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You are welcome to believe that guys. I can't accept your assumptions. I've never met a stupid programmer. They get their jobs by being inordinately clever.
All cheat codes don't have manual equivalents? Let's not get the cart too far in front of the horse. Setting a flag for a certain condition (say invulnerability,) for a certain cheat code would be removed in the first code review. But sneaking in a highly dubious reason for having invulnerability (e.g. first minute after re-spawning) means that the code for the cheat can be left in plain sight.
Leaving a dubious excuse for infinite ammo in the first place, means the code to enable that cheat can also be left in plain day. There is no reason for anyone to assume that in a PvP match, they might have more ammo than they have. Running out of ammo is actually expected. It is a cheat to begin with, for someone to have more ammo than they came with (ever.)
It is a cheat to allow any weapon attack while jumping/off ground. (Not even a flying sergeant.)
It is a cheat to allow invincibility at any time. While re-spawning? Bull-hockey. There is never anything non-glitched nearby re-spawning points.
It is a cheat to allow invisibility at any time.
It is a cheat to modify damage (e.g. inner vs. outer hull) at any time. Damage is damage. Cheater's damage should not be ten times greater than regular player's damage (for 98% of the hits scored.)
Open fire should not exist. 32 times damage is only there for cheaters.
Ramming speed should not exist. That condition should occur on every boat collision (friend or foe) with no "attack" prerequisite.
"Full sail" exists only to allow cheaters to fly around twice as fast with no reasonable limitations in place.
Thunder should be discharged in three separate shots; recombining them in one, enables the triple-damage-thunder glitch. Likewise explosive.
Cutlass sweep, wither and desolation (being non-directional) should not exist. Cannons should not fire in any direction. Realistically, cannons don't turn (5 degrees - maybe.) Broadsides should not hit every enemy in 360 degrees within ten boat lengths.
Healing from NPCs should not exist. Wait, like everyone else.
Tonics should be limited to one per day and be much weaker. At no time should a tonic bring your health above 50%.
Ship salvage should not exist.
Ship repairs at sea should not exist. (What, you cheat so bad you can't find Darby Drydock?)
Quadruple ship repairs quadrupally should not exist.
Abandoning a ship-vs-ship match should forfeit bounty and score to boats that did damage to you (i.e. that caused you to run.) Docking at an island that isn't your team's island should forfeit double your bounty (from your personal gold stash.)
I'm sorry, but you can think what you want. If I were Disney, I'd be really ****ed right now. Not at the game players that love the game, but at the programmer that compromised the game, over and over again.
Should they hire programmers to come in and eliminate these things before it becomes a fiasco? Of course. That would be the easiest approach. Getting it done before 10/31/2008 might be a challenge, but they obviously need to do so before then.
As an aside: I pity the fool that thinks Disney can be challenged in court. Please don't associate my comments with any imaginary legal threat. That just isn't funny at all. The goal of discussing these exploits is to implore Disney to fix them. Well, also to hammer out the details, of what they exactly are.
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