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[ATTN] Regarding Illegally Modified Ships |
Mersenne Twister
Fleet Admiral
Joined: May 11, 2003
Posts: 1161
From: Sector C Test Labs and Contol Facilities
|  Posted: 2008-07-12 14:08
There seems to be some misconceptions as to what exactly constitutes an "illegal" ship.
As per RoC section 3.3.f Illegally Customized Ships:
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Description: Illegal ships are any ship that cannot be made with the current customization rules.
... Additionally, any other method of modifying a ship's gadgetry which is not intended falls under this exploit. |
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This snippet of chat log is from the MV earlier today, accompanied by a very poorly formatted /report. The names have been removed to reduce the possibility of further ridicule of the parties involved (but you know who you are).
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Player A: "/yell F12 your bugged ship dude"
Player B: "/yell sure"
Player A: "/yell extra armor and weapons"
Player A: "/yell when your ship cant be scanned your running an illeagal ship"
Player B: "/yell how i supposed to know if it can be or no"
Player A: "/yell dont worry ill report you"
Player B: "/yell what illegal shi?"
Player B: "/yell i have no knowledge about anything like thos"
Player B: "/yell understood, u are no fun!"
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Player B had a completely legitimate ship, and was not, in any way, violating any rule.
Illegally modified ships tend to make themselves in more obvious ways, such as being significantly faster than a ship of the same class, having much thicker armor/shield rings than normal, having unusually bright weapons such as beams/cannons/torpedoes, or making very large clouds of fighters/missiles/bombs.
On the same topic, Scouts and other small ships with armor or shield percentages larger than 100% are also not necessarily illegal, that happens to be an unintended side-effect of a feature, and the device not properly compensating for the change in hit points.
If, for any reason, you feel that So-and-So has a fishy ship (and I'm not talking about the Guppy) and you feel the need to /report them:
- Be sure its illegal. Just because you can't see all the devices on it DOES NOT mean its illegal.
- Be able to back up your claims. Screen shots are always good, video's even better, even if its just a 30second clip from the demo version of FRAPS.
- When you do report, be descriptive. * Player A reports "Player B" just isn't good enough.
[ This Message was edited by: Mersenne Twister on 2008-07-12 14:10 ]
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