What If?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

the turn is processed of the hosts files as far as i know, so it wouldn't do anything.

there are a few possibilities i can think up, but i think it's best i keep them off a publically viewable forum. maybe email those thoughts to malfador.

i cheat sometimes on sp for fun. i'm pretty good at it if i do say so myself, as long as they don't encode or change there variable addresses regularly.

i just cannot understand why some people get mad about sp cheating.

[Atrocities]

I seldom play modified games in SP. I seldom use the cheats if ever but I don't pass judgement on those who do.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

gee, thanks.

[Atrocities]

Hey I thought you could use a ringing endorsment for single player cheating.

Afterall those evil EEE are coming and god only knows that your shipyards are still 30 turns away from producing your first defender class warship.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

only if i'm cheating in that game. if you just go cheating willy-nilly, you'll never stop.

[dogscoff]

For example, a player changes the settings on say DUC I to be as strong as WMG III for one game turn and obliterates a vastely supior fleet.

I don't think this would be possible. If you think about it the plr files only need to contain designs, political Messages and orders. Everything else can be stored and processed on the host.

Therefore, the best you could do with a hacked plr file (I'm guessing) would be to create an impossible design (ie an escort with 12 DUCs & 15 engines) which would be pretty easy for your opponents to spot in-game. Furthermore, there may be checking on the host's side to weed out this kind of irregularity anyway.

Of course I'm probably wrong.

[Atrocities]

I am sure PBW does have checks in place to keep an eye out on this. I did a search for simular topics and found one were a player was Banned from PBW for hacking a file and then posting about it.

So they are watching for it. This pleases me to no end.