Canthan Grandmaster Cartographer in a day - What's A-Net going to do about it?

The Meth

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I did canthan GMC in under a week with no mods at all, and only using a comparison for the last 1%. Took about the same time for tyria and elona.

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Originally Posted by Torqual
So, maybe some readers will understand if I find this a little sickening. What was even more annoying.... this mod was so good that one of them hadn't even been into JQ and neither of them even knew about the Eredon Terrace glitch. So no actual skill involved.
So wait, glitching the game to get extra % is considered 'skill'? I think the majority would define that as cheating. JQ isn't skill, its having 15 guild members with you. If anything they did more 'work' by actually uncovering more of the map then you, since you used the eredon terrace glitch.

There is exactly 0 skill involved in GMC. You can visit nearly every zone with an empty skill bar and henchies. There is no 'skill' in alt-tabbing back and forth between maps. There is no 'skill' in moving beside walls.

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Originally Posted by Torqual
So, I would like to conclude by saying to people: really don't bother with Cartography titles if you're looking for a badge of honour, any more. They used to mean you'd invested some effort but, right now, I honestly suspect that there are more people out there who got them by modding their game than getting them properly. It's impossible to distinguish who made this achievement in the way that A-Net intended it. Don't get me wrong, my Cartographer titles still mean something TO ME and nothing will take that away.... but I have 3 questions:
It was never a 'Badge of honor' sorry. If when you said 'getting them properly' you meant 'getting them the way I did, which is now obsolete' then you might be correct. Obviously we can't honestly know Anet's intent, but in general I believe all titles aren't supposed to be actual 'achievements', just something extra to serve as a 'hook'.

It is obviously not cheating, it only breaches the EULA if Anet says it does, and I am 99.99% sure that Anet can't retroactively take away titles. Nothing is changed in gw.exe, the textures addresses are simply redirected to point to modded textures, and all traces of this are gone when the program ends.

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Originally Posted by Torqual
But having someone pop up and gloat because they got your high-end title in a small fraction of the time you did kind of makes you want to be angry at someone.
GMC is not and has never been a 'high end title'. The only titles that can be considered high end (if any) are guardian and vanquisher.

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Originally Posted by Torqual
How many more titles will the goalposts move on? What next, a Signet that captures all elites in a zone when you step out of the portal and activate it? A nuclear bomb for Vanquishing? Shiro and Varesh take bribes to let you kill them?
This has essentially already been done, see EotN consumables. Do I care that I did all of those before EotN stuff? No, because your titles are supposed to be a personal achievement that you pride yourself on doing, not something that you use to judge other people.


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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
But I think the point is, the mod does change things, dramatically! I do not see the OP "belittling" someone. I see him expressing concern that suddenly those achievements that had one level of requirement are substantially easier to obtain. If someone wanders around trying to get that last .03%, that's entirely different than if someone can fire up the mod, jump to the map, and complete the final percentage in a matter of minutes.

Torqual, I understand your concerns, and this thread will be included in this week's community summary. I honestly don't expect that the game will be altered to revert the newly-changed parameters back to what they once were. But I will pass along how you feel about it, principally for future consideration.
You then need to add that as soon as you waste your programmers time trying to block this, people will make threads where others compare their maps to 100% maps and point out spots, which is no different from what is being done here. And in the near future, a new mod that gets around any restrictions you might add will probably be released

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Well, if I had nothing to say but posted anyway....it generated 10 pages of discussion. So maybe it was relevant to someone.

I can see it's annoyed some people that Gaile thinks I have a point, but heh, what was it you say?

"QQ less"

Mineria

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Originally Posted by Karyuu
I don't care about impressing other people, just like I don't care about wasting dozens of hours meticulously comparing screenshots in Photoshop. Why do you?
I don't care about using time to kill monsters *speedhack*
I don't care about that I need sit at my pc while playing *bot*
Do you get the point?

elektra_lucia

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If you look at your statement:
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And it seems that it does not give any impression that there is anything wrong with runners
I did not need to quote the EULA exactly saying 'Running is forbidden'. I just had to show it gave an impression. So by saying 'it does rather imply', is an impression. It was enough to win the argument without having to quote loads of text from the EULA.
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Okay, I'll stop. But you have agreed that implied or not neither running nor using texmod is clearly forbidden, and there for is effectivly allowed. Running has been around for years and they have at best made it harder, but don't nothing to prevent it. They eleminated it in Factions, but opened it back up again, to a point, in Nightfall. And as far as Texmod goes they have more or less said, 'go for it but if it breaks your game don't cry to us"...
I have not agreed to such things, I am just bored of debating with someone that isn't worth debating with. I don't want to fine filter the EULA and quote every bit of text contradicting you. Especially when it took you this long to realise what I was saying.

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So the OP is saying that people who use iPods are noobs, whereas those good old Sony Walkmans required real skill. Yeah, spot on. Do you also get jealous when people whiz by you on roller blades or bikes?

Your point about the devaluing of Cartographer is valid though. But if you think about it, it's much easier to get most titles than it used to be. The first person with Holy Lightbringer probably had to work for it. Now everyone and their mom has it. If you want the prestige, you have to stay ahead of the curve.

Karyuu

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Originally Posted by Mineria
I don't care about using time to kill monsters *speedhack*
I don't care about that I need sit at my pc while playing *bot*
Do you get the point?
There is a difference between doing things that affect other people, and doing something that affects nothing but your own time. People use hacks and bots to get ahead in the economy, which changes prices and often causes inflation. People changing the color of their map fog cannot be in the same category.

But perhaps you should explain to me how it does, since you are the one hinting that this is the case.

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Originally Posted by Karyuu
There is a difference between doing things that affect other people, and doing something that affects nothing but your own time. People use hacks and bots to get ahead in the economy, which changes prices and often causes inflation. People changing the color of their map fog cannot be in the same category.

But perhaps you should explain to me how it does, since you are the one hinting that this is the case.
The more you cheat to gain a title, the less the title is worth in the public eye.

SotiCoto

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This thread = fail.

+1.

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
The more you cheat to gain a title, the less the title is worth in the public eye.
GMC has been worthless from the start, all it requires are henchmen and a few hours.

Mineria

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karyuu
There is a difference between doing things that affect other people, and doing something that affects nothing but your own time. People use hacks and bots to get ahead in the economy, which changes prices and often causes inflation. People changing the color of their map fog cannot be in the same category.

But perhaps you should explain to me how it does, since you are the one hinting that this is the case.
So titles don't affect anything.. what's the HoM for?

I forgot to mention that I can add both bot and speedhack functions as a mod.
So if someone claims its against the EULA, I just point them to the wiki with the words "its only fun and harmless".

PS. funny that Anet didn't update this in the Rules of Conduct "You may not modify any part of the Guild Wars Client, Server, or any part of the official Guild Wars websites."

Karyuu

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
The more you cheat to gain a title, the less the title is worth in the public eye.
Did I say I cared about the "public eye" or what other people think of my personal achievement? Did anyone else in this thread state that they care, either?

Moreover, since when is this cheating and comparing screenshots in Photoshop, which is the same thing but slower, not?

elektra_lucia

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GMC has been worthless from the start, all it requires are henchmen and a few hours
I could argue CS was worthless because I went straight to playing with the best really quickly. I could argue Quake is worthless because a similar thing happened. Or instagib in UT is worthless because I won eurocup after not having the game for very long.

Those few hours can be a few days or weeks for some people. Just like those few weeks it took me to do such stuff, could be a few years for others.

Does that mean I should aimbot or wallhack?

Nope.

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Did I say I cared about the "public eye" or what other people think of my personal achievement? Did anyone else in this thread state that they care, either?

Moreover, since when is this cheating and comparing screenshots in Photoshop, which is the same thing but slower, not?
Already answered, stop making me repeat myself.

Karyuu

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Originally Posted by Mineria
So titles don't affect anything.. what's the HoM for?
If people don't use texmod, they use Photoshop to compare screenshots. They just take more time and more effort to do the exact same thing.

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Originally Posted by Savio
GMC has been worthless from the start, all it requires are henchmen and a few hours.
It sure is more rewarding than clicking on vitrual booze.

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If people don't use texmod, they use Photoshop to compare screenshots. They just take more time and more effort to do the exact same thing.
And guild wars isn't about time or effort, it's all about skill right? . Voided your own point. Whatever that was.

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It sure is more rewarding than clicking on vitrual booze.
Virtual booze sends my head funny.

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Originally Posted by Mineria
PS. funny that Anet didn't update this in the Rules of Conduct "You may not modify any part of the Guild Wars Client, Server, or any part of the official Guild Wars websites."
Textmod doesn't modify the client. Modifying the client is indeed against the EULA, and much worse, it's copyright infringement.

Textmod does exactly the same as changing brightness on your monitor. It isn't and cannot be covered by any law. If it does - having poor eyesight, or being color-blind will become a crime or EULA violation as well - it also makes one see the screen differently than others do.


Some people are still convinced the titles are something others should admire - not a personal achievement. That is where the problems start - wrong perception. There's plenty of people who got lots of titles. Yet they don't brag about them, don't look down on others, they don't care. For them, titles are something they are proud of since they indicate they achieved something.

The whining about "I did it like this, you should too" is simply "lol im a level 518 and ur level 514 noob".

And as was said many times before: Canthan GMC has least of worth. It has highest overhead, and is the smallest of all continents.

How about Tyria - and old players, who had all the arenas? Were they cheating as well? The only GMC that matters a tiny bit would be Tyrian - largest continent, mapping during missions, large explorables. But that's it.

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And guild wars isn't about time or effort, it's all about skill right?
Yep. Using textmod is skill. Doing it "the right way" is time.

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Originally Posted by unienaule
Question. How many people who got Legendary Skill Hunter look up where bosses spawn? Do you just run around the map wildly hoping that last elite you need pops up somewhere, not even knowing if you're in the correct zone?

Just because tools didn't exist back in your day, doesn't mean people should ignore them and do it "the hard way" for "respect," or as I like to call it "e-Peen."
I'm quoting this because it already states succinctly exactly how I feel about using this mod. It is merely the next generation of tools to aide someone within the game by providing them information. I'm going to throw out a wild assumption and say that no one has achieved Legendary Skill Hunter in-game without looking up where a certain skill might be found on any of the numerous guides; even THAT information has gradually been refined over and over in its presentation so that it is now borderline brainless. I won't make the same assumption about Cartographer, but I do know that a very high majority of people have not achieved it without some form of assistance.

I've helped a lot of people achieve cartography titles through map comparisons, and I can say that it was extremely annoying to do for them. Why didn't this thread exist when that was going on for over 5,000 posts. What marginal work has since been subtracted from obtaining the title in going from that to this texmod, hitting Print Screen 20 times and finding an image host? Typing out a post for help? Seriously, the only thing that's different now is I and others like me don't need to check maps for those who ask for the help...they're able to independently operate and get the same information that would have been given to them at any point over the last year and a half. They still have to run to the points shown to them, they simply get feedback beyond a slight, sometimes imperceptible, visual change when they've achieved it.

I actually LOVE the mod. I had Legendary Cartographer before I ever loaded it up, and you know what my reaction was? I grinned! I thought it was such a cool thing that it excited me. I'm not upset about it making the title any easier to get, because all it does is offload the work from the few who helped people in forums. This title stopped being 'prestigious' the minute Livingston's or my own threads began offering help to any who asked for it. If you'd like to replace the epeen feel free to try out vanquishing.

Karyuu

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
And guild wars isn't about time or effort, it's all about skill right? . Voided your own point. Whatever that was.
What? What are you talking about? Enlighten me, I'm confused. I was saying that texmod is a faster way of seeing what spots on your map you have yet to uncover, which is exactly what you can already do using screenshots and Photoshop. I don't understand where the cries of "It's wrong, it's wrong!" come in.

Mineria

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Originally Posted by Karyuu
If people don't use texmod, they use Photoshop to compare screenshots. They just take more time and more effort to do the exact same thing.
Do you actually happen to know the difference?
Screenshots for an entire campaign map are not a little thing you just happen to load and see where you have been or not.
Try go and check some of the high res images on the wiki, and tell me how fast you can zoom in and out, plus scrolling around on the maps.
Not to mention keeping track.
Saying that it is the exact same thing to use the ingame mod is bullocks.

Savio

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
I could argue CS was worthless because I went straight to playing with the best really quickly. I could argue Quake is worthless because a similar thing happened. Or instagib in UT is worthless because I won eurocup after not having the game for very long.
Those games actually require you to do something to win. GMC doesn't, if you consider it to be an accomplishment.

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Originally Posted by boxterduke
It sure is more rewarding than clicking on vitrual booze.
Virtual booze is more amusing.

Karyuu

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@Mineria: And what point are you trying to make? If anything, you are proving my own. Screenshots + Photoshop = very time consuming to see what spots you have yet to explore. Texmod = quicker to see what spots you have yet to explore.

Sooo....

Bryant Again

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Originally Posted by Torqual
So let's be clear, this is not just 'Cartography made easy' it's 'Cartography made laughably easy'. It makes the invisible visible, it shows where you need to go and don't need to go, it shows when an area is completed, it eliminates the need to fight through monsters (instead running) and it updates dynamically. And you don't even have to leave the game. Press U for cheat.
.......What? Last I recalled, the monsters were still there. Running maps is still a pain in the ass.

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Originally Posted by Torqual
It's clear that most of the posters here don't give a damn and even less know what they are talking about.
I could, in quite honesty, say the exact same to you. You seem to think that these mods make it easy. It was easy to begin with, so I don't know where you're headed with this. All you needed was time. If you think you should be listened to because you spent more time doing this than others these days, then stop, please.

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Originally Posted by Torqual
To take the CS:Source allegory further, OK... it's not aimbot. It's wallhack. Why bother hunting down the last Counter Terrorist who is stalking you. Just look through solid walls, see where he is hiding, then go round and shoot him in the back! Logical really.
So pressing M or U is wallhack?

Bear in mind the reason I'm now very concerned with this is because Gaile said it's being "looked into". I don't want it to be "looked into", because it could require the banning of Texmod-based modifications such as these: Fun mods that just alter the look of your character or a cool way to change your UI. I don't want the GW modding community to get deleted over something as frivolous as this.

elektra_lucia

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So since it's all time, why not make FoW armour worth one gold. I mean, it just takes time to farm? Broken game by your own logic :P.

Torqual

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Originally Posted by Karyuu
Did I say I cared about the "public eye" or what other people think of my personal achievement?
LoooooOOOOOOOOooooooool!

Hey everyone, look at my avatar! Like my lovely Norn armour??

So everyone else is a show off, and you aren't?

Karyuu

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Torqual, you are an amusing little earth monkey

I like the way my avatar looks. I put it up there for myself to see. Kay? Thanks.

Next?

Bryant Again

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Torqual
LoooooOOOOOOOOooooooool!

Hey everyone, look at my avatar! Like my lovely Norn armour??

So everyone else is a show off, and you aren't?
And you're done.

ChaoticCoyote

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
If FoW did not cost anything it would not be something to show off. Titles for some are something they are proud of but also something to show off. I hope with this information and the information I have given you before hand, or the theoretical question, you now have the answer to your question.
Ah... so your enjoyment of the game is based on bragging rights?

Bad news for you -- quite of few of your fellows players are not impressed by titles or FoW or anything else. For me, the game is about personal satisfaction, not trying to impress other people.

And no, I don't use this mod. I have 98% of all three chapters, and that makes me content; wall-crawling just to have a title is a waste of time, in my opinion.

Your mileage may vary... just don't demand that I be impressed. Stop trying to make OTHER PEOPLE justify your experience.

If there is one core problem with GW, is that it lacks substance in exchange for "bling".

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is this mod allowed out of interest.. and what is the mod?

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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoticCoyote
Ah... so your enjoyment of the game is based on bragging rights?

Bad news for you -- quite of few of your fellows players are not impressed by titles or FoW or anything else. For me, the game is about personal satisfaction, not trying to impress other people.

And no, I don't use this mod. I have 98% of all three chapters, and that makes me content; wall-crawling just to have a title is a waste of time, in my opinion.

Your mileage may vary... just don't demand that I be impressed. Stop trying to make OTHER PEOPLE justify your experience.

If there is one core problem with GW, is that it lacks substance in exchange for "bling".
You asked a question, and then later made a statement on an assumption as to what you thought the answer would be which of course you got wrong . You know nothing about debating, do you? :P. You need to look at things with a more general approach.

seut

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Originally Posted by Torqual
By the Gods, what a colossal load of excrement is posted above, mainly by people with only a casual interest, the typical Guru lurkers who love to jump in and tell people not to care about things because they themselves don't give a damn.
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What utter utter tripe.
The OP prefers getting orgasms from his emotional status and dismisses all opposing arguments. A discussion is not wanted by him.
Please close this thread!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Torqual
LoooooOOOOOOOOooooooool!

Hey everyone, look at my avatar! Like my lovely Norn armour??

So everyone else is a show off, and you aren't?
edit: i changed my mind.. the OP is a troll and this thread was started for self amusement, not whining.

elektra_lucia

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I wish I could get orgasms from emotional status, hard enough to get them physically considering how shit girls are in bed around where I live 0.0.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Torqual
LoooooOOOOOOOOooooooool!

Hey everyone, look at my avatar! Like my lovely Norn armour??

So everyone else is a show off, and you aren't?
If you act like that to degrade some one else, it makes me wonder what you did when you spent so long on your titles.

You say you did it for fun. You say you had fun doing it. Why, then, do you feel your fun has been lessened because other people can get the same title as you? And if that's the way you act, I'm very sure you won't be able to bounce off the ropes with that one.

elektra_lucia

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If you act like that to degrade some one else, it makes me wonder what you did when you spent so long on your titles.

You say you did it for fun. You say you had fun doing it. Why, then, do you feel your fun has been lessened because other people can get the same title as you? And if that's the way you act, I'm very sure you won't be able to bounce off the ropes with that one.
How is he degrading them? Maybe my English is bad but I assumed he was trying to point out the irony. Things can be some what ironic without being degrading, or no? (serious question I don't honestly know for certain).

Bryant Again

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
How is he degrading them? Maybe my English is bad but I assumed he was trying to point out the irony. Things can be some what ironic without being degrading, or no? (serious question I don't honestly know for certain).
See post #224 up a bit. He doesn't say anything besides make fun of her avatar.

elektra_lucia

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You mean this?
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LoooooOOOOOOOOooooooool!

Hey everyone, look at my avatar! Like my lovely Norn armour??

So everyone else is a show off, and you aren't?
I don't think he's making fun of his avatar, he is making fun of the fact it is showing off. Just like a title, no? That is where the irony is. maybe I misunderstood it.

Bryant Again

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
I don't think he's making fun of his avatar, he is making fun of the fact it is showing off. Just like a title, no? That is where the irony is. maybe I misunderstood it.
So you think Karyuu doesn't like the way her avatar looks at all and is just having it there to say "lol look at me"???

Karyuu

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How am I showing off by having an avatar of my character, people? What are you talking about?

elektra_lucia

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again
So you think Karyuu doesn't like the way her avatar looks at all and is just having it there to say "lol look at me"???
No. I was explaining what I think Torqual meant. Please stop getting so personal?

Bryant Again

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia
No. I was explaining what I think Torqual meant.
As was I, and I was explaining that he is not being ironic and is instead just being rude.

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This thread has completely deterioated to +1 sniping and snarkiness, even from the OP.

Frankly, despite his commendably large thought out post (and despite the fact that it's a bit of an epic rant) the moment someone dismisses other people's opinions as "bilge" and "excrement" and makes assumptions that those people have no idea what they're talking about then they've effectively shot their own argument in the foot anyway.

I think there was a vaild discussion in here at some point.