PBW ethics, opinions please.

Wardad · #1 January 10th, 2003, 11:19 PM

Banning tech trades and population trades is not as easy as it sounds. The menu check box "No Tech Trades" does not prevent trading ships or planets. There should also be a N0 TRADES box.

Having weaker neighbors to early on (capturing pop and colonizers) can unbalance the game.

Limited warfare can be used to capture population and ships. But.. If there is little risk due to prior agreements, then it is wrong for a no (tech) trade game.

[ January 10, 2003, 21:27: Message edited by: Wardad ]

Ed Kolis · #2 January 10th, 2003, 11:32 PM

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Yeah, well, MM made it so you can't do it anymore, so I guess it is an exploit, innit?

Really? How would they do that?

gravey101 · #3 January 10th, 2003, 11:37 PM

>So Gravey, if you think it is ok to use an >exploit when no one else knows about it, then >yes that is cheating.

I have heard this argument time and time again. Who are you to decree what is an exploit and what isn't? The only person who can decide is the game host for the game your are playing. He decides the rules of the game, including whether any of the currently known bugs are ok or not. If you break those rules it is cheating. If you dont then it isn't. Simple as that. If you dont like his decision as to what is ok and what isn't you play something else or start your own game or whatever. What you don't do is lable evryone else who doesn't conform to your view as a cheater.

gravey101 · #4 January 10th, 2003, 11:38 PM

and please dont bother with the mythical exploit that only 1 person knows about. The bugs in SEIV very quickly become public knowledge.

Fyron · #5 January 10th, 2003, 11:40 PM

Ok guys... that game is over. There is no need to continue arguing about it here on Shrapnel.

gravey101 · #6 January 10th, 2003, 11:42 PM

But but but... he started it.

In any case. WE're not aguing about _that_ game at least to my knowledge. I'm just arguing about something I feel strongly about.

[ January 10, 2003, 21:45: Message edited by: gravey101 ]

Phoenix-D · #7 January 10th, 2003, 11:45 PM

"Yeah, well, MM made it so you can't do it anymore, so I guess it is an exploit, innit?"

You can still open warp points to adjactant systems, and it's still quite possible to build a more efficent warp network..so no.

Phoenix-D