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Originally Posted by SangrelX
I didnt give an example of how it worked - so lol it couldnt have been off
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Erm, not too fine a point on it, but you said
"In this game - these segements come togather to create effects that were not meant to be there!! such as invincibility" My comment there, was that "invincibility" is an actual game element in normal game mode - any time your pirate lands in jail, it is momentarily invincible. So, to some extent, the code (defective or proper) is there in plain sight. (The object property is probably called "invincibility" in their actual source code. Does it allow unreasonable time durations? Yup. The highly disruptive Kingshead glitch would not exist if there were a five minute timer.)
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Originally Posted by Tobias Blastpigge
I'm pretty sure this is all it is. Remember that this is a business by one of the leaders in the communications industry. While individual programmers may 'play around' a little (like their characters playing guitars) any actual cheating endangers their business.
Programming a game like this is difficult. We don't know what sort of conflicts are in the program, and obviously the programmers don't either. Fix one thing and that may cause another problem. And this program is certainly proprietary so they only have a handful of programmers that can work on it. As Zeppers said, its a tough decision on where to put your energy.
I'm betting the undead/unlimited-ammo glitch will go away fast. It IS discouraging to get sunk that way.
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But that is the least of the SvS glitches. Auto-repair is the worst. Repair-while-sailing is perhaps second. Invincibility is the super-nasty one, but I never see more than one boat on any given server with it (so it is relatively rare.) Invisibility is another particularly nasty one. Infinite ammo, to me, is the bottom of that list.
Did you mean a literal bet, or were you just being figurative? I don't like to bet, but I think it is pretty easy to say that the skeleton/infinite-ammo glitch won't be fixed by 10/31/2008. I guess stakes could be a couple thousand in-game gold pieces?
I do agree that new content vs. glitch disabling is a tough choice. In light of the PLETHORA of new content announced now, it is very understandable that they have not focused on glitches. So much new stuff, it makes more sense for me to just shut up and try to let this thread die quietly.