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o7, good to see that the uncertainty has been addressed

Not being stopped does not make it not cheating, as cheating is defined as "to act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination". Using a fault in the game in order to gain an unfair advantage in war or trade is cheating by definition

Typhon, more like Typhoff, eh?

I think that it is acceptable, while it does not explain the other 2 incidents it is enough that he reported the problem. Just give him a reminder that next time not to mash F5 when he is having a problem Also, while I hate to admit this, but @Micchan is right here, if the report was posted on the forum, this dust up wouldn't have happened

This can be put to bed by simply showing the logs where he self reports to Alex after the problematic attacks, but before the incident went public.

Well, that should be a easy thing to verify, all you have to do is provide the logs of that conversation

It would have been in a better place if you guys were proactive and reported it as a bug, as other alliances, including those who we are at war with have done. By not doing so, among the other circumstances of this incident it makes it look an awful lot like your member was intentionally and maliciously using a game bug to gain an unfair advantage.

I condemn, in the strongest possible terms any death threats made against your member, that should go without saying, if one of our members has done such a thing contact me as that sort of business has no place in TCW. However nothing in this thread rises to anywhere that level, and to say that it does is exceedingly disingenuous

Given that there was multiple instances of this in short succession from the same person, along with more attacks being executed than the ones that were reported, it is reasonable to come to the conclusion that the bug was used with the intent of gaining an unfair advantage. Furthermore, if was a consistent problem for the member in question, why didn't he file a bug report?

There are many people who play this game with a bad connection, however I do not see this problem happening 3 times in short succession to the same person.

4 attacks I would be willing to chalk up to an accident, however 8 in the span of just over a minute is neither accidental nor incidental

It is cheating, as it permits you to circumvent an exploit in the game to gain an unfair advantage, which is pretty close to being the definition of cheating

Calls their allies "retards", then spells "allies" wrong, what a genius.

*Let us prayyyyyy

I do pity the rank and file in NR, as have been put in the unenviable position of having their own government be their own worst enemy. For them, they will have to deal with a reputation tarnished by acts that they really had no control over. I don't harbor this same sympathy for the government of NR, as they, in order to support their own egos knowingly set their members to take the brunt of the fallout when their greed was finally exposed. I wish those in NR who had nothing to do with this scandal all the best going forward

There is no conceivable way in which the government of NR didn't know what what going on in their offshore. Perhaps they didn't give the order to use the exploit, but they certainly didn't do a thing to discourage its use.

You are either lying through your teeth, or are so monumentally incompetent that you don't know what the people who you trusted with alliance funds are doing with alliance funds.

Multis, obviously

And those without the means to spam buy cities before those changes hit are just screwed. All this does is create a permanent aristocracy, and that will not go over well with those who aren't in that class, and will have no means to get there.

The problem that we have, the way I see it is overly high resource prices. While the marginal benefit of commerce is ultimately capped by the increasing cost of the infra needed to significantly increase income, there is no such limit on resource production, so those who got theirs won't be effected at all. All this will do is create an arbitrary barrier for those who are trying to grow (which will certainly hurt player retention).

My concern is that any such market manipulation (though the above rules do improve the situation marginally) can cause even more distortion in the market, and when such programs end, the correction would be worse than if nothing was done. The way I see it is that such programs will start to create a bubble that Sheepy will have to keep pumping up to keep the market from crashing back to reality. The other thing that we have to consider is that changes to nations can basically be put into place instantly meaning that trying to force an artificial market equilibrium mandates, in effect a vicious cycle until the bubble that was created bursts. If Sheepy really wants to rationalize the economy, the best thing he can do is to keep his hands off it and allow it to seek equilibrium. Only when that happens can rational long-term economic decisions be made

I am in full agreement with you, trying to "fix" perceived (and transient) market failings has only created greater distortions in the market. In fact most of the faults in economy can be traced to the fact that changes with long term effects have been used to "fix" inherently short term problems. By creating a constantly moving target it should be no shock that the economy is subject to wild fluctuations. The best thing that can be done is to wait until a stable market has been reached and then look at potential changes

Happy to count TUE as allies, I look forward to working with them going forward o7

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