So how 'bout those Mets?

well, i believe zapmeister has actually played games w/ norfleet, unlike some others.

So have alot of others, though you may not care to consider that.

Also, if one cheats in one game, that must mean you cheat in every game from your very beginning to the very end, yes? Or more appropriately, if one has cheated, that means he has always cheated regardless of game(s)?

I'm not saying that he couldn't/wouldn't. But I doubt it could be said for every, *single* game.

[archaeolept]

I've played many games w/ norfleet. Unlike some who talk, I have experience of it. I have no vendetta against him, and actually have some fondness for him, but these apparent excesses are not new. your speculation that he set himself up to be caught, or something like it, is tenuous at best. perhaps he got overconfident, or bored, or took a calculated risk; or, most likely, to my eyes, could not not do it.

I've played games with him too, one under this name and a few under other names. Does that mean I can say that his clamhoarding and castling tactics are more/less abusive because I've seen them firsthand with/without cheating? Or does that mean that all those arguements from people who felt things overpowered are no longer valid at all because of the perpetuator was cheating and thus any arguements against him/them are tainted by cheating?

[archaeolept]

or course the previous arguments, which were based in the real experience of their effects, are tainted. to what degree is impossible to determine, however. But we made these arguments based on direct observation.

now, as to games you've played w/ norfleet, I can not say. The first MP game i was ever in you and norfleet were as well; however, I do not believe you directly encountered him during the duration of that blitz.

[Zapmeister]

One has to ask why he didn't forward his own .trn file to Illwinter, supporting his case for innocence and scoring an incredible coup against Stormbinder.

His actual behaviour was to mutter something about implausible events outside his control, withdraw from all games and disappear.

Circumstantial? Perhaps. But damning nonetheless.

Days and days ago I Norfleet spoke to me in IRC saying he was tired of Dom2 and the drama/etc (During the entire Stormbinder v Norfleet Deathmatch or whatever it was during planning . I couldn't tell you which turn it was in that particular game but it says to me if you are tired of a game, and are not playing or don't intend to play or intend to play with another persona, you wouldn't care if you were caught cheating or not in that kind of circumstance. At least in my experience that is the case.

As for Norfleet not sending in his turn or 'defending himself' whatever conclusions you come up with are yours, there could be any number of reasons based on your own perspective, but the common consent is it didn't provide a majorly positive reaction.

[archaeolept]

I think the likely obsessive nature of it makes a certain truth of norfleet saying that it was not of his doing, that it was something beyond his control, which on the face of it seems a stretch.

[Zapmeister]

As for Norfleet not sending in his turn or 'defending himself' whatever conclusions you come up with are yours, there could be any number of reasons based on your own perspective, but the common consent is it didn't provide a majorly positive reaction.

Not sure what you mean by this. But I'm done on this topic, with my final comment being that if the possibility of fiddled files being sent to Illwinter is the only pro-Norfleet theory, then Esben Mose Hansen is part of the conspiracy:

Mose had made a copy of this file, in case Norfleet will try to "hack" it once again and he send it to Illwinter.

I mean. That no matter which way you look at it. Norfleet refusing to send his file or even continue discussion means there is no good way of looking at that refusal. Meaning it couldn't be construed as a Pro for Norfleet's Side of the Story.

I sincerely doubt Mose was apart of any conspiracy having to deal with this. Though, as I said before I find it very hard to see how you could cheat without the fatherland file, unless there is a way for a .trn or .2h to modify the structure of the fatherland to produce an effect.

It may be that there is some sort of ingame code weakness that allowed some in game command or combination of commands to produce some sort of gem production.

Or it could be a weakness in the Ebsen server and someone could hack into the server and adjust the fatherland file to their desire.

If he could not, not do it, as an obsession, I could see that maybe happening. Though from a logical perspective such a thing would more than likely be done in minute degrees in order to avoid detection from other players if he intended any serious sort of cheating.

For some reason, Calculated Risk doesn't seem fit when you consider the sheer numbers presented and their unfeasibility of explaining if one gets caught. Though it could be certain that overconfidance could play a part.