PBW ethics, opinions please.

Gozra · #1 January 17th, 2003, 06:08 AM

If you only told him that to provoke a piss, but then conceeded, that is another story.

Yes, that is what I did.

May I sum up?
It appears that we have Cheating issues and Gamey issues.
NO one likes cheating. Cheating in PBW and SEIV appears to mainly be hacking for an advantage. And a subset would be Player inter-action between games.
GAMEY it appears would be to take advantage of the AI's otherwise If the computer allowes you to do it then let the games begin.
SEIV is after all a state of the art space Empire simulation.

couslee · #2 January 17th, 2003, 07:17 AM

Ahhhh. Stars! the fun. I never got into the MP aspect of it, but have a fairly decent claims adjuster race. HAD actually, I lost all the balancing work when my other computer died.

Gryphin · #3 January 17th, 2003, 07:20 AM

Rollo is right.

Rollo · #4 January 18th, 2003, 02:02 AM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Rollo is right.

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Originally posted by Puke:
i definitly side with Rollo, here.

Thanks for your support. There aren't any sides to take really.
I have gotten an apology from the player by email. That is settled for me.

Rollo

[ January 17, 2003, 12:03: Message edited by: Rollo ]

Pax · #5 January 18th, 2003, 03:24 AM

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Originally posted by couslee:
Ahhhh. Stars! the fun. I never got into the MP aspect of it, but have a fairly decent claims adjuster race. HAD actually, I lost all the balancing work when my other computer died.

Funny, I always preferred Inner Strength as a PRT. Overpopulated all my worlds regularly, through the Flying SuperOrgy of Doooom(tm) .... hehehe.

Bombers? Who need's 'em, just drop 6,000,000 storm troopers from orbit; the 1.5M that survive the orbital defenses will take the planet with ease -- with all mines and factories intact!

Detach a freighter or two from the SuperOrgy to keep yoru shiny new colony fully overpopulated, move the SuperOrgy to your next target ... lather, rinse, repeat.

Heh.

Rambie · #6 January 18th, 2003, 07:16 AM

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Originally posted by Rollo:

In one game after attacking a player and mopping up his planets. I got a series of insults for several months...

In another game a player gives his ships offensive names which are particularly aimed at me.

Well, that's not gamey, that's just childish. If they're that immature, I wouldn't play with them either.

couslee · #7 January 18th, 2003, 08:11 AM

Pax, yea, all the different PR traits is Stars! have very stong points. Claims adjuster don't need to spend anything to optimize a planet, opens up a LOT for colonization. You super-fockers die off every turn trying to colonize that -12 to +5 planet until they get it to the + side. in the same time period, I have built mines and defenses, and orbitals, ect...
Thats what makes it so nice. it is one of the more balanced 4x games I have played. not to mention, the AI can give you some grief from time to time. try playing stars and turn the scanner view down to 10%. lol