LegendaryMage
06-25-2003, 06:53 AM
Well I guess this is the best place for this to go, so stay a whle and listen to my story of self pity. But I might as well start from when I first started playing PSO so you know my situation. I hope to provide you all with some insight as to why people dupe as well.
Way back when I only played offline, I found many good items and raised a few great mags. But then I finnaly took the initative to go online (few months ago) but unfortunately I couldnt with my unofficail memory card, so I was forced to buy a new one, make new characters on it, and transfer my items to it, this was not huge loss, I was quickly able to restore my characters and it was worth the online experince.
When I was online I was legit, I rarely traded and when I did it was for things I knew were found in the game I was playing (I'm awfull at picking up items first). There was rarely any need for me to trade because I already had decent weapons, like most people I lost a few items to FSOD (heres the part where the story becomes relevant to this forum) so I learned how to dupe items. I was perfectly happy on PSO now, I hadnt permanatly lost an item to FSOD in a while and could finnaly focus on enjoying the game. But just the other week the last thing someone wants to see when they turn on their GC happened.
"Data is curropted, would you like to delete?" (or whatever it is)
I tried the anti curroption methods but they didnt work, so trying to keep a calm mind I restarted my characters from scratch and started hunting down my friends.
For the first time I decided to use my knowledge of duping for something other than potecting my weps. It started off duping my firend's weapons (with thier consent of course) to restore my character's inventory to it's previous stature. But I suddenly I found myself unable to stop I wanted more and better items but of course I could not equip such things at low lvls. My next step down was duping mags so I could have incredably high stats immediatly, but even then my greed for power was not fufilled so the next step was god units... alot of them. But no, I wasnt nearly finished there I wanted to be able to over power people far beyond my current level, and heres the part I'm most disgusted with myself. Once I found one of each kind of mat I duped them insanely to pump up my character (only did it with one). At this point I had a level 30 something FOmar already pushing 500 hp and enough DFP to make an android jealous. Then I realized as I sat there letting myself get barely bruised in ruins by attacks that would usually require teamwork to overcome,
"Look at myself, I've taken all the challenge out of the game, I'm not even dependant on team mates for there assistance. Why am I even playing online if I could solo most situations on my own? I'm no longer proud of my accomplishments. That DBsaber I just found in the caves which would of usualy been of some use to me is now a joke weapon. What have I accomplished from duping, I dont feel any beter about myself, and I have little initiative to even play. I cant even join a legit clan without being dishonest, I'm actualy losing potential firends to duping."
That is when I made the decision to go back to being legit. I think my first step will be to get rid of almost every item in my inventory (Sadly I belive there are only 2 that arent duped). Then I will delete my FOmar who's stats have been heavily tainted from my duped mats (50 pow 50 Def 50 mind and maxed out on HP mats). I'm officaily going to start being legit again this saturday.
So can anyone suggest any large legit clans with fun activities, I think I've been hanging out at vega a little too much lately.
Way back when I only played offline, I found many good items and raised a few great mags. But then I finnaly took the initative to go online (few months ago) but unfortunately I couldnt with my unofficail memory card, so I was forced to buy a new one, make new characters on it, and transfer my items to it, this was not huge loss, I was quickly able to restore my characters and it was worth the online experince.
When I was online I was legit, I rarely traded and when I did it was for things I knew were found in the game I was playing (I'm awfull at picking up items first). There was rarely any need for me to trade because I already had decent weapons, like most people I lost a few items to FSOD (heres the part where the story becomes relevant to this forum) so I learned how to dupe items. I was perfectly happy on PSO now, I hadnt permanatly lost an item to FSOD in a while and could finnaly focus on enjoying the game. But just the other week the last thing someone wants to see when they turn on their GC happened.
"Data is curropted, would you like to delete?" (or whatever it is)
I tried the anti curroption methods but they didnt work, so trying to keep a calm mind I restarted my characters from scratch and started hunting down my friends.
For the first time I decided to use my knowledge of duping for something other than potecting my weps. It started off duping my firend's weapons (with thier consent of course) to restore my character's inventory to it's previous stature. But I suddenly I found myself unable to stop I wanted more and better items but of course I could not equip such things at low lvls. My next step down was duping mags so I could have incredably high stats immediatly, but even then my greed for power was not fufilled so the next step was god units... alot of them. But no, I wasnt nearly finished there I wanted to be able to over power people far beyond my current level, and heres the part I'm most disgusted with myself. Once I found one of each kind of mat I duped them insanely to pump up my character (only did it with one). At this point I had a level 30 something FOmar already pushing 500 hp and enough DFP to make an android jealous. Then I realized as I sat there letting myself get barely bruised in ruins by attacks that would usually require teamwork to overcome,
"Look at myself, I've taken all the challenge out of the game, I'm not even dependant on team mates for there assistance. Why am I even playing online if I could solo most situations on my own? I'm no longer proud of my accomplishments. That DBsaber I just found in the caves which would of usualy been of some use to me is now a joke weapon. What have I accomplished from duping, I dont feel any beter about myself, and I have little initiative to even play. I cant even join a legit clan without being dishonest, I'm actualy losing potential firends to duping."
That is when I made the decision to go back to being legit. I think my first step will be to get rid of almost every item in my inventory (Sadly I belive there are only 2 that arent duped). Then I will delete my FOmar who's stats have been heavily tainted from my duped mats (50 pow 50 Def 50 mind and maxed out on HP mats). I'm officaily going to start being legit again this saturday.
So can anyone suggest any large legit clans with fun activities, I think I've been hanging out at vega a little too much lately.