Shade killing detection system.

[Stang]

It's easy to self police this.  No need for a program and no need to waste devs time writing it.

Yup.  Plus flushing the shade killer out is half the fun.

[Stang]

Didn't Scuzzy say we can't do witchhunts anymore?   

He didn't exactly say that.  He said they were getting out of hand... not that they weren't gonna be tolerated at all.

 

[MajIssue]

It's easy to self police this.  No need for a program and no need to waste devs time writing it.

I agree with you Steve...

[hubsonfire]

We can still find the witches, but we aren't allowed to harass/humiliate/headhunt them until they quit, even though that's a much better alternative in my opinion. However, it's HTC's company, and if they don't mind honoring the lowest of players on their website, well, that's their business.

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   I think most people care about there score in one way or the other,I care about my fighter score only, for thats all i fly under,now that these "shade killers" have been exposed, I  think we will be able to see a more true score/ranking.

 Someone asked if anyone would care if this wasnt on online game, I say yes, would you care if someone was cheating while you where playing Monoply? chess? Poker? hell ya, I think most people dont like cheaters and this is a cheat for sure!!

just my $.02

[PFactorDave]

Didn't Scuzzy say we can't do witchhunts anymore?  I also doubt he wants to get hordes of shade killing email. 

I also believe he said that such matters should be brought to the attention of HTC.  So rather then the rush to summary execution on the BBS, I believe Skuzzy wants you to let him know so he can research it and take the appropriate action.

[Ack-Ack]

A simple question:

Who cares?  If someone wants to shoot down a shade account 100 times a day, let them.  They are only "cheating" themselves of any dignity they might have had.  It's a cartoon airplane game, and worrying about what some other person does with their $15 or $30 is silly.

This isn't about score/rank or even perk farming and all to do with maintaining some sort of fair play standards within the community.  A community that is tolerant of these sort of actions will also become tolerant of far more unfair gaming practices like cheating and the community will become a festering boil.


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[grizz441]

I think the community can police itself if it is allowed to.  Skuzzy got fed up with it in another thread and declared Musashi not a shade of u2007      Can anyone explain how he came to that conclusion?

[Lusche]

I think the community can police itself if it is allowed to.  Skuzzy got fed up with it in another thread and declared Musashi not a shade of u2007      Can anyone explain how he came to that conclusion?

Only Skuzzy himself can, and it's highly unlike he actually will, at least in public

[grizz441]

Only Skuzzy himself can, and it's highly unlike he actually will, at least in public

He must not have looked at the stats or something, it might be the most blatant case to date up there with Amsoil21's.

[hubsonfire]

If Skuzzy says it's not a shades account, he's probably right. However, no one ruled out cooperative vulching, and the stats just don't make any sense otherwise. That's where I would place my bet.

[Dadsguns]

All the community needs is a TALL tree and a SHORT piece of rope........

[grizz441]

If Skuzzy says it's not a shades account, he's probably right. However, no one ruled out cooperative vulching, and the stats just don't make any sense otherwise. That's where I would place my bet.

Isn't that the exact same thing essentially? In principle at least...

[WWhiskey]

well if two different people, in different places, are paying $15 a month, each,  then it might be hard too justify terminating there accounts when they are not really taking up much space, and the only thing they are skewing is the scoreboard, especially since the people in here will chastise them for it soon enough! and i don't think they said we can't point them out, probably more along the lines of keeping it as civil as possible, when doing so!

 just my two cents worth
                              WWhiskey out.

[PFactorDave]

Isn't that the exact same thing essentially? In principle at least...

I guess the important question is was this u2007 person killing a shade or not?  Apparently not.  Then step two in the checklist is, did his repeated killing of this person unfairly place him into rank contention?  Or maybe he was simply perk farming, which while also a dweebtastic activity, not quite the cheap cheating for rank like Amsoil21.

Perhaps HTC doesn't find the perk farming by two paying customers to be quite as foul as the rank cheating.

Just a thought, not saying that it is (or should be) the case, just a possibility.