Okay, unless I'm missing something here, this does sound a bit suspicious doesn't it? I mean like, I have 26int, yourvlover has 20, 21 at most. And he can silence well over 100% MR and I can't? There's no 'skill' or any other thing that could factor in. It's simply your character being able to do it or not, and I don't see how come it's like this. I've been told about a hack that increases the probability of silence working, but that does seem to sound a bit far-fetched. I'm not one to instantly assume use of hacks after I lose. I don't care about losing that much, and I don't think it's impossible to lose. But right now, I don't see what other explanation there is.

Now that I think of it, I have never seen yeyo try to cast silence and fail. Every time he's beside me, his silence has worked. Almost all those times I have had either 91% MR or '101%,' since it never really happens when I'm wearing a coi because he seems to be obsessed with going in coi and standing beside someone and waiting for a detect.

Yeyo has either the same int as me, maybe one more. But my silence is far from working every single time. It fails on burn DE's or mages who I'm pretty sure don't have 9x% MR, let alone 100%. Maybe it's just my bad luck and his good luck, but a level 50 mage silencing 140% MR or whatever it is? Makes me think if it might be more than just luck.

Those characters don't have the best reputation as far as hacking goes anyway. I mean, I remember the fights where every single enemy was using skin hack. I also remember NC making it unable to use skin hack pretty recently. But now it looks like some people already have it again, it's not as ridiculous as before but it's still back. I wonder how long until it's just as bad as before, if not worse. There's still the hack where burn DE's can tele and land right through people to burn someone who's using a 1v1 spot. I mean, that's just like the 'silence hack' cause you don't know if it's really a hack or not. But someone simply having such good luck seems less likely than if they were using a hack. I mean a hack to increase the probability of some spells really does sound ridiculous. But so did a hack where you could see coi. But how did I die that time like a year ago, when I was in coi and someone detects and I get kicked out of coi along with two burners who were in coi beside me? Lucky guess right?

So yeah, the point of all this? I've just been wondering why I should even play really. I mean it's fun to still win fights when the other people are using hacks like crazy. But I look in my inventory and I have three Christmas cards from BooBooBear, from three different years. I spend that much time on my character and some level 50 mage can just use a hack to be just as effective? I could just start using these hacks and become a truly insane mage. But I just can't do that, cheat in a video game, especially now that I know how other people can spend so much time trying to get strong playing legitmately.

I don't know if I'll quit or not. It's unfair to play with cheaters, but it can still be fun. Which is why I play in the first place. Fights can still be fun I guess, and I still have my friends. I always said I probably wouldn't quit over a lame death or a lame update by NC, but only if it stopped being fun and I no longer had friends to play with. Maybe it's just simply cause I did pretty much nothing but hunt the past couple weeks. It gives me a lot of time to think of all the bullshit that actually goes on, and that I've put up with already. Not to mention how it will never cease to be there. There will always be new hacks, better hacks, time after time again NC trys to prevent them, but it's only temporary. And that's only for the hacks that they do find out about. Well, NC finding about all the hacks and finding ways to prevent them all wouldn't be the solution either. I mean the skin hack before was really out of hand, so I don't think Lineage would be much fun with only 78 users on during prime hours.

So there's my post, if you read it all or not, I don't really care... I'm just typing my thoughts. I know people will come here and deny the use of hacks and wildly accuse me or my friends and I don't care about that either. That's why I never talk back to any enemy who whispers me. I know they hack, they know they do too. They can make up shit on me to make themselves feel better but we both know the truth. Why should I bother to waste my time trying to break their little fantasy world. I mean, I don't even care if you call me a loser cause I spent and/or spend way too much time on this little video game, because it could be true. But I know one thing, I'm not a big enough loser to make up things or cheat at a video game all to just better my 'online reputation.' If you're going to accuse me of that, you're just a fucking hypocrite falsely accusing someone. But that's all I can really say, and people have to take it for what it is. I can't convince hackers to admit to hacking, so I don't even bother. Sure it helps spread the word to everyone else, but if you play the game and know it well enough, it's not hard at all to spot someone cheating.

But yeah, why do I still play and should I just quit? Well, I probably won't end up quitting, right now anyway. I still play because I still find it fun, and I'm curious about what Episode 3 will bring. Also I don't think it would be possible for me to quit after working so long on this character, then just suddenly leaving and trying to forget it all. I want to use the rest of my reputation coins, or at least try to before wednesday. And I want to level up and get max int already, trying to keep the pace I have now until level up. But it does look like I need at least somewhat of a break from just hunting and thinking about all this.