Re: To Digex and ALL Galaxy GMs!

From: hz@zardoz.ping.de (Harry Zimmermann)

Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In a previous article jdc@access4.digex.net dared to write:

Hi,

> It is my understanding that Galaxy is a game of war.

emphasis is on "Game" not "War" !! I really can't understand why you try
to spoil the game for other players by cheating in such a way. Ever heard
of something like "Fair play"? Probably not...

Let's suppose everybody uses a password. Would you try to hack it? Where
are your limits?

I manage a PBEM game which is comparable to Galaxy and I can
remember an incidence which nearly caused me to give up the game totally.
I made the mistake to make a demo version of the turn processor available
to all players to practice and learn the rules. Some people with an
attitude similar to yours spent quite a long time to disassemble the
program to find out the algorithm which produces the starmap and the
deployment of all players on it. This knowledge, which normally is not
available to the players, was used to kick other players out of the game.

This has been a frustrating experience because I always thought people
play for fun. As a GM I don't want to care too much about security matters
because it's the game that's interesting for me. If there were more
people like you, John, I would not host PBEM games any more. Why should I?
For me it's a game and *not* war!

c u

Harry

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References

To Digex and ALL Galaxy GMs!
Eric Bales <alai@ix.netcom.com>
Mon, 05 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: To Digex and ALL Galaxy GMs!
jdc@access4.digex.net (John Cochran)
Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

To Digex and ALL Galaxy GMs!
Eric Bales <alai@ix.netcom.com>
Mon, 05 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: To Digex and ALL Galaxy GMs!
jdc@access4.digex.net (John Cochran)
Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000