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Many of you will have seen smacksims thread, or HongHu's, or the Allegation thread, or one in your private forums, and will know the issue. Enigma has been cheating in PBEMs. He has expressed, on occasions, that he will not, and indeed cannot stop cheating. He can play multiple turns without reloading and has taken advantage of bugs. I am also at least 99% sure that he cheated, by reloading, in the first Angel turn, before we restarted. He has shown a willingness to cheat, a capacity to cheat, and has cheated in this DG. He also shows few signs of stopping, and has at times said he cannot, at the moment. Therefore, it is with a heavy heart, that I have realised that his continuing participation in this DG is untenable. A DG cannot exist where members are known to cheat in it, and remain part of it. It removes trust, it makes people paranoid, and it removes much of the fun of it.
Having said that, I have looked at the saves, and I am quite sure that there has been no cheating since the restart. It has only been 3 turns, and there has been some evidence that he has played that turn, before giving advice to the turnplayer. However, whether he did or not, the effect was non-existant, as the turnplayer did not do what he said, and played exactly as they would have done otherwise. I am completely satisfied, therefore, that this game we are playing is not at all corrupted, and so a restart is not necessary.
I can assure each and every team that, because of Enigma's actions or otherwise, currently no team has an unfair advantage, and no team has been cheating on their save.
I have explained this in full to Enigma, and if people wish to read about the other PBEMs, please look in the multiplayer forums. This is the only decision left, given events, and the fact that even I, someone who is usually trusting to a fault, have lost faith that Enigma will not cheat.
Having said that, I would like to say that I am happy to play PBEMs with him, and I believe if he proves himself to be a fair player, we should let him back into the DG. However that will be when the community feels they can trust him. As such, I have PMed rah (an admin who is online currently) and asked him to remove Enigma from the Data Angels list of players.
If you wish to comment, feel free to post or PM me.
- Drogue
Having said that, I have looked at the saves, and I am quite sure that there has been no cheating since the restart. It has only been 3 turns, and there has been some evidence that he has played that turn, before giving advice to the turnplayer. However, whether he did or not, the effect was non-existant, as the turnplayer did not do what he said, and played exactly as they would have done otherwise. I am completely satisfied, therefore, that this game we are playing is not at all corrupted, and so a restart is not necessary.
I can assure each and every team that, because of Enigma's actions or otherwise, currently no team has an unfair advantage, and no team has been cheating on their save.
I have explained this in full to Enigma, and if people wish to read about the other PBEMs, please look in the multiplayer forums. This is the only decision left, given events, and the fact that even I, someone who is usually trusting to a fault, have lost faith that Enigma will not cheat.
Having said that, I would like to say that I am happy to play PBEMs with him, and I believe if he proves himself to be a fair player, we should let him back into the DG. However that will be when the community feels they can trust him. As such, I have PMed rah (an admin who is online currently) and asked him to remove Enigma from the Data Angels list of players.
If you wish to comment, feel free to post or PM me.
- Drogue
to having this resolved and continuing the game.
Thanks for the comments 
I'm just glad people seem to agree with the decision, and I'm looking forward to learning some interesting ways to play 
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