From: XIII_rocks | #029
Hmm. Savescumming is like a grey area, I think. I would say playing football manager and reloading when you lose a game could be seen as cheating, but then you might also treat Barcelona in the Champions League final as a Final Boss that you have infinite lives to defeat.
But what about cheat codes that make it impossible to lose the game in the first place? But what about reloading until conditions such as item drops or some other randomly generated thing goes your way? What about stuff like a game where an extra life respawns every time you reload and getting infinite lives? Certainly takes longer than a cheat code, but it has the same result.
RNG abuse is...hmm. Is that when you do things to make the RNG favour you? If you have to explore the game's code etc to find out what determines the RNG, and then doing things to make it so it favours you...yeah, that's probably cheating. If it's doing the same thing over and over until the number favours you without doing anything to really alter it, then it's in the grey area.
kevwaffles was right on the money, I was thinking Golden Sun 1 item drop stuff. Basically, when you start the game the RNG starts at a certain point, and if you follow a certain set of actions you will always get the same result (in this case, getting the item you want).
I know this sort of thing isn't really what you were talking about in the OP, but I'm still curios.
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