05-21-2003, 09:05 PM
1. One, the server prevents the use of a hack/script for 10 seconds. That frustrates the cheater.
2. It makes the PK wait. I like having them have to wait to find out if the char is going to fight back or not. Why? Let them have to fidgit, rather than the PvM questers who, every time they see a new player enter a game, have to guess "is this person going to hostile me?" rather than concentrate on their current task at hand.
In short, put the uncertainty on the shoulders of the jerks.
Now, for those who use PK and Hostile to scare leechers and other arseholes from their games, the 10 second timer is small price to pay: the jagoff will leave, or will die, and 10 seconds more or less hardly matters when it comes to cleaning up a game of twits.
If the mutual hostile is required, you know darned well that someone will find a way to bypass it. A timer? Less likely, IMO. And, the timer makes the WP hydra trap almost obsolete. :)
So, as a hack prevention tool, to prevent the hacks from being exploited by Hostile/PK types, timer is better.
My two cents.
2. It makes the PK wait. I like having them have to wait to find out if the char is going to fight back or not. Why? Let them have to fidgit, rather than the PvM questers who, every time they see a new player enter a game, have to guess "is this person going to hostile me?" rather than concentrate on their current task at hand.
In short, put the uncertainty on the shoulders of the jerks.
Now, for those who use PK and Hostile to scare leechers and other arseholes from their games, the 10 second timer is small price to pay: the jagoff will leave, or will die, and 10 seconds more or less hardly matters when it comes to cleaning up a game of twits.
If the mutual hostile is required, you know darned well that someone will find a way to bypass it. A timer? Less likely, IMO. And, the timer makes the WP hydra trap almost obsolete. :)
So, as a hack prevention tool, to prevent the hacks from being exploited by Hostile/PK types, timer is better.
My two cents.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete