Oleg and Team.

[LEXX]

Feuerfalke::

LEXX, I really wonder how you know all these details if you don't play online. Some things from the social street-life just don't transfer into computer business.

Hi Falke. I'll take the two items in turn.

I know these details from (1) hearing about snotty gamer behavior in anonymous public servers and (2) having myself seen for years many of the "leading" anonymous public server computer gamers attack and insult Oleg's paying customers who only asked for either some additional modding abilities or for Oleg not to cripple his sim to prevent "cheating" -- an example is crippling the flight models for non-slider users by slowing elevator trim. This snotty anti-social computer gamer behavior seen among even "old timer" anonymous public server gamers is one reason so many Online players either go back to Offline play, retreat to private servers, or leave the sim entirely.

Social street-life may or may not transfer to computer business, but it translates directly to social interaction among Online players. Online players have always advertised that human vs human gameplay is superior to Offline play against the AI. Why? Because when played Online, the sim becomes real life social interaction, and not just a simulation anymore. Online play can add the only true hint of reality to a sim -- social interaction.

The flip side is that many anonymous public server players, after advertising that social interaction is the prime mover of Online play, refuse to admit that Online cheating is a social behavior that can only be consistently avoided through social awareness. When you play with society, you take risks, risks that some here don't want to talk about, so they blame the mods, or the modders and happy mod users, but never blame the cheaters since they can't find them. Somebody has to take the blame.