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They need this and it drives them so that they simply can't enjoy the experience. They can't accept losing because it really makes them feel insecure.

You hit the nail on the head here.

My best friend won't play Tribes 2 because he falls into this catagory. He loves winning so much that he can't handle the taste of defeat. He is not a cheater, just someone who likes to win, and won't play a game unless he can win.

I talked him into playing a hot seat game of SEIV not too long ago. He talked the talk, but when it came right down to it, he did not know enough about the game to offer much of a challenge. (Sorry Aaron, I could not talk him into buying the game.)

A few days ago something odd occured. At first the other player and I suspected it to be unusual, and reported it to PBW Admins. It turned out to be an Intel attack that neither of us had ever seen before. A very effective intel attack I might add. We did not believe it was cheating, but we were concerned that something had happened. In the end, as reported, most concerns turn out to be ok.

In games like Diablo, the spells that sent you right to hell were -um- funny at first, but quickly lost their appeal after about the 300 millionith time. BattleNet suffored horribly because of that.

I guess one of the ways to catch a person who is exploiting the option of cheating is to know how they do it.

In Tribes it was scripts. You could write a script that said, "Give Unlimited Energy" and it would work. Of course once you survivied a direct NUKE hit, and walked away from it without so much as a scratch, you were booted and Banned from the server. That was quickly overcome by logging off, and logging back on with a new user name. Finally they went after IP's. That was very very effective. But IP change.

I could not imagine any one being so desprate as to need to cheat in SEIV. Hell if they want to win, just play the AI. You can cheat like a SOB against it without ever having to "mod" the game.