Is Backing-Up Chars Duping?

[TheKingofKewl]

I want to come back to this one last time, because I feel it’s owed, before deletion.

I feel now I misunderstood Pete's original reply to my post, and being easily prone to anger at times I misrepresented that as an attack. This drew me to an aggressive/defensive response which came across a poorly. In this case I've seen myself as more of accidently instigator, so I apologize.

To be clearer on my views:

Backing up for hard drive failures, power failures is all okay. When I have died in the past due to monsters, I have either called for help from an outside player I was unable to retrieve it, retrieved it myself, or took it. I have sucked it up and taken the loss before, not always were I able to retrieve my items, and was forced to take unenchanted items and start in easy areas. This is actually kind of fun, rebuilding to an extent, as long as nothing major was lost.

So when I checked to see how long it would take my character to die in hell/hell, I didn't feel I was ready to make that area my zone to hang out. My comfort zone for this character was and still is Nightmare/Hell and Hell/Cave. My drive was leaving to work in 5 minutes so at the time I didn't take the situation seriously; it was a quick moment of curiosity.

So, yes, its cheating to back up your character if its due to loosing your items to monsters. Though in honesty, if I lost my stuff to monsters at this point, I don't know if I could suck it up, I might end up walking away for a while. Investing a lot in your character is difficult to walk away from. And perhaps I made a poor choice before, though I take some comfort in it not being game play related.

This one is to you Pete. I don't want us to get off on the wrong foot. I'm going to try and get the spell checker today, for now I'll run it through Word.


-King

Deleted -- not worth it