It's not that we don't appreciate the offer of volunteering to help make the game better. It's not even really the idea itself that's the issue here. It's more along the lines that if someone were to figure out a way to get around the code and abuse it, they will. I've thought of things in the past that seemed like it shouldn't be done at all and figured I'd give it a go to see if it stuck and actually could be used after the fact. For instance when you can bind an item to your character for the level multiplied by 12 or whatever it was for 20 days in a Cabal. Some high end items were level 0. So this is a example of what could happen:
Person A has a bad ass item that is level 0, grants you the ability to dish out pain for a tick or three. That person binds that item to themselves so that it can never be in circulation again or until their character dies and never says a thing about it but they know they're exploiting it while other people don't even think of trying this out for themselves. This person ends up being around for over a year while doing this because it gives them an edge over other people despite the fact they don't really need that edge, but eventually they get bored and quit playing them.
Person B comes through a couple years later and comes across this same item that's completely bad ass and it benefits them only minimally, but they decide to give it a go and hold onto it. Eventually they get rid of this item though because it was only taking up rare/unique slots that they would rather use for something more pertinent to their character and style of PK without realizing what Person A did.
Person C creates a similar race/class combo as Player A had a few years ago and decides that they want to see if they could reproduce the same success. They go back through the forums to find out what that person wore or even still had logs showing what they did and they go about collecting those items. Eventually they come across the bad ass item and don't think of it either the entire time, manage to die and lose that item to someone that Person A is now playing who grabs said item again and starts the cycle over.
Eventually Person B manages to get the item again a couple years after that since the uses of it cater more towards their class they're playing finally. They decide that they want to enhance each piece of EQ they have by making it burnproof and all that jazz and they contemplate the binding some of the items not easy to get but decide that they're going to try it out on the one item that Person A had for so long may be worth it because quite frankly it's not hardly ever in which makes it difficult to obtain unless you just so happen to know for a fact that it's in through OOC means typically due to some people carrying over knowledge from other characters. To me it's not a huge deal because I don't care how people get their info, just as long as it's factual and doesn't affect the overall game. Person B owners that item, but due to the level being 0, they don't get CPs taken away because of it. At that point the player may be wondering whether it was a fluke or a bug and take it to Prayer.
Come to find out it's never been reported before. An item in the game that hasn't changed ever, and nothing was ever said.
That's what happens when it comes to bugs or work arounds. For every honest person out there, there's at least 12 more who aren't. Half of my family are like that, and that's just how the world seems to work. This is the very reason why I suggest that if you want to post code, do so in the Prayer section. Your idea for this is great. The execution could be worked on though. The older we get certain qualities tend to come out more as we age. With you I've always noticed that you get very defensive about things and you feel that regardless of what someone else may say, you're always right. It could be true for all I know, and I can say that I'm the exact same way. When I was working I always was in a Leader role myself. I was telling people who had higher positions than I did what to do because I was always right. Not because what I said, but how I said it and the confidence I had to back it up with. My major downfall though is rage. Out of everything I had done at my job, regardless of how many things I did right, that flaw ultimately held me back from promotions. In this case if people don't seem to agree with you 100%, you shut down and then 'dumb it down' further. Most of the time they don't need it to be dumbed down for them. It's not clarity that they're really seeking, they just see that it could potentially start a trend of abuse, and until all of it has been completely checked to prevent it from being abused, you're going to ALWAYS come across that sort of issue when you present it to others. This is why you should do it in Prayer though. If the idea is actually implemented it means it's that much harder for someone to figure out how to exploit it since they didn't see the code lines for it to begin with.
As I said, the idea itself is great. I like it. But don't get upset when you get a bunch of people telling you what could go wrong with it. What you had hosted and created in the code you have, that's there. Do you have 5+ players who play long hours who purposely try to find a way to abuse something in order to gain the upper hand though in PK? If you do, that's fine, but otherwise they're apples and oranges at this point. You can't even compare FL to AR or CF at this point. Sure a lot of things may be the same, but the code was released in 2005? How many changes have gone through since then making information unreliable? A lot. The same can be said about the other two games too. I'm sure you can bring up the point that if you got in with Crypticant the code he had was even newer than that of the released code from Virigoth. Even then though too much time has gone by to just make blatant accusations of something and present it as proof because you feel you're right whether anyone else believes so or not. If you don't want to continue fleshing it out though, that's fine too. No one is going to think any less of you for it. The game has come a long ways in many aspects, and sure Erelei may add in things that people question, but it's a game. I try to keep up on my Inventory at all times, and if I know I'm over the limit, I thank the Gods that there's a fucking sort command now. Remember when you couldn't do that shit? I lost things back then and even once everything because I was training on scarecrows and the game crashed. Since I came back though I've lost maybe 3 or so things. If I didn't lost anything, that would be amazing too, but again that goes back to please post any of your code to Prayer. Even if it's ignored completely, at least you posted it and if they come back to it and say that yeah they fucked up, rub it in then, not before you gave it a chance.
