[Artaenc]

I would just like an official staff stance on this. By the way I greatly appreciate all of the time you guys spend on providing the opportunity for us to play this game for free.

I have some concerns here because this is basically making the game unfair to people that follow rules by the book. Here are some things that I am unsure of and would like clarification. I just want to know if this is something that I should drop and pretend it's not there.

People currently using these things will get a free pass until you can find a way to detect the consistent patterns of using these methods to acquire FTE? I don't know what your plans are but once you are able to create a detector on the client side are you going to collect data for a month or so to mass ban these cheaters?

It would be highly unfair if you didn't ban these guys simply because I have had people wasting their time going for FTE not knowing that they had a fraction of a chance to acquire FTE compared to software/hardware that is being used by people actively seeking a cheating advantage.

Do I tell my guild to forget about trying to get FTE/FFA until then? I think it's time to crack this egg open. I have heard rumors of people getting banned for things they have done two years in the past, I am wondering if this will be an exception.

My two cents on correcting this issue for the future if it's not too much programming is set it up so that the raid boss encounters will randomly intake multiple FTE attempts so that everyone will know that it is fair and RNG based. The other good idea that's been posted already is to not allow trackers to get FTE until someone finds an exploit for it. I'm thinking that it is possible that people pushing for this already have an exploit and ready to deploy it as soon as we switch to that system. The only real positive way of making this fair is allowing the server to control who gets FTE. Yes it removes "skill" but look at the current system where "skill" depended on how well you can google undetectable cheats and the "skill" to create macros. This would also fix the who has the faster computer/ramdrive OC12 internet connection with 20ms ping time issue because if the time for FTE intake window is long enough it doesn't matter who can logon to their character first. I know it's not classic but FTE shout isn't either or having 5 years to figure out which exploits/methods can be used on this expansion.

Thoughts? Let's discuss.