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Old June 30th, 2007, 10:30 PM

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Have you guys had many run ins with griefing or cheating in MP games? I'm in one of Gandalfs blitz games and someone jerked up my first turn of the game. No I didn't think to password protect my turn, so I guess that was an open invitation to some twelve year old idiot. I'm a pretty new player so it was an easy mistake. I just thought the maturity level was generally too high around here for that sort of thing.

Still, the very first turn? Is there some pimply faced little troll sitting out there, checking every game for vulnerabilities? If so, congratulations. You ruined the game for me. Happy? Try that on an AI player. If you're one of my opponents then why not just play SP, rather than force the humans to go AI?
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Old June 30th, 2007, 10:46 PM

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Uuuhmm...passwording turns? Is that something I should be doing in the MP game I just joined? *gets out the manual to rtfm*

Sorry to hear about that. One of the reasons I generally don't like MP is the griefers/cheaters...
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Old June 30th, 2007, 11:10 PM

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Most griefers I've encountered are well past middleschool, and I know a number of trolls who are anything but pimply.
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Old June 30th, 2007, 11:18 PM
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Default Re: MP Cheaters/Griefers

You have to choose a password as part of creating your god. After that you are out of luck.
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Default Re: MP Cheaters/Griefers

The only one I've ever heard of is Norfleet, and that's only because someone mentioned him briefly, and I did a forum search. I went back and looked, it's some pretty heinous cheating.

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I've heard of other players having problems when they forgot to password their pretender. So, it's best not to forget. Though I still forget sometimes too . catgod is nice if you forget, since it makes it easy to create the same build. If the game hasn't done the first turn yet, you can reselect your nation and upload your newly passworded pretended, replacing the unpassworded one.
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Default Re: MP Cheaters/Griefers

It does happen very rarely. Always password protect your pretender.
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Default Re: MP Cheaters/Griefers

But if you do include a password, make sure it isn't too long, or anyone who subs for you will be driven insane by it.
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Default Re: MP Cheaters/Griefers

Its happened to me in 1 game out of about 20+, someone changed my orders (twice) after I had issued them, so its not common but it does happen. Ever since then I always password protect my god.

Some people will go to any lengths to win a game, sad but true.
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