Intersite Game - Turn Discussion Thread

[mostly_harmless]

I have written rolo about it, asking his opinion.


mh

[kjn]

Seems like I should send my guess on the distribution of civs on this map, before we get the ruling:

Ie, we can find the various starting positions in our "diamond" at about 16 tiles away from our starting point, going NE/NW/SW/SE, at 28 going E/W, and noone but ourselves if going in a straight line N/S.

[mostly_harmless]

Rolo knows about this and is going to open a thread about it at CFC.

mh

[sunrise089]

I'd say just PM the admin about it, and if he bans it have him post publicly to do so just so we know the other teams don't use it as well. If he allows it, ask us to tell us so privately so as not to give the other teams the idea to use it.

I think almost the opposite plan is called for. If he bans it I don't want him to say a thing, since as soon as he spells it out there's about a 100% chance sommer will instantly do it and then communicate offline about it. If it's allowed I could be convinced it's more fair to just tell everyone...

@seven - I guess I don't understand the purpose of giving a blanket benefit of the doubt to known scoundrels. Even at RB I know certain players will tend to act in a certain way. That said I trust most of them enough to not ruin a game that I play with them and have a good time. The same can't be said of everyone in this game, so while I made the call that playing in such a special game and dealing with crap > not playing at all, must I pretend that folks like sommer are saints?

[nabaxo]

Edit: But I like calling it the Nabaxo hax or something like that

I agree with this. I'll take all the credit for randomly finding it. :neenernee

And I don't think it has been known before, it kind of is gamebreaking in multiplayer now that that I think about it.

Heh, the "Nabaxo Hax"... I'm proud. :D

[mostly_harmless]

Admin ruling:

Moderator Action: There was a team that contacted me today about a issue with the pathfinder algorithym that allows to discover a lot of spoiler info ( like where are cities in the fog, where are hills and water and some more stuff ) and asked to give a ruling about that.

As this usage of the pathfinder is untraceable and given the nature of this game ( a competition ), I think that simply disallowing it without explaing the situation and asking a commitement by the part of all the teams to not use this, given that the admin and the current mod are unable to prevent that exploitative usage :/

So I would ask that all the teams would say of their justice. I can provide screenshots and/or alreayd posted explanations on the issue if needed. And as a personal preference , i would prefer to disallow it .p

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=470234

Whatever that means.

mh

[Gold Ergo Sum]

The same can't be said of everyone in this game, so while I made the call that playing in such a special game and dealing with crap > not playing at all, must I pretend that folks like sommer are saints?

This.

Admin ruling:

Whatever that means.

mh

The worst possible handling by the admin IMO. Please, do tell us Mr. Admin about the completely untraceable exploit!

[Tyrmith]

Telling the team that the cheat is untraceable, then promptly telling them how to do the cheat makes no sense to me, but whatever. If I'm reading it correctly though he's asking teams opinions on what he should do before he does anything more, should we come up with a response to his plan?

Also, out of curiosity, is this something that could be fixed via a mod? Could we update the mod we're using now?

[mostly_harmless]

As far as I understand it, he wants to reveal how it works to everybody and then ask each team to make up their own mind.

I agree, this is a rubbish ruling.

mh

[kalin]

I can hardly parse that ruling. I think it says: "this exploit is disallowed and we will not say what it is".

Kalin