[Slynky]

Fyron said:

"I haven't come across very many players of SE4 that would blatantly violate house rules like that..."

Possibly true (and I tend to agree) but if you ran across an empire that had 3 different pop types (counting his own), would you automatically assume he didn't violate the pop-trading rule or wonder if he had made a trade with somone else?

Sometimes, not coming across many players who violate "house rules" means you just didn't catch them (or were too niave to suspect it).

I tend to play around a pretty close circle of players. I'd say around 20-25 different players. Do I trust them? Yep, pretty much. They are active in the forum and I get a feel for how they play by comparing them to their comments. But what about that stray player that joins a game that you know nothing about? And ruins the game by breaking "house-rules"?

Most recently, BTW, Geo and I played a game and I let him generate the map and set up the game. He's one of the players I trust implicitly. Lost that game, BTW. Never thought for a moment he used the master password to inspect things.

And a lot of other players fall into that Category of trust.

Reagan kind of said it best..."Trust but verify!". Not that I like quoting Reagan but I just prefer a better set of rules so there is no question about what a player did...just for that unknown player that may have joined a game I'm in.