What Traits / Tactics are considered cheap/cheats?

[Randallw]

There are a few of those tactics I wouldn't call cheating. I mean what's wrong with emergency building. Also placing your ships over the enemy planet before attacking to avoid mines seems similar to Germanys placing a battlecruiser in Danzig harbour (supposedly on a good will visit)so as to bombard it's defenses.

[Arkcon]

Back when that list was being formulated, it was sort of an "just say what you think is an exploit". It led to a lot of discussion back and forth, when all that was wanted was a simple list for poeple to pick and choose from when setting up a PBW game. The point is, that these are things that at least someone once thought was cheating.

I'm picturing a PBW game, where someone gains a slight advantage, and someone else demands to know how it happened, only to find out there was a tiny fundemental aspect of SE4 that they didn't know about. When they find out, instead of having an, "Oh, I see" moment, thay continue to biatch about it.

Those old threads are a good read.

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Here's where Fyron trys to just get a{list},
and here's discussion -- {talk}.
Here's one I tried to start to write an Encyclopedia Malfadorica article{Wiki}, and people said I was trolling. {the discussion}