The positives and negatives of duping. POST YOUR THOUGHTS!

[Tiger]

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[LollipopLolita]

good starter post. also, please don't post duping methods.

[Tiger]

Now that the rules are set, this is what I think:

First of all, duping is a form of cheating. It's unethical, and its a violation of many laws that you signed in the contract for the hunters license. It clearly states "You shall not: Make copies of this program or any part thereof, or make copies of the materials accompanying this program." Bottom line duping is wrong. Thats just the bottom line, you buy the game, you dont dupe.

Seriously, you really think people won't dupe? Yeh right! PSO is like hmm well I'd like to say "too much of a good thing". Yep thats exactly what it is. Its like having hot dogs every day for the rest of your life. You get sick of it. I mean limitations are extreme in this game. You hear japanese version gets new quests, and even a refund disc cause duping took over thier version. The day sega does that for us is a miracle. Ok you have the same levels, battle is merely nothing with the lag. Soccer is too laggy. And they hardly add challenges, and barely add quests. Then you have to work hundreds of hours to get something decent. Yeh its cool but thats 1 item, and you may not even be able to use it!!! There isnt a keyboard so that limits you even more. So you got a few extra rare weapons. your happy everyones happy.

Here's the bottom line: Duping does not mean ANYTHING unless you personally take the item. Now if everyone was to not take an item given to them by a duper, we'd be in heaven. No these arent all transmitted thru trading. You got it wrong there. They give them out I know because I once did such a thing. I've changed my ways though. Sega is also to blame for not updating and keep PSO up to par. PSO has "Everquest" written all over it. You know why it isn't everquest? Cause sega does nothing about the problem. Maybe adding a few quests every week, would do something. Personally, I feel right now, duping is the best thing for the PSO community.

[Sapphire87]

I agree that if one doesn't like the idea of duping, don't accept any items that you suspect are dups. Simple as that. Personally, I wish any form of cheating was not possible on PSO. But realistically, I'll accept the fact that it's "to each his own". If someone wants to dup and give them out and people accept them freely than fine with me. As long as I can live with the fact that it won't affect me as long as I don't accept the rares myself. If the person on my team wants to whip out a duped rare, as long as he's happy, I'm content. I'm not going to criticize him because that is his choice. To me, owning such rares would not be a requisite on whether I like or hate the person.

[SnAPPUrU-nyan-ko]

Good: Well, the anti-dupe saving system screws people whether the game crashes (FSOD) or the person tries to duplicate items by dropping items and not saving. It would be lovely to keep backups of weapons; then I'd carry more than one s-rank weapon online at a time. Heck, I'd actually be willing to use the lobby transporter when wanting to switch games, rather than disconnecting.

Bad?: Maybe sonic team put date of births on items, so if you have a whole bunch at the same time, you get owned? I doubt it, but I'm a paranoid nerd :3.

Who cares?: I always felt that it's hard to be superior on an online roleplaying game, since after a while people have most the rares and maxed stats just by playing.

[lockeboy]

Positive: I see none, aside from that some selfish people get a kick out of it (positive for them, not me).

Negative: Not going to write it out, because I could go on for hours. Plain and simple, I feel duping is wrong, and everything possible should be done to prevent it. It disgusts me, really, that some people would be so inconsiderate towards other players. Duping makes the game much less enjoyable for those who prefer, like myself, to be just. If someone were to offer me a duped item I'd refuse, even if it would make my character the most powerful in the entire world.

So .. uh .. yeah. I'm done.

[Tiger]

How is it being inconsiderate to other players if you merely dupe for yourself? I find nothing wrong with it. Heck you know what? If there was 2 servers, 1 pure legit, 1 non-legit, mostly everyone would be non-legit. People like getting items without the work. I could say play for hundreds of hours and not get a rare item. Do you know how boring and tedious that is? Not to mention, if you play online and that happens, a rare comes up. But you got 3 other people rushing towards that same item. So theoretically (sp) those say 300 hours of gaming depend on that 25% chance that you have of getting that rare. YOu dont get it BOOM there goes all the hard work. You get it, well you got a rare. Then there is a 40% chance you won't even be able to use the rare item that you found.

Well sure there is trading. Nothing is like finding a rare though. Your very reluctant to give it up. Trading is a frustrating experience also without a KB.

Sure duping is wrong because its when you do it your exploiting a glitch in the game system. What is so wrong with it? Let's talk about the PSO Duping story of Bob:

Bob is level 138 and is growing tired of the basic hit and kill then repeat, action. Bob also has lost 3 of his rare items he has found to FSOD, which is a glitch in the game. Bob finds a 12 star rare item from a monster. Everyone is talking about it now that he has it. Heck, people even claim its not even a real weapon. He's the talk of ragol, a mere duplicate of a great PSO star! His finding is posted on PSO world, and many other PSO sites. He is the only person to have this weapon. While playing 1 day he suddenly FSOD's without warning. Bob try's to contact Sega, waits 3 days for a response in e-mail stating nothing could be done.

What did Bob do to deserve this? He did absolutely nothing. A hard working PSO gamer loses a rare weapon that he is the only one to have. It was lost to a simple glitch that he did not exploit, it was just a flaw in the program.

Though this situation could not be prevented, it could be helped. If Bob was to duplicate that item and store 1 in the bank for a back-up, he would still have that item. Now I'm not saying 2 wrong things make a right, I'm just saying there is solutions that could have helped the situation.

Now as of right now Bob is a legit guy. But let's say he duped his item to make sure that FSOD wouldnt happen. He is doing nothing else right now keep in mind. If the situation was to stop right there, duping is fine with me. Lets continue.

Bob talks to a group of people who are EXACTLY like Bob and they talk about their rares. They all agree to duplicate their own items. They share the items and keep those items ONLY WITHIN THE GROUP. As of right now they dont share with anyone else. Duping I feel is still right, in that situation.

Now let's say Bob takes an item and wants to trade with someone. He tells the person the item is duped, yet the person still wants to trade. Was bob wrong with the decision? Or was he right for trading after asking. I think its ok if he accepted the item even if it was a dupe. THe person knew it. On the other hand thats how rare items get spread. I dunno it's just hmmm well.

BOTTOM LINE: It's up to the user to accept the duplicated item, whether they know if it's duped or not is up for the user to decide.

[BonusKun]

Tiger,
This was a good post and I understand the reasons behind seeing as I lost my fucking 70% A beast Justice Mechguns to FSOD.

They were real legit guns and i lost them forever. I dunno about some of you but the game freezeing up like that and me losing one of my most favorite mechs pissed me the fuck off.

I have no problem with duping even tho I don't do it myself but, if you're going to dupe at least don't bullshit people about it.

One of the things I hate in PSO are people who said they found a Double Cannon or a Black King Bar.

That kinda crap just wears thin on my nuts...

[Tiger]

bro u need to chill out with the language other then that, you had a good post

[Mag_Launcher]

I take dupes mostly for the purpose of collecting more weapons. My real goal right now is to collect all 59 known rare guns. (59 known for now... I got a list typed up if you want.) But i'm not gonna spread these guns around like a jackass, though. Sure, I'm gonna have to spread SOME stuff around to get what I want, but hey, at least I'm not the cheap bastard with the Spread Needle killing everything.

I take dupes for personal gain ONLY, I have no intention of ruining PSO's rare "economy."