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It's come to my attention that Kuja has started playing with several Apolyton players. Since many of you probably won't know of Kuja's long history on GameLeague and Civfanatics Ladder, and since he is claiming friendship with you, I think it would be best for me to enlighten you on the unethical behavior of Kuja, past and present. You should know what 'friendship' with Kuja really means.
A long while ago, Kuja was known as VeijoVerde and AilingLeech. With both of these names he was removed from Gameleague for having multiple accounts, and for reporting wins to them (for an illegal gain in points). This started off Kuja's cheating career, but things went downhill from then on.
After these names were banned from gameleague, Kuja came back under the name HiddenHorror. He achieved some success and fooled many players into thinking he was very skilled. However, it turned out that he had discovered an even more insidious method of cheating, one that was harder to detect if done properly. This method involved the use of cheatomatic to edit the values for gold in game, thus giving him the ability to buy settlers etc. and get a good start every game. If done properly the increases in gold can be made to coincide with hut opening, thus masking the effect. However, he was eventually caught, and again banned from Gameleague. The following is a link to the thread where this all happened. Oedo posted a save on the second page, you can still download it. Kuja was playing as the Romans: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...0&pagenumber=2
Now we move onto the final stage of the Kuja story. He returned to Gameleague under his current name, and quickly rose to the number one spot with very few losses. Gameleague however eventually died, and so you might think things would have stopped right there. And so they did, for awhile at least.
However a few months ago Kuja returned to the zone. I played him many times, always wondering how he got such great starts but never suspecting he cheated. I fortunately kept saves of all these games, as I do when I play anyone who is suspect. However I never really went through them until about a month ago I played Kuja in a quick duel. Things seemed not quite right though, he got a phenominal start, and crushed me very early on. I was interested to see how good his start was, and decided to look through the saves. I was totally shocked by what I saw, the amount of gold he had was incredible for so early in the game, so I sent the saves to Eyes. He pretty much confirmed what I had thought, that Kuja STILL uses cheatomatic to give himself gold. The saves I had weren't the best though, as in many cases it seemed he tried to make the 100 gold bursts coincide with empty huts/huts with tech (at one point he gets poly and 100 gold from the same hut), so I searched through my old saves. In them I found at least 5 suspicious games, and 2 examples of blatant cheating (out of 15 games). I'll post the most obvious one in a zip file below.
Now these saves were posted on civfan as proof of Kuja's cheating. However Kuja wrote a lengthly defence containing multiple inconsistencies, for only the first set of saves, before the thread was deleted. I have spoken to Kuja on the zone several times after, he eventually decided to admit to cheating me (after accusing me of doctoring saves when he couldn't explain some of the saves I posted, look at Robbie's posts on my other thread for an example of someone he has 'influenced'). His excuse for cheating me was feeble to say the least. He claimed 'I only cheated you because I didn't trust you and thought you cheated' (I'll post the chatlog from the zone chat we had today where he admitted it). At least I suppose, this is one step up from his previous excuse 'I did it for you Sean, I did it because I know you like to win' on the thread I posted a link to.
It may also interest you to know that HiddenHorror's identity as Kuja was kept a secret until recently. Some people had suspicions, but others, especially Eyes, went to great lengths to dispel any such rumours, as they believed he had changed. As it turns out, he hadn't. Kuja's cheating is a recurring problem, he has cheated under all his names so far. He comes up with laughable excuses when he is caught, and then leaves and changes his name. Or in this case, he moves onto pastures new, where no one knows of his cheating and no one will question him. I know you Apolyton players value trust and fair play, and I would think twice before attributing these qualities to Kuja. Don't make the same mistakes I and many others made. 'Friendship' with Kuja is nothing but lies and cheating, of which Kuja has a long history. We may only be touching the tip of the iceberg here.
A long while ago, Kuja was known as VeijoVerde and AilingLeech. With both of these names he was removed from Gameleague for having multiple accounts, and for reporting wins to them (for an illegal gain in points). This started off Kuja's cheating career, but things went downhill from then on.
After these names were banned from gameleague, Kuja came back under the name HiddenHorror. He achieved some success and fooled many players into thinking he was very skilled. However, it turned out that he had discovered an even more insidious method of cheating, one that was harder to detect if done properly. This method involved the use of cheatomatic to edit the values for gold in game, thus giving him the ability to buy settlers etc. and get a good start every game. If done properly the increases in gold can be made to coincide with hut opening, thus masking the effect. However, he was eventually caught, and again banned from Gameleague. The following is a link to the thread where this all happened. Oedo posted a save on the second page, you can still download it. Kuja was playing as the Romans: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...0&pagenumber=2
Now we move onto the final stage of the Kuja story. He returned to Gameleague under his current name, and quickly rose to the number one spot with very few losses. Gameleague however eventually died, and so you might think things would have stopped right there. And so they did, for awhile at least.
However a few months ago Kuja returned to the zone. I played him many times, always wondering how he got such great starts but never suspecting he cheated. I fortunately kept saves of all these games, as I do when I play anyone who is suspect. However I never really went through them until about a month ago I played Kuja in a quick duel. Things seemed not quite right though, he got a phenominal start, and crushed me very early on. I was interested to see how good his start was, and decided to look through the saves. I was totally shocked by what I saw, the amount of gold he had was incredible for so early in the game, so I sent the saves to Eyes. He pretty much confirmed what I had thought, that Kuja STILL uses cheatomatic to give himself gold. The saves I had weren't the best though, as in many cases it seemed he tried to make the 100 gold bursts coincide with empty huts/huts with tech (at one point he gets poly and 100 gold from the same hut), so I searched through my old saves. In them I found at least 5 suspicious games, and 2 examples of blatant cheating (out of 15 games). I'll post the most obvious one in a zip file below.
Now these saves were posted on civfan as proof of Kuja's cheating. However Kuja wrote a lengthly defence containing multiple inconsistencies, for only the first set of saves, before the thread was deleted. I have spoken to Kuja on the zone several times after, he eventually decided to admit to cheating me (after accusing me of doctoring saves when he couldn't explain some of the saves I posted, look at Robbie's posts on my other thread for an example of someone he has 'influenced'). His excuse for cheating me was feeble to say the least. He claimed 'I only cheated you because I didn't trust you and thought you cheated' (I'll post the chatlog from the zone chat we had today where he admitted it). At least I suppose, this is one step up from his previous excuse 'I did it for you Sean, I did it because I know you like to win' on the thread I posted a link to.
It may also interest you to know that HiddenHorror's identity as Kuja was kept a secret until recently. Some people had suspicions, but others, especially Eyes, went to great lengths to dispel any such rumours, as they believed he had changed. As it turns out, he hadn't. Kuja's cheating is a recurring problem, he has cheated under all his names so far. He comes up with laughable excuses when he is caught, and then leaves and changes his name. Or in this case, he moves onto pastures new, where no one knows of his cheating and no one will question him. I know you Apolyton players value trust and fair play, and I would think twice before attributing these qualities to Kuja. Don't make the same mistakes I and many others made. 'Friendship' with Kuja is nothing but lies and cheating, of which Kuja has a long history. We may only be touching the tip of the iceberg here.
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