MP Revenge of Pimping - Let's go Voltron Force! - Page 36

DrPraetorious · #**351** November 22nd, 2008, 02:54 PM

Obviously I failed to notice the request for an extension - sorry about that. Good luck to everyone.

I'm going to start setting stale positions to AI soon - who all needs to be set to AI?

Zeldor · #**352** November 22nd, 2008, 03:54 PM

Pythium, I guess. He has staled last 10-15 [ouch!] turns and his lands are not getting conquered by his neighbours [not even a teammate, huh].

PsiSoldier · #**353** November 22nd, 2008, 04:37 PM

Errrr actually it looks to me like Ulm has been gobbling up Pythiums province's like taking Candy from a baby.

Which has me a bit worried. So by all means set him to AI to give Ulm a little bit of a challenge at least.

Micah · #**354** November 23rd, 2008, 03:32 AM

Well, he's not using them! =)

Executor · #**355** November 23rd, 2008, 08:36 AM

Hello all, I've taken over Jomon.

One stupid question perhaps, haven't played many network games.
Shouldn't there be some sort of password protection?
I mean to me it look that anyone can look at anyones turn.

AreaOfEffect · #**356** November 23rd, 2008, 09:44 AM

It is something the players forgot to do (thanks llamaserver). We've been on the honor system, so be honorable.

Executor · #**357** November 23rd, 2008, 10:14 AM

Honor system?
Sorry if I do not put so much faith in people but many players rarely honor even NAPs not to mention the ability to see the other players turn.

Psi just told me that Gandalf can check if someone is cheating, so I assume that means if someone downloaded some turn besides his own.

Well at least I can look at my allies turn.

DrPraetorious · #**358** November 23rd, 2008, 02:39 PM

Failing to honor an NAP is *not* cheating. It's dishonorable but within the rules, absolutely.

Looking at another player's turn w/out permission *is* cheating. The server records (with a timestamp) whenever someone connects. I can match that up with connection logs but it's a major pain. Generally speaking, there has been only one download of each turn per turn cycle, so if someone has been spying on turns, it certainly hasn't been widespread.

That said, if I'd been more on the ball when the game started, I would've reminded people to set passwords - the start of the game was delayed to a very inconvenient time for me, and I uploaded the wrong pretender file myself. There wasn't much interest in trying to restart.

Zeldor · #**359** November 23rd, 2008, 03:20 PM

We should have restarted when it was discovered after 1st turn. But I really doubt someone was/is cheating and looking at someones turn. At least I hope so.

Executor · #**360** November 23rd, 2008, 04:21 PM

I know dishonoring a NAP isn't cheating, but I assume people get tempted to check the turn. It's like catching a glimpse of a test your about to do.

I'm just saying you can't expect people to play fair all the time.

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Generally speaking, there has been only one download of each turn per turn cycle, so if someone has been spying on turns, it certainly hasn't been widespread.

I'm not really familiar with network games but I assume it can be checked whos turn someone downloaded? For example if I downloaded my and my ally turn?