jasonbirder::
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Surely if it was such a great community, you [zapatista] wouldn't have to worry about people cheating you, the moment the opportunity became available?
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robtek::
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@jasonbirder
what is it that you have to talk bad about the online community?
just to have the last word in a lost argument?
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That wasn't bad talk, but an observation on a small minority of hostile behaving players who can negatively effect anonymous public server gameplay and the worries of the majority of anonymous public server players.
Indeed. Hostile or non-cooperative gamer behavior on anonymous public servers years before this mod/hack is why many Online players retreated to private servers, or in
extreme desperate cases, ran back to Offline play.
Zapitista raises an interesting point however and we'll take it further. One of the popular features among many customers is instantly available -- on demand -- anonymous gameplay without facing the need to trust other players on the field. For the Newbies just entering the sim, or first going Online, they may not know a "private" squad/server to join, and so see the anonymous public servers first -- along with the potentially hostile behavior and now, potential mod/hack cheating and more important, actual and popular webboard accusations of mod cheating.
Oleg poasted at ubizoo that he would split BoB And Beyond into "moddable" and "unmoddable" versions -- moddable for Offline play and open mod friendly servers, and closed or no modding to no-modding servers.
To some extent, we hope that's what happens with "moddable" 4.08 and "unmoddable" 4.09. From FB 1.0 up to now, the sim has been at one extreme -- "unmoddable" but with the mod/hack became more or less the other extreme -- "moddable." Hopefully, 4.09 will allow "unmoddable" while those wishing "moddable" will still have 4.08.