Thank you Kierky for your concern for players that do not wish to, or are not technically competent to load plugins.

CD has pointed out that CD does not program. However, CD rocks in combat. Trust me. CD did not say that CD does, or does not use plugins. So CD's points fall short of complete relevance.

I do not use plugins in combat. I have loaded cargofind or whatever for non combat utility.

I have heard in public chat some noob complain that the game is only for "script master" and programmers, and in response, I have heard vets use me as an example of how successful a player can be with no plugins.

Sometimes the client can use or even needs some specific feature. But unless it is really needed, or has limited side effect, a clean streamlined client is better. Features that add lag, clutter the interface, or complicate noob learning curve should be avoided.

If you think something is important enough to be added to the standard client, then prove it with a plugin first, and then gain support for the devs to make it standard. perhaps a day late and a dollar short, but much thanks to blacknet for the pvp kills screen. i got so tired of my kills scrolling off the end of the screen.

Please keep the client clean and simple, by default.

CD has pointed out that CD does not program. However, CD rocks in combat. Trust me. CD did not say that CD does, or does not use plugins. So CD's points fall short of complete relevance.

Who cares about relevance? Getting mentioned 6 times in 2 lines is better than relevance :)
(CD's Theory of Relativity)

I avoided assigning a gender specific pronoun. I am not sure what pronoun to use when referring to a transgendered person. The two preceding statements are true, even if completely unrelated, irrelevant, and if taken together, potentially misleading. And CD still avoided stating if CD uses plugins in combat. Could CD be hiding anything? +3 mentions for CD (doh +4).

Some of them can actually hinder your ability in combat. MAID for example has (had? I no longer use it.) a rather bad bug in one of the event handlers that would spam the crap out of your HUD when someone shoots you.

I use a few plugins. Nothing too extreme: Targetless, TCS, SoundAlert Suite, Honk, Autojett, Quickhail, Trade Assistant. That's about it. I keep a clean install handy to remember how a brand new player sees it, and to remove all possibility of plug-in lag or interactions. Targetless is the one thing I just can't live without for long.

I have all of these installed, though I don't necessarily use all of them frequently:

AnalogToDigital
AutoAcceptEULA
AutoJett
AutoRR
BattleCruiser
BountyHUD
calc
cargolist
catalog
ChanColors
cryp
!devkit
displayshippos
FactionColor
FlamboyanceHUD
gfx
GuildInfo
guildnotify
honk
httplib
HUD_messages
HUM
jettall
JumpPointDistance
kombattunes
kos
legionhail
lsd
nationwar
Newton
next
paid
percentleft
percuprof
PerspectiveWormhole
plod
proxyhack
reload
ShipLoadoutsManager
snd
speedwarp
TapLockTurbo
targetbutton
targetless
tcs-plugins
tele
TTS
turrethop
TurretViewer
wg
wishbone
wtfbbq

If plugins = easy victories, I want a refund, because I haven't seen it :)

Youre missing scatterfire, GG

Rin you just don't have the right plugin.

Pizzasgood, /msg me in-game for a link to WinButton 2.0

#winning