Cheating in pbems........

[Drendor]

First of all, I would never cheat when playing against other players. It ruins the feeling of success if I know I got to it through cheating.

I have a question about it though:

Is there anything preventing a player from playing the received save-file and saving the game under a fake save (for example crap.SAV) if he didnt get the RNG results that he wanted? When he gets good RNG results he saves in the received save-file and sends it along.

Whats your thoughts about this? Are there any technical ways of detecting this kind of behaviour?

 

[Dirx]

Select the "Preserve Random Seed" option when creating the game. That ought to prevent someone from reloading the save file repeatedly. Also, dunno if Civ3 does this (haven't done pbem yet), but Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri would give other players a warning when it detected someone trying multiple saves/loads. Doesn't stop the offense, but it lets everyone know who to gang up on

 

[Drendor]

Select the "Preserve Random Seed" option when creating the game. That ought to prevent someone from reloading the save file repeatedly. Also, dunno if Civ3 does this (haven't done pbem yet), but Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri would give other players a warning when it detected someone trying multiple saves/loads. Doesn't stop the offense, but it lets everyone know who to gang up on

Ok I see. So Preserve Random Seed basically gives the same RNG result over and over again no matter of how many times you reload? Good thing to know.

 

[Al Capone]

There rare cheats for CivIII???
It'd be nice if you told me, please???
I vow i wont use them in mp games

 

[TruePurple]

What about players peeking other persons turf? Whats to stop that?