Re: Is password guessing cheating?
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Originally posted by CW:
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Originally posted by Slaughtermeyer:
Historically I can think of at least one instance where one side did the equivalent of guessing the other side's password: the use of ULTRA and MAGIC by the Allies in World War II to break the enemy codes.
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That was war, not game. Besides, they didn't use any "god mode" that was not part of THIS world and they certainly couldn't try giving orders to the 21st Panzers, "run the turn" in their command post and get people killed, reload their "save game" and try again.
Any attempt by a password guesser to give orders and run another race's turn would instantly give him away and I would doubt that you'd ever see anything like that on PBW. The Allies were very cautious in their use of information gained through codebreaking so that the other side would not suspect that their code was broken, a good example was taking no special measures when it became known that Coventry would be bombed.
[ June 29, 2002, 17:45: Message edited by: Slaughtermeyer ]
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