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Originally Posted by arsenalpow
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Coth ducking is stupid. No one is disputing that, but it happens to be the most easily policed method of making sure no one is cheating. Everyone has two trackers (they're usually mages) and everyone can see those two trackers, you can see in the logs when someone has been cothed in to get FTE. The proposal via Unbrella was we could eliminate coth ducking and replace it with a straight footrace. Which means you'd need constant fraps to ensure that whoever got FTE was at the zoneline initially which is just as ludicrous as coth ducking.
So in the mean time coth ducking will stay until something else is figured out.
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Does this server have some kind of super advanced detection for speedhacks? Cause back in classic EQ, footraces were the easiest thing in the world to hack.
Of course automating COTH ducking is even easier.
I could write a script in 5min that would automate COTH ducking. When the mob spawns it would automatically summon. The script would be entirely external to the EQ client and could even be isolated from the machine in such a way that if eqgame.exe does some kind of advanced spying is impossible for it to distinguish between a human doing the COTH ducking.
Combine this with a little alarm that triggers whenever something weird happens (i.e. GM checking up on us, tells, zoning, person comes nearby, movement) and give the script to whichever super loyal and trusted member is available to poopsock that day.
He can do his homework (college students are usually the best MMO players for a reason) while COTH ducking all day. Everyone will say he's a lame nerd poopsocker and believe that he's actually sitting there doing it manually LOL.
The GMs will investigate and conclude that he's a real person... because there is just no way for them to know.
Seriously, I could write that before lunchtime.
For extra credit, use VPNs so that everyone can log on to the guild mage and make it appear that the mage is always being played from the same IP address. Super flexible and easy.
It boggles my mind that people take this game seriously as an eSport when cheating is so fucking easy.