| Re: Cheating is rife in the stars community. |
Thu, 17 April 2014 21:02   |
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 skoormit |
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Vostromo wrote on Thu, 17 April 2014 15:48Correct apart from point 5. I quit because I fundamentally disagree with the decision not the process or intentions of those reaching that decision. I suspect when it is discussed after the game there will be a few points of view.
This sounds entirely reasonable.
One thing still puzzles me, though. After you brought your concerns to the game host, the two of you had a "reasonably extensive" (his term) discussion, during which you learned that player X had first asked the host if the action in question would be considered cheating, and that player X did not take the action until the host said he did not consider it cheating. (You then took the thoroughly honorable path of continuing to play the turns until a replacement was found, which is really quite commendable.)
But the title and the first post of this thread, to me, paint a different picture. When you wrote that title and that post, you knew that player X had asked the host's opinion before taking the action that you find objectionable. That puzzles me. I understand that in your opinion the action in question compromises the no-comms rule. But player X made 100% certain that the host of the game did not consider the action to be unfair. And you knew that player X had done that. Yet you characterize player X as "lacking the skill or intelligence to try and win fair," and you characterize the stars community as being rife with cheating.
I don't know anything about the incidents you have experienced in other games. But the incident in this game certainly sounds to me like reasonable people disagreeing reasonably about an interpretation of a rule (and handling their disagreement with aplomb). It does not sound like cheating.
What we need's a few good taters.Report message to a moderator
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