petition to keep map software off red99

[Potus]

While we are at can we please ban all non-classic UIs?

Sick of seeing these people with automated shit telling them when someone new zones in.

[thugcruncher]

Originally Posted by Potus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

While we are at can we please ban all non-classic UIs?

Sick of seeing these people with automated shit telling them when someone new zones in.

can we also ban resolutions higher than 640x480 if your enemy is larger than a pixel it's an unfair advantage and you need to eat a banhammer

[no chewie dont]

Game genie was around at the same time as sega
doesnt mean id wanna play mortal kombat against a cheater

[rollin5k]

Down with map hack. shouldn't be supported imo.

[Ezpk]

I've actually developed a tic while im eqing that'll spam /zone for me without noticing

irl hacks

[Eslade]

if there's something the staff can do to disable this, that would be awesome. if you can't read a simple y, x coordinate system then you deserve to get lost.

[Jib]

chew crying havin a hard time killin bluebies lol.

bloobs need every single advantage they can get they are easy enough to kill already.

prob should just give them the basic in game maps i need more of a challenge myself

[no chewie dont]

Originally Posted by Jib [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

chew crying havin a hard time killin bluebies lol.

bloobs need every single advantage they can get they are easy enough to kill already.

prob should just give them the basic in game maps i need more of a challenge myself

Being banned isnt a challenge enough?

[HippoNipple]

Sounds lame but probably not any worse than allowing people to have custom UIs giving them extra hot keys, etc. As long as the maps only show the users location I don't really care.

[MC Epic]

I don't see a way staff could control this other than setting policy. Technically, using log parser has never drawn much attention as "third party programs". However, adding mapping to the equation is just a way to bypass something server staff already decided to remove from the client, and therefore my opinion is strongly of the "this is wrong" variety.

It would not be difficult to add a plugin to EQwatcher to send loc readings from multiple clients to a central mapping server, and then throw the whole thing on the Web behind a login for guild use.

So: at what point on the scale does this become a "cheat"?

Set policy against it, IMHO. It's not hard to look at p99 wiki and figure out where you are/need to be. Mapping software to circumvent the purposeful removal of a EQ client feature _is_ a third party software cheat.