Oops! Have i cheated!

firthy19 · Post by **firthy19** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:22 pm

I sent a message to someone saying 'if you eliminste yellow in europe i will eliminate them in usa' because i didnt think he would look at the game chat. Does this mean i cheated?

dominationnation · Post by **dominationnation** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:24 pm

yes, but if the game is still going on, announce your truce in the game chat, then its perfectly fair

firthy19 · Post by **firthy19** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:30 pm

ok thanks
does it matter that the deal was never carried out anyway

dominationnation · Post by **dominationnation** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:36 pm

just ask him again in the chat and he will just say no again

richardgarr · Post by **richardgarr** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:29 pm

I had a guy do that , he was trying to get the other players to go along with him through pm's . The other players did not feel this was right and took the time to tell me about it through game chat. The player who did this (link85) was convinced that he did no wrong and tried to defend his choice of allience making , no one agreed with him and he received negatives as a result. The only negative I have submitted so far B.T.W. So yes in my opinion this could be looked apon as cheating and will not make you any friends , if the behaviour is a regular part of your game play. Sounds like you made a legitamate mistake so I wouldn't worry about it too much.[color=darkred][/color]

joeyjordison · Post by **joeyjordison** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:31 pm

well at least u hav announced it here. just say in chat that u didn't realise it was cheating

chessplaya · Post by **chessplaya** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:35 pm

hmmm a cheater..... bad firthy bad..
u r a cheater blame urself an alliance through om...hmmm that was bad

osujacket · Post by **osujacket** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:45 pm

It happens to people when they are new. As I matter of fact I sent a message one time to a player asking for an alliance.

The only problem was I was asking Kwolf and sent it to Robinette.

OMG Good thing Robinette was nice about it. I make it a rule to never use pm's. I think all discussion should be in the chat so everyone can see. Then nobody can get upset about hidden alliances

MeDeFe · Post by **MeDeFe** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:53 pm

It's a flaw in the rules, it just says that secret alliances are forbidden, but it doesn't say you can't form an alliance through PMs and then announce it in the gamechat.

Personally I file someone asking by pm under "extremely bad sportsmanship".
You could always write it in the gamechat and then pm the other guy telling him to read the gamechat before he takes his turn.

oVo · Post by **oVo** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:24 pm

Next time... Send the player a PM asking them to "read the game chat" to keep it on the up and up.