At the beginning of the month, Accendo was asked to post What Constitutes As Cheating?. The post focuses on cheating software, including botting. A few days after the post, I reminded the GMs of the SG Botter, who is still using cheating software and botting on Aradune. And now at the end of the month, that player is still cheating. The posted claim that the GMs will take reports of cheating seriously is baloney. I haven't seen any change in GM behavior in the past month. They're still letting people break the rules. And it's not just that one big cheater. They haven't been willing to stop any cheater I reported or reminded them about in the past month.
DBG won't ever take cheating seriously. You will find the same groups, fully automated, sitting in the same spots for weeks and months on end. Definitely not unique to TLPs either, saw the same thing on live servers. It has been brought up probably hundreds of times here and nothing changes, and it's safe to say nothing will.
They should launch a server that allows -- or even requires -- fully automated gameplay. I think it would be fun to watch a game that needs to be played by writing scripts. Just think, at that point, cheating would become injecting code into the scripts so that you can temporarily do manual movement.
You have to hand it to a hall monitor still policing SG in the DODH expansion. Thats an extraordinary display of .... ummm.... Well, its a good reason why we have limited forum involvement by DPG and will never see anything in the spirit of Aradune again. Keep up you holy crusade, good sir.
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I was really worried Accendo was going to have to lock another thread but this one is really derailing in such a great direction. I hope it continues. Shout out to the two top posts so far.
Speaking of ummm, what is this "spirit of aradune" you speak of there? Was it anything that actually got followed through on? You are right though that focusing in on SG there seems kinda silly at this point. Especially when he could have alternatively pointed to the much less isolated off and rather alarming amount of the total non-SG botting Aradune player base, at least in a comparative sense to past servers, that are using automated script play to do all their AA leveling (and which of course is likely and more often then not the real reason you find so many of the "regulars" on this message board indirectly taking a general trolling stance anytime newbies complain about bot play). But I guess when nobody can even join the Daybreak discord these days without getting absolutely bombarded with random and unsolicited 3rd party botting program ads....you can basically chalk that up and write it off as to be expected these days?
What they meant was they will crack down on the small time ordinary people who want to dabble in cheating. They big prolific cheaters who have been around and doing it for years are grandfathered in and will never face any repercussions for cheating. Especially when their cheating drives krono sales (like afk pl in sg)
Toxic Karen’ing to the max. Players who can’t get groups because they suck both in game and out using petitions to get camps they want or just reporting people who aren’t unlikable because they are jealous those players can get groups. Massive forum crying every day. More forum crying when the extra GM support left after 6 months, like they advertised it would. So much QQ that two years later people are policing SG because they are too toxic to be able to make friends to play the game and have fun with. DPG followed through. They had both extra GM support for 6 months and they cut that support after 6 months. Remember though, people were reporting players if they wanted your camp or if they wanted in your group and you said no.
The only "enforcement" that happened there had nothing to do with Daybreak actually caring about truebox rule breaks, and everything to do with individual case people doing dumb and/or obnoxious things that go out of their way to draw enough extra attention to themselves that it ended up forcing Daybreak's hand.
You present all that as if the flip side of that equation there isn't routinely even more large scale toxic. Or as if it actually negates the indisputable fact that the same botting from the same bot crews has indeed been allowed to continuously run for years. Or heck, that you have the most easily and recognizable truebox rule breaker on Aradune for example, that even Lionel Richie could log into the game and spot within day 1 of becoming a "enforcement GM", even openly posting in those same complaint threads for years now. Under the same board handle that he uses in game to run it all through for god sakes. I mean...c'mon lol. Some of that you couldn't make up any better if you tried. That the total amount of regular posters here with an invested interest in preserving automated play (whether it be large/small farming or just their 6 man AA grinding instanced sessions before bed) likely outnumber the total amount of pop in newbies you find making the vocal effort to complain about that stuff doesn't ultimately make THEM the problem there man. That is just silly logic, and which certainly has more of a toxic element baked in to it then anything else there.
Lionel Richie? I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here, are you saying Aradune wasn't the most toxic server to date?
