13-02-2006, 11:04 PM
OK, my opinion:
I wouldn't call it cheating since he's not doing anything that would alter the game. He is playing it as it was developed. Let's say you buy
this action game for PS2 or PC, and you reach a level where there is a guy that is very strong and he won't die. You mission is to kill him.
Let's it is supposed to take people 200 shots to kill this guy, but there is a glitch in the game and if you shoot him in the head, he dies
instantly. Do you call that cheating? Of course, I never said it was right either, since in real life, no one will buy a plane for more than it
actually costs. If you could buy a used and broken down plane and fix it, everyone would be doing so. But that doesn't happen in real life.
Again, I would go so far as to call him a cheater. Let's say your flying in your default 747. There is no autoland, so you have to do it
manually. But on final approach, the frame rates kill you. It goes down to something like 2.5. The plane becomes unresponsive and you
crash. You decide not to save that flight, as it really wasn't fair. Do you call this guy a cheater? FS was running, and the plane was flying.
The question is, where do you draw the line? If you call one person a cheater, you have to call the other people cheater too. So I think that
we should not call anyone a cheater, and just keep playing FsP.
I wouldn't call it cheating since he's not doing anything that would alter the game. He is playing it as it was developed. Let's say you buy
this action game for PS2 or PC, and you reach a level where there is a guy that is very strong and he won't die. You mission is to kill him.
Let's it is supposed to take people 200 shots to kill this guy, but there is a glitch in the game and if you shoot him in the head, he dies
instantly. Do you call that cheating? Of course, I never said it was right either, since in real life, no one will buy a plane for more than it
actually costs. If you could buy a used and broken down plane and fix it, everyone would be doing so. But that doesn't happen in real life.
Again, I would go so far as to call him a cheater. Let's say your flying in your default 747. There is no autoland, so you have to do it
manually. But on final approach, the frame rates kill you. It goes down to something like 2.5. The plane becomes unresponsive and you
crash. You decide not to save that flight, as it really wasn't fair. Do you call this guy a cheater? FS was running, and the plane was flying.
The question is, where do you draw the line? If you call one person a cheater, you have to call the other people cheater too. So I think that
we should not call anyone a cheater, and just keep playing FsP.