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Originally Posted by ShowEQ
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All "cheating" is not the same...
ShowEQ - You wont get caught
myShowEQ - You get this suspension
MQ - You get this suspension
ShowEQ is basically showing you maps.
MQ is basically full blow cheating.
You get smacked the same way for full blown cheating as seeing maps if you are a bad cheater.
You completely continue with an EXP bonus if you are a smart cheater.
I think the MQ folks deserve a bigger slap than the ShowEQ folks. One just looks, the other sees and affects. They are big differences, and one of them wont suffer any punishment ever.
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Normally I wont bite troll posts that much, but this one is so tasty.
They're all 3rd party tools. They all provide a service that isn't native to EQ. That is cheating, because you have access to knowledge that someone else cannot hope to have without doing it also.
Your point about ShowEQ not effecting the client is true, but it still is a tool. For instance, if you had complete Database access to where rare mobs spawn and nobody else did, people would probably consider you a cheater. ShowEQ is kind of close to that based on the information it provides on a zone-by-zone basis.
The thing is though, and you do make this point, detection for ShowEQ done correctly is pretty much next to impossible. But that doesn't mean it's not cheating, nor should we consider it not. It paves the way for guilds to setup tracking bots in zones at all times, of any class. I have a big suspicion a lot of guilds took part in this dirty practice whether or not they believe it or not. Given that MQ2 usage for a while is out of the equation, it would be prudent to become a little more vigilant for a rise of SEQ users.