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Originally posted by PvK:
Well couslee dispelled the cheat-on-speed idea.

Why would you say it cheats to know what you've researched?

MEE doesn't take all that into account - it only uses the total score, which may be based on those things, but it has such an invalid formula that I don't think it could be considered cheating.

PvK

One of the threads discussed how the AI was able to adjust by reasearching and then modifying its ships to attack human empires without first observing the changes in the human ships first.

And yes, it is probably the total score. But that is still a cheat in games where we humans cannot see the others score.