Founded as a Fellowship of Gamers Dedicated to Fair Play

The Legitimate Players League (LPL) is a multigame community, which seeks to provide cheat free games for its members and keep members in touch over a wide range of games. We call ourselves a league rather than a guild or a clan, since we have widely varying views on how to play any given game, but we all can agree on one thing- cheating ruins any game. The LPL recognizes that in any game where data is stored client side, eventually there will be hacks and cheats, which ultimately destroys legitimate trade, lessens the status of high character levels, creates a generation of cheat dependent unskilled players, and ruins PvP. In such a climate, legitimate players are driven into password protected games and their community shrinks diminishing their gaming experience. Our aim in the LPL is to reclaim this lost legitimate online community. We now number 196 members and are both formally active and informally involved in various games as indicated below and on the navigation menu to the left.

We have a mentor/apprentice screening process for new members. The point behind the screening process is to keep cheaters out of the league. Basically a member takes you on as his/her apprentice and plays with you until he/she feels confident he/she can support you for membership. Sponsoring is not done lightly, since if those you sponsored cheat in the future, you are removed from the league for a time ranging from 3 weeks to forever depending upon whether or not you knew the player you sponsored was a cheater. Adding consequences to sponsorship has resulted in a rigorous screening process which has insured a high quality membership. We have yet to have a cheating incident in the league.

Within one week of being sponsored, all members are asked to present cheating evidence against you if they have it. Unless cheating evidence is presented against you, you are in. Cheating is a banning offense and what is cheating is determined by 2/3 majority vote of voting members active in that game. We settled on the supermajority vote approach to cheating, since there always will be differences of opinion over what exactly is cheating, and this guarantees that banning will occur only for those things which most of us clearly view as cheating. As a member you have a say in what is cheating, and you remain a member unless others can objectively prove you cheat.

We have formal and informal involvement in games. Formal games have official Points of Contact (PoC's) who publish a weekly update on that game, which contains everything from the latest cheating votes to lists of active members in that game and the server/game name details for playing in LPL games. Informal involvement in a game means we have no such PoC, and cheating is not defined, and there are no updates. Our current PoC's for formally involved games and sources of information for our informally involved games are as follows:

Formally Involved Games for  the LPL

Asheron's Call - PoC - Dot Com
Dark Age of Camelot - PoC - Clu
Demise - PoC - Sortiri
Diablo II - PoC - Lasher
 

Informally Involved Games for  the LPL

Dungeon Siege
Everquest
Morrowind
Never Winter Nights
Warriors 2
Well of Souls

See the member list for email addresses and ICQ numbers of points of contact.

Our League began in Infinite Worlds (later to be renamed Demise) in the winter of 1998 when it became apparent there was a need for clean servers and a cheat free environment. When Demise came along there was encryption written into the game code that made the need for an organization like the LPL non-existent ... so we thought! Soon the encryption was broken, a trainer written, and cheating characters with unlimited stats, gold and experience were popping up in games. So once again LPL resurfaced. We have been growing in number since January of 1999. With mixed interest in Demise and Diablo II the decision was made to expand the LPL to multiple games. The mission of LPL remains the same for our formal involvement in Diablo II and Demise that being to provide cheat free games to members. We also strive to provide those services helpful in keeping players together over a wide variety of games.

We see our role in Diablo2 as establishing a group of password protected cheats free open games for the membership. Open games offer greater flexibility for our members, and also permit you to bring single player characters online. If you want to play your open character in a cheat free game, maybe LPL is the place for you.

As we grow hopes are that we can become formally involved in other games. As an LPL member you will not only be assured a cheat free environment but an association with a community of serious gamers, and you will know where to go when you want to find a clean game in a new release. It's this great sense of community that is the glue that binds our membership so closely together. As games come and go, the need for LPL continues.