Is password guessing cheating?

[Suicide Junkie]

Historically I can think of at least one instance where one side did the equivalent of guessing the other side's password: the use of ULTRA and MAGIC by the Allies in World War II to break the enemy codes. Perhaps an interesting addition to SEIV or SEV would be to include a very costly intelligence mission that if successful would reveal the target's password, either permanently or for a randomly determined number of turns.

Any sort of password operation is totally unbalanced. Intel ops exist to change orders, view/intercept comms, on a one ship/message/something basis. Seeing the whole empire at once would cost you about 100 million intel points.

If anyone managed to pull that op off before the game was won, you'd know they were a cheater anyways.

[ June 29, 2002, 14:06: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]