Hiya AriseAbove,
I think you have a bit of an odd view on some things.
We're are always happy to welcome new players to our community and we try our best to help everyone with any kind of problem they might have.
The video's are not a direct violation of the rules, as such, so they can host them on youtube if they want. People can still use the waves 'hack' if they run 1.0. It's not that they are forbidden to do this, but they just don't get any support when they do so.
As for the huge waves themselves go, it's rather simple. In the license agreement, you will find a load of rules and regulations, that are basically there in every game you own. One of these rules is often not to "reverse engineer" the game. And with this game, this rule too applies.
The very high waves were achieved by doing just this. And it's just not allowed, this is what you agree upon when you install the game, when you tick the little box after reading the EULA. (which hardly anyone ever really does). When a person violates the EULA, like when they edit a bit of the game that is not meant to be edited, then the software developer cannot guarantee the game to run as it was intended anymore.
As such, people would probably experience problems with the software, or things would simply behave strangely, which can also be a reason for the Technical support staff to get a lot of unnecessary questions.
So as such, people that reverse engineer their game, do not get any technical support from us, since there is no solution when problems occur, other than to play the game with all the contents in the intended form.
If you edit the waves, the ships will react totally unrealistic, that's why they did not want to make this possible to the players. But when people hack this, then that's not VSTEP's problem, it is not like they have taken a game feature away from the customers.
I hope that explains that a bit. You will not get banned from the forum, you will not get banned from Multiplayer, you will not get banned for just talking about it. What happens when you alter game files you are not allowed to alter, is that you lose the technical support and your warranty. But you're still welcome here when you do. And of course you'd have to take for granted that you need to run 1.0 and cannot update. Since the loophole that created this 'hack' possibility was closed down.
It has nothing to do with "play it the way we say". It is a regular rule that you'll find in almost all games you have. hacking or cracking, or however you want to call it, a game's contents to alter it, is not a feature that you buy a game for. You can play the game any way you see fit, you just cannot alter certain parts of the program.
And for your information, the staff spend hours and hours every day to keep everything going, so that you can enjoy all of this, a bit more respect wouldn't hurt, specially since you are new here and you cannot possibly know yet what we are all about or what we do. Going off at new members, Abusing players, you say? hardly... I think it is us that get the most abuse, actually.
Sure, we point them to exsisting topics if they do not use the search button and post the same obvious questions again and again. But in the end, that's much better than answering the same questions again and again and again and again and again.. well, you get the point.
So anyway, welcome to the forums, I hope you have a good time here.
Kind regards,
Fred
