Horseland Corruption

* MAY 15TH UPDATE
Yeees I have read http://www.geocities.com/lovethgir/HLidiocy.htm. I thank you all for letting know, and again, I am thrilled to see that my article is causing such an uproar, keep up the good work! I won't really respond, point by point to that article. I encourage you all to read it for yourselves. You'll see how many of my points weren't disproven, and how it did not even begin to address many of the issues that completely disprove the notion that crabcakes is actually a legit player. I'm not blaming the author of that article for writing it, because as I've found out through feedback from writing my article, many people just don't know about crabcakes and don't want to believe that their horse or their horse's sire is scripted, or that they paid 500mill+ to breed to a scripted horse. Who can blame them? I'd be happy to be ignorant and think that there were all these great horses to breed to. But anyway, permit me to ask this simple question: who has more reason to write their respective article? Myself, a player who has been around since 1999 and has trained several million pointers - and a couple 300-500kers since the advent of the health bar - a player who is only dedicated to purity and quality on HL. Or someone who doesn't want their lines devalued by having the fact that they are SCRIPTED broadcasted? The point is, it would be impossible for all these horses to be trained this high. Some are legit, yes, of course, but many are not. It would be impossible to train over 2million points onto several horses on an account and have less than 1million player points on that account. It's unlikely that someone would surruptitiously change the previous owner if they thought that the previous owner was a legit trainer. Etc etc. So, I encourage you read both articles, and make up your own mind (or not). I know what is the truth. I have provided you with proof - some hard proof, other circumstancial, logical proof. There is more proof that I cannot share with you, and more yet that many of you would not understand, as it takes a fairly indepth understanding of programming, and HL's database construction to understand. Thank you all for reading, thank you all who wrote to me in support and thank you all who spread the word of my article, whether your attempt was to insult or promote.

* MAY 7TH UPDATE
I am very happy to announce that HL has blocked the original address http://www.geocities.com/horselandcorruption. That's great, it means that HL has seen the article and is offended by / afraid of it. So I have moved it to a new address: http://www.geocities.com/horselandiscorrupted

* MAY 1ST UPDATE
I am very pleased about all the feedback I have been getting. I have gotten a lot of positive e-mails but a few negative ones also. Because this article has generated so much interest, I have decided to remove some of the specific horse accusations out of respect for the fact that some may be legitimate. I will, however, add that many of the horses I am removing spent time with crabcakes where they gained 200,000+ points. I would be willing to suggest that, although these horses were scripted by crabcakes, it is entirely possible that the actual horse owners were unaware. Lastly, I will state that there is not a doubt that crabcakes is scripting. We have proof.
Please note that I still have all the screenshots. If you are personally interested in investigating this matter, feel free to e-mail me for them - but know that there is no cold hard proof that these horses were scripted - other than the fact that crabcakes put 200,000 points on them.

CORRUPTION IN HORSELAND?
The inscreasingly widespread "phenomena" of scripted horses,
and Horseland staff's total lack of response is leading some to suspect
that Horseland's staff may be responsible.

For those of you still blissfully unaware of scripted horses, let me elaborate. At the very beginning of this year, 2006, amazingly highpointed horses started popping up. Normally, players gain points for their horses by entering them in shows; a dedicated trainer can gain 10-15,000 points per week. Wealthier, more ambitious players can purchase training tickets, each at a cost of about $1,000,000 and each worth 50 horse points. And so, no one can blame us for not immediately noticing the utter impossibility of a 500,000 pointed 5 year old horse. But eventually, we did realize that these horses were not "legit."

"I myself tried to buy all the training tickets I could in one day, as an experiment, at any price. Even being generous, I only got like 30,000 points. These horses are completely impossible. And, on top of that, no one ever sees their owners advertising," says one player.

And so, armed with the knowledge that not only was it unlikely, it was completely impossible for these horses to exist with that many points, we reached the inevitable conclusion that they are cheated, scripted horses.

It didn't help that all these horses were coming from the same, ambiguously longterm player with a ludicrous name, Crabcakes, #1209, and that no one could really vouch for this player as being legitimate.

The whole thing came to an abrupt and insulting crux when certain players did a little digging, to discover that Crabcakes was training horses for other players, for real money. I am sad to report that some players actually purchased script training.

No one is convinced that horse 7626241 really gained 500,000 points in his 4 short weeks of life through training and tickets alone. Or that 7424261 really gained 1,200,000 points by the tender age of 13. The Quarter Horse secter of Horseland is literally being destroyed by the flood of scripted horses.

Everyone knows that these horses are scripted from the first moment they see them - and it's hard to take these horses seriously. Even horse #######'s owner doesn't seem to take her 2,000,000 pointed horse seriously, if one glances at the description of the horse: "and his foals are born with two schlongs." Liquid PoiZon 7188870, with 1,000,000 points, possibly one of the first of these scripted horses is rather a laughing stock among many breeders. Many have his lines but no one takes them seriously, and anyone who payed the outrageous stud fee may be liberally ridiculed.

Where is Horseland staff in all this? In the past, they have always been quick to pounce on anyone suspected of selling Horseland products or services for real money, or of scripting or cheating (this writer has, on at least one occasion, been wrongfully banned, with no evidence, for supposedly scripting [i add that she was entirely innocent]) - not to mention completely changing the training format each time someone came up with a new cheating method. One would think that it would be a matter of checking a few records (not to mention common sense) to confirm that, indeed, these horses did NOT gain their points legally.

"I'm sure that Horseland knows about it, the moderators have sent them proof that these horses are scripted and that Crabcakes is charging real money to train them," says a Horseland moderator.

Indeed, Horseland has been contacted many times by various players regarding this problem and nothing has been done. Most players who contacted Horseland were lucky to get a response that even partly pertained to the problem - and even then, the responses were vague and utterly unhelpful.

"Horseland knows about it, it should be an easy problem to fix, so the only reason that they wouldn't do anything about it is if someone from Horseland staff was involved in the cheating," said another moderator.

And when this writer thinks on it, it becomes increasingly clear that this is what is happening. Horseland likes money - at $30 a pop for an account upgrade, not to mention the countless advertising banners all over the game, it is plain to see that Horseland is thoroughly taking advantage of the situation. Not that there is anything innately wrong with that - such a big site is expensive and time consuming to run. But collecting real money to train scripted horses, from immoral players? That's not okay.

Having a 500,000 pointed 4 year old horse may seem like it would bring prestige to its owner, but alas, not so. It is simply too easy to spot the scripted horses, and too easy to see them as nothing more than jokes, worth less than a horse with 90 percent fewer points. As for their owners, they too are jokes; low-grade players so incapable of building their own, solid lines, that they must spend real money to get someone else to script train for them. Congratulations, you're competing with the actual script trainer for Horseland's "most pathetic player" player award.

I have added a number of screen shorts, some of which with commentary, that will further demonstrate how widespread and horribly obvious this whole sham is.

Icarus' stupid trick
Mach II, owned by a crabcakes "twin"
Liquid PoiZon, one of the first scripted horses
One of Simplistic's, formerly owned by crabcakes
Another Simplistic / crabcakes
The great, pathetic crabcakes herself.

The whole list of scripted horses*

*I must, again, appoligize if any true, legitimate horses were targetted... but, as I said, until anyone can be ruled out, take your beef up with Crabcakes. She is the one whose scripting and cheating is devaluating your hard work.

I encourage any and all interested in this matter to place a link to this webpage, http://www.geocities.com/horselandcorruption/ on your Horseland page:

<a href=http://www.geocities.com/horselandiscorrupted/ target="_blank"><img src=http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h163/horselandcorruption/hlc.png border=0></a>

I would be more than pleased to append any and all comments that you may wish to make public. Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].

- written by A Dedicated Player.

Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

* MAY 15TH UPDATE Yeees I have read http://www.geocities.com/lovethgir/HLidiocy.htm. I thank you all for letting know, and again, I am thrilled to see that my article is causing such an uproar, keep up the good work! I won't really respond, point by point to that article. I encourage you all to read it for yourselves. You'll see how many of my points weren't disproven, and how it did not even begin to address many of the issues that completely disprove the notion that crabcakes is actually a legit player. I'm not blaming the author of that article for writing it, because as I've found out through feedback from writing my article, many people just don't know about crabcakes and don't want to believe that their horse or their horse's sire is scripted, or that they paid 500mill+ to breed to a scripted horse. Who can blame them? I'd be happy to be ignorant and think that there were all these great horses to breed to. But anyway, permit me to ask this simple question: who has more reason to write their respective article? Myself, a player who has been around since 1999 and has trained several million pointers - and a couple 300-500kers since the advent of the health bar - a player who is only dedicated to purity and quality on HL. Or someone who doesn't want their lines devalued by having the fact that they are SCRIPTED broadcasted? The point is, it would be impossible for all these horses to be trained this high. Some are legit, yes, of course, but many are not. It would be impossible to train over 2million points onto several horses on an account and have less than 1million player points on that account. It's unlikely that someone would surruptitiously change the previous owner if they thought that the previous owner was a legit trainer. Etc etc. So, I encourage you read both articles, and make up your own mind (or not). I know what is the truth. I have provided you with proof - some hard proof, other circumstancial, logical proof. There is more proof that I cannot share with you, and more yet that many of you would not understand, as it takes a fairly indepth understanding of programming, and HL's database construction to understand. Thank you all for reading, thank you all who wrote to me in support and thank you all who spread the word of my article, whether your attempt was to insult or promote. * MAY 7TH UPDATE I am very happy to announce that HL has blocked the original address http://www.geocities.com/horselandcorruption. That's great, it means that HL has seen the article and is offended by / afraid of it. So I have moved it to a new address: http://www.geocities.com/horselandiscorrupted * MAY 1ST UPDATE I am very pleased about all the feedback I have been getting. I have gotten a lot of positive e-mails but a few negative ones also. Because this article has generated so much interest, I have decided to remove some of the specific horse accusations out of respect for the fact that some may be legitimate. I will, however, add that many of the horses I am removing spent time with crabcakes where they gained 200,000+ points. I would be willing to suggest that, although these horses were scripted by crabcakes, it is entirely possible that the actual horse owners were unaware. Lastly, I will state that there is not a doubt that crabcakes is scripting. We have proof. Please note that I still have all the screenshots. If you are personally interested in investigating this matter, feel free to e-mail me for them - but know that there is no cold hard proof that these horses were scripted - other than the fact that crabcakes put 200,000 points on them. CORRUPTION IN HORSELAND? The inscreasingly widespread "phenomena" of scripted horses, and Horseland staff's total lack of response is leading some to suspect that Horseland's staff may be responsible.
For those of you still blissfully unaware of scripted horses, let me elaborate. At the very beginning of this year, 2006, amazingly highpointed horses started popping up. Normally, players gain points for their horses by entering them in shows; a dedicated trainer can gain 10-15,000 points per week. Wealthier, more ambitious players can purchase training tickets, each at a cost of about $1,000,000 and each worth 50 horse points. And so, no one can blame us for not immediately noticing the utter impossibility of a 500,000 pointed 5 year old horse. But eventually, we did realize that these horses were not "legit." "I myself tried to buy all the training tickets I could in one day, as an experiment, at any price. Even being generous, I only got like 30,000 points. These horses are completely impossible. And, on top of that, no one ever sees their owners advertising," says one player. And so, armed with the knowledge that not only was it unlikely, it was completely impossible for these horses to exist with that many points, we reached the inevitable conclusion that they are cheated, scripted horses. It didn't help that all these horses were coming from the same, ambiguously longterm player with a ludicrous name, Crabcakes, #1209, and that no one could really vouch for this player as being legitimate. The whole thing came to an abrupt and insulting crux when certain players did a little digging, to discover that Crabcakes was training horses for other players, for real money. I am sad to report that some players actually purchased script training.	No one is convinced that horse 7626241 really gained 500,000 points in his 4 short weeks of life through training and tickets alone. Or that 7424261 really gained 1,200,000 points by the tender age of 13. The Quarter Horse secter of Horseland is literally being destroyed by the flood of scripted horses. Everyone knows that these horses are scripted from the first moment they see them - and it's hard to take these horses seriously. Even horse #######'s owner doesn't seem to take her 2,000,000 pointed horse seriously, if one glances at the description of the horse: "and his foals are born with two schlongs." Liquid PoiZon 7188870, with 1,000,000 points, possibly one of the first of these scripted horses is rather a laughing stock among many breeders. Many have his lines but no one takes them seriously, and anyone who payed the outrageous stud fee may be liberally ridiculed. Where is Horseland staff in all this? In the past, they have always been quick to pounce on anyone suspected of selling Horseland products or services for real money, or of scripting or cheating (this writer has, on at least one occasion, been wrongfully banned, with no evidence, for supposedly scripting [i add that she was entirely innocent]) - not to mention completely changing the training format each time someone came up with a new cheating method. One would think that it would be a matter of checking a few records (not to mention common sense) to confirm that, indeed, these horses did NOT gain their points legally. "I'm sure that Horseland knows about it, the moderators have sent them proof that these horses are scripted and that Crabcakes is charging real money to train them," says a Horseland moderator.	Indeed, Horseland has been contacted many times by various players regarding this problem and nothing has been done. Most players who contacted Horseland were lucky to get a response that even partly pertained to the problem - and even then, the responses were vague and utterly unhelpful. "Horseland knows about it, it should be an easy problem to fix, so the only reason that they wouldn't do anything about it is if someone from Horseland staff was involved in the cheating," said another moderator. And when this writer thinks on it, it becomes increasingly clear that this is what is happening. Horseland likes money - at $30 a pop for an account upgrade, not to mention the countless advertising banners all over the game, it is plain to see that Horseland is thoroughly taking advantage of the situation. Not that there is anything innately wrong with that - such a big site is expensive and time consuming to run. But collecting real money to train scripted horses, from immoral players? That's not okay. Having a 500,000 pointed 4 year old horse may seem like it would bring prestige to its owner, but alas, not so. It is simply too easy to spot the scripted horses, and too easy to see them as nothing more than jokes, worth less than a horse with 90 percent fewer points. As for their owners, they too are jokes; low-grade players so incapable of building their own, solid lines, that they must spend real money to get someone else to script train for them. Congratulations, you're competing with the actual script trainer for Horseland's "most pathetic player" player award.