04-25-2004, 01:41 PM
HAH!
The initial request was that the link should be removed. That is totally outrageous and unacceptable, if you think about it.
This site retained it's purity over the years. We have posters posting in decent style, people don't write guides advocating hacked items or bugs (I only recall one, and it got it's due in forum bashing), and why is that? Although I deeply respect Bolty, he only SET the tone. He alone would have never been able to uphold this system. It is us, (fellow lurkers -- yuk!), who keep this system going.
For all I care, there could be a whole SECTION in the links site listing item selling sites, and I would not shop there. Even though that means that I can never have an enigma wind druid, and that I could easily afford the item myself. (Yes, I did check the prices, finance major, daah.) I CHOOSE not to do so, since then when that BER drops - and I fail to pick it up - I would not feel BAD, I would not be wound up -- the whole game would loose it's flavor.
The point is, you can hardly avoid seeing the ads of item selling sites these days -- those bots really ruin gameplay (it is virtually impossible to make 8 player games anymore, for one). If someone wants to buy items, they will. This site is FAMOUS for being populated by people who do not resort to such things, so where is the harm? Are you really so easily tempted to buy things that you need an admin to sit on your hands not to do it? Getting worked up now, I'd suggest that you all reconfigure your firewalls to block any requests going in that direction. Meeh!
Chippydip's skill planner is still the best out there (easiest to use, familiar interface, and I've grown to like it in the previous versions), and I share Bolty's view that you'd hurt the legit players by removing the link. And yes, I am glad he could make money from coding something for fun; some of us have trouble making money from something we code for a living.
Caaroid
The initial request was that the link should be removed. That is totally outrageous and unacceptable, if you think about it.
This site retained it's purity over the years. We have posters posting in decent style, people don't write guides advocating hacked items or bugs (I only recall one, and it got it's due in forum bashing), and why is that? Although I deeply respect Bolty, he only SET the tone. He alone would have never been able to uphold this system. It is us, (fellow lurkers -- yuk!), who keep this system going.
For all I care, there could be a whole SECTION in the links site listing item selling sites, and I would not shop there. Even though that means that I can never have an enigma wind druid, and that I could easily afford the item myself. (Yes, I did check the prices, finance major, daah.) I CHOOSE not to do so, since then when that BER drops - and I fail to pick it up - I would not feel BAD, I would not be wound up -- the whole game would loose it's flavor.
The point is, you can hardly avoid seeing the ads of item selling sites these days -- those bots really ruin gameplay (it is virtually impossible to make 8 player games anymore, for one). If someone wants to buy items, they will. This site is FAMOUS for being populated by people who do not resort to such things, so where is the harm? Are you really so easily tempted to buy things that you need an admin to sit on your hands not to do it? Getting worked up now, I'd suggest that you all reconfigure your firewalls to block any requests going in that direction. Meeh!
Chippydip's skill planner is still the best out there (easiest to use, familiar interface, and I've grown to like it in the previous versions), and I share Bolty's view that you'd hurt the legit players by removing the link. And yes, I am glad he could make money from coding something for fun; some of us have trouble making money from something we code for a living.
Caaroid