Lol the scope is similar to the AS50's. How do you know he didn't dupe it? or if it was scripted in? Unless you scavenged it there is no way to know and that is my point. "and I've never taken a known hacked item. . . or even used one" How do you know? are you saying that every single item has been scavenged? Of course there is no way for me to prove otherwise and you can say yes all day, but I highly doubt it. AS50s are not the only script-able.dope-able item. Duping is probably more rampant than scripting. "Victims don't join in with the terrorists," They don't join them, they cooperate to prevent injury. This happens in real life just too many times. "sorry if my playing legit offends you so much" No, it actually doesn't. What bothers me is your condemnation against this guy who decided not to combat log and got a freebie out of it. He is probably going to lose it on the thunderdome soon enough. " We all have to play our part in cleaning up this game, and if that mean not supporting the people running the scripts." What about fixing the mod/game to prevent it instead of condemning this guy and the others that happened to pick up an NVG or and AS50 off a dead hacker/duper? I am even ok if the Dev team has to take down the mod for a few weeks to fix it up. All your condemnation to those that are trying to adapt to the new environment is not going to fix anything. It will actually create more advertising to the script. " I'm not in a crusade to get him punished, I'm in a crusade to stop encouraging the use of scripts and the people who encourage it" You are just advertising it more by talking about it. " I do believe anyone scripting and using scripted items, more so knowingly so, should be punished." I believe that this is a survival game. You adapt to the environment to survive, if that means to grab an AS50 from a dead body or accepting a hand out after being raped then so be it. With the current hacking problems I say if you can have a blast for an hour before someone kills everyone on the server then by all means you should do it. "It's not righteousness" Yes it is, you are trying to sell your argument by portraying you as a role model to be followed. "I've been playing from the bandit days and you know what most of you guys may never know how great of a game this was, because of all the scripts out there." Yes I have, and I adapted back then and adapted now. If I find a dead body fully geared, I will loot it and enjoy it until the next a**hole kills the whole server. To me, there is no fun in spending days scavenging if I am going to die in the thunder dome. There difference between you and I is that I adapted to the new environment and still enjoy the game.