Official statement of cheating on PBW.

[Bman]

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
this may be a stupid question but do the cheat codes referred to in the SEIVG manual work on PBW?

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Only if the game owner sets the cheat-code checkboxes when creating the game.

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my tuppence on cheaters is this, you set out the ground rules for a PBW game, anyone breaks them deliberately by cheating, kick them out of the game and slot in AI to replace them.

End of story, no need to debate

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The problem with this solution is that the cheating empire typically has an unfair advantage over the other empires. In this case, the cheater had insanely advanced technology. If you turn it over to the AI, then everyone will then abuse AI flaws in order to acquire the techs from the AI, giving them the advantage. The only way to keep the game going is to destroy the cheating empire, removing all traces of its existance from the galaxy