Official statement of cheating on PBW.

[geoschmo]

That's one of those things a lot of people forget with PBW. The server hosts the games and does the processing, and we will step in in situations where it is obvious that someone is cheating as far as breaking the base rules of SEIV or manipulating data files.

However there are a lot of "game setting" and "gentleman's agreement" areas in SEIV games. Some people call them "house rules". Those are things that are the purogative of the game owner. They can affect game play enormously and can really destroy games if not handled well, but they are judgment calls and basically there is no right answer to most of them. They aren't really PBW or SEIV issues, they are personality isues. Because of that, we will always defer to the game owner, since they are the one who's game it is to begin with you are playing.

Some game owners are better than others at setting clear ground rules and arbitrating disagreements. We try not to get involved in those types of issues, unless it's a case where the game owner has simply abandoned the game and left the players on their own.

If you don't like the way a game owner handles something, you can always vote with your feet, and find another game, or start your own.

Geoschmo

[ 08 April 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]