Quote:That way, you wouldn't be unsure if looking at another person's items was "illegal", all you'd know is if the person was cheating or not
Scanners can only pick up obvious cheating - Stats that are too high, common dupes, etc. People who cheat in such ways are usually pretty easy to spot without relying on scanners.
No scanner could ever tell if you if an item had been bought with 'hacked' cash, or had been generated using a mega drops hack. Such items are generated by the game engine in the normal fashion, and will not share the same ID as a common dupe.
That's why using scanners as protection is pretty pointless. They won't tell you anything about other players that you wouldn't be able to tell without using a little observation.
[edit]I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those pesky typos[/edit]
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