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On 2 Mar 1997 09:13:54 GMT, nes...@epix.net (Chad Nesbit) wrote:

>I am a cheater with the following philosophy:
>
>1) Not all cheaters are the same, I don't hurt anyone, I don't townkill or 
>player kill whatsoever.
>2) I help out newbies by following them and res-ing them if they get into 
>trouble, Result: Most of them enjoy the game more.
>3) I personally enjoy the game more not having to worry about getting killed 
>by monsters, tkers or pkers.
>4) *My* game doesn't interfere with *your* game so *how* am i ruining the 
>games of non-cheaters? 
>5) If anyone asks me if i am cheating i'm honest about it. If they prefer i 
>leave then I do so.
>6) I don't tell you how to play your game... 
>
>If anyone has a problem with these i feel sorry for them...
>
>
>Ladwick
>
>
>

A rather interesting post.  In my experience on Bnet, I have run into
some relatively harmless cheaters such as you seem to be.  In fact, I
have used hack programs to make a couple of artificially enhanced
characters for myself.  I took them onto bnet just to see what they
could do.  I still have one, and while its not my favourite, I may
venture onto bnet again.  If you see a lvl 47 rogue named Scavenger
with no dots, its likely to be me.

Here's part of my still-developing philosophy about playing her:

1. Other than doing my share of the fighting, I try not to make it
easier for the other people.  There is no question that the very fact
that I am there fighting makes it easier for them, and I figure that's
enough.  What does this entail?

  A. I take my share of the gold and the items we find, even though I
don't need them.

  B. Since Griswold, Adria and Wirt all offer me much better stuff
than they offer lower level characters, I don't buy items for them
even if they have the gold.

  C. I don't give or trade anything.  There are already too many
people running around giving away duped and/or hacked items, weapons,
armor, elixers and gold. 

2.  I use duped weapons and armor, but they're the versions that you
can sometimes find or buy in the game, not the stuff that's
artificially enhanced by the hack programs.  No -250 damage armor or
+250 damage weapons for me.

3.  I personally enjoy the game when I don't have to worry about
TKillers.  I don't like PKillers, but they are part of Blizzard's game
design, so I don't object strenuously either.  What I do object to is
PKillers who pick on much weaker characters.  Autokill was an
abomination.

4. I do personally enjoy the game when I have to worry about monsters.
I had another hacked character who could simply stroll through and
kill Diablo.  It was no challenge whatsoever, and no fun.  I enjoy the
game most when I get into tough fights where I can get killed, where
my potions are gone and my skill will make the difference between
living or dying.  Such moments don't happen with my hacked characters.
I know I'll survive, so while it's still fun, it's not nearly as much
fun, and there's certainly no thrill.  That's why I play my legit
characters more... much more.

5.  I recently started the process of replacing all my hacked and/or
traded armor and weapons with things I find or buy.  This is weakening
my character; eg. the best armor I've found so far is saintly plate to
replace the godly plate of the whale I had before.  But a weaker
character will take at least some skill to play, so it will make her
more fun.

6.  I resurrect people, but only once or maybe twice.  If they count
on being resurrected, they probably won't how learn to play - to hit
and move as a rogue, to use doorways and walls as a warrior, etc.  If
I just let them run in and bash away knowing I'll res them, what's the
difference between that and just giving them super armor?  The results
are the same; they can't die.  Either way, the need to learn how to
play the game is significantly decreased, and because of  that, they
seldom learn to play well.

7.  When I play with newbies, I use a low-level character, level 10 at
most, and usually lower, NEVER my level 30's or higher.  It doesn't
take long to get a new character to maybe level 5, so I tend to hold
one there for when I feel like playing with and helping newbies or
lowbies.  A level 5 is plenty of protection for a level 1 or 2, and a
level 10 is plenty for a 5 or 6, so I see little or no reason to use
my level 30's for that purpose.

8.  I used to tell people my character was hacked if they asked too.
But this is an ambiguous position.  For example, do they have to ask
you specifically " are you a cheat?" or "are you hacked?"  And what
about the people who don't know about cheating programs?  Last night,
I went into a game to shop and met a warrior whose level was in the
upper 20's.  He said it was his first time on Bnet and he got to that
level playing on network games at home.  I believed him because he
only had about 265 hit points.  He happened to ask me how I got to be
so strong, so I told him.  He had never heard about hacking until
then, so he could not possibly have known to ask if I was a cheat.  My
policy was to tell people if any reference to my strength or level
came up, and to leave if anyone objected.  Now, I will declare it when
I enter the game.  The only exception might be when I just enter a
game to shop, and not to play since I won't affect them at all and
I'll be gone in two or three minutes.

There, I've had my somewhat long-winded say.  It's an interesting
topic area, but not as interesting as the game, so I'm off to play.

Richard Aihoshi
Scavenger, Jonric et al on Bnet.