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Skirmisher said:
No, I never did that. But at least one of my opponents was doing that.
Bottom line for me,it's been years since I played a full security game that didn't get messsed up. So I just go with basic now. Far less headaches.
Nothing's worse then playing a really fun PBEM,then having it get corrupt.
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A full security PBEM game IS possible as long as both sides follow the rules exactly. As soon as either player deviates from the procedure the game ends because high security was set up with the idea that there are players who will do anything to win a PBEM and when we set it up we had try to find a way to cover every way a player might try to cheat and unfortunately what may be, for most players, a simple mistake could in fact be an attempt by a player to cheat ( and, of course both sides will protest that there is NO WAY they would try to do that ....). but there is no way to set up full security to know that the "mistake" wasn't an attempt to cheat. As you noted at least one of your opponents was trying to play two PBEM from the same slot and that will trip full security every time.
Full security DOES work. The "problem" is for many players it works too well which is the entire reason we added basic security It's more forgiving but isn't as secure but for most players this is all they need. This is why the PBEM campaign was set up as basic only. We knew when we did it someone would complain about the lact of full security but the simple fact is we know that no matter what we do to the game someone will think it should be done differently.
Don