Is it really cheating?

[refusedstone]

I have a few mods I've made myself that are always seen as cheating. But is it really cheating if it makes the game harder?

The speed mod up's regular speed to 500, 900 with thrusters. I did it mainly because the original speed of 80 was, quite honestly, the equivelent of having a Ferrari that only does 5 MPH. But, it also makes combat much more difficult and intense.

Another mod is a weapons mod, not unlike the beam weapons mod of FLMM, but with less "I am god" stats. It's a machine gun (That looks awesome, by the way ^-^) has a refire rate of 10.00, can fire for up to about 10 seconds, and only causes 60 damage per shot. The only thing that could really be seen as cheating, as far as I can tell, if that the projectile speed/range are about 50,000. Thats because I suck with graphics and had to make it so that you can't see the lasers, or else it would look like a laser and not a machine gun. And that actually makes it harder, because unlike most weapons of FL, you can't simply fire at the red crosshair of your target, you have to lead by about 4-5 ship lengths.

So... I'm really just asking, am I cheating if I'm making the game harder?

[piegod]

can you buy those weapons or are they npc's only?

[Bejaymac]

Depends, if their only for your own use then no, but if you try and use them on a server then yes. All mods are nothing more than cheats as your altering the games code, but they only get classed as a cheat if you try to gain an unfair advantage by using them on a server that doesn't allow it.

[Gibbon]

Yes, as Bejay points out its not a cheat if you're using it for yourself or the server you're playing on also has this. Other servers will look at it as a cheat however as they won't have it included in their files. As an example, if you came on my server with those files, you would be cheating. If i had those files included, then you would simply be a player, that's the distinction.