HELLO LOKAMC! I come to you today with a series of questions I have had on my mind for quite some time now. I hope this thread can open up discussions on this topic so that we can eventually see full clarification on what is truly allowed and not allowed on Loka. For starters, Lokamc has been (in my opinion) super vague on where it stands on regedits. Loka staff will tell you that anything external that gives you an advantage over other players is not allowed. However, you will also see staff members and admins tell you that regedits do not have any real effect. I was pretty shocked when I heard people talking about how regedits do not have any effect, as from personal experience, fighting players who openly use regedits and ones who I am fairly certain do not, I can see some differences even when accounting for things such as location etc. I think Loka really needs to clarify where it stands here, and revise their current standpoint of regedits having no effect. The second thing I want to talk about is modifying your PCs actual latency to "gain" an advantage over other players. This can be done in numerous ways (regedits also modify latency). There is a program people use on many other servers (it is allowed on said servers) that lets you reduce input delay and optimize response times.
(The program essentially lets you minimize latency and input delay which should in theory give you an advantage over other players. It looks something like this. It (like regedits) is pretty common in many pvp communities, both 1.8 and 1.9+.)
There are also some settings you can change to optimize latency and reduce input delay without using any external programs. For example:
(This is a NVIDIA GPU setting that anybody with a NVIDIA GPU can change without using any external program. I am mentioning both of these to show you can modify these things with or without external programs.)
I personally messaged Cryptite (server admin) asking about this and he said:
(Here Cryptite says that 1. Both modifying your latency and regedits have no effect, which I guess implies its allowed...? And 2. That if its an internal modification then it should be no problem. However, I want to note that modifying your debounce time, something that most people with a modern mouse can do, and is an internal function of most gaming mice, is not allowed. This makes me pretty confused. If regedits and input delay optimization "wouldnt actually do anything", does that mean a player caught with these in say, a screenshare, wont face any penalty? This why I think this needs to be cleared up. Where the server rules stand on these things is just too unclear.)
The clarification on the rules of macroing and banning both all forms of macros as well as any modifying of mouse debounce time is in my opinion a step in the right direction, as macros should have been disallowed long ago and it finally cleared up something. I hope we can have a discussion on these things and hopefully even get an announcement like that of the macro announcement to fully clarify where Loka stands on these issues.
(I made this forum post since Cryptite encouraged me to so people can voice their opinions and thoughts on this stuff)
Do you think regedits should be allowed?
Do you think modifying latency and input delay should be allowed?
Do you think these even make a difference at all?
discuss and argue nerds
(The program essentially lets you minimize latency and input delay which should in theory give you an advantage over other players. It looks something like this. It (like regedits) is pretty common in many pvp communities, both 1.8 and 1.9+.)
There are also some settings you can change to optimize latency and reduce input delay without using any external programs. For example:
(This is a NVIDIA GPU setting that anybody with a NVIDIA GPU can change without using any external program. I am mentioning both of these to show you can modify these things with or without external programs.)
I personally messaged Cryptite (server admin) asking about this and he said:
(Here Cryptite says that 1. Both modifying your latency and regedits have no effect, which I guess implies its allowed...? And 2. That if its an internal modification then it should be no problem. However, I want to note that modifying your debounce time, something that most people with a modern mouse can do, and is an internal function of most gaming mice, is not allowed. This makes me pretty confused. If regedits and input delay optimization "wouldnt actually do anything", does that mean a player caught with these in say, a screenshare, wont face any penalty? This why I think this needs to be cleared up. Where the server rules stand on these things is just too unclear.)
The clarification on the rules of macroing and banning both all forms of macros as well as any modifying of mouse debounce time is in my opinion a step in the right direction, as macros should have been disallowed long ago and it finally cleared up something. I hope we can have a discussion on these things and hopefully even get an announcement like that of the macro announcement to fully clarify where Loka stands on these issues.
(I made this forum post since Cryptite encouraged me to so people can voice their opinions and thoughts on this stuff)
Do you think regedits should be allowed?
Do you think modifying latency and input delay should be allowed?
Do you think these even make a difference at all?
discuss and argue nerds
