Schalac
Caldari
Brotherhood of Wolves
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Posted - 2008.04.22 08:07:00 -
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Lots of stuff about BACON lately. I don't use it or see a need to use it because I am a fat slob that actually plays games, but I used windower in FFXI. Lots of great stuff that program could do. Tell you technical points of party members, swap gear without making a billion in-game macros, percent of enemies health, alliance TP and MP, recast times of your spells and abilities.... Lots of people were against it. Yet many used it for obvious reasons. It was actually so popular that Square Enix made their previously "unwindowable" game, "windowable".
That said, let us take a step back and look at this from a non-biased standpoint. Now from this stand point I can see two very distinct stances. Those that feel it's a hack and those that feel it's nothing more than EVEMON with bells and low frequency chimes.
I don't really know where I stand on this topic because I have no use for it. Yet I am drawn to it for obvious reasons. Would I like a tool that lets me know when someone I dislike or am at war with enters system. Answer to that is simple, sure I would. Yet I already have it with local. Which, as I understand, is the basis for this program. When I am flying around I always have my local window up and open showing basically nothing but people that are in local. Really don't care what is being said there so I set it up to where I can barely see it on the left side of my screen right next to those fancy buttons that I minimized as soon as I logged in for the first time back in 2006.
First thing I saw about BACON was, "OMG macros are going to be using it to log off in 0.0 when someone enters"... good you want to kill someones macro then keep jumping in and out of system and find someone in a cov ops ship that can scan them out before they disappear from their emergency warp point. If you find that you should be able to guesstimate where they are going to warp to when they log back in, if they even do log back in. Problem solved, you can't make isk through ratting logged off or dead.
Another thing people are scared about is the log server giving up information about a particular pilot. My answer to this is... so what. Really, why do you play EVE if all you do is haul building blocks from one station to another or sit in an asteroid belt with a hulk every time you log in? EVE is a PVP, spaceship shoot-em-up game. I would bet every penny that I own that if you took EVE's fleet combat system and made a separate game out of it the player base would be quintupled. So again, no problem with there. Would it be embarrassing to for others to find out how I make isk, no. I have no shame in real life so why care about a video game.
Then people start talking about this "much more" thing. Guess what people, if those that want "much more" actually want "much more" they are going to make a "much more" program regardless of whether this BACON program exists or not. Actually I will go as far to say that this "much more" probably already exists. Quit thinking that this is the start of something that has more than likely been going on since 2003. Granted, open source does allow the less gifted of people access to something they never would of thought of, but again I digress and say, so what. If anything it will force CCP to take a stand against some forms of mods made by the players that serve their own ends. Maybe even a change in the EULA could come of it if it really became widespread, and on the internet everything becomes widespread, specially in such a small audience.
Anyway it is late and I'm drunk as hell and don't really feel like typing anymore so, think about these points and "to be continued".
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