Originally
posted by
h2orich:
time to cheat while nobody is moderating.
Unfortunately this is true. Worse, there are fundamental holes in the game security that allow people to collaborate and cheat on the solo servers by transferring wealth from one country to another via the market and there are no moderator tools to check it.
But the best moderators are the players themselves. When we see blatant cheating going on we don't need necessarily need a moderator to tell us. We haven't got that many players. We know who has a reputation for fair play and who doesn't.
Its good in a way that people are able to cheat. This gives them enough rope to hang themselves. The game would be less interesting if everything was so simple and regimented that there were no grey areas in the rules and in the game mechanics.
I find that one of the interesting aspects of the game is the way your actions in the game reflect on your character. You may "win", or "lose" in wars, or in NW, but what do your actions say about who you are? Are you a person of honour, or a scumbag. Are you willing to work to learn the game, or are you prepared to use the easy way to beat everyone and cheat.
You may win a few sets by cheating but your reputation will be permanently blackened.
If your self esteem is so low that you don't care, its pretty sad. You will be discovered and the community of players will heap their scorn on you and you will probably quit. Cheaters are generally cowards and when you attack them they wimper and whine and call you a bully, but before long they go away. Or you may find their hot buttons and goad them into doing something outrageous like death threats. Thats what I did to JJ23. I didn't have to be a moderator to destroy him on the Boards.
Now I don't want to sound like a one man super hero. In the case of JJ23 Warster was also closely involved in JJ's destruction. And with CX, I helped goad him into his cowardly self deletion in the Primary set after his disgraceful cheating with the market a year or so ago, but blid and iZarcon did a good job of sticking a few pins in him too.