How is cheating possible?

[archaeolept]

norfleet was good in the beginning and always won without cheating . then because the community is so small in the new games everybody allied secretly against him and he had no chance to win against others because even the best player can't win against 3-4 others in no game if the others are not complete noobs .
so the community forced him to either play under different nicks each time or to his solution : "cheating" .

no. even the earliest games w/ norfleet, other than his initial "map of the world campaigns", which I wasn't in, had him demolishing alliances made of everyone else. These alliances were in no way secret, or set up beforehand, but emerged naturally because he was so dominating, and able to put up castle/temple/labs every turn in every new territory. This was months ago.

And a number of players in those games, who were pretty good and were initially enthusiastic about the game, just left the scene. Perhaps they would have left anyways, or perhaps the impossibility and frustration, and the seeming refusal by the old guard to take their concerns seriously, encouraged them to give up on Dominions.