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Originally Posted by jasonbirder
The point I was trying to make is that if online cheating is a problem…its not the fault of third party modifications, it’s the fault of people who are using them in in-appropriate situations –
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Oh boy you sure got carried away there.The point is false simply because the sim was not meant for open modding.The developper did not open it, so hackers` interference is the source of the chaos that will surely plague online. It was meant to be closed, they opened it, they take the responsibility for destroying online IL2 gaming and BTW the whole online IL2 community. The point is you did not get any kind of developper acceptation on this. Detaching yourself from consequences of such an event is a one big lie. You know damn good that you make damage.
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and that can only be changed either by stronger sever administration, password only or subscription based servers or by flying with people you know.
As long as you fly with anonymous people in a dogfight server where a “win at all costs” stat driven mentality prevails then cheating or bad sportsmanship is something that will concern you…and that is something that has existed long before the development of the current, third party mods.
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Newsflash dude - your hacker heroes don`t give a damn about preventing the obvious consequences for online playing.
HL is an environment that is you want to fly coops you are sentenced to flying with people you don`t know because at least 16 players are required to make some of it. To make online sessions merely smooth ie. going constantly you need to multiply that number by at least 10. If HL at rushhours counts up to 1200 players then it is much too small to afford closed sessions. Show me someone who knows 160 people online and is 100% sure they won`t cheat.Nothing like that exists in HL. Because for all you know ONE of them in each coop spoils the entertainment FOR EVERYONE.
You and me agree that bad sportsmanship is always there when you keep playin with unknown people.
The difference here is that you don`t know the first thing about online play via HL so you keep making up wrong conclusions based on games with much bigger online crowds.