How I beat Diety

[anachronismus]

I think your opinion on "learning experiences" needs to be rigorized a bit before I accept the standard you're prescribing. In my view, reloading is either cheating or its not; any middle ground must be justified, and I don't see a good way of doing that.

If reloading is cheating, then I've never beaten Civ IV legitimately, as I must have reloaded at some point in all the games I played, if only once or twice.

By the way, I wholeheartedly agree that resetting the seed is cheating, and for the record I've never done this. I wasn't aware that it was possible.

[rah]

There are only two ways i think reloading isn't cheating.

1. When I'm just screwing around looking at things. But I'll never claim it was a legitimate game.

2. A finger slip that's really bad. If it's a minor one and it just costs me a unit, i'll live with it. But if something that really costly, like mismoving an early settler next to a known barb instead of away from it by accident, I don't consider that cheating. BUT it's very rare.

Like in Civ II when you held the move key a bit too long when moving a ship and it destroys itself against someones city or leaves the coast and sinks.

For those that find it hard to break the habit. MP will do it quite quickly.