Nezzeric

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Ok, so we were told that we would be getting bases when CoH came out, and all these great things would be coming.

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Being that I was here from the beginning, I can promise you that bases were NEVER promised. NEVER. It wasn't on the box, on the website or in any promo material. The most we ever said was - "someday we'd like to do bases."

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Who is this Statesman character claiming he has been here from the beginning

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It is illogical to me how PLing is not a cheat and really my only compliant about it.

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We humans are a funny bunch. I find it illogical how you can think that PLing is a cheat. Oh well, I don't think any abstract example anyone can give is going to suddenly make the other side go Doh! now I get.

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Frankly, I am a psychologist, and the arguments here remind me of the prison inmates that I used to work with. They would constantly use they "how does my behavior affect you" line of reasoning. How did my stealing a car affect you!

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Unless the car was stolen from you it does not directly affect you, but it does affect the person that owned the car. Someone is cheated out of their property.

If I have a job, earn money and buy a car. I earned it.

If someone takes my car without permission they cheated me out of my property.

If I give a friend my car, who is jobless and has no money, does that mean he cheated all the other people who bought a car?

If I want to give up my time and xps to power level a friend how is that any different from me helping a friend out in real life.

If someone's parents are rich and gives them a house, did they cheat in life. Sure it may seem fair, but their parents earned that house and it is theirs to give away.

Why isn't my choice to give my time away to PL a friend? I earned those levels, I earned the ability to be able to help a lower level character?

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One does not have to be affected directly by a behavior to not like it.

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Not liking something does not mean it is cheating.

If a person PLs themself. Has two accounts, is that cheating? The person is at the computer playing and earning the xps by playing one of the characters while the other is a the T stop? They are actively contributing to the team.

Also the person doing the PLing has made a decision to reduce their own xps to help another gain xps.

No PLing is not cheating. Using an exploit to level is cheating.

My definition of PLing would be a low level character being buffed, healed, or some other activity by a higher level character to keep the lower level character from dying, such as a high level tank provoking low level mobs while the low level character kills them.

The low level hero is not grouped with the high level character. I do not think your friends helping you is cheating at all, but it certainly would be boring for the one doing the PLing.