it is no secret that i am against custom botting and scripting when it becomes "cheats" a clear advantage over others, and for some people they might even be against it when it alters the game in a way that they personally think disturbes the feeling of the game.
We have had similar discussions previous worlds with gilbertus enders and so on. i absolutley hated that x-ray thing when it came in to light it existed i was horrified about the fact that a few people was able to see thru everything and make their window fullscreen hence they had probably been able to see me way before i could ever see them and hiding behind a tree would never have helped me, so of course you get pissed off when you first find out about cheats like this exists behind your back. But gilbertus took the time to bring it to the publik and Ender kept it going and added a ton of really helpful things, i still am not thrilled about the inpact that X-ray and hide function had on the game feeling, namley i always go around looking at an empty world with red dots and it kinda makes me sad, however it was made publik and i know everyone else had it and after a wile i accepted it and now i would never play without it cause it would be a major disadvantage for me not to and it is also useful in many other aspects, like planting trees behind houses and what not
. Do i still wish that X-ray did not exist at all? perhaps. Do i realize it will never happen? Yes.
Thing is i think many of us but i speak for myself here, remembers the old times with nostalgia an era where there was almost no custom bots or scripts, and i loved that, but it was also horror in some aspects. You could hardley see an animal before it was upon you beacuse of the small window, my eyes was hurting everyday because of all the staring at a mini window trying to see in the darkness wile you where trying to harvest and so on it was a pain in the ###, wich is easy to forget. it also became clear the devs would not change a lot of the things we complained about. custom clients started popping up. And thank god for that.
having no bots and no custom clients exist are just a dream state, one just have to accept that things get discovered and evolve.
it is really hard or rather impossible to stop science and new invensions, it is part of evolution. And we should be greatful it exists! without it we would not have antibiothics that have saved millions of people, electricity and light bulb that made all our lives so much easier and millions of other good invensions. But with science also came the dark side like the atombomb and so on. Thing is atombomb will never go away now that its been discoverd! no matter how much we would like that knowledge to not exist it just does. so all we can do is accept the fact it exists, but the fact that we accept it does not mean we must like the fact that it does. We hate it but co exist with it and try and keep it under control as much as we can.
i am greatful to all these custom scripters who keep bringing the cheats in to the light that tryes to counter the hush-up cheaters, who put in tons of work into making their work usable to the hole community in publik instead of in the dark backstages of a lucky few.
i do consider any custom client/scripts/bot that gives an advantage, that is kept in the dark not open to the publik a cheat! and should be frown upon. However if they are made publik and usable by all it becomes a choice rather then a cheat. all scripts will still have different ethical values. some are really helpful to all, and some are like the atombomb best to keep under control and find ways to counter them, like the devs sometimes try to do by changing game mechanics when they find out about critical scripts or buggabuse.
i have great respect for Gilbertus, Ender, X-com and all the other talented scripters that do it open and to the benefit of the publik community, they never had to do that, but they did it anyway. do i love every function in their custom clients scripts and bots? No! will i download and use all of the functions they offer? No! am i glad i have that choice? Yes! am i glad i have the right to think what i want about the different functions and its existence? Yes! Do i realize they will exist no matter what i think about them? Yes! Am i then glad they exist in the publik and not in the dark? you bet
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after that wall of text its high time for dinner im starving
by Xcom » Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:18 pm 
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