Time for a poll. (The subject is abuse)

[chrispedersen]

I'd like to hear more about what is meant by quickmoving slow troops. I consider that abusive..

why not have a standard.. like velusions or llama's. Some games will be open.. some will not - if everyone knows in advance no harm no foul.

But I'd be more interested in games without exploits. Newbies have enough problems learning the game as intended without having to learn the bugs as well.

[Tuidjy]

Quickmoving slow troops, sallying into a neighborhood province, reinforcing
through a besieging army, etc.. are ways of abusing unsufficient error checking
on the client, when the composition of a moving commander's army changes.

You send a commander somewhere where he can legally go. Then some sequences of
adding troops and changing his orders will result in impossible commands being
executed without a snag.

It gets much, much worse if instead of juggling troops you just edit the orders
in the .2h file. As far as I am concerned, morally, there is absolutely no
difference in the two approaches... After all, if the developers did not want
us to hack the .2h file, they would have kept the order validation on the server,
efficiency be damned. Right? Right?

[triqui]

Tuidjy said:
sallying into a neighborhood province,

I dont understand this i think. What is the problem with sallying into a neighborhood province?. Isnt that exactly what is supposed to do?

[Edi]

It's the "sneaking out from a besieged castle and with non-stealthy troops to boot" bug, found in the shortlist under movement related issues.

[triqui]

Edi said:
It's the "sneaking out from a besieged castle and with non-stealthy troops to boot" bug, found in the shortlist under movement related issues.

Ok. That one i knew. I thought he was talking about something different.