Hoo-ah! Called a cheater for the first time!

[SlowwHand]

No joke.
This piece of crap connection of my brother's goes cuts out every hour and a half, regular as clockwork.
If I pay attention to the time, I quit and rejoin because if I lose connection, I "ghost" in the game and can't rejoin.

[rah]

At least my brother has a good connection.

[Ming]

Originally posted by rah
At least my brother has a good connection.

That's right

I'm not a big fan when people drop out "early" and then come back in. Granted, I trust the people we play with all the time... but that "thought" always crosses your mind

[SlowwHand]

Needn't pertain to me in any way. I'm in such a lather to get back in, I don't even look at all's city/unit status.
The game needn't wait on me or anything. If I'm making a planned drop and return, I make sure it's as soon as my turn has ended.

Craig pays a whopping 10 dollars a year, but to a Civer that's still a ripoff.

[Ming]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Needn't pertain to me in any way.

I wasn't implying anything about "you" at all... Your record speaks for itself... (because if you cheat, you really suck at it )

But again, whenever somebody drops REALLY early in the game, and then takes their jolly time getting back into the game, it does make me wonder

[SlowwHand]

Makes me wonder too.
I guess being "labeled" has me on the defensive.

[Hydey]

You would think these people would have the brains to have a second computer handy and just save the game and load it up on the second one to get secret advice .

That way they do not hold up honest players games.

[SlowwHand]

I always wondered what your method was, Hydey.

[Ming]

Yeah... when MWHC first discovered that trick, I was his partner in a MP game against Rah and Xin Yu... He loaded the game onto his lap top while playing the game on his desktop machine, and was giving me info on incoming attacks After that game, he posted the new cheat in a thread (and he was the first one that had ever posted about it)

[DrSpike]

Hehe nostalgia for the days when the competition was to see who could cheat the best?

[rah]

It was indeed a contest to see who could discover the most new cheats. Xin Yu usually won.

[DrSpike]

Can't say I'm surprised.

Mostly I guess it's trial and error, and Xin is very methodical and determined.

[Ming]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Hehe nostalgia for the days when the competition was to see who could cheat the best?

While that might have been the case, it wasn't our intent. MP had just come out, and we were all trying to figure out what the flaws were in the game. It was really funny... all of a sudden you would get a king chat... "You aren't go to believe this... TRY THIS..." Xin Yu was just picking the game apart and finding all kind of "flaws". We would then all try them and confirm that it was something anybody could duplicate, and then start a thread on the subject. As time progressed, we stopped finding as many, and Rah rules started to take shape to deal with all the flaws we had found.

[SlowwHand]

Yepper, my suspicions were confirmed.

It was indeed, Sean/Eyes/Happyass/Nutless.
What a total surprise.

He of the mental and emotional defeciency.

[rah]

Gee, he used Flashiestnuts.

He must be running out of names.

Originally posted by DrSpike
Can't say I'm surprised.

Mostly I guess it's trial and error, and Xin is very methodical and determined.

The ones that impressed me the most were.

1. Figuring out how to convert terrain in one turn using 8 engineers. That one is confusing even while looking at the instructions.

2. The "none" unit reassigning trick timed perfectly between turns.

Talk about obscure.

RAH