Hackmeister Posted:

Identifying areas the statistics can be screwed with sounds like a good idea.

...Actually doing a concentrated effort to screw with them sounds like a bad slippery slope of disaster.

But you’re right, anyone who isn’t entirely gearing offense can’t compete in a sensible fashion and focusing on damage dealt really does only propagate the problem rather than resolve it.

It’s a two-step process. Step one is to identify a potential problem, and step two is to see if the potential problem is a REAL problem. Step two requires that you actually find a way to exploit the problem, then test it out.

If you act in secret and actually try to get something out of it, then that’s obviously the everyday exploiting and cheating that we all know and hate. If you act in secret and try to screw things up for the sake of screwing things up, then that’s just being a male reproductive organ and not going to resolve anything.

If you act in public and try to show the extent or possible extent of the problem, then that’s bug hunting.

Naturally I acted in public with all three intents, just because being an bumhat is a proud part of the FW culture. Log in to see images!

(Also, acting in public gets problems enough attention that the admins will take notice. HAY ET!)