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I just came in because there were claims that access to the game might have been hacked and I glanced over the posts to look about this.

Two things: First, hacks on Dom3 game servers are not really feasible through dictionary or brute force attacks. That doesn't mean that it's impossible, just that I can't imagine one would bother with this. So if you have picked a password, and a good one, your own password should be pretty secure. Problems arise if the game is using a master password, and therefore I have always advised to not use master passwords in networked games. It is possible to gain access to the master password by every player in the game. I assume that Gandalf is using a master password here.

Second, if somebody inspects your turns through your password or through the master password, then there will be no complications if he does this before you hand in your turn orders. If he inspects the turn after you have uploaded your turn order, without you logging in again afterwards, then the turn orders that you gave could get overwritten with a blank. What is being downloaded from the network server are always only the reports from last turn and never your orders for the current turn. So the case that somebody mostly gave the same orders like you do with some bogus changed ones is very unlikely, unless that person had access to the files with your turn orders, too, and this is something that only the server administrator would have. It might be that somebody has been spying on you, but not that he only made small changes.

There can be very strange effects like this when turn files and turn orders don't really match well together, like it would be the case with a rehost of a previous turn, of course.