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[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Tris:
If deliberately misleading players as to your identity, and using their trust to gain information to use against them in a game you are actually playing in isn't cheating...

...you live in a different world to mine.

Here's some steroids, Good luck in Athens.

He didn't cheat. If people were stupid enough to be giving him information, when they already had suspicions that it was him, that's as much their problem as his.

Frankly, if someone who supposedly isn't in a game I'm in starts asking questions about what I'm doing in the game, and what my plans are, I'm not going to be telling them.

All this is made more irritating by the nattering that was done on IRC about how they were setting up a fun game, no quitters, no players like Norfleet (given that they don't think playing against his strategy is much fun - I agree, but that's beside the point). I (and I believe archaeolept) was recruited with the belief that all players were personally recommended by someone - no unknowns, no ringers, no newbies.

But then they went and let in an unknown. Who, from what I understand, was just tickled to know that they didn't want him in the game, but hadn't bothered to tell him, and hadn't had the cojones to out and out say, "No Vampire Queens, no Norfleeting (my name for his tactic of a temple and castle on EVERY province), no Norfleet."

I was in that game, and was somewhat disappointed. By the game; by Norfleet, a little bit; but more, by some of the other people in the game and setting it up.

Again - he didn't cheat. If anything I'd say the concerted, out of game underhanded diplomacy to ally against one player / nation was closer to cheating, and was certainly unsporting.