The fact of the matter is that when a player like Skope starts giving you some constructive criticism on the server he's played on for years, you should probably listen. He represents a huge group of players, the kind of players that any sane GM would want on his server: the ones who don't cheat.
What it comes down to is that if you allow those people to return with their ill-gotten items, it's going to pretty much ruin P99 for the rest of us. You know, the ones you want to play with. The ones who don't cheat.
So if anyone reads this, please disregard Hasbinbad's generic murmurs of safety and normalcy; the sky IS falling with regards to our tiny corner of the internet. This is the single largest significant event and GM decision ever to hit P99. There is still a choice to be made, and it is between two kinds of people. Those who cheated... and the ones who don't cheat.
When a server population stands to lose a huge percentage of its cheaters, or a smaller percentage of we other gamers, the ones who aren't normally as vocal, or influential as individuals, because we usually only play the game itself instead of the metaforum... then I'm sorry, but FUCK the cheaters. I vote to keep the ones who don't cheat.
Delete the cheaters' items or there will be irrevocable damage done to the rest of the server. P99 will never be the same... when the good people like Skope start telling you they will quit because of the decision you are about to make final, then really please just forget the game. Forget training and rule lawyering and the nihilistic top 2 guilds and just make the RIGHT, moral decision. Keep the ones who don't cheat.
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