Chicken

[The_Animus]

Chicken

I'd like to start by saying that I don't condone the use of programs which give you an unfair advantage over other players. I dislike programs such as Maphack, Bot programs, Pickit and trigger.

However, because blizz chooses to do nothing about TPPK despite them being able to, I feel it is ok to use Chicken only for the purpose of not dying to TPPK'ers. I don't support it's use to exit the game when you lose so much life, thus avoiding deaths from monsters, but I do support its hostile-leave game feature because of the TPPK issue.

There is no way to avoid TPPK aside from not playing with other people, which is rediculous. Why should I be punished because others are cheating?

EDIT: Took out reference to 3rd party program.

 

[Stimm]

First of all youd better get your thermo suit cuz its gonna get hot real fast. Your best bet to avoid TPPK is to find a group of trusting friends and play with them. If you use chicken you will get banned from bnet. So take your pick

 

[The_Animus]

If I get banned then I'm done with Blizzard. I have no intention of my game experience being diminished by their stupidity. They know a problem exists. They can fix the problem. They choose not to.

Also friends aren't on. And again I shouldn't be limited to just playing with a few friends. I'm not the one doing something wrong, so why should I be the one punished?

 

[baalos]

It does not.

I'm not sure that Dii.net supports this kind of thread, but I've had trouble finding it and I'm really getting annoying doing baal runs and worrying that I will die at any moment without any control whatsoever.

5. Thou Shalt Not Pimp or aid the Pimping of hacks and Cheats. Hacks and Cheats are 3rd party programs that allow you to alter the way a player interacts with a game. This includes, but not restricted to Maphack and Pindlebot. We do not support the use of these. You may not ask for help in creating a hack/cheat, a link to where you can find one, provide a link to where people can download one. However, the morality of using these programs is sometimes discussed and we allow these [within reason], unless it violates any other rule.

 

[terrymanning]

Please consider editing your post and removing all references to 3rd party modules. Regardless of tppk, nothing has done more to destroy the spirit of hardcore than chicken.

TM

 

[minion]

Just do what we all do, watch your ***.

If you see a necro in a game, be suspicious and try to stay off to the side or as far away as possible. Or simple don't leave town.

If you see a suspiscious zon do the same, although zons are not used as often because of the low damage... Some use them for surprise tactics and go for guys with low hp, res, and block.

 

[HAMC8112]

Well the guy is still young or i should say has a low postcount so we will forgive him this time i suppose...

 

[STINGER]

Personally I have no problem with Chicken hostile for the very reason with TPPK. I dont and wont use it and it has also hurt legit PKing also which personally I dont like much anyway.

As I understand it is very possible to use maphack and only turn on the hostile function. i use to use MH and it was always pretty customizable allowing you to shut off many things. I wont tell ya how to get it but I am sure you can search for it.

Furthermore......If it were possbile to get every person on the relm to employ Chicken Hostile for a month just to screw these TPPkers for a bit i would gladly jump on the bandwagon!!!

The unfortunate problem with TPPK is there are many ways to avoid it, but none of them are either legit, or intended to be what we are suppose to do. This game should be playable in public without fear of this crap.

Your little panzy buddies with the trigs are reading this thread and giggling like little school girls while the get off on it also. Funny thing is they cry about chicken but they made it something people want with thier supidity.

It is a damn shame that the few always screw up the good things because they cant hack it playing a simple game the right way. Truely pathetic.....

 

[NightShade]

Rather neat and tidy excuse isn't it? Oh the big bad Tornado druid is tppking in games, I have a reason to get map hack!.

Oh? You mean if I didn't just do baal runs that I wouldn't get tppked? Oh well that's crazy. I just use the MH to make sure that I don't get jipped. Well, I'll just keep the map function on to speed things up...Er, well that waypoint trick might get me, better keep the chicken on full time...

etc. If you don't want to be tppk'ed, there's a module out there that I wont mention that detects auto aim. Doesn't affect legit pkers such as myself (well, my former self) nor does it let you escape your own idiocy in PvM

 

[Unholy_VI]

The unfortunate problem with TPPK is there are many ways to avoid it, but none of them are either legit, or intended to be what we are suppose to do. This game should be playable in public without fear of this crap.

Your little panzy buddies with the trigs are reading this thread and giggling like little school girls while the get off on it also. Funny thing is they cry about chicken but they made it something people want with thier supidity.

It is a damn shame that the few always screw up the good things because they cant hack it playing a simple game the right way. Truely pathetic.....

Well said all of it Stinger.

One thing i disagree with is that people were using chickenhack/hostile long before TPPKers were the problem that they are now.

Other than that yeah. Why flame this guy for wanting to use chicken hostile in his baalrun games to protect himself against a cheater? If Blizzard isn't going to step to the plate and do something about this why shouldn't he? Sure he can let the TPPKers run him out of public games like some suggested. He can quit every Baalrun that has a zon or a necro in it sure. but why not just use the same program the Cheaters are using to kill him to protect himself from them?

How is that wrong?

as long as he doesn't slide inot the chickenhack thing where you autoexit if your life gets low I see no problem in it. You people ought to get off his back. To me this is a perfectly reasonable thing to do until blizz gets around to doing something about this TPPK thing.

PS: Don't hold your breath waiting. it took them forever to get rid of Hydra PKing

 

[viamede]

Well it is a cheat to respond to a cheat. Two wrongs blah blah blah...

Does seem like a slippery slope though. "I'll just put in on to get past the gloams because well their buggy and Blizzard shoulda nerfed em down by now anyway" etc.

I guess if your strong willed and disciplined maybe you won't fall down the well, but for most of us it's just a step away from ruining your gaming experience.

 

[baalos]

Why flame this guy for wanting to use chicken hostile in his baalrun games to protect himself against a cheater?

How is that wrong?

Posting requesting a link to cheat sites or hacks is wrong, See rule #5.

 

[rachil0]

I agree with stinger on all counts (gasp). TPPK is wrong, chicken/hostile counters it. It unfortunately also breaks pking altogether... which the users of chicken likely intend but I wish it didn't do (as an "on the side" pker myself). I may not use it, but if I meet a player on bnet that uses chicken hostile so he doesn't get TP hacked, I certainly don't give them any crap about it.

Chicken life is a different story. I think thats lame. :rant:

I'd be much richer if I used it!

 

[NeoHydragen]

I'd be much richer if I used it!

You'd also be playing softcore with a red name if you used it.

 

[kurg]

How about a chicken module that activates for 5 seconds following a 'hostile', and then disables itself after 5 seconds?

That would achieve what blizz claimed they wanted for the hostile function (but were too incompetent to program). And it would still allow legit pk's to operate.

I know it would still be a hack, but this is a hypothetical situation, and its sole purpose would be to cancel the effect of another hack. To me a hack that does nothing but negate another hack is pretty innocuous --- because it wouldn't be needed if blizz knew how to program decently. Think of it as similar to the hack that prevented the 'drop/timeout bug' where people were illegitimately pk-ing innocents.

 

[Unholy_VI]

Posting requesting a link to cheat sites or hacks is wrong, See rule #5.

true that Baalos but since he went ahead and edited out that part this thread turned into a philisophical discussion about whether its ok to use chicken hostile to prevent being TPPKd which is where I'm sayngi get off his case.

 

[baalos]

Ah OK. I didnt see his edit. I never go back and read the whole thread again, just the last posts. The world is good again.

true that Baalos but since he went ahead and edited out that part this thread turned into a philisophical discussion about whether its ok to use chicken hostile to prevent being TPPKd which is where I'm sayngi get off his case.

 

[Bongo Fury]

If you use Chickenhack, for whatever reason, you're a cheater. And really, you're just playing SC with a character who has a red name.

If TPPKs are really a game breaker for you, might I suggest playing HC with a tan named character. I have been doing this myself lately. With the demise of GAT East I have started playing with some folks on West. Unfortunately, most of them play SC. So I have been playing SC hardcore style. And it is amazing the difference from HC. PKs of all sorts, be they TPPK or the mythical 'legit' PK, are almost nonexistant. In several months of HCSC on west I have been hostiled twice, both times it was people screwing around right before they left the game. I have seen absolutely NO PK activity. Apparently all the griefers play HC. So unless you're out to impress people with your high level HC character (and you can build one of those in a few days without ever killing a monster yourself anyway), playing HC in SC is a refreshing change. And a glimpse of what this game could be like if we didn't have to suffer with Blizzard's decision to implement forced PvP.

 

[terrymanning]

With the demise of GAT East I have started playing with some folks on West.

I moved to West a while back. Still playing HC though. Let me know if you ever want to play. Don't know if you remember or not but I played a couple of times with you in GAT Friends on East.

TM

 

[Ka0s047]

Pk is also pointless in SC. It has no effect on them perminantly. So why would they want to pk in sc? Of corse we get all the greifers, because they want what they do to have a perminant affect. It is not satisfying if they hit escape and can run back down to there body and go right back to playing...