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Thread: Apparently I'm an exploiter...
He was moving up and down and left to right, stopping and starting, also he would appear to jump from location to location, then for some reason he would fly "normally" again then the act would start up again?
If thats anything like what happened, its lag.
JediNg wrote:Jumpy behavior comes from lag. HOLY SH!T its a fricken Jihad!
If I cannot beat them, I'll accuse them of exploiting!
where you there at both occassions? no? then please refrain from making uninformed guesses etc.
It's not a guess. I see it happen with people that are lagging all the time.
But hey I wasn't there, so he must be exploiting.
Actually, I was up just 20 minutes ago in corellian space, and I was noticing a whole lot of server side lag. This is the type of lag where the client show's you flying fine, however, you're actually somewhere else on the server. Stuff like it was taking me 10+ seconds to start up a booster, and I couldn't damage things even though I was scoring direct hits. This leads me to believe that the pilots I were flying against would probably have seen me flying around at seemingly insane speeds, and jumping about erradically.
But I'm a legit flyer, always have been always will be. Either something was amuck with lag or I simply am the best dodger you've ever seen...
JoKen_Jash wrote:
Actually, I was up just 20 minutes ago in corellian space, and I was noticing a whole lot of server side lag. This is the type of lag where the client show's you flying fine, however, you're actually somewhere else on the server. Stuff like it was taking me 10+ seconds to start up a booster, and I couldn't damage things even though I was scoring direct hits. This leads me to believe that the pilots I were flying against would probably have seen me flying around at seemingly insane speeds, and jumping about erradically.
But I'm a legit flyer, always have been always will be. Either something was amuck with lag or I simply am the best dodger you've ever seen...
Yes, I'm not doubting you. I'm just doubting the reasons as to why someone would say you are exploiting.
Considering that it could be lag or it could be speed racer x, and that it must be speed racer x for God knows what reason.
Message Edited by AideonOfAesir on 07-23-2005 09:53 PM
Higginsis wrote:
Would this description fit what was happening?
He was moving up and down and left to right, stopping and starting, also he would appear to jump from location to location, then for some reason he would fly "normally" again then the act would start up again?
If thats anything like what happened, its lag.
I don't believe I killed anyone in the first or second skirmishes, only in between when we found a loner. And on my screen I was flying in tight circles with everyone around me...
I dunno, it may be that I found some accidental way to make my ship move like a speed racer x bugged engine but not show it on my client... I didn't do any rubberbanding though... Maybe it was the opposite, you guys were having lag and I wasn't... A rather unlikely idea, but a possibility.
But I AM NOT a cheater, and from previous engagements you should know I don't need to be. And I certainly did not use the speed racer x bug. Was there something amuck? Sounds like it. Did I intentionally use it? No.
Sarren wrote:
Especially with all the talk of "exploits" floating around, I just hope it's somewhat understandable the reason why people would be inclined to worry about this. I don't know Joken on a personal level, nor do I believe did anyone on the Imperial side at the time. When you see something like that multiple times from the same person, it's reasonably difficult to accept the coincidences. Now, I'm absolutely willing to accept the fact that you were lagging so badly on both occasions that the same phenomenon happened twice. I was just a little irritated by the original posts, though they may have been in good humor, or not.
I have little doubts that had the same set of circimstances happened on the converse side, the "offender" would be receiving the same reaction you did.
Well at the time I didn't have a good description of what I was apprently doing to you guys.So I thought you were simply saying I was corkscrewing and dodging your shots like mad--which I'm good at--and you guys thought I was exploiting. Now I have a description of what I did and I'm gonna try and duplicate it near where I was both the times it happened.
). Whereas we know now that some pilots on the server have been using exploited gear. If Joken had really wanted to take advantage of it, I would've known about it.
"--Michael Stackpole, RS IRC