YoriZ wrote: The discussion is about the disproval of raiding. The fact raiding requires script usage and that scripts used are controlled by dos-players only contributes to the legitimate of the claim that raiding is to be disapproved.
That's a disingenuous statement if I've ever read one. Raiding does not
require scripts. Not
all scripts are controlled by DOS-players. The legitimacy of your claim being based, even in part, on these rather egregious statements serves only to abase raiders and raiding as a whole, which is, of course, convenient for you, but unfair to the majority of raiders. It's akin to saying that I saw RPers god-mod, so RP should be disapproved of.
The majority of us, when we learned of the illegal usage of scripts, shunned their use, and the users. I go out of my way to encourage people not to interact, with respect to the game, with these players anymore. Of course, for some of us, these people were/are our friends, and it sucks that we can't play the game together anymore--but they made their beds, and now they sleep in them. Would I cut a friend out of my life if they decided to break some rules and become DOS? No, not on a personal level. I wouldn't discuss the game with them, but one develops some lasting, and surprisingly deep friendships through this game.
Ultimately there is a gray area where Halcones' app/script/tool is concerned. It's been stated before that using a
legal script that a user made while playing the game was ok, even after he/she became DOS, primarily, iirc, because the script was made by a valid site-user at the time. But here's the gray area, in my mind. It's like the
Ship of Theseus. If the program was ok at some point, but since the DOS order, has had some (or even all) of its components updated by said user, is it still the initial, and legal, script? Or is it a new script, created by a DOS player, and therefore illegal and to be shunned? As others have said, it's better to play on the safe side altogether, but I think it's going to require administration to create a policy of what is, and what is not, acceptable with regards to situations like these.
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