Question of the day

[MoshPit]

My question for the day: Is overclocking cheating?

For me i find it quite annoying when one of the overclocker's ram me then say they never saw me. they don't see me because they are playing a sped up version of the game not the one that is actually happing.

for those of us who don't overclock we all no the people who are a bit to fast, or continually get kicked for high ping. or set a record every time they race. and act like they are skilled players(anyone could be good with a speed hack)

I personally think it's a form of cheating but what can you do? Never the less I do invite all of the over clocker's to take off the training wheels and come down and race with the real men.

[TheGreenGrasshopper]

It's kinda hard to say that overclocking is cheating, but if used to win games or to get a speed boost it should be considered as cheating and they should get a warning that they have to fix it or there might be a punishment imo. There was this similar thing on tf2 that people with certain cpu's would go extreem fast which made it unplayable.

[Ywa]

Having high FPS (over 36) results in an automated kick. So I don't see the problem.

[oDi_W]

The only thing i could possibly think of what is happening in your game is

the you have a high ping but do not lag.

they have an very low ping and sees the lag you don't have.

like the first GTA Rumble. you where running, but other players sees you popping up at different places.

Edited November 24, 2010 by oDi.WankenoDi

[Juggernaut]

Yeah, what YWA said. Overclocking would allow you to get more framerate, but the server is locked at 36, so that wouldn't apply here.

The MTA mod is not perfect, hell GTASA itself is not perfect. I know it gets frustrating, but you just have to deal with it. What really gets me is when someone has a near 400 ping and they can pass you like you're standing still and you have a 140 ping. Now that is really annoying. The desync is a common thing though.

[oDi_W]

The desync is a common thing though.

That is somewhat of what i meant

[CyriusG]

It would be very annoying to turn off your overclock just because someone in-game whines about it since you would have to restart the computer, go into bios, change the settings and restart it again. Besides there is a fps limit which should make sure they don't drive too fast.

[TinyDancer]

I don't think it's cheating, mostly for the reasons that people have already said.

I really agree with jug bout the imperfection of MTA/GTA. And honestly the race mod we play really isn't super skill based. It's just a fun arcade game, which is why there isn't ghostmode and stuff. Its a goofy, fun game, and you shouldn't get worked up about winning it. I mean, obviously there is skill involved and a speed boost would give someone an advantage, but even if it was that big of an issue I really don't see any practical way of solving it at all.