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Ditto what ming said.
In SP we were all excellent game technicians. We knew how to "bend" the rules. Ming and I were in constant competition to beat each other. Without using cheats you could only accomplish things to a point. Using the cheats would allow our competitions to continue and new goals to be attained. Like max score, only reachable through cheating with food caravans. etc.
When MP came out, the same challanges faced us. Our natural curiosity took over. There was no question that some of the things that we discovered were blatant cheats. Come on, the first time MWHC and I traded units to take advantage of the infinite move cheat, and using diplos in unison to march and army halfway across a continent past defensive positions to take out a city (in the same turn) was such a blatant cheat, it was actually funny. We NEEDED to know those things could be done so we could outlaw them. MP satisfied our need to look for things on a whole new level. (what new cheats were avail now that you had a partner).
The Final product of all that is "RAH" rules. A standard that has enhanced MP by setting general guidelines of just what is or what isn't a cheat.
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In SP we were all excellent game technicians. We knew how to "bend" the rules. Ming and I were in constant competition to beat each other. Without using cheats you could only accomplish things to a point. Using the cheats would allow our competitions to continue and new goals to be attained. Like max score, only reachable through cheating with food caravans. etc.
When MP came out, the same challanges faced us. Our natural curiosity took over. There was no question that some of the things that we discovered were blatant cheats. Come on, the first time MWHC and I traded units to take advantage of the infinite move cheat, and using diplos in unison to march and army halfway across a continent past defensive positions to take out a city (in the same turn) was such a blatant cheat, it was actually funny. We NEEDED to know those things could be done so we could outlaw them. MP satisfied our need to look for things on a whole new level. (what new cheats were avail now that you had a partner).
The Final product of all that is "RAH" rules. A standard that has enhanced MP by setting general guidelines of just what is or what isn't a cheat.
RAH
game of Civ 2. You know, if you all weren't so smart you wouldn't have these problems. If I lived a thousand years I'd have never come up with half this stuff.
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