I understand where you are coming from Angry. However different people come to MARP for different reasons. For some people it is all about Official High Scores for others it's just to download great recordings and watch experts at play. Unfortunately both groups are getting the shaft. Competitors are seeing dubious game play techniques and being upset by it and people who want to watch good players play are realising that they are being duped by cheats and hacked recordings. It leaves a nasty taste in your mouth. No matter why you come to MARP you don't want to see what you percieve as cheating.(posted 9523 days ago)I believe all of us would benefit by setting in place a couple of key policies that will calm a lot of people down, policies that I believe are easy enough to implement.
When people start to bitch and complain about the cheating and non standard recordings (NSR's) etc they aren't doing it because they have nothing better to do, it's because the issues are fundamental to them and are cheapening their MARP experience. When you get down to it, many people are not complaining about NSR's, autofire, rerecording, pausing, joysticks etc per se, their complaint is in the context of two fundamental issues -
1. Those recordings aren't being distingushed against so called 'standard' recordings.
2. People using these techniques aren't explicitly stating that they've used these techniques (others have to discover they are being used)
Also remember Angry - you don't have to take part in all the discussion about cheating etc (I know it's hard to avoid). Instead you can concentrate on the fun facets of MARP - like uploading more of your great recordings - like Jack the Giant Killer, Gauntlet, Flicky, Bubbles, Berzerk, Arabian. I'd hate to see you go.
I too would like to see 'cheating discussions' go away and be replaced by discussions on game strategy and tips/tricks in games. How about some people writing up a few walkthroughs for games or even game reviews. Unfortunately, the cheating topics will abound until something is done about it - i.e. new policies put in place or the people start leaving MARP in digust.