Cheating ethics

[Archon_Wing]

He plays Single Player.  I think he got turned off Multi when some idiot pked him in Diablo.  I dont think sc has any good hacks anyway.  Sc isnt fun with maphack unless you are bored to death, and even then you can use glitches which are perfectly legal (There isn't a part in the TOU that says you can't exploit bugs is there?).

Maybe not explictly prohibited, but there are certain bugs in the game that would break the game, and IMO it is incredibly lame to use them if you are playing multiplayer. But once again, I would make a deal over it if it was against other people.

BTW, you can send a worker to a computer players base in the beginning, and attack its main building. All its workers will go after your worker and you can lure them in a wild goose chase indefinitely. I don't even know if that's a bug, but certainly something the game creators didn't intend for :P

There are various bugs that seemed to be accepted in the Starcraft community and some aren't. But once again, it boils down to who you're playing with I suppose. One could use the rules for tournaments and such but there's still nothing definite. Bugs that crash the game or break gameplay are probaly not wanted though for obvious reasons.


It's nice in Starcraft that the hacks are relatively minor and the people who use them are usually very bad players.

It requires in hell faster reflexes than my dad has. While the game is beatable the way he plays(even without maphack), its no fun for him, which takes the motivation out of playing. It's kind of like reading a really bad book. You always read afew chapters in to see if it gets better. If it doesn't, you quit. Thats the way he plays.

A poorly prepared or equipped character will fail regardless of reflexes. It's not the reflexes that are holding him back. Much better to actualy buff up the character rather than rely on crutches.

Also, I noted somewhere in here that he is incapable of magic finding. I have no idea why. His idea of mfing is putting on as much mf stuff as he can and continue on in his quest. I even tell him to use teleport, kill meph, kill andy, kill pindle, kill shenk, kill eldritch, etc...

No pain, no gain.

But really: Cheating offline, you only cheat yourself. Cheating online, you cheat the other people you play against. That's pretty much it.