An old Newbie ;)

[Alneyan]

Tuidjy said:
No, the fatherland file is not required to cheat. [...]

*Grumbles* Annoying that. Thanks for the notice! I keep all the files from the games I host, but that may be more important than I had initially thought. Hmm...

[NTJedi]

The worst and dumbest legit player is far better and more welcome within games then any winner who has cheated.

[PrinzMegaherz]

You are not the only one Tuidjy . I also liked having him around for all the reasons that you listed and he was just plain fun.

And obviously a bit mad

[quantum_mechani]

PrinzMegaherz said:

And obviously a bit mad

Same thing

[Yvelina]

I had no chance to see the good side of Norfleet, because I did not start frequenting these boards until he left. But I played a few games against him, and whatever Petar says, I think that Norfleet presence made them quite pointless.

In one game, three nations - Caelum, Pythium, and Ulm - pooled all of our pearls together, and created an astral vortex. The next turn, Norlfeet dispelled it, just like that. It was a 500+ gem vortex. No one puts 500 gems in the first dispell, not on turn 60 or so. The game pretty much fell apart afterwards. I say kuddos to Stormbinder for setting a trap for Norfleet and catching him. I for one was getting tired of losing games and not understand how that was happening.

And Stormbinder should be getting thanks, not insults.

What trap was this?

[The_Tauren13]

Yvelina said:
And Stormbinder should be getting thanks, not insults.

Indeed. I cannot forgive a cheater. It is not my nature. And while I enjoyed his posts as much as the next person, I must say PashaDawg more than makes up for the lost entertainment.

[Zapmeister]

The_Tauren13 said:

Indeed. I cannot forgive a cheater. It is not my nature. And while I enjoyed his posts as much as the next person, I must say PashaDawg more than makes up for the lost entertainment.

Hear, hear. I copped quite a lot of flak for supporting Stormbinder in the forum immediately following his success in this matter. I think Stormy had rubbed quite a few people up the wrong way, making them reluctant to give him his due credit.

But I was not entertained by Norfleet. I found his social and political outlook just too rednecked to be amusing, even if that was his intent. Also, Google revealed that some if not many of his "funny" remarks were plagiarised.

[Zapmeister]

Chazar said:

Oh, I cannot name the posts, but that idea has been around before. Yeah, we're all Norfleet and this is just a great trap for you. But you are Norfleet as well! (and I am being called paranoid by my friends, great!) No, please, stop it!

Perhaps you're referring to an ancient thread I started, entitled OT: An Existential Problem. If you take it to the extreme, every cyber-entity with which you have contact could derive from a single sapient source which, for want of a better word, we may call "Norfleet".

Gandalf tried to be helpful by bringing up the idea of using IP logs to differentiate. But that's exactly the kind of thing Norfleet would do

[quantum_mechani]

Yvelina said:
I had no chance to see the good side of Norfleet, because I did not start frequenting these boards until he left. But I played a few games against him, and whatever Petar says, I think that Norfleet presence made them quite pointless.

In one game, three nations - Caelum, Pythium, and Ulm - pooled all of our pearls together, and created an astral vortex. The next turn, Norlfeet dispelled it, just like that. It was a 500+ gem vortex. No one puts 500 gems in the first dispell, not on turn 60 or so. The game pretty much fell apart afterwards. I say kuddos to Stormbinder for setting a trap for Norfleet and catching him. I for one was getting tired of losing games and not understand how that was happening.

And Stormbinder should be getting thanks, not insults.

As I said, games against him were no fun (though the same can be said of storm). But having such wacky personality (fake or not) on the forums/IRC gave them a more interesting flavor.