EPTSupposedly this is to encourage koreans to play who have issues with an antihack launcher. It supposedly is for the sole purpose of gaining more users to iccup under the assumption that the launcher did more bad than good. Basicly, iccup may get more members. But they may all hack. You can see if they use the ladder or not before playing, but that's a hassle. Apparently iccup is not so strict on hackers; they just want more users online.
Please discuss this. Also, perhaps explain what iccup could change to get more people to play.
It is possible they will wait a week to implement it, but as far as I know it will be implemented in this coming season.
Reply by Unk., later in this thread; I don't think I mention iccup's stance, and I think unk.'s reply does.
"have you ever thought about why did all private ladders gone? why wgtour hadn't start ? why pgtour hadn't rised from the dead? it is all about motivation. our motivation falls down as online users number is not growing. one day we compared an online user counter on iccup and brainclan server. it was 500 vs 50 000. 50 fucking tousand on a server with almost non-existent ladder. We talked with a lot of korean guys, admins and others. The answer was that a lot of koreans are lazy even for registering on webpage.. not even for running launcher!! That is why we enabled registration on the server and going to disable launcher mandatory. As for /ah command it will be pretty useless, cuz player with launcher will have colored nickname in the game lobby.
We provide you a ladder, you give us users. no users - no ladder, no ladder-no users. As simple as that. You asked anti-hack - we gave it. Did user online counter showed a bigger number? no.
summary
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-mac//*nix users will be able to play
-one-click-registration. Just run bw and start playing.
-antihack still exists and working. moreover you will get extra-pts for nothing.
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-if you are not paranoid and will play agains person w/out antihack turned on, you eventually may be hacked. Anyway you will be able to make a complaint and hacker will get a ban for even a single suspicious move. Therefore, users without antihack won't be able to coomplaint about hackers" - unk.
Poll: Should iccup's antihack launcher be optional or mandatory?
(Vote): Mandatory, always required
(Vote): Optional, can do without for fewer points
poll added
