Thread: Power Gamers
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Old 09-02-2007, 12:35 AM   #13
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Re: Power Gamers

We just busted a bot 2 nights ago, and we (the admins) basically had nothing to do with catching the person. Every time someone runs a bot, they get caught specifically because of the RP nature of Threshold. Invariably, someone walks up to someone, tries to RP with them, and is confused when the person does not respond at all. This is such weird behavior that it quickly draws the attention of a lot of people, who then report the bot.

It is pretty funny, really.

But I agree that botting and powergaming are really not similar things at all. Botters are cheaters. Powergamers are very often people who just love delving into the minutiae of the game's mechanics and strategies to maximize their own efficiency at playing it.

In fact, many powergamers tend to be some of your most loyal and rules obeying players. To get ahead by cheating is "lame", and just shows that person wasn't smart enough or skilled enough to succeed through skill, analysis of game mechanics, and clever play. In other words, to cheat is to admit defeat.

There are even RP powergamers who figure out ways to "borg the RP" side of the game as well. They figure out ways to most efficiently spend time RPing with as many interesting people as they can. They engineer ways to get involved in as many interesting RP situations as possible. RP Powergamers are a pretty interesting lot as well. Fortunately, they do not present the same game balance problems as typical powergamers.

Last edited by Threshold : 09-02-2007 at 01:08 AM.
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