I don't know if you're talking from a 0-aug perspective, but here is my aug perspective. Didn't you play on DIOS server? That is what life would be like without anti-cheat. All the vets that have came back in the last 2 years didn't come back to play in there; let's just put it that way. And let's not forget that a few years ago only a select few knew about working aimbots and passed them around. These days it is passed around even on public forums and is easy for the usual trouble makers to get hold of and terrorise servers with. Also back then enough people played to have an admin in the servers almost 24/7. These days we only get an admin at certain times of day. This allows the usual trouble makers like OLO and Vincent to run rife. They are bad now with teamkilling; imagine what they would be like with infinite weapons and bio?-Majin- wrote:And ontop of all that.. You are disallowing the good and bad natures of playing the game. No matter how hard you try and work on this game, It won't be perfect.. You can call me naive or whatever.. But what Im speaking is the truth.. And you can't hide from it. Remember In 2005 how many players enjoyed playin this game? What was fun? All the crazy metabolic end product we did together lam bug, water bug, shot time all that sh1t.. Back then there was 30 players in just 2 servers.. Now days cuz of all the rules you can barely find 10 players in one server.
What would life be like without anti-cheat?
- trouble makers constantly crash servers with infinite lams 'set weapon.lam reloadcount 0'
- trouble makers terrorise maps with e.g., 'deusex.weaponplasmarifle bautomatic true' (+ shottime)
- streak lost (inventory, score, etc) on crash
- more crashes (GPFs)
- 1 vs 1s ruined by cabinet bug (e.g., in CMD whoever spawns inside gets HE + bio before other player has chance)
- FULLMOON super power turbo sniper reload x + alpha
And that is just what I can be bothered remembering off the top of my head about the bad old days. I could remember much more.
Also, I don't know what this obsession is with ANNA and minimalism. It is in a testing phase, so I don't see what the harm is in testing new things out and seeing what works well and what doesn't. It can be trimmed down later. I would love to see more verbose logs and a public player alias history; it would help a lot weeding out the idiots and put them off gaying under alias.