Is is possible to cheat?

DavidG · #1 March 27th, 2002, 01:29 AM

Just wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to cheat at a multiplayer game. I'm playing a multiplayer game and my opponent has technology that just seems amazing for the length of the game. By turn 39 I've seen ships with Solor Sail 3, Point defense 5, Uranium Cannon 5, Religous Talisman (which if I read the data files correctly requires Religour technology level 4) Mines and Light Cruisers. I know you can get some nice tech from special planets but this seems really wild to me. (either that or I'm really missing something!)

Arak Koba · #2 March 27th, 2002, 01:31 AM

At turn 39? You're saying, 3.9 years into the game?

Hmm, I may be newbie to Space Empires, but something is sounding paranormal around here.

I suppose if the player made bee-lines to these techs, maybe, along with some ruins. But I don't know...

[ 26 March 2002: Message edited by: Arak Koba ]

TerranC · #3 March 27th, 2002, 01:33 AM

Maybe the guy just has:

All worlds in his home system are rock and all of them has ruins on it,

Has Traded or already Subjugated a race,

Or the famous one: Has the Advanced storage technique and Natural Merchants.

The Advanced Storage Technique give 4 extra facility slots per large (or was it medium?) planets and Natural merchants kill Space ports so One extra Facil Slot and quicker Expansion.

Edit: People here remember that GUTB? Saying he can research All that in 25 turns MY A**

[ 26 March 2002: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Phoenix-D · #4 March 27th, 2002, 01:34 AM

That depends. What size start was it, what's his culture, and what's his Intelligence attribute. The religious thing makes me pause, but the rest seems plauseable.

Oh, and if you're in a 10-planet start all bets are off. Dimension X isn't that much farther and we've got people running around in battlecruisers, mines, fighters, PPBV, armor maxed, etc etc etc.

Phoenix-D

DavidG · #5 March 27th, 2002, 01:40 AM

Yup 3.9 years. Guy is ancient race so could have made beeline for tech planets. But we are talking same serious expensive tech here. Also no advanced storage.

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Originally posted by Arak Koba:
At turn 39? You're saying, 3.9 years into the game?

[ 26 March 2002: Message edited by: Arak Koba ]

Gromit · #6 March 27th, 2002, 01:47 AM

Never played multiplayer but can you or the host still check/uncheck empires in the "Players" menu and arrange a surrender? That would certainly speed up early research if it were possible.