After all the publicity it got.. I now see the following about once per day. My question is.. are people really this stupid?

12:37:22 PM F --={ B Deployed Fighters Report Sector qqcby:
12:37:46 PM F --={ B they not doing it
12:38:04 PM F --={ B q*
12:38:32 PM F --={ B Deployed Fighters Report Sector q*qqcby:

Heh or the even more obvious like this:

1:19:36 AM F LokI that is our dock ty very much
1:19:45 AM F --={ B this is my stardock bitches and dont forget that#
1:21:34 AM F LokI your pdrop is slow forever yawn
1:21:38 AM F TUROK Doctor Report Sector^mby:DW's Scorpion entered sector
1:21:39 AM F LokI wanna try again
1:21:45 AM F LokI rofl
1:23:07 AM F LokI dam you guys suck
1:23:42 AM F --={ B Deployed Fighters qcby:
1:24:02 AM F TUROK Report Sector ^mby:Loki's RedRum entered sector
1:25:50 AM F TUROK Doctor Report Sector c^mby:Loki's RedRum entered sector
1:26:42 AM F --={ B Deployed Fighters Report Sector q^Mcby:
1:29:43 AM F --={ B Deployed Fighters q^Mqqcby:
1:29:47 AM F LokI 3 on one it's on now

It may be over my head....but I'm lost....what was I just reading there??
L8ter

*Proud Member of the Alliance*

Live Long And Prosper!

An incredibly lame way to force someone to cby (self destruct) their ship when they are running certain scripts (photon etc..).

I say if you have to resort to lame tactics like this why play the game at all heh. What's the f^#$@ing challenge?

Just my 2 cents.

LOL...I just got it dude...well, If they wanna waste their time with that...let them. But it is really dumb...wheres the challenge in getting someone to blow themselves up!! I can see how it would be funny to watch tho...heheheheh....whatever....to me its too funny to be mad at
l8ter

*Proud Member of the Alliance*

Live Long And Prosper!

It wasn't funny when it happened, however now that I look back on it.......

Anyway, this is all I remember!!

¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ARE YOU SURE CAPTAIN? (Y/N) [N] Yes

Heh... time to go rewrite those scripts, GOP.


-Stryker
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

Poor G.O.P. ... Yeah I'm sure if I'd been blown up I'd be a little pissed and maybe find it funny later on. I think in all it's more of an annoyance than anything in all. *shrug*

And yes.. time for everyone to put some fixes in their scripts heh

Ok,so you think its ok to run a pdrop script or whatever script, but you don't think its ok for someone to try to beat your script or trigger any way they can? I sorry I don't think it's lame. It's part of the game.

hahahaha
i think its funny as hell
belgarion got a me one day on fament last year in one of the first games i joined. He also got a corpie with a pdrop script to zdy our level 6 H blowing him up in the process

it'd be even better hearing a bunch of idiots on fed tryin to figure out what trigger to use, if i saw that i'd be rolling on the floor laughing so hard

Chris Rose
http://www.geocities.com/camaro81rk

There's more than one way to skin a cat, and those of us who don't script ourselves don't have neat p-drop *and* attack scripts to help us not only pop in on you but actually do something about it hehe

Yeah I do see a lot of points here.. I just have never been one for getting any kind of warm & fuzzy feeling whatsoever about exploiting bugs. I guess that's just me though.

One thing I will say is it poses one more challenge along the line... every new script and/or exploit out there can be worked around right?

EXACTLY....if you write a scipt...it CAN and WILL be beaten eventually, otherwise ther would be a huge disadvantage to those not using them!! I think a fun part of this game is its evolution!! this only happens when people find new bugs and exploit them(and there will always be bugs)and then when people find ways to overcome the exploitation! The game would be boring if we just has the same old weapons over and over and over again. In order to win, you must be resourceful! This CBY thing is funny because certain people thought they were invincible with their scripts...and when they got woken up by a shock of reality...they were pissed. THATS why I find it HILARIOUS...HAHAHAHAHA
L8ter

*Proud Member of the Alliance*

Live Long And Prosper!

Well, basically, if people are going to write scripts to "Cheat" that way (PTorp scripts, etc) then it's perfectly all right to use that script against them.

I DON'T support finding and using bugs within the normal game system, however. All's fair in love and war, but there are still some rules. and sitting online having a computer do something for you while you are away watching TV or whatever, well, if someone can outsmart your computer, then you get whatcha deserve.



-Stryker
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

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Well, basically, if people are going to write scripts to "Cheat" that way (PTorp scripts, etc) then it's perfectly all right to use that script against them.

Actually, these scripts are readily available and are by no means a way of cheating. You can download them online. Nothing unbalanced in that aspect really.

As for the rest you're right.. but everyone seems to think it's okay to exploit bugs, which is what had bothered me in the start. Nothing anyone can really do but add some sort of protection to the scripts they have I guess.

1. Scripts are a way of life now in Tradewars..Get used to it.
2. Spamming someone to try to get them to CBY is fine.
3. Spamming someone in a game to get them to CBY where spamming is banned it Not fine.
4. WAKE UP...It's not 1989 anymore..Things evolve and so do game strategies!!..

Well If spaming is banned scripts should be as well. As far as calling using scripts cheating, it is not, it is now part of the game. I would call it an unfair advantage. If all the scripts used the same format (language) and they where all avalible to the tw public, then it would be fair, we all know that this is not the case.
I came back in this game after a ten year absense as many of us have. Alot has changed. I think the game was more fun before as all you had to do was play and not worry about having to learn scripting to compete on the highest level, I would like to learn but I hardly have time to play one game.