Player Morals

Waits for my hand to be killed...

sorry that was ment to be kiss - and you got banned or something.

I've never done any of those things, that's why I've been a low level, low-funded noob for the past 3 years.

Yeah, its stupidly hard to get any where in this game with out the above.

Yeah, there's no way I could have got to 15x without swearing once.

I'll say this. Ending a friendship over the debate of "legitimacy" in a game is outright sad. Although I haven't witnessed this myself personally, I would have expected this to happen in Maple all the time.

I don't want to get into a big debate about this, but this attitude is exactly why it's such a big problem. People know their friends hack and they don't care and they keep being friends with them and benefit from it indirectly, that person has no social pressure to stop hacking. In a lot of other games i've played the hacker count is much lower, because getting caught hacking is such a social stigma that no one would dare do it on their primary account. In maple, these people are still being let into big guilds and Boss runner groups and such, even though they hacked their way up to whatever level and "stopped". As long as the social situation remains like this, hacking is never, ever going away.

Have I deleted people in the past when i found out they were hacking? You better believe it. However, this is a last ditch response. First i'm gonna ask why they feel the need to hack. Is it money? Do they have trouble leveling? I'm not rich but if it'll keep them from hacking I'll share what I have. I've talked quite a few people out of hacking (at least one definitively, i admit it's quite possible the others could have gone behind my back and started again.) in this way, and i'd much rather do that than delete them. But if they're lying about it and denying it, refusing to stop, then there's no other choice. Obviously this person isn't who i thought they were if they're willing to do something they know they shouldn't be doing (Why else lie about it?) to get ahead in pixel world. It's one of those "What you are in the dark" situations; maybe you can hack and get away with it but if your first reaction to difficulty is to start breaking the rules, then you're clearly not trustworthy, and I don't want to be around when you decide betrayal is the better course of action for you.

What's an anniversary balloon? o_o

I edited the OP to explain it, sorry.

I don't want to get into a big debate about this, but this attitude is exactly why it's such a big problem.

I was talking about more about real-life relationships and not so much about purely in-game ones. It'd be quite stupid if a married couple divorced because one of them was hacking in Maple, for example. In-game ones are harder to judge, but there are still real people behind those characters. I do understand when it's time to end a friendship if the other person is denying about their illegitimate actions.

I was talking about more about real-life relationships and not so much about purely in-game ones. It'd be quite stupid if a married couple divorced because one of them was hacking in Maple, for example. In-game ones are harder to judge, but there are still real people behind those characters. I do understand when it's time to end a friendship if the other person is denying about their illegitimate actions.

There's also the problem I've had in MS. The people who hack, and try to constantly talk about it and sometimes try to get you into it. I would delete them just because that was all that they were about. In MS, its uncomfortable on the same level as having a friend who always talks about death or painful things, or illegal things. So, if their conversation is fixated on that sort of thing, i think cutting it off is justified in that sense too.

In RL, i agree, it would be stupid to cut it off with a person you really know. I knew someone who did hack another game i used to play, whenever he'd bring up the subject, i'd just brush it off and make it obvious i didn't care much. He learned to stop trying to get my interest in it, I'm not into lazy gaming. Did the same with another guy and his MS PS.

I'll post what ended up happening in case anyone was wondering: The price of CS dropped to around $6 pre-tax and $7 post. Lv 77 Maple weapons were around the same price in meso equivalent so I ended up hunting for them. Ended up with a pyrope bow and a pyrope skanda, each worth around $6.

Hope this debate helps GMS when the event hits. Thanks for your advices