Cheat mods...

[Kazumiya]

Hum , I just wanted to know if I was the only one whose begin to worry about all kind of "cheat mods" that appears on the steam workshop... I mean, just seeing those mods makes me sad for this kind of game.

[Nitroturtle]

I'm not sure what you mean by "cheat mods", but I don't see why it matters.  It's a single player game and anyone can enabled debug mode if they want which basically gives you full access to unlimited materials and instant building.

[Angpaur]

Sandbox mode also makes you sad?

It can be used for cheating as well.

[Cairath]

It's just one person who fled from the forums due to criticism who posted descriptions of his buggy mods on steam. There's a bunch of various mods here on the forums, most of them quality of life or adding variety/new stuff. There's nothing to worry about.

[Gurgel]

47 minutes ago, Kazumiya said:

Hum , I just wanted to know if I was the only one whose begin to worry about all kind of "cheat mods" that appears on the steam workshop... I mean, just seeing those mods makes me sad for this kind of game.

What do you care how _others_ play the game?

[Gaons]

Since when you should care about how other play their game? I do love mods, almost all games I play I use mods. Yes, some of them may seem like cheat to you and also seem like improvement done by players to me or others. So being sad is a bit too much for this. Just play your game and have fun, thats what surely klei and modders want for us.

[trevice]

The way I see it, anyone should be able to play the game any way they want and use any kind of mod they want.

[SharraShimada]

Its singleplayer. Dont mind other people ruining the game all for themself. Your game will never be affected at all. So whats your point? Do you loose fun, because there are "morons" out there? If so, the problem are not the mods...

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

2 hours ago, Angpaur said:

Sandbox mode also makes you sad?

Absolutely yes. When hundreds of newbies say to me that Klei created sandbox mode to encourage us to cheat, so why not play in super easy mode and abuse exploits, I stop teaching, writing guides, reporting new exploits or focusing on how to fix them. After all, Klei has ignored exploits reported by me for a long time. And aImost no one care about exploit fix mods.

[Angpaur]

And me stupid always have thought that sandbox mode is to test builds or game mechanics. There are still plenty of people who want a survival experience. Why focus on the cheaters or even care about them in a single player game?

[Sasza22]

So ideally the game should be fun for everybody who wants to play it. With a proper difficulty setting people could make the game fit their needs and the sandbox could be great for exploring what the game has to offer without having to progress manually throughout the game. Some people want the late game tech now instead of playing the whole game to get there and it`s fine. If we had the game more balanced mods like this wouldn`t be needed.

We still have some balance updates ahead of us. More difficulty settings could come in. Maybe an immortal dupe mode for beginners (make them incapacitated but never die and eventually recover even from suffocation). Then fix some of the exploits that make the game too easy in certain aspects and we would have quite a variety of difficulty in the game.

[Gurgel]

17 minutes ago, Sasza22 said:

So ideally the game should be fun for everybody who wants to play it. With a proper difficulty setting people could make the game fit their needs and the sandbox could be great for exploring what the game has to offer without having to progress manually throughout the game. Some people want the late game tech now instead of playing the whole game to get there and it`s fine. If we had the game more balanced mods like this wouldn`t be needed.

We still have some balance updates ahead of us. More difficulty settings could come in. Maybe an immortal dupe mode for beginners (make them incapacitated but never die and eventually recover even from suffocation). Then fix some of the exploits that make the game too easy in certain aspects and we would have quite a variety of difficulty in the game.

Sounds good to me. And anybody that wants to "cheat" (which is conceptionally impossible in a single-player game, cheating is usually defined as something along the lines of "breaking of rules to gain unfair advantage in a competitive situation") will still be free to do so. Making "cheating" harder will just turn people that want to do it away from the game. Remember that this is entertainment, not a proof of skill. 

Don't get me wrong, I think people cheating in multiplayer should be banned for life, if possible for all games of that publisher or platform. But that is a different situation. These people are destroying the fun _others_ could have in the game. 

 

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

49 minutes ago, Angpaur said:

And me stupid always have thought that sandbox mode is to test builds or game mechanics. There are still plenty of people who want a survival experience. Why focus on the cheaters or even care about them in a single player game?

But the fact is you can find lots of super easy mod easily, and when I released my mod to fix some exploits, people asked me "which wrong with the current game?"

[Neotuck]