07-07-2004, 04:31 PM
Hi,
I tend to agree with what you said.
Could you quickly explain the 'Zen Bug' thingy?
Do you consider save/reload a cheat?
I see that I'm the minority here with my views on bug-exploiting.
Just one last example:
5 friends of me and I started playing Bleifuss.Fun together. This was actually 6 years ago, I think. Of course we long ago stopped, and some of them I don't even see anymore.
Thing is: we competed in that we played each track with each car over and over again, then listed our record times in an excel spreadsheet, then met and compared. Many a time the times differed only in the 1/100 of a second. One time, one of my friends got us beat by 30 seconds. 30 seconds! Naturally, we were all bewildered how he managed to achieve such a phenomenal time, so he showed us. He played and drove the track normally, then apruptly turned left and broke out of the track through what seemed to be a programming error, a gap in the fence. He found himself again on a much latter part of the track, and scored a very fast time. We were buffled, but at the same time amazed, and had nothing better to do than rush home and search for such 'bugs' on every other track, to be on top again. This expanded the time we had fun with the game by approximately 100%.
Now, as from your 'bug exploiting' point of view, this would be cheating. But I hope in this very moment you realize it wasn't.
And that's the way it goes with several a game. I still won't blindfoldedly call every bug exploiter a cheater. It simply is wrong to generalize so much in this aspect (as in many others).
Hope this helps to understand my position.
Greetings, Fragbait
I tend to agree with what you said.
Could you quickly explain the 'Zen Bug' thingy?
Do you consider save/reload a cheat?
I see that I'm the minority here with my views on bug-exploiting.
Just one last example:
5 friends of me and I started playing Bleifuss.Fun together. This was actually 6 years ago, I think. Of course we long ago stopped, and some of them I don't even see anymore.
Thing is: we competed in that we played each track with each car over and over again, then listed our record times in an excel spreadsheet, then met and compared. Many a time the times differed only in the 1/100 of a second. One time, one of my friends got us beat by 30 seconds. 30 seconds! Naturally, we were all bewildered how he managed to achieve such a phenomenal time, so he showed us. He played and drove the track normally, then apruptly turned left and broke out of the track through what seemed to be a programming error, a gap in the fence. He found himself again on a much latter part of the track, and scored a very fast time. We were buffled, but at the same time amazed, and had nothing better to do than rush home and search for such 'bugs' on every other track, to be on top again. This expanded the time we had fun with the game by approximately 100%.
Now, as from your 'bug exploiting' point of view, this would be cheating. But I hope in this very moment you realize it wasn't.
And that's the way it goes with several a game. I still won't blindfoldedly call every bug exploiter a cheater. It simply is wrong to generalize so much in this aspect (as in many others).
Hope this helps to understand my position.
Greetings, Fragbait
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