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Old November 29th, 2007, 05:56 PM
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Default Re: What is abusive ?

Well, any discussion of abusive behavior must consider not just the very nebulous definition of "unintended" (unintended by who? The devs aren't an infalable authority, they're just some smart guys who threw together a bunch of stuff they thought would be cool. House rules, mods, etc. come up because ultimately it's the players in the game who should decide what type of game they want to play) but also its impact on the game. For example I consider grabbing the Bogus scripts to be no different than, say, capturing a unique artifact from a powerful indie commander. Its hard to do, requires luck, and is not generally overpowering. It's not exactly a secret at this point, but in theory this is something you need to be a bit clever to leverage and just adds one more interesting facet to the game. As I've posted elsewhere, the whole point of strategy is to use cleverness to make sure you're *not* in a fair fight so it's a bit ridiculous to complain that somebody used a tactic that wasn't fair. That being said, you have to also acknowledge that we're all just playing this game for fun so doing stuff that just breaks the game or is only effective because it annoys your opponent to death is a dickish thing to do regardless of what the explicitly stated house rules are.
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