>This has been said before, but:
> If this happens, especially
>if a character name is
>given, feel free to tip
>us off that something untoward
>may happen. We'll keep
>an eye.
>
>You aren't allowed to complain about
>cheating, if you are supporting
>it by looking the other
>way for others. Play
>clean, and make others do
>the same.

Valg, did you not read what I wrote? I did do this and the guy cheated again to get out of it for Christ sakes and now he's better off then before I reported him! You all did nothing about it. I'll never report anyone again if this is all that happens. Obviously someone who has two ways to connect to the internet is immune to repercussions. Oh well, I play clean and try and make others as well but I have failed miserably.

Brotmin, yes I have had a caballed character that has made an impact but it was an IMM run cabal which is all I will ever join. At least the corruption is somewhat smaller in these cabals. I know of two many people who know/are leaders and get inducted for this and that and get this piece of equipment together or gangbang so and so for his mask of anazu or all log in together blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I play clean and at least I can say I did it legitimately, but that's a small comfort when I then have to deal with all the other crap out there by over half the players that do cheat (including getting gangbanged and full looted by OOC buddies of course). I've tried to become apathetic and just ignore it and so far I have been pretty successful at it, but it keeps eating away at me. Why should I have to compromise my experience here to cheating losers? What gives them the right to ##### with my game? Nothing can be done about this and it just doesn't seem right. Ease of Communication and disemination of info has been a curse and death to mudding.

Isildur, true, the effect of cheaters doesn't have much of an impact sub 35, except maybe that super equipped character that obliterates his pk. But what do you think I have done for 6 years? I've had a dozen characters' hearts explode and now I've had a few chars get distended badly, including Strohm. I have a solid grasp on pking and am a reasonable role player but sub 35 characters are no longer a challenge to me and distention will see to it that I will have to rank anyway so that is out the window. I'm gonna have to face the OOC crap eventually and its crap that, if more people were of decent moral fiber, I would not have to.

Simply put, I have just run out of options and my patience is near exhaustion. I don't know what to do. Trying to put it out of mind worked for a little while, but like I said, it keeps eating away at me and bothers me. I think an extended break from CF might help. Unfortunately, the game changes so much so fast, that when I come back, I will be hugely handicapped not knowing where certain items have been moved to and so on. Consequently, I'm not gonna enjoy getting raped by everyone when I do come back since I will suffer in the knowledge department so badly. (Let's face it, CF has become a game where knowledge is paramount to success. Knowing how to fight no longer wins fights, it's how to prep for the fights that determines the victor). So now, part of me wants to take a break, but part of me is scared to because I will be too much out of the loop when I come back and may never recover without cheating which I never want to do. I am still recovering from my last break of a year and that was several years ago. I am afraid I may just have to say goodbye to a game I have fallen in love with because it no longer resembles that game in any way shape or form. (And I strongly believe that the game today is nothing like it was "in the day". It has changed hugely in the last three years.)
Oh well, if anyone else feels the same way, I'd like to hear how you have coped. Feel free to drop a post.