Change the rules for INI edits

Jennalicious - Sanctuary wrote: »

Which sucks, because if they don't, then what's stopping the rest of us from doing it?

I agree, either enforce the rule on everyone or no one.

Jeremied - Sanctuary wrote: »

I fully support this. Although...perhaps if they allowed colors and SLIGHT edits, while still cracking down on those spaghetti thin and enormously fat characters that obviously make interacting with them harder than it should be.

If, perhaps, they allowed the color editing, I could finally make my roommate his Archer from our Private Server. I think he'd flip.

Vinat - Sanctuary wrote: »

So PWI took away medals of glory so that we can be more like the chinese version where things are hard to get. They also arbitrarily changed the multiclienting rules virtually overnight.

How about you guys make another rule change that would make the players happy and make this version more like the chinese one? Allow us the liberty and freedom to ini edit our characters.

It harms no one, and it doesn't impact anything in the game in any negative or un-balancing way.

As is, there are hundreds of toons running around ini edited for EG or TB hair or eyes. Some are being banned, while others are not. There was this one guy that i sent multiple tickets about over the course of a year (for him having tideborn hair) and nothing was ever done to him or about it. Yet some people are getting banned now for putting earthguard eyes on their other classes. This is a gross injustice.

So yea, PWI, you have no way of actually fully enforcing this pointless rule, similar to the way you couldnt enforce your multiclienting rule. The multi rule was changed because mechanically the game allowed for multiclienting. The same goes for INI editing. The game mechanically allows for it within margins of what the game can display. It's time to update your rules to conform with reality, as you have already demonstrated you are capable of doing.

Jeremied - Sanctuary wrote: »

Yeah it's the hair color, which in itself is still bannable. Someone was already posting on the forums for getting banned for color editing earlier this month. That's all that I would really use .ini edits for if they allowed them, was the colors. And hair on barbs. XP Because they just look awesome like that.

I just don't want my roomie to start playing official, all happy with his archer, and then get banhammered before lvl30 because her irish locks are a just little too red.

Back on topic, it's not hard for them to update already made characters by force. They did that when they removed some of the nice all class hair styles during the release of the Tideborn expansion, and hundreds of thousands of people revolted/quit etc. <_< They could just as easily update the texture for the eyes now, seeing as there is a perfectly compatible NEW version already available.

Skin texture/retexturing for the old hair styles would be more difficult and I doubt we'd get those due to the development team failing at working with the old code. But if everyday people that get bored on private servers can retexture the models themselves, why can't the professional dev team?

These changes are really very easy to implement and I'm 100% sure that if they DID allow editing (or updated the color pickers at least >_<) they would get much more business and there would be more unique characters running around instead of the few brave souls willing to break the mold and edit their .inis despite the chance of being banhammered.

Psytrac - Dreamweaver wrote: »

technally, this isn't true.

Pre-<patch here> you could still multi without editing the files. you just had to bypass the launcher. I had done it only once after hearign about it, just to see if it would, and it did.

post-<patch here> the launcher allows any number of clients to be launched

Fleuri - Sanctuary wrote: »

But prior to a previous patch, you could not start elementclient.exe if another one was already running. They detected that and explicitly prevented it.

KuiXing - Harshlands wrote: »

Bumpity bump bump b:infuriated I want EG haaaaiiiiirrr lol b:avoid

Cell - Raging Tide wrote: »

Are you just making an example or quoting from seen events? I'v YET to hear from anyone in Raging Tide that they were banned from the game by .ini edits. Not once.

Nevertheless, to the very few that did, I haven't heard that it is a permanent ban. Moreso like a 1 day-1 week ban, from what I'v figured.

Since, 1. it's not killing anyone from a minor tweak due to PWE's incompetence to provide us with advanced makeover scrolls, 2. people's general disgust at spending so much money on this game and not being able to make their beloved characters the way THEY want them to be without climbing under a few fences, and 3. it's not a permanent cosmetic change, nothing that a simple makeover scroll, which THEY payed for, one way or the other, can't fix.

Some of my friends have even encountered (a) certain GM(s) before with their "advanced cosmetics" and the GM(s) either didn't care or felt compassion on them that they'd push the limits SO FAR to the point of getting banned for a certain amount of time despite all of the hundreds of dollars-even thousands for some-they've spent in this game.

It's truely martydom on the part of the players who are brave enough to try. Many of succeeded and are truely pleased with the results while few others are less fortunate and banned to make a pathetic "example".

Perfect World Entertainment, Game Masters, and Moderaters, you CAN'T win this battle. For every person that you ban because of this, there will be 2-4 more that will take their place.

I challange you:

Either ban us ALL or ban none of us. Change the rules and allow it within certain parameters or keep the rules and get rid of ALL of us who have ever dared to freely create our dream characters.

China has embraced it. Being the flagship country of Perfect World Co., shouldn't you follow in their examples instead of being obstinate and simple-minded?