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Old 01-06-2008, 11:33 AM
jasonbirder jasonbirder is offline
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Our house was in order until you lot hacked the sim.

And I do in fact know right from wrong, something you obviously do not
Really? If your own house was in order then use of the Sound Mod in non-mod online servers wouldn't be an issue would it? All online players would play with honesty and integrity regardless of the availability of changes to the game that can un-balance online play.
The existance of the sound mod in no way coerces palyers to utilise it in unscrupulous ways.
I can only assume, that as there is such concern about so called "cheating" in Online servers, that there is a lack of trust amongst the online community, that online players doubt the integrity of the people they play online with and that there is at least a small proportion of bad apples amongst that community who will take advantage of whatever means are available to give themselves an advantage.
Far from having your own house in order you have extrapolated you unease at the behaviour of some of your online colleagues and used it to wage a campaign against people happily utilise community generated third party mods to enhance their own gameplay experience.
Any issues with online cheating could quickly and easily be resolved by banning cheaters, stronger server administration and a move away from anonomous online play. That wouldn't require a constant stream of Online players repeating the same old boring arguments against community modification. It wouldn't require any programming effort to develop server side file verification and it wouldn't rely on a !C developed fix to the simulation.

As for right and wrong...really, whats wrong with enjoying a simultor I have legitimately purchased (on a number of occasions) in the way I see fit...

What strikes me as odd is that this is the only simulation of any kind Air, Naval, Racing etc where a proportion of the community has come out against third party and community development of the sim, beyond the point where the developer has stopped further support...