hotdog said:
I'm new to this stuff. I only started using MQ2 a month ago. In the 8 years I have played EQ on and off, I never even knew this stuff existed. It didn't take a new hack that allows all classes to NoDelay to draw me in. I normally play 4 toons at once and it is a bitch trying to alt-tab between them all. I had a discussion with a friend and he suggested I look up macroing. It sounded like a good way to watch a single screen while having my other toons follow my main and casting or sending pets in when I hit a button from one character. I wasn't out there killing raid mobs. I wasn't using MQ2 around other people. I never GK'd in open zones. But, I did get caught in a instanced zone that became hot (I didn't know it was being watched by GMs at the time) killing level 66 mobs with my 75 Monk for some extra AAs...amusingly only a few days after I got a NoDelay program that I only was able to use over the course of a week for about a total of 8 hours. (I never afk'd either and watched the GM appear before me.)
Like you said yourself, you've only been using MQ2 for a month...keep that in mind before you begin to jump down someones elses throat for expressing there opinion as you seem to think is ok for you to do.
FYI...There has been, and will continue to be, an ongoing fued about this topic. Those who want it all v/s those who know that moderation is the key. One thing you need to remember Hotdog is that a lot of the people here who have contributed there plugins and macros have been here for a hell of a lot longer then you or I. And, just incase you think you missed it somewhere there is no rule that says you have to share with others here. So, in respect to those "who want it all", yes, there where people years ago doing what hundreds(..and yes, there have been hundreds in the past year alone..) of MQ2'ers are getting banned for now days.
Another thing you need to remember is that at least 50% of the people who join this site want to find GK, but when they get here they dont find it becuase it is something that the dev's tried to keep control of. But, you have those folks who seem to think that every tom dick and harry can play responsibly and decided to give it to them..then they turned around and gave it to someone else..and so on and so on. Only thing is though that no one bothered to say, hey you Noob, use this sparingly. instead it got passed around like a rag doll and things got way out of hand, bringing a hell of a lot of stress on this community and many like it.
I've been a member for a while now, but have seen more suspensions and bannings in the past two months then the entire time i have been here and it is becuse of people who either DONT CARE or DONT BOTHER TO READ anything other then GK. It got so bad in my opinion that I deleted my legitimate monk becuase of all the bad press of gk and I didnt want anyone pointing fingers at my main account. The real problem is that you have people who all they want is that one program that they think will make them invincible. Sorry folks, but it aint gonna happen...because whatever will make you invincible to a npc or mob is only going to be the flashing neon sign over your head saying "Haxor right here".
At any rate, it's becuase of this that people like Shadow, myself, and others express our opinions about noobs. And it goes without saying that just like any other one of those plugins that says it can make you "Invinsible or attack non-stop"..this new wave of nodelay and gk will drawl in the same type of people who will only read that part..hunt it down and buy it...and get banned within a week for not RTFM that came along with it. And once again there will be the infamous witch hunt on all the boards about how EQ should stand up and do something about it...And yeah...that gets bothersome. Especially if you are one of the few people who have been here for a while and do everything they can to help others out.
So next time, before you spout off about how someone is being arrogant and niave, why dont you ask yourself first how you think it would feel to have a clueless noob come in and ruin everything you have worked hard to achieve...and no, I am not directly relating this to Shadow or anyone else, and i am not trying to pick on you either. It is a general statement about our community as a whole.
We all Cheat!
We all paid or donated!
But, we are all not equals here...there are those that understand what it takes to play safely, and then there are the "NOOB"'s who come in and get suspended or banned within a months time for doing something stupid that the rest of us have to pay the price for.