Is password guessing cheating?

[DavidG]

Comparing the Allies actions in WWII to pasword guessing in SE4 is soooo not the same thing I can't believe it was even mentioned!!! There is a difference between a game and real life you know.

[TerranC]

Cracking the code only allowed the knowledge of Enemy actions, orders, and concentrations.

That kind of intel orders are already in the game.

Password guessing would be considered to be something like getting a powerful mind controlling device, get into Hitler's head and messing everything up, destroying the Luftwafer (?), and personally executing General Rommel.

There is nothing wrong with Guessing the password, in my view, but if you take it too far as to hack the game to find it out, that is cheating beyond comprehension.

It's a game, and in a game, you get killed, and you kill also, and SE4 is complex, but easy enough to accomplish those goals without any cheating.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by TerranC:
Password guessing would be considered to be something like getting a powerful mind controlling device, get into Hitler's head and messing everything up, destroying the Luftwafer (?), and personally executing General Rommel.

Actually its nothing like that. You just can't compare this to anything in real life. Anything you do outside the bounds of the game cannot be compared to real life.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by TerranC:

There is nothing wrong with Guessing the password, in my view, but if you take it too far as to hack the game to find it out, that is cheating beyond comprehension.

Geussing the password is also cheating beyond comprehension.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Geussing the password is also cheating beyond comprehension.

Indeed... guessing a password is cheating no matter what anyone says. What business do they got to GUESS others passwords anyways? Other then idea of CHEATING by looking at your (your meaning whoever has their passwords guessed) empire, where it's located, what plans you have stored up and so forth. So guessing someones password IS cheating.

[ June 29, 2002, 20:25: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Lupusman]

If I may just offer some advice. Those playing on PBW should not use the same passwords for their empires if they are playing different games.

If you take over an empire of someone who dropped out, thereby learning that persons password. It's possible that you could encounter that same person again in another game. I don't think I need to go into further details.

[Grandpa Kim]

By "guessing" I mean actively selecting another player's empire and typing in a password... and I think that's what we are all talking about. To sit back in your easy chair and "guess" passwords but do nothing with them is perfectly okay, and about as productive as selecting lottery numbers in your head.

Terran C, I think you mean the second type, but if you DO mean "active guessing", I'll be glad to add you to my blacklist.