Confessions of a cheater...

[fohkure]

Cool post. I had some friends who messed around with MQ2 on live during the GoD era. It was pretty crazy to see all the stuff it could do. I am very programming illiterate, so it was amazing to me to see what a third party program could do. When my friend used mq2 on live he could zone into keyed zones that he did not possess the key to by just typing /zone zonename. He could target a pc or npc and /warp target and instantly be at that same /loc or he could /warp loc and instantly be at that location. there were a millino plugins and scripts that people wrote to do pretty insane things. He used it much like the OP used it, to aid soloing farm mobs in large areas. The # in front of the placeholder for rare spawns was seriously broken for farming.

I never did mess with it because I felt it would ruin the game for me (i'm still convinced it would have), but I was amazed at what it could do. It was pretty much how I imagined a GMs screen would look. You could pull up a map and see every npc and pc in the zone, their loc, and watch them move around the zone in real time. It was basically just an information tool... as he used it anyways. As they say though, knowledge is power... and it definitely made his abilities much more powerful compared to any other non-hacking player.

I feel like 1/2 the people use these programs as a power trip. They love the fact that they have more information and abilities than the general population. The other 1/2 of the people use it because they are just straight up greedy. The OP falls into the former category i'm sure. While that category might not be as malicious, the end result is still some what the same.

This whole thread was pretty pointless though. 90% of the people who read it and really have no experience with any of these third party programs won't believe a word said in here. They will be convinced that these programs have functions like /loot 10000pp or /level 60 etc.

Chris