[Rackat]

OK, so everyone knows my stance on cheating - I despise the pukes. So, what happens this weekend during the "contest"? Every pirate with a little knowledge is cheating their behinds off.

Friday night I joined the crew of a person on my Firend's list, and lo and behold, there she was glitching out on the sea. I was disappointed, but, I stayed on board and watched. I found out how she got around the latest "fix" to do the underway repair glitch. Either she didn't know, or didn't show, the invincibility or invisibility glitch.

Saturday, I get on board with another pirate from my Friend's list. We had a great crew and started climbing the scoreboard without glitching. We couldn't get to the top because there were two ships on the other side that had over 100,000 points (think they were glitched? ). But, we did good as a crew and got to #3 on our side.

As we're sailing, another of his friends joins the crew. He say "let me take the wheel, then bump me". All of the sudden we could repair underway. Now, the crew that was on there was already rocking. When one would re-ammo, another would take that cannon (war sloop). We had a pretty good rotation going already, so when we started being able to repair underway, the crew that were waiting to rotate onto cannon would be repairing. We caught and passed the ship at #2 on our side (50,000 points) and were climbing. I think we were at 85,000 points when I finally logged off.

There were a few of things that I thought during the weekend SvS excursions:

1. My guide to countering the glitch is being used to stop the people who are trying to counter the glitch.

In other words, I gave the cheaters a way to stop those that are trying to counter it. Worse, it makes it nigh on impossible to get close enough to do anything about it. Those ships are SO glitched, you cannot get close to them without lagging to the point of your screen not moving.

2. I actually had fun when we could keep up with the glitchers. We sunk the top ships on the other side quite a few times and it was very satisfying seeing them go to Davy's locker. My frustration level went down 5 notches knowing we had an opportunity to sink them. Unfortunately, they were using all three glitches, so the times we sank them were pretty long between sinkings.

3. Disney is hypocritical on many levels. Grog, gambling, <snip>, cheating at cards, bribery (basically extortion), and cheating against other players in PvP/SvS. While Disney's base perception has always been one of family values, this game teaches anything but family values. It encourages all of the bad things listed in #2 above. So, do we as fun loving pirates remove ourselves from the game, or do we adapt to the situation that Disney created?

4. I still don't like the cheaters, but do I make myself suffer by a) not playing; b) playing but getting my behind kicked by the glitchers; c) use the glitches? None of the options are particularly satisfying. Option d) glitch against the glitchers, play fair when no one is glitching on your server?

What do you guys think?