How do we enforce not playing ahead?

[DAVOUT]

The crime is not committed on the site, so MarkG should decline (out of juridiction).

[mrmitchell]

We have to trust people. It's like playing that trust game where you fall back and they catch you, but when you turn around and look at them you only see their username, flag, um...pic ( :| )?, location.

When I make mistakes no matter how minor (oops, worker's off route) to how major (oops, I just nuked my capital!) I never reload a previous game. Like once the Romans demanded some piddly amount of less than 20 gold and a very obselete tech and I refused, they declared war, they pounded me right into the ground very quickly. Lesson: Check to see if it's worth a war where a can of whoop is opened on you before you kindly decline the demand. But the relevant lesson is, I didn't reload, I learned my lesson and tried to see if I could hang on. If you make a mistake deal with it, don't cheat. RL rulers make RL mistakes all the **** time, and they can't just reload a save of the world yesterday...