nerwengreen

questionoftheday asks: Have you ever cheated to win?

My answer:
Yes. Battle Pirates.

The reason I did it was because I loved my people. Cheating at the game (via glitch repair mostly) was the only way to stay on top of the game without being ridiculously wealthy. It became a question of what counted as more important to me: my people, or good faith toward the game and its developers.

I generally didn't cheat when I was hitting other players in the game. But there were once-a-month epic events where all the high-dollar equipment came from, that were timed, and if you couldn't get hold of those you became obsolete very quickly. Glitching repair was the only effective way to do those events, especially if you wanted to have anything resembling a life outside of the game during the same timeframe.

All the cheating I had to do was a large part of why I eventually stopped playing. I stopped liking the game years before I stopped playing it, because it took me a long time to finally walk away from the community.