Just How Bad Is Cheating In Video Games?
Now, I'm a "pro" gamer. In so much as I'm probably in the better 25%. I
spend too much time at it, sure, but I am fairly decent. Sure I'm just
below the Great Wall of Ownage, meaning that there are players who will
destroy me repeatedly (most Tribes players and some Tremulous players
fall into the upper category). However, I do pretty well, especially in
MMO's. However, occasionally one will find the Dretch who lags so badly
that it is impossible to land a bullet in his three-mile radius, or
something else, or someone reporting a ping of 500+ moving perfectly
normal in a game where 200 ping people lag. This is the sign of a
cheater. I'm not talking about cheating in single player games, I'm
talking about competitive cheating. And it's bad.
People are incredibly inconsiderate. Even in cooperative or
non-competitive games they insist on cheating to no short extent. I
don't care which nation you're from, you will find somebody in an
open-source community that has a server close enough to you to be lag
free. 56k should do fine in Q3 engine games. Cheating is both obvious
and wrong.
On My Vision For Mechromancy
My goal with Mechromancy is to create a huge, free content, original,
exciting Shadowrun-Battletech-Elder Scrolls-Anime hybrid world using a
wiki system, with a tabletop role-playing engine to allow players to
play through that content as easily as possible and enjoy the many
small aspects of the universe. There are many things in Mechromancy
that are uncommon, but I feel that through the combination of all
things, it results in an exciting play experience, and through the wiki
system, the engine and core mechanics (USE) will be streamlined into a
simple, easy, but complex system that beginners and experts alike can
enjoy. All are welcome to bring their original content to the
Mechromancy universe to create a complex web of myth and science.
However, Mechromancy aims for a pseudo-diamond hard science fiction
status. No "unobtanium", only "a wizard did it".
Please Control Your Children
Hey, this could be more tacky. I considered posting it yesterday.
Yesterday, I was helping with kids at my church. Now, I know it's free
babysitting for the duration of the church service, but it is also
meant as an opportunity for learning. Do not give your children
stimulants before sending them off to a place where they outnumber
helpers 5:1, if they have more energy than the poor exhausted helpers
(2 out of 3 of which should've had a holiday yesterday, except me), who
will always be that way, due to your poor dietary choices.
Quite frankly, I don't care if they prefer cold cereal to oatmeal. It
keeps them from getting fat later on if you give 'em oatmeal. Plus, it
saves us poor helpers twenty or fifteen ultra-hyper bundles of joy
leaping around. We have to keep them from being hurt, while teaching
them, and we're volunteers. We aren't paid, our job training is a
one-hour meeting and experience (I have a few years of it, putting me
in the middle experience level, and yesterday was really bad). When you
have free babysitting, don't make the babysitters wear themselves out.
Just because you can does not mean that you should. Especially considering that it's a free service in an attempt to get the little adorable bundles of joy and energy to learn something.