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Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost

Sun, 09 November 2003 01:37

Ron

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A player in the game asked me to investigate 2 players (one of them is the host) since he couldn't see how they could have the amount of minerals and tech levels they had.

Without going into details, I found that players 2 and 6 in the SUMMER game cheated on the very first turn. They used a modded stars.exe file to create the game. In the modded exe file, they had changed the mineral and tech cost of nubians to zero, then built hundreds of fleets each with a thousand nubians. They then transfered the fleets to each other, and sent me the game files.

When the turn was generated on AutoHost using an unmodified .exe file, they suddenly each had thousands of nubians, on turn 2403! They then scrapped the fleets, giving instant minerals and lots of tech levels.

The two players are Greg Vor (Gregor Vorbarra) of gregorvorbarra@hotmail.com
and Lou Barsony of loubarsony@hotmail.com

I know Greg's is a fake name, and probably Lou's is as well.

Naturally, both have been banned from AutoHost, the their serial numbers will no longer be allowed in uploaded turns. One of the serial numbers has been used by 3 other players, 2 in current games on AutoHost.

Players need to be extremely cautious of any not-well-known game host who generates several turns before sending me the game files to setup on AutoHost.

Either have the game gened by a trusted game host, or trusted 3rd party,
or
create a .def file and send it to me along with the race files so I can gen the game from the command-line using the .def file.

(look in the Stars! help file for info on creating a .def file)

So, spread it far and wide folks, they are CHEATERS. Mad

[Updated on: Sun, 09 November 2003 12:18]

Ron Miller
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		Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Sun, 09 November 2003 01:37
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Sun, 09 November 2003 12:36
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: freakyboy on Sun, 09 November 2003 13:06
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Hatterson on Sun, 09 November 2003 14:01
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: dazraz on Sun, 09 November 2003 15:12
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Sinla on Sun, 09 November 2003 17:39
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Sun, 09 November 2003 17:49
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: dazraz on Mon, 10 November 2003 04:48
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: overworked on Sun, 09 November 2003 22:07
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Steve1 on Mon, 10 November 2003 02:43
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: mlaub on Mon, 10 November 2003 15:42
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Steve on Tue, 11 November 2003 10:50
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Tue, 11 November 2003 11:59
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: BlueTurbit on Tue, 11 November 2003 14:39
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: FurFuznel on Wed, 12 November 2003 07:23
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Thu, 13 November 2003 10:31
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: overworked on Thu, 13 November 2003 12:16
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Sinla on Thu, 13 November 2003 15:28
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Wayne on Thu, 13 November 2003 15:34
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: mlaub on Thu, 13 November 2003 17:45
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Sinla on Fri, 14 November 2003 05:30
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: mazda on Fri, 14 November 2003 06:10
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Thu, 13 November 2003 13:24
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Thu, 11 December 2003 12:40
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: mitchell on Thu, 11 December 2003 13:42
		Re: Cheating detected in SUMMER game on AutoHost By: Ron on Thu, 11 December 2003 16:45

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