PBW : Paranoia2

Unknown_Enemy · #1 December 5th, 2003, 05:56 PM

And how do you guess in other games when someone is cheating ?

Phoenix-D · #2 December 5th, 2003, 08:26 PM

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Originally posted by PvK:
What if that weren't the purpose, and how would tesco know?

PvK

Hard to tell, but if he's the game master he can check the status of any ship in the game at any time. No need for a player's password, you just change the password, run the turn offline and check using the new one. The checking turn doesn't get uploaded, so it has no effect on the actual game.

That's too cumbersome to do for every trade, but occasional spot checks should keep people honest.

se5a · #3 December 5th, 2003, 08:35 PM

naa just give tesko all our passwords...
would make it easyer for him.

Unknown_Enemy · #4 December 6th, 2003, 11:40 AM

Sorry guys, but most of the time, when someone is cheating, it is just other players who come up pointing to someone's weird behavior.

But you can also take another stance : somewhere, we have to trust the players, cheaters are an exception here. Not the rule.

So keep your eyes open as usual. Nothing more. I would prefer to have paranoia in the game, not ON the game.

Joachim · #5 December 14th, 2003, 02:08 AM

Heh Gang,

The Gemini empire appears as the Xiati in the log on screen - what am I doing wrong?

If they are actually using the Xiati then we have a problem as that would make two of us.

Phoenix-D · #6 December 13th, 2003, 07:31 PM

Yes, because of that we're starting over again.

And I got a bunch of nice breathables this time, too.

Unknown_Enemy · #7 December 13th, 2003, 09:08 PM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
And I got a bunch of nice breathables this time, too.

They are probably not lost. Tesco needs only to update 1 empire. As the placement was probable manual, it may not need to replace everybody.