Arjav Jain
The CIVVER
Thanks alot leif for your help I now have the gotm due to your help
I made a small (and reasonably common) change to GlobalDefines.xml (city spacing) and played for a couple years without realizing that this had impacted shared games. I understand that game security and integrity is not what it was with III and IV, but is it possible for the upload validator to check for the kind of mistake I had made?Cheating includes (and is not limited to) ... Altering the XML
I am asking for both things actually.He's not asking for the rules to be clarified. He's asking for the tools to help remind him so that he doesn't overlook his inadvertent noncompliance.
Bullet 3 currently reads:How could we clarify them?
Advanced User Interface has never really been permitted, it has been tolerated. It was never our intent to allow it, but so many players were using it and we had no real way to detect its use that we really had little choice. The main reason we tolerated it was to level the field and allow those who were not using it to have access to the same information as other players so no one had an advantage. Thankfully, AUI did not modify game rules.I would suggest breaking this into two rules:
3. Using any mods that give you an unfair advantage. Some mods, notably Advanced User Interface, are permitted.
And fortunately (?) I am less competitive than most! I did not feel like I was modding. I felt like I was changing a preference setting. I did not expect it to impact shared games, so I was not looking for it. I am sure I read the OP before my first GotM submission (which might have been before or after I changed the city spacing, I have no idea) but with way OP is worded, especially the “give you an unfair advantage” bit, I never would have connected the dots....and because we aren't super competitive those changes may not have impacted your ending turn counts.
I've split the mods and xml item so that the "unfair advantage" qualification explicitly no longer applies to xml edits. I assume that was your problem?And fortunately (?) I am less competitive than most! I did not feel like I was modding. I felt like I was changing a preference setting. I did not expect it to impact shared games, so I was not looking for it. I am sure I read the OP before my first GotM submission (which might have been before or after I changed the city spacing, I have no idea) but with way OP is worded, especially the “give you an unfair advantage” bit, I never would have connected the dots.
So I still would suggest splitting rule 3 into two rules:
3. Using any MODS.
4. Modifying the original XML files in any way. This includes GlobalDefines.xml, Civ5Buildings.xml, etc.
Thanks. My problem is that I think you should specifically mention GlobalDefines. Right now you have:I've split the mods and xml item so that the "unfair advantage" qualification explicitly no longer applies to xml edits. I assume that was your problem?