Goseki wrote:I don't think we're trying to say cheating is ok. I know i'm trying to say that people cheat because they chose to, but also because of how lax the policy against bot is.
I use to try to only look for legit powerlvl at ongs, but after you get all the way out there, pay someone that says they hand grind, and notice them moving in a bot-like pattern, i just sit there until i get kicked. Sometimes, I get auto-invited randomly making me think it's a person, only to realize it's not. I guess I could leave and not get the free exp, but I could've done the same to legit grinding groups. I once joined like 5 parties cuz I was 99% and and ran out of pots. I just ran from one group to the next until i got the 1% i needed. That's why for me, powerlvl is a grey area.
Botting is bad, but considering how far the bots have infiltrated the SRO community, it's pretty hard to stay completely 100% legit depending on how you define legit. If you define it as having taken 0 advantage from a bot, that's impossible as most drops and elixirs sold cheap are from bots. If you define it as never getting experience with the help of a bot, that let's you be a legit as long as you grind with friends. If you define it as never personally using a loader or bot, than you can join all the powerlvl parties in the party match. If you define it as never talking to or being friends with a bot, than you must have never actually managed to log on...
You shouldn't have to feel sorry for something like that. Azilius isn't the best example of a moral character.
The fact of the matter is, people are bitter and envious creatures to begin with. Get an upper-hand over someone else, and they will resent you for life. They will try to do everything in their power to hold you back, to get you to be on the same level as them.
I'm not saying botting is right. But the reasonings of these so called "legits" are wrong. I remember when sro just started and there was no item mall, no alchemy just plain old grinding. As soon as the item mall came out and people started getting gold tickets everyone started bitching at them because they bought a upper hand when it comes to leveling, I remember how everyone made me felt so horrible because i was leveling fasting that they were. They wanted me to level with them, so I wouldn't have the upper-hand over them.
The same thing happened with alchemy. All gears use to be whites, you were not able to put any blues on them. When alchemy came out, and people started putting blues on their gears all of a sudden they were being looked down on in PVP. "You only one because you have blues on your gear"? while the noob ran away after you just finish pwning him. It was actually a crime to beat someone in pvp if you had blues on your gear.
Again, same thing happened with snow shield. Before snow shield nukers use to get 1 or 2 hit from left to right by pure str. But with snow shield they were finally able to compete, but whenever a nuker won a pvp all you would hear were cries about how you only beat me with snow shield.
So the fact of the matter is, we are all humans, we are all somewhat selfish beings. If someone has the upper-hand over us, we don't feel right, we would rather be on the same playing field with them. Then pwn their asssss like the selfish creatures we are. So when someone has something over us, whether is a higher lvl char or gear, we find some reasoning to take that away from them.
All the "legits" that cried about plvling when Euro came out and just bitter about their experience with sro. "I grinded for hours on end to get my lvl 70 char, and so should you. Your a botting piece of crap, wah wah wah wah wah wah T_T".
Get a life you jerks, i will enjoy my capped char, and there is not a damn thing you can do to take that away from me, you envious bastards.
JM
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