I prefer not to cheese the encounters because I'm planning to do Hard mode when it comes out. However, when 5 people insist on doing it I don't really have much of a choice, either go along with it or get booted. But honestly 'how can you sleep at night'?? It's a video game, even if I wanted to cheese everything possible it certainly wouldn't affect my being able to sleep. This is exactly why they won't release HM until they've patched all the exploits. I can't wait to see the herd thinned significantly. However, it won't really matter by then because everyone will be 32 and have all the weapons except the primaries. For most people HM is an option, not a requirement, especially since all those primary weapons will be obsolete a couple months after that. Not to mention there isn't a single piece of armor that is a *must* have from HM.