Punishment Game Abusers (Suggestion)
 

I would suggest that big D would set a rule of ponishment for those who abuse the game only for the benefit of gaining REPs, LvL ups weapons, Gold, PvP, and SvS.

The following will be the new punishment for all users breaking the rule

[1st Offense]
3 days ban with all account information reset to previously updated data.

[2nd Offense]
7days ban with all account information reset
(Delete all Gold in account / All weapons lvl in the account reset to lvl 1 / All characters in the account reset to lvl 1 /all stat points set to 1 /ships reset to default (light sloop) )

[3rd Offense]
Permanent Ban.

This will put an end for all the glitches where a pirate benefit him/herself of obtaining any of the aforementioned categories. Unbenifited glitches are excluded from the rule, but must be reported to the big D for fixes (e.g. flying glitch) where a reward (in gold) should be given to thoes mateys who find and 1st report these type of unharm glitches. This will make the game better and fair for everyone. Enough is enough with the pvp and invisibility glitching already, the whole Tortuga on Abassa is full of red lvl Cap pirates. :skull-crossbones1:

What do you think about this suggestion, Matey?

I like the idea Ghostcannon. Sorta tired of this glitch already.... had a lvl 8 on KH doing this while my friend was trying to lvl nades.

Great idear! I'm fed up with it all. Takes the fun out of the game for others who play fair. I tell these pirates many times when I see them that they need to play fair...they think I am fullish. Ran into one in Cuba...fly-trap was spittin venom all over him. I went to his aid to heal him and saw his health was full. Ran into another red level on tortuga...and, of course quite a few using the Invincibility glitch at KH. And this all was in a span of a couple days. I can't understand how these pirates enjoy the game with no challenge. But, what do I no...I'm fullish....

I agree but I disagree...glitches are a part of the game thats gone wrong, so why not use it until its fixed? For example if you are taking a test at school, lets say the teacher accidently leaves an answer on the board..are you going to mark that as your answer, of course.

Hacking is whats wrong and needs to be punished for(when people steal others account, or use a macro to lvl/rank). As for glitches, noone in the game MADE the glitch, its just there.

If there's a bug that allows players to cheat then Disney should fix the bug.
Why punish players for a bug that's in the game to exploit?
The only thing I see worth having a punishment for cheating is the use of anything 3rd party or macro.(which Disney doesn't allow)

Because those exploits, cost revenue.

cost revenue? How? can u explain.

I would think Disney would rather fix a bug rather than punish players for using the bug. If they did do this punishment system, odds are that half the players won't know it's bad.
It would also save some of their paying members.

Don't get me started on this one....lol. I've seen the best of us utilizing "glitches" for whatever reason. Even if it was a one time deal to check it out. I know for a FACT some well renowned pirates (Guild Masters included) have used these glitches at one time or another. I don't have the answer as to exactly how it should be handled. I'm not even sure they can monitor this. Even though we see it going on, what do they have in place on the server end to detect it (if any)?

However, just keep in mind if you are cheating to make the leader board, beat another player in SVS or PVP....that's unacceptable. That truly takes the fun out of the game and ruins it for the honest players. The glitches need to be corrected...and I'm sure there will be more glitches as new content is added. Hang in there gang.

This is what I agree with, glitching and macroing to beat people in svs, pvp, or ranking is wrong....i really dont care if people glitch to lvl. Then again, its the peoples money paying for this game, so they can do anything they want.

Well, unless things have changed, D will not be punishing glitchers - I asked the very specific question a while back and they said they would not do anything to people exploiting glitches in the game (good thing, IMO - the glitches are their fault).


And let me just say again, I do not care if people glitch for reps as long as they don't steal enemies from others while they're doing it.

Also, I still don't think it takes anything away from what others have done. If you leveled the "hard" way (LoL), then yeah, you did more. You know you did more. Forget about what other people are doing and just enjoy your achievement.

agreed
 

I too have this perspective, I see most of the arguments pertaining to affecting others with the glitch, not how it affects one's own self.
Seems every known game has glitches, cheats, hack, whatever you wish to label them as.
I had run 27 game servers and Nationwide Lan Events and at one particular Lan event , my nemisis, and a game hack organization decided to crash our Lan event from the outside in,.. These guys were and are still exploiting and cheating their way around causing havoc. Those who use exploits to disrupt and harm others are pond scum.
A bug or glitch isn't necessarily a bad thing,.. most will be fixed, but some may find their way to becoming part of the game.

I tend to agree with you. The people that use these exploits against others are pond scum (not as descriptive as I would like, but sufficient). I still fail to see what satisfaction one would gain having cheated to win at a game? Is the sense of accomplishment geared towards the win, or is it more about the fact that they found a way to cheat? Either way, it speaks to the lack of ability to play the game.

What games did you run for the LAN's?

On my ps2 ncaa football game I have all the CPU'S abilities turned to the lowest lvl and the "players" one turned all the way up xD but i do play on heisman lvl.

Hey Rackat,
the Game organizations were (assuming i can name this, if not please feel free to remove..and me apologies) cTs Organization and Cal-lan ... both are defunct.
Cal-lan was formed a year after the big one that exists at Portland, Matt...aka Vector still runs his and has done fantastic and achieved much more than I ever did although we had many of the same sponsors, he is expert in the Administration end. Life issues took me from traveling and I had to step down.
We ran many HL/Valve based games and mods including Counter Strike 1.5 (<-- when we started) CS 1.6, Condition Zero, CS:S, Digital Paintball, a HL Mod, Day of Defeat, DoD:S, Battlefiled 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2 Ranked, Unreal Tournament
and a few others,.. Ahhh,.. good memories... fast times. I was with nVidia at their booth at the 2004 World Cyber games in San Fran, Ca.

:)