05-07-2005, 12:28 PM
First off, I agree with you. Second, I agree with you only in the manner that one who is addicted to a substance agrees that it is bad. I cannot stop using it, and here's why:
At my level ( and anyone at an "advanced level" in the game), the point of the game, and what I spend my time doing when I play, is magic finding or visiting one boss over and over again. While I realize that maphack is NOT necessary for the playing, it becomes more repetitive when one must travel through and waste mana and time through 5 ( countess ), 3 ( baal ) or 2 (meph/pit/whatever) when it can easily be done by finding the easiest path to the next level. You, on the other hand, don't have to associate with us "cheaters" if you don't want to. Just create passworded games..no hack out there can join passworded games. Play by yourself...make games with names like, "legit players" or something akin. I disagree that a gamer who plays w/o MH is 10x the gamer I am, or someone else who cheats and "defiles" is. It takes no more skill to teleport around and find the area you're looking for than it does to know where you're going. That is saying that a man with a map going through a jungle is a less skilled man than one who runs through the jungle blindly, hoping to find the other side. That is horrible logic. There is no skill handicap associated with maphack. Maphack gives no advantage but that of time.
At my level ( and anyone at an "advanced level" in the game), the point of the game, and what I spend my time doing when I play, is magic finding or visiting one boss over and over again. While I realize that maphack is NOT necessary for the playing, it becomes more repetitive when one must travel through and waste mana and time through 5 ( countess ), 3 ( baal ) or 2 (meph/pit/whatever) when it can easily be done by finding the easiest path to the next level. You, on the other hand, don't have to associate with us "cheaters" if you don't want to. Just create passworded games..no hack out there can join passworded games. Play by yourself...make games with names like, "legit players" or something akin. I disagree that a gamer who plays w/o MH is 10x the gamer I am, or someone else who cheats and "defiles" is. It takes no more skill to teleport around and find the area you're looking for than it does to know where you're going. That is saying that a man with a map going through a jungle is a less skilled man than one who runs through the jungle blindly, hoping to find the other side. That is horrible logic. There is no skill handicap associated with maphack. Maphack gives no advantage but that of time.