Message From Host: CHEATER!!

Uh-Nu-Buh · #1 October 24th, 2006, 08:38 PM

I'm playing a single player game, and did the global enchantment (Riches from Beneath?) that doubles your gold and resource production. The next turn I went from about 8K gold to 16K and got a big:

Message from Host: Player Is Cheating

And it seems to cap me at about 16K gold (total, not just annual production). Anybody else run into this?

NTJedi · #2 October 24th, 2006, 08:58 PM

Well if you're not using any mods I would say report this as a bug within the bug thread. Also make sure to attach the save game file and map files to your post.

If you already hosted to the next turn the save files may not be as helpful.

Gandalf Parker · #3 October 24th, 2006, 09:12 PM

Some of the checks for that maybe have slipped thru the cracks as tweaks were made to the game.

Morkilus · #4 October 25th, 2006, 12:33 PM

Darn your Cainehill-looking avatar!!

Uh-Nu-Buh · #5 October 25th, 2006, 01:31 PM

Unfortunately, I just kept playing. I've run into some other small bugs. I will read up on the bug reporting guidelines and start paying more attention....

The message did say a little more: Player increase in gold is too large, probably cheating. Something like that.

Other weirdnesses that I've seen in this single player game so far (huge map, 3 ai, hundreds of turns so far):

One commander won't move. Same province has about >60 commanders, so maybe it has something to do with that.

A huge battle (hundreds of units on each side, and dozens of commanders as well), and somehow he got one of my commanders and I ended up with one of his.

Every commander of Tien Chi has loads of items, and he has tons and tons of commanders.... Probably not a bug, just wild that I kill an army and collect items and eventually have too many and start having to drop the lesser ones.

okiN · #6 October 25th, 2006, 03:12 PM

I got this in a game against Endo once. The explanation he offered was him clearing his recruitment queue when recruitment had been made impossible for some reason - I think it might have been an unrest event in his capital or something.

Tichy · #7 October 25th, 2006, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Uh-Nu-Buh said:
A huge battle (hundreds of units on each side, and dozens of commanders as well), and somehow he got one of my commanders and I ended up with one of his.

This could be astral magic, enslave mind stuff...but if they kept their commander-hood?

Endoperez · #8 October 25th, 2006, 03:54 PM

Quote:

okiN said:
I got this in a game against Endo once. The explanation he offered was him clearing his recruitment queue when recruitment had been made impossible for some reason - I think it might have been an unrest event in his capital or something.

An AI player took his capital back while I had a build queue in there. I noticed my rec queue was still visible, so I cancelled it. I might've retaken the province the following turn.

... I'm sticking to that story.

Shovah32 · #9 October 25th, 2006, 04:38 PM

A commander not moving could be the result of insanity, thats all i can think of.

Uh-Nu-Buh · #10 October 25th, 2006, 05:04 PM

Okin, that's the message I got! I'm guessing it is as Gandalf said--just a little too sensitive.