i dont believe anyone that says they hack.
if you look at the end of my vids i usually try to get ppl to admit to cheating, even if it was obvious, so they really cant deny it later on.. works usually.. not always, but worth it if you can get it.. cheaters know they wont be punished now so they are beginning to take pride in their filth..
[quote]our ultimate goal here is not to isolate cheaters.. or have cheaters leave
if so, video recordings would not be neccessary, nor would reporting them to mods.[/quote]
Hmm.. Grrr.. forgive me in that case. Though, i warn you not to really believe that any man is your enemy.
Our enemy is.. or should i say.. ought be, the very spirit and nature which would cause anyone to justify actions such as those taken by cheaters and liars on colony, or to truly believe that these things are acceptable and fine. These expressions of hatred shown have stemmed and grown from a general lack of consideration.
Such spirits as this have a funny way of keeping themselves alive.
So.. say for example..
You rise against a man expressing intense hatred and disdain for his fellow people. You put him in his place, eh? (if you can and if those being victimized cannot defend themselves).. But in doing so you sprout a seed of Hated within your own heart; hate for this very person and for people like this person, and, as a result, you treat them in just the way they treated others, without any sort of consideration or mercy.. In this process, you lose all recollection of who your enemy was to begin with: this very same spirit of Hatred.
Isn't that funny? You hate Hatred.. so you go to war against those hating.. and, in the end, you carry your original enemy (Hatred) safely away from the battlefield within your own heart! Madness i say..
Hmph.. and so you go on thinking yourself
righteous for fighting off those whom you had beheld hating their fellow people.. until.. the next day someone comes along and sees the Hatred you yourself are expressing.. and they hate this Hatred to such a degree they actually begin to war with you over it.. and, in the process, they come to hate you.. and people like you.. and the Hatred lives on.
An endless process? Maybe.. but it does not have to be. We do not have to fall victim to the cleverness of such spirits. We do not have to be fools.. to think that because we are not as
flawed or
careless as another that we are
more deserving of a "good thing" (or of any "good thing"
than they are.
When i say that
"any of us could easily be cheaters ourselves under the right circumstances" what i mean is that we are all far from perfect, and just because we are better than some do not mean we are better than all. Should we go on dealing with those
"lesser ones" without any honest consideration or concern or care? And would we yet expect different treatment from those greater than us who behold our own faults?
Surely we would want for those greater than us to not simply get rid of us, but rather to help us to see things the way they do, to lift us to their level, in a sense.
This is what
we should seek to do with those we find fault in as well. Of course, there are
bad people in this world, but most of us, having spent a bit of time with many of these
cheaters know that they are not badasses by any means.
They are silly, bored, and cowards in the sense that they know they wont get in trouble here. Idiots: yes. Bad people: no. We can actually help most of them, partially by having them punished for doing wrong.. because a lot of people refuse to change or to see the wrong that they have done until they are punished and forced to look at it. It is called
tough love.People may think that i am crazy or an idiot.. but such wisdom i have learned over time.. with experiences of my own, many of them, believe it or not, in online games like this one; dealing with communities much like this one. This game has no effective anti-hack systems in place and offers many easy ways to glitch and cheat and makes it difficult to administer any sort of punishment for wrongdoers.. but none of that is the problem nor would changing that be the solution.
As I have said before, and as others in AG Forums have constantly pointed out to me, cheating is a reoccurring issue. A new anti-hack program = new ways around it eventually. Now, where this has been spoken to me as an excuse for why it is a waste of time to try and stop cheaters and why we should do
NOTHING, i speak of it as proof that we need to do
more!The issue is the community. It is weak for starters.
Partially due to the setup of this game which does not necessarily require much interaction or communication, there is a general lack of emotional investment into those we play with.. which is probably convenient for many who do not
want to "care" about random people met
online.. but, unfortunately, it is also convenient for those who would seek to do harm here.
Think of Colony as a neighborhood, if you would, and we are all neighbors. Now, have you ever seen a nice neighborhood turn bad? Or rather should i ask, have you ever been in a nice neighborhood at all? So few of them left, i think.. and it has nothing to do with the classes of those people living there.. there are many nice poor neighborhoods and fairly bad wealthy ones. What makes the difference is in the air.. the mood. Are people looking to help their fellows with issues or only complaining about them and what they do too much or fail to do?
Of course some people say "It is only a game." And I agree. Where a good or bad neighborhood affects your quality of
life, the state of this community will affect your quality of
play (on this game), and play is an important part of life as humans, don't you agree?
So.. forgive me for making it seem as though everyone here feels as i do since, obviously, some do not. =\\ i suppose i was speaking out of hope.. Perhaps some do not think hatred is bad and think that i speak nonsense. I have encountered such thinking before many times.. after all, we do all have our
own thoughts and considerations and points of view..
I really do not even think we should hate those who disagree with us concerning hatred, but rather consider the things that they say and try to prove to them that our way is best.. and that way, if our way should turn out
not to be best and their way is better, we do not go on like fools.
In conclusion, I have offered such advice as this to many peoples in the past, many communities (including this one) and almost none have bothered to listen.. And many of those that gave no heed and changed nothing; they are not dead in the since that they do not exist, because they are still around, but they are dead in the since that everything that once made them attractive and special is lost.. stolen over time by spirits of bitterness and distrust. I would like to avoid seeing that here, if at all possible. Though, i already behold many of the telltale signs taking place.. it is like the typical scent in the air just before a storm. Hmph.
Also.. @brp47.. wtfman??? o.0 Apparently it is pointless and a waste of my time for me to speak here since you went on posting yesterday what you have been told numerous times is an inaccurate list.. e_e and you did not make any of the needed changes. I do not mean to be an annoying nuisance, but.. ~.^ its kinda weird.
I would think that you would immediately make what are such simple fixes. Lol.. I will not cry "self-sabotage" or anything, but i do warn you, you are just begging for random Colony trolls to come criticize you and this list.. which i would not like at all because i do think it (and your team) has some sort of a positive effect on the Colony community.
As with any good thing though, there will be people who strongly criticize. Give them as little fuel as possible, eh?
