Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31627250-20170329184528

Hi All,

This is my first post after a long time lurking.

I have been playing RR3 for a couple of years and I have discovered this wikia just some months ago. Of course I would have liked to have found this forum much earlier, as I realized that I have been wasting a lot of time/R$/gold for long enough just to understand the best strategy to progress in the game, but anyway...

First of all I want to thank all of the people who share their knoledge of the game here, as I am still learnng a lot of things I hadn't figured out yet.

Having said that, I recently followed the neverending "what's cheating" debate with much interest and I finally decided to register and post just to offer my point of view about this matter (as if anyone would care).

I don't want to talk about ethics because after all this is just a passtime and I would leave ethics to much more important matters. I am surprised, following the discussions, of the passion with which various players endorse their way of playing considering it the "right way" to play as if it had become a sort of little "religious war".

In my opinion, we are facing just different "grades" of perception of what is allowed in the game and what is not. I tried to categorize these differences in what I called a "scale of holiness".

Please notice that in everything that follows I just tried to be witty, no offense intended...

a) "The Holier Than Thou".

These players don't do anything that's out of the "spirit of the game" (as they percieve it). No exploits, no bot managing, no save/restore while doing events, no assists, no "easy farming" races (potentially endless endurance races), not even resetting ad id to obtain more gold from ads. Everything that they refuse to do they consider cheating.

b) "The Good Guys".

These players try to avoid exploiting bugs (or unintended behaviour) of the game, but use everything they have to their advantage, such as assists or "easy farming". For them bot managing, going offline to avoid better TSM racers or save/restore is border-line cheating.

c) "The Average Joes".

These players (I think it's the majority) use sistematically bot managing, save/restore during gauntlets and everything that the actual mechanics of the game allows them. For them multiple devices tricks or borrowed resources are kind of cheating.

d) "The Bad Guys".

These players (many of the most advanced) use everything they can do without altering the game code/configuration files. These people are the major source of usable exploits that are eventually fixed in future releases of the game. They usually don't share their knoledge widely for obvious reasons.

e) "The Hackers".

These are the people with unlimited gold/R$, speed hack and everything else which is obtained hacking the game files.

I think everyone of us is placed on a certain grade of this scale according to what kind of goals we have in the game and the fun we have with it. It can happen then that we tend to percieve anyone "below" us as a "cheater" (and maybe everyone "above" us as an "dumb bigot"), but it's only a matter of perception...

I place myself on grade c) of the scale, and you?

p.s.

Sorry for any mistake: English is not my first language.  