[Spuzzum]

[quote]Originally posted by geoschmo:

That argument is false Spuzzum. What you are missing is that this isn't just a matter of a game flaw allowing you to do something you aren't supposed to be able to do. The game doesn't say you aren't supposed to be able to do this. You are making an assumption based on incomplete evidence.

The game doesn't necessarily say you can, either. You can simply do it due to an unforeseen circumstance.

Happens to me all the time, since I'm a fledgeling programmer. My players are always finding nifty little tricks that give them an advantage.

You may be capable of assasinating the PM

Premier. Prime Minister's over in Ottawa -- while I do have a bone to pick with him too, he's far better defended, and I don't have the money for a plane ticket. ;-)

but you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's against the laws of Canada and the inalienable laws of mankind.

Just because you say it's wrong to have multiple training faciliites doesn't meean it is wrong. If a future patch were made that made it against the rules, but because of a mistake the fix didn't work and you still could do it, then it would be an exploit and cheating to continue doing it. Until then it is clearly not.

The problem here is not the fact that the game doesn't officially say that it's wrong -- it's the fact that the game definitely makes the implication that there should only ever be one training facility per sector, since the normal circumstance is to have only one planet per sector. I agree that saying something is wrong doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong, but finding a scapegoat doesn't make things right either.

If I arbitrarily say it's unfair to attack an enemy without warning, or without giving them time to prepare defenses, do you have to not do that? Would you be cheating if you did it? Of course not.

Unfair things are not quite the same as unintended things.

The game was designed with diplomacy and backstabbing in mind. It wasn't designed with the intent to allow people to build facilities on multiple planets in the same sector to gain a greater advantage.