Metered combat cheats???

Weapons:

Bows and blades are tested, tested, tested and tested….

the whole matter is an epic failure:

1. the damage is SHOWN to every player..no different damage is possible. If an arrow hit shows “arrow” damage, its arrow damage, nothing else.
2. the speed of an arrow…can be an issue…higher speed guarantees that a player needs less correction for running avatars…so easy to test an arrow for speed
3. the delay time…is easily tested…a shorter delay is noticed in battle
4. multiple bows…now what a delay will result of THAT? lol

speed and delay in between hits would be easy to gauge by the meter but it can be a separate gadget as well…

there is not much cheating possible with a bow but ONE thing: a guided arrow! THAT is possible by a lil tool, run in parallel to second life and impossible to find out.

Meters:

there are cheatermeters as well, people using homemade meters. Now THAT is an effective tool to win every battle!!! They can be found out.

there are no cheater shields…shields can be seen.

Computers:

There is however one cheat with a MASSIVE influence on your battle result: An ultra fast internet connection and a comp that works with that speed. Why so? because a high frame rate is a guarantee that every arrow hits. If in battle your frame rate is as low as 2 you can never win, because you don t know where your opponent is and shoot blindly.

Therefore, if someone tells me they win, I know how fast their comp is.It’s a cheat! Because it is a massive advantage that is independent on skill.

Independent on skill?...now, seeing an avatar and pressing a fire button is not really a “skill”, is it? Yes, there are newb failures, I do not talk THEM. I do talk equally knowledgeable gamers who consider the usual. They press the fire- button at the right spot. However one of them does not see the other changed direction, because the comp was too slow. Who will win?

Summarized, cheating to win saves money for a comp. That’s all. A new comp with a fast connection technically does not qualify as a cheat, but that does not make battle fairer. Its still a method of winning or loosing that is independent on skills other than the skill to spend money. All the thorough research on “cheats” is therefore a massive waste of time. Roleplay comes by agreement, not by combat skills. But those are not needed: Gor matured and no one will waste time by roleplaying with an unwilling party.

Therefore, Fabiens Hub is the best invention since establishing gorean sims. A place to socialize: That’s all we come to gor for.