[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
1) You were in a game with Stormbinder in which you used some name "A"
2) You conversed about that game with Stormbinder using a different name "B"
3) Stormbinder had no way of knowing A=B and you would have been aware of that, and could easily have rectified it ("I'm Norfleet, BTW")

I could have. But it would have defeated the point of the exercise. I planned to save that for later.

The claim that you would have helped him if he'd said anything substantive is irrelevant, because:

1) It is only your judgement at this point that nothing substantive was in fact said.
2) Even if you had offered help which may or may not have helped him, you would still have had knowledge which you could not avoid (even if subconsciously) considering in your game plans.

Perhaps, except that I only asked him questions I already knew the answers to anyway.

All of this could simply have been avoided by a declaration of your identity.
Again, my apologies if I've misunderstood the scenario.

You have somewhat misunderstood the scenario: Namely, that the entire point of the exercise was to observe how they reacted to an alleged third party employing my strategy, and how quickly recognized it would be.

Many people regard this kind of behaviour as dishonest, at the very least.

I am not the only person to have entered games under an anonymous alias. I do not see anything unusual about this.

It is also irrelevant to the matter at hand, namely, the accusations that I have somehow modified the map to my advantage: Why would I bother doing that, then make any mention that the capability for even doing such a thing exists?

More importantly, Graeme wrote a post which immediately followed this declaration, which strongly suggests he was aware of this from the start: He joined anyway, and now suddenly, at the Last minute, he's decided to complain about it. If I didn't know him better, I'd say he was deliberately trying to trash the start of the game. But surely that isn't the case, and this is simply a misunderstanding that will be cleared up shortly and we can get the game rolling.

Otherwise, we may have to restart the game sign-up to drop him, rather than having a run-away AI.