[LintMan]

lol - pre-pubescent? I'm probably close to twice your age. You make an issue of maturity, but you're the only one flinging insults around.

Let me add a few things to Puke's fine response...

If I wanted to "cheat", I'd turn on the cheat codes.

Things that take advantage of flaws in the games' design and regularly brought up and discussed on this board. Many of them might be considered abusive, but it is valuable discussion, since it brings awareness (and possibly leads to improvements in the game).
Why is awareness of these things good? Because what seems like a horrible exploit to you might seem like a reasonable feature to someone else. (Calm) discussion and awareness allow players to decide on what the accetable behavior/tactics are in their games together.

I also want to point out that Joda's trick is hardly a game breaker. As you yourself point out in your Posts, the reasearch and material costs of ring/sphere worlds makes them completely prohibitive in a close game. Joda's trick speeds up the construction process, but makes the already ungodly expensive proceess ****EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE****. That'll certainly be a critical edge to help you win games. NOT.

Lastly, in your original flame post, you never once mentioned WHY you were flaming Joda - just that his post was worthless and he was an idiot. I don't play multiplayer SEIV an never will - your cheating issue never occured to me. If you had remained calm and just stated why you felt as you did, I wouldn't have jumped in and maybe might have sympathized a bit.