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Dibs Ludicrous:
the game has been being ruin'ed for at least a decade, and it's still here...
This is my fourth set "landtrading." The first I did externally with a member of a top-tier netting tag; we exchanged about 8-10 hits each. The second I did internally in a ring of 3 players that all got to 50-60k acres. The third I started as all-ex, but kept getting grabbed through a grabbing pact that was essentially less-organized landtrading with retal and RoR windows.
I learned some things during those sets that I thought would improve my landtrading. Figured this was a good set to do it in earnest as the "real netters" are warring and were not likely to b!tch as loudly that I was ruining the game. I'll be interested to see how it plays out. Likely some bored vigilante whose alliance is at war will suicide me.
There is some decent discussion here amid the whinebabble. Landtrading is, of course, totally within the ethical bounds of the game itself and the scope of the server. It's a more effective way (when done correctly) of doing amiable grabbing between alliances. Is it overpowered? Maybe, I'm not sure. I know I personally can't get as high a finish with it as better players could by bottomfeeding.
boneSAW kind of went off on me today ingame about how landtrading is ruining the game and making "the real netters" want to quit the game. I guess I just don't see the logic of landtrading ruining the game when "the real netters" camp DRs and farm untaggeds to kingdom come. Which is the more detrimental to the server?
Like Rockman said, game mechanics continue to trend toward higher possible finishes. I think the real issue is that some netters are irritated that it gets progressively easier to hit numbers that were traditionally reserved for the most leet.
I'll continue to landtrade in some capacity until political pressure changes PDM's policy toward landtrading, or the game mechanics nerf it to the point of being ineffective. It's more fun to me than exploring, and does not require that I have no life like bottomfeeding.