Fair warning

[Durandal]

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Wow, you seem pretty angry to have made an account for the express purpose of replying here. I'm going to address the only legitimate argument in your post which hasn't already been covered numerous times over.

[2:23:24 PM] Justin Hopkins: Hello you (admins) can go buy instakill guns.
[2:23:35 PM] Justin Hopkins: Danny can make instakill guns by editing the same ini file.
[2:23:41 PM | Edited 2:24:58 PM] Justin Hopkins: That's the only (malevolent) thing he could do with said file.
2:29:44 PM] Justin Hopkins: The most malicious thing which could be done with weapon equip is to create a gun with the maximum amount of damage, max refire, max projectile speed, etc.

No, thats not the only malicious thing, nor the most malicuous thing he could do, nor is it equally or less malicious than blasting someone with admin guns, nor are the two even comparable. Everyone can scan and see the admin instakill guns. Everyone who gets killed by an instakill gun knows he got killed by an instakill gun, and if an admin did it, he'll know which one. The most malicious thing someone could do is not to cheat or abuse in a way that everyone know's he's cheating or abusing withing 5 seconds, but to do it in ways where the victims can't prove he's cheating, and possibly dont even know it. That's achieved by buffing those stats enough to give you the winning edge, but not quite enough to make it painfully obvious to the untrained eye. You should know that, but you pretend you dont to further your "argument".

This is true and not something I took into account in the heat of the moment, and is absolutely correct. Unfortunately this easily falls under the "developers should be trusted not to cheat" portion of the whole argument that we've already been over ten thousand times, which you and I seem to be on two sadly different pages on.

But yes, you are right to say that subtle cheating is definitely more malicious then maxing out a gun's stats and having a single day of unadulterated slaughter.