The comment that you cannot have a level 275 character without having supported UCM in the past? Blatantly untrue. My 3 most active directs decided that I was to be 275 ... and they proceeded to work to make it happen. They did NOT UCM ... and anyone who knows me is VERY much aware of my feelings regarding UCM activities.
You cannot create a new character and catch up? Again, blatantly untrue. I have a UA character that approximately 3 months ago was level 30ish. She now is 121. How? Sure as hell wasn't with UCM - I know where to hunt and HOW to hunt. And most of my hunting has NOT been done in fellows in dungeons. Have I devoted hours and hours daily to her? Nope - I sure have not!
Contrary to popular opinion, being in another room watching television while your computer plays for you is NOT attended. Sleeping in the same room while your computer plays for you is NOT attended. Both instances are UNattended ... because you ain't sittin' at the keyboard able to respond. (And yes, grammar police, that WAS deliberate!)
The Code of Conduct in Asheron's call changed when Turbine bought their game BACK from Microsoft. To any of you who have rented a home of any sort that underwent a landlord change, you know that leases or understandings can be tossed out the window, with the new owner putting their OWN "rules" into play upon their possession of the property. Yes, Microsoft used to allow UCM. Yes, originally ElTank WAS designed to allow mages to hunt on the obsidian plains ALL NIGHT if they so desired. And yes, when Turbine took the game back, changed the CoC, and stated UCM was no longer acceptable, Elgar put in the "5 minute rule". My question to you folks complaining that your detection is gone and you may get caught cheating is: Do you routinely feel free to break rules for things in real life as well? And if you do, are there not consequences to getting caught?
All of you complaining sound very very much like the kid who got caught stealing cookies. He's not sorry he STOLE them, he's just damned sorry he got caught. XP is very simple to come by gang ... my little UA girl is living proof. One of the things I used to MOST enjoy about fellowship hunting was the conversation, something sadly missing any more since most fellows are UCM now and don't talk at all. And for you DT folks? I recall many of you saying in the past, you did not NEED Admins to check out dungeons, you all had your OWN methods of policing ... so if you can police your dungeons and such yourselves, why do you need Admin detection?
Paraduck, if you want people to take you seriously - put your post count back to what it TRULY is ... we're honestly not impressed, and it DOES make you look like a giant hypocrite. CR, you knew you were going to take heat for this change, just make sure you don't find yourself slipping into anger and shooting back at those who complain. You've done what you could to try to make the plugin "live" within the constraints of the CoC. Now my challenge would be to the Decal Devs to make Decal itself unfriendly to plugins that deliberately flaunt the CoC as well.
Yes, I believe in following rules. Yes, I've been tempted more than once in my life to break or severely bend them. One thing I learned when I did ... I only cheated myself. I also learned early in life that when you break the rules, there ARE consequences. Perhaps there will again be consequences for those who deliberately choose to break the rules ...
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