[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Oh, wait, I figured it out. OK:

"Force Host Disabled"

and

"Master Password Disabled"

will allow perfectly cheatproof network play.

Gotcha there: All you have to do: Start a copy of the game: Turn it into a PBEM game as the copy, then force the hosting with the command line or the timer.

The fact of the matter is that you can either get a third party to host for you, and if you're REALLY paranoid, then you have to worry about that third party being in collusion with one or more cheaters, or you can stop playing with shady people.

As a general rule of thumb we use in games that my group plays, including, but not limited to, Dominions II, the person selected to be the host is the player considered to be the best anyway, because if the host gets killed off fast, the quality of your hosting may quickly decline.

The point is that if you're dealing with cheaters, you're just going to have to accept that there's no real solution to this: The harder you make it to cheat, the more lucrative cheating will be.