Punishment Game Abusers (Suggestion)

[Edward Edgemenace]

I see a lot of valid points made, but there are a couple I'd like to address:

* People try to find glitches because there is no penalty for being caught.

I see this proposal as DIRECTLY countering that mistake. By having absolutely no penalty for glitching, Disney is encouraging it implicitly.

* Screen shots can be modified, but chat logs can be modified more easily. They are no more or less valid in any way.

* Accidental glitches might be encountered; it would be the moderator's discretion to see if this person had been reported before/recently/frequently, etc. If not, they could choose to just log the person off and send an e-mail warning.

It you got booted when caught, there would be an incentive to NOT cheat. There would be an incentive to not search for exploits. As it stand now, exploits are condoned.

[Poison elf]

There are plenty of people on test that test everything who also play live. So those on test would have a free rain to test everything than bring it to live already knowing. So searching will still always be there.

People will look for glitches, but the compounded problem right now is so many have nothing else to do.

The biggest point of all is the moderator's discretion. This is the past history that has shown a problem, and running people off the game. One mod thinks its ok, another not. Receiving these alternate views will have many ban. Players already at their limits would not receive this well.

Players themselves have one view versus another. A good example of this is ship glitching and flying. How many have said how they like this and it is harmless? Yet the table turns quickly when someone uses the same flying glitch to have a advantage in something like the curse at Tortuga.

I can imagine the feelings now by kids who get ban cause they just heard about the flying glitch and try it out. Or the one out of 6 getting banned doing a undead glitch while their friends aren't. The result of a mod banning those flying harmless that the day before a mod said it was OK. To add this new scenario, you just got ban for someone porting to ya on a svs ship and considered glitched, now no chance to get on test and have free rain, lol. Then where do all those cheats get posted when people are banned from game and no longer give a hoot.

The thing that needs to take place here is these things eliminated from the game. There is a good size group here that thinks Disney is doing a great job, and to be patient and positive.
Remember Hex shot, it didn't get changed for at least 9 months. These things I really doubt are condoned, but more likely they are stuck between a rock and hard spot. Some just not getting fixed at least as fast as we would like to see.

With so many of these out there, why should we be getting banned and black marks to our accounts. When some of these we don't even identify as a glitch. I never considered hex shot glitched before. If darkhart heals, and you get more rep, is this a glitch, if so why does he heal. With such perfect latency in this game, you lag and he heals, would we be forced to leave attacking him, and him glitched so others can't fight him? Using a cheat card for BJ, would this be now ban. Maybe just when for max gold? Using a 1st level weapons so its easy to get lots of rep, this a glitch and we forced to used the upgrade decreased rep weapons. Where is this breakdown at? Agh, left for a mod and if they are in a good mood or bad.

I think just a little more thought should be put into something like this before wishing this on yourself.