09-23-2003, 07:42 PM
If you're bringing legit 1.09 items legitimately into a legit 1.10 game, I really can't see that as cheating. And I really don't see the comparison to the Eth bug.
While some people did just put an Eth in a weapon for the -25% defense, the vast majority of Eths were there to actively exploit the bug. In most cases, if you haven't heard of the bug, you're not going to put an Eth in a weapon, so there isn't that big of a risk of accidentally exploiting it.
OTOH, the issue you're referring to could well happen to a legit character simply from upgrading to 1.10. In order to avoid it, you'd have to go through the list of item changes and destroy everything you have that's on the list. This means, for example, that all characters using any part of the Aldur, Griswold, Tal-Rasha, Natalya, Trang-Oul, M'avina or Immortal King set would automatically be "cheating" if they didn't remove the offending items.
That is, unless you define the "cheating" items as those with changes to invisible bonuses, or as items that were better in 1.09 than 1.10. But these restrictions seem rather arbitrary, and sometimes subjective.
While some people did just put an Eth in a weapon for the -25% defense, the vast majority of Eths were there to actively exploit the bug. In most cases, if you haven't heard of the bug, you're not going to put an Eth in a weapon, so there isn't that big of a risk of accidentally exploiting it.
OTOH, the issue you're referring to could well happen to a legit character simply from upgrading to 1.10. In order to avoid it, you'd have to go through the list of item changes and destroy everything you have that's on the list. This means, for example, that all characters using any part of the Aldur, Griswold, Tal-Rasha, Natalya, Trang-Oul, M'avina or Immortal King set would automatically be "cheating" if they didn't remove the offending items.
That is, unless you define the "cheating" items as those with changes to invisible bonuses, or as items that were better in 1.09 than 1.10. But these restrictions seem rather arbitrary, and sometimes subjective.