. The example you gave is not.

Detonating yourself, and then having a buddy revive you is not a cheat, a hack, or even an exploit. It may go against the spirt of the game (in your opinion) but its legal. It's the same mechanic that gets me blown up when I run into my own explosions by accident, I just dont have a friend there to revive me. It may not be "nice" but its not cheating.

If two consenting adults want to head to an arcfall and blow each other up thats their business, I am diverse enough to support their lifestyle choice.

Are we still talking about the game?

[Writhen]

I was glad to read that a few clans oppose cheating. The scrapworks co op map example is a good one. When people get booted from a map after refusing to hop the wall, something's not right.

[diggergig]

Could they not dissable self-damage, it always seemed a completely pointless inclusion to me anyway. I can run around in other people's boom-booms but have to avoid my own?

[Writhen]

I consider myself to be practical. Here is a question or two I would really like to know the answers to: is there any reason for legit players to see competitions as honest and worth competing in? Can you legitimately farm hulkers faster than the people that glitch San Quentin or earn more salvage per hour than those who glitch the arkfalls? Is it worth the effort?

[Wtflag]

I agree with this as I do it as like a community service.lol

I have done that for complete strangers as well when an Arkfall glitched because a complete stranger has done it for me before. Spread the love I say.

As for actual exploits, I do wish Trion can hurry up and fix them.

[ironhands]

I consider myself to be practical. Here is a question or two I would really like to know the answers to: is there any reason for legit players to see competitions as honest and worth competing in? Can you legitimately farm hulkers faster than the people that glitch San Quentin or earn more salvage per hour than those who glitch the arkfalls? Is it worth the effort?

no real point, lockboxes are great, but eventually you'll get the weapon you want, which will be marginally better than the one you have at any given time. really don't understand what motivates these people to actively farm anything in this game