Hyperstrike

A server that's been shut off is "nigh impenetrable".
A server that's had the power disconnected, been disassembled, had the parts melted down and buried in several cubic yards of highly irradiated concrete is "nigh impenetrable".

Anything else is just a hack waiting to happen.

There's a reason why people call them "script kiddies". Most of the basic legwork has been done and assembled into "toolkits". From there, it's just button-presses to get into and pivot from various machines, working around a web of trust till they find an exploitable vector.

On top of that, you know what the number one vector for system infiltration is nowadays? Social engineering. Stuff like phishing. Attacking systems on the layer they're most vulnerable at. The user.

The HBGary hack (the government contractor who got hacked by Anonymous? Started with a simple SQL injection attack (administrative failure for not patching). That got them a password list. From there we sprang to common passwords (again, a user-level failure). And wound up rolling over to one of the interested party's personal security site through social engineering using the person's own e-mail account.

Nope. Purple drops are completely random when fighting enemies capable of dropping purples.

From the ParagonWiki.

Hami Raids DO give you the option of taking a random Hamidon Origin enhancement. Some of those are worth a pretty penny.

Just checked this morning. They're listed as In Stock again.

Honestly, I don't think you'll be able to log in. Though I could be wrong.

Here's the entirety of your post.

You're talking about how you have never seen a EULA that makes claims that this one does.

In short, you haven't read a lot of EULAs.

You then assert that it's not possible to enforce/do without installing software.

In which case YOU have ALREADY installed the software for them.

And, in addition to reading the EULAs on various websites, go look at the EULAs as presented inside various games. Actually READ them.

Then tell me what I do and don't understand.

Yes. Yes I do. And you missed it.

Yes, but then you went to talk about installing software.
And, last time I checked, the game client wasn't a website.
So you seem a bit confused about exactly what point you're trying to convey.

Again, go look into the EULAs of other MMOs. You'll see similar clauses there as well. Please don't delude yourself into thinking that just because an MMO doesn't have the same EULA as, say, Slashdot, that something is wrong.

I dunno that I'd call it "vastly inferior".

The tutorial exposed you to the main concepts of the game.

1. Contacts with missions
2. Hunt missions
3. Door missions
4. Click-objective missions
5. The ability to free-roam
6. Introduces you to enhancements
7. Introduces you to inspies
8. It introduces you to the hospital
9. It shows how you can herd enemies

The new "tutorial" relies on the stupid pop-help system that barely explains anything. It's on a single map, no free roaming. And the chained objectives are basically "follow the breadcrumbs" that's essentially a hunt mission with a boss fight at the end. You can't die and there aren't enough enemies available to be worth herding. Almost no other content in the game works the way the new intro works.

Yeah. No. Having to go to any and every suspect to ask for permission to spy on them individually doesn't work. Because it alerts the user in question that they're being monitored. All they have to do is lay off the proscribed behavior for a little while or swap to a "clean" install.

Yep. Several of my best friends are authors. And some of the crap I've heard from them just about caused my brains to come squirting out my ears. (Only saved by the fact that I HAVE none and everything above the chin is solid bone.)

You'll just have to disagree and be thought wrong then Venture. I'd recommend talking to a real lawyer before coming back and arguing this further. On both sides.

Nope. It explicitly states in the document that while the EULA doesn't trump law, if the law trumps a portion of the EULA, that portion of the EULA is unenforceable but rest is still in force.

Because a good number of bots don't share the game's memory space. They're assigned their own. and then monitor the memory space of the game.

And you can talk about locking something down. Honestly, maybe you could. I don't know you. As such, I'm inclined to be skeptical in the face of such claims. No offense intended. Just a battle scarred veteran of far too many encounters with so-called "elite" users to ever take such claims at face value.

I don't honestly trust anyone (at least not unquestioningly). Not even that tubby ****** in the mirror. (He creeps me out!)

Let's just say that this is NOT the most hair-raising thing I've ever seen transcribed into contract law.

Try looking at the EULA in other games and online services. Not websites.



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Honestly, I'm not too hot about it either. But I understand the reason they're phrasing it this way.

You've obviously never been racked while wearing a cup have you?

The cup doesn't stop you from experiencing excruciating, debilitating pain. What the cup does is give you a better chance of avoiding dangerous amounts of swelling and clots so that "Big Jim and the Twins" won't need to be amputated.

You're still going to be on the floor puking up your last meal WISHING someone had shot you in the head with a punt gun.

You also forgot:

F) It they make the meaning casually (or even explicitly) vague and impenetrable, THEY get paid beaucop buckage to go to court to achieve the specificity they need for any case at hand. And they can do it over. And over. And over. And over. And (well, you get the idea).

I know. That's why I cleaned it up into something beyond a WALL OF SHOUT. I didn't say *Westley* was shouting at me.

Yep.

Yeah. Actually they DO. NCSoft, to have control over their environment needs the power to unilaterally remove accounts from the system. Like being employed in an at-will state. For any reason, even no reason. Otherwise someone can hobble them with unstated exceptions.