I can't beleive I didn't know....

[War4ever]

Yeah AH you could be right....... but makeo makes a good point too...

all the blowhards have stopped playing

[rah]

I would bet that most of us left don't. But them I'm an optimist.

[War4ever]

i would be disappointed to find out anyone in our group did...i truly would....i have stood up against cheaters for so long now...and to be duped...well that would piss me off

[rah]

Yeah, I would be pissed too. At least if it was one of our core group.

[War4ever]

that is sortof what i mean.... i mean, Ming could very well be going upstairs to load the map on another computer and disguising it as a smoke break... he takes enough of them..... hey, i think i have noticed mings game improve lately.....nah must be coincidnece

j/k Ming..... i know your honorable

[rah]

I just think he learned things from our get together.

[War4ever]

i learned one huge thing about the redheads etc....and i knew the food box one.....not sure what i was thinking when i was there........

and berz leaned some, and if anything , you just saw two other people open their game differently.

[rah]

Yes, seeing how you open, (which is completely different then I do) helps me make more sense of things in our games. You always assume that players of competitive skill level are doing reasonably the same as you are. Boy, was I wrong about that.

[War4ever]

you sound almost smug..... we do open differently.....but it doens't make any one way right, just habitual....

i learned a few things that i should do differntly in some cases....

[rah]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't associate best/right with either style. I was just so much more surprised than anything else. We were so different. But know things make a bit more sense. I now know why they didn't in the past.

[War4ever]

b/c its been years since you have saved every turn with me

[rah]

Yep, I only do that for suspected cheats.

[War4ever]

exactly....i haven't saved and looked at one of your games in aaaaaaages....not since the first year or so

[DrSpike]

Call me anal but I used to look over every player every game...........every 5 turns or so though, not every turn, because the point was not to catch cheats. I always like to see how the game played out from all perspectives.

I would be staggered if any of the established players here turned out to be cheats.

[rah]

When we first started playing, I'd look at others strats, but now we play so many games, that I don't have the time to do the reviews I used too. To do a proper review almost takes as long as playing the darn game. I'd rather be playing.