Can anyone confirm what time the ABers seem to come online? At least for Bakery (my main restock). Stupid ABers
But you know what, I have a few friends who cheat or scam on other games (Runescape and Kings of Chaos). They're both good people, just fed up with not being able to do well, or bored with playing legitly.
My friend who scams on Runescape, he does it for thrills. He does not care for his account(s), but he belives that if you're stupid enough to fall for a scam, you don't deserve to be rich and have good items, etc.
My friend who cheats on Kings of Chaos has 5 accounts. If you've ever played the game, you'd know that you're only allowed to have ONE account, full stop. He has 4 side accounts, and 1 main account, and he uses his spares to gain more gold and get higher up in the game. when I told him off for it (since him and me were having a contest to see who could do the best), he said it wasn't cheating, but being
smart (he never did read the Terms and Condititons).
Another friend of mine (who I forgot to meantion) cheated on Neo. He knew he was cheating, but he didn't use it so much to his advantage. He was only ever logged into one account per day, and quite often played on each of those accounts as if they were his main. He had like 10 accounts, and restocked, played games, did dailies, whatever, on every single one of them. Only 1 of those accounts has been frozen thus far. He said that in total all his accounts have a net value of around 25 million NP.
What I believe happens is that cheaters are mostly people like friend B here, who believe that they're being 'smart', and not cheating. They almost seem to turn a blind eye to those anti-autobuyer warnings. And when their accounts are frozen, they're generally peeved off, and don't know why.
Other people cheat because they lost an account unfairly and want to get back TNT, without truely realising that TNT don't give a rat's bare behind about what they do. The only people they hurt are the other players, and the only reason TNT put in these anti-autobuyer security patch thingymabobies is so that they don't recieve so many angry letters. Thats usually what it boils down to. Every person subconsciously does not want to be hated or treated unfairly. Same goes for cheaters and TNT. Cheaters may have had some kind of bad experience, and want to vent it out. TNT don't want to be hated by their players, so they put in these anti-autobuyer procedures.
And other people just cheat for the thrill of it, becuase playing fairly may be boring to them. It's this group of people that annoy me most. The first group is plain ignorant, the second group are venting off anger and frustration, but this group is just a plain bunch of jerks. Kudos if they manage to change, but if they don't then I truely dislike their actions.
My friend, although he cheats, does not actually hurt anyone. He tried out an ABer once, but after getting the item, he didn't feel proud of his 'achievement' and so got rid of the program just like that. He was frozen too, but it didn't really bother him that much, and he accepted that he had done wrong. The way he plays now is unfair, true, but he doesn't wish to make a big name for himself, and so does not really hurt anyone. I don't like what he does, but he doesn't really use it as that much of an advantage as such, other than playing a game 5 times instead of 3, but thats not so bad really (compared to using a program).
Blah, now I'm getting off topic, so I'd better stop while I'm ahead.