The Reason people bot.

this pretty much sums up my own experience with hacking( was hard to quit hacking as i still couldn`t find people to train with ), even got good at not being noticed in the end (x * i know what hacks to use if you want to look like a legit and stuffs *
heard people say things like, once a hacker always a hacker but this is not always the case... as it gets quite boring to hack for a long time to

but il have to also say that some people probly hack due to being lazy

 

What it comes down to is the fact that they're putting in less work than everyone else but getting the same rewards. There's really no further need for a ban than this.

 

I do, yeah. I understand that everyone has their reasons for doing what they do, I'm just saying that regarding botting and hacking the reasons don't matter. You shouldn't do things if you're not willing to deal with the consequences. I have a pretty long history of botting and hacking on gms and private servers and I've gotten banned most of the time, 100% rightfully so. The reasons don't matter, what matters is that you're gaining an unfair edge.

 

Less penalty= more crime

 

How naive ... there is no point in hacking on a server like this, it's been made for people who just simply enjoy the game, hackers would only corrupt the server, they always have been.
didn't you know?

 

This is the most retarded thing I have ever read in my entire life, in fact I think you just gave me the highest degree of autism.

So people bot not because they want to level faster, but because they are lonely? And we should combat this by not banning them, but instead, making the GM ask everybody to train with said botter? FUCK YOUR STUPID. HOLY SHIT. LOL.

I highly doubt that.

 

People bot because they want to be high level without doing putting in all the time and that's about the only reason. If you're lonely and bored on a game, wouldn't you just... stop playing? Bot or not you're still away from the keyboard not playing so the only incentive for botting is that you gain levels while not playing. Which is unfair and therefore warrants a ban.

 

...wut

 

kekeroo

 

(Shrek & Fiona) Oi, looks like there's trouble in paradise.

 

Looks like their relationship might be ogre soon

 

Like many others in this thread, I disagree with Shrek's premise that loneliness is the reason people turn to botting. However, I think there is an important conversation to be had here, and I think it would be very unfortunate if this opportunity was missed.

Regardless of the what compels someone to cheat, I would like to argue that these actions should not be interpreted as a blight upon an individual's true moral character. At the end of the day, Maplestory is just a game -- and most people do not consider cheating in a game to be a violation of moral principals. Yes, for this game to be fully enjoyable, I agree that we must protect the server's integrity as a seamless "virtual world," rather than malleable code that can be disrupted at will.

However, nearly everyone who has spent a significant amount of time on any server has had friends who ended up cheating in one way or another. On the server which most of you are coming from, vote abuse was not checked for months after launch. People would occasionally be banned for it, but only after they had been reported by other users. So, when vote abuse was seriously checked for the first time on a server-wide level, the results were astounding: Nearly half of the active user-base was vote abusing. I remember being in a guild that typically had 20+ players online. For that one week, we would be lucky to have 4 or 5 players on. Anyone who was playing the server at this time will remember how the server felt completely dead because so many people had been banned for cheating the system. These were not 'bad,' 'undesirable' people. It was almost the majority! These were well-liked players who made the server such an enjoyable, welcoming place to be part of.

Now, I'm not saying that there shouldn't be harsh punishments to deter cheating. Rather, I hope that as a community, especially one that has had these kinds of experiences first-hand, we can recognize the importance of giving people a second chance. I would like to suggest that we only give permanent bans for especially extreme violations of the server's integrity. I believe that permanent bans (in most cases) should be replaced with a 100 day MAC/IP ban, along with a permanent ban of all current accounts (and of course no ban evading, like any other ban).

On other servers, people ask for a fresh start literally a year after their ban and are rejected. I would hope that we are not so closed-minded as a community to think that this is justified. Even in real life, it would be incredibly demeaning to treat ex-convicts as though they should never get a second chance, or should be forever judged for their mistakes.

And this is just a game